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Marco Rubio Informs Congress That Trump Wants to Purchase Greenland

Territorial expansion is one way to get yourself into the history books.

NYT:

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has told lawmakers that President Trump plans to buy Greenland rather than invade it, while Mr. Trump has asked aides to give him an updated plan for acquiring the territory, U.S. officials said on Tuesday.

Mr. Rubio made his remarks in a briefing on Monday with lawmakers from the main armed services and foreign policy committees in both chambers of Congress. The same day, Mr. Trump told aides to deliver an updated plan.

The Danish PM has warned that if the US annexes Greenland -- without their permission, I think she means -- then that means the NATO treaty is formally nullified.

As many people have said: We accept your terms, now kindly fuck off and join the Greater Islamic Caliphate per your current political trajectory.

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is warning that NATO itself would collapse if the United States moved to forcibly annex Greenland--an extraordinary escalation in rhetoric that underscores Europe's growing anxiety over President Trump's sharpened focus on the Arctic.

Frederiksen told POLITICO that Trump should be taken "seriously when he says that he wants Greenland," a position rooted in the island's immense strategic value and its vast mineral reserves. But she went further, issuing what amounted to a dire warning for the transatlantic alliance: "If the U.S. chooses to attack another NATO country militarily, then everything stops, including NATO and thus the security that has been established since the end of the Second World War."

Trump has made clear that securing Greenland is a matter of national security, given its location at the front door of the Arctic--a region where America's adversaries have been expanding their footprint. And while he hasn't ruled out military action, the White House signaled this week that force is hardly the only tool available. Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller told CNN there was "no need to even think or talk about" a U.S. operation against Denmark, citing the island's population of just 57,000. "Nobody is going to fight the US militarily over the future of Greenland. That doesn't make any sense," he said, before questioning Denmark's historic claim altogether. "What right does Denmark have to assert control over Greenland? What is their basis of having Greenland as a colony of Denmark?"

I think the whole idea is nuttier than a Snickers bar but Trump has had nutty ideas before and some of them have worked out. (Other remain nutty.)

In related news, Marco Rubio has publicly denied rumors that he's being offered the GM job with the Miami Dolphins.

That said, I don't think that's really Marco Rubio. But I thing it makes for a fun post.

Posted by: Ace at 05:30 PM




Comments

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1 FOIST

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 08, 2026 05:31 PM (WONhk)

2 okay I guess

Posted by: DanMan at January 08, 2026 05:31 PM (8uzBS)

3 Republican sellouts are going to pass Obamacare for illegal aliens.

Posted by: torabora at January 08, 2026 05:31 PM (MkFn4)

4 What has happened to Hawley? he used to be solid

Posted by: DanMan at January 08, 2026 05:32 PM (8uzBS)

5 Maybe the USA can use the money saved from Somolian fraud to buy Greenland.

If there are mountains for skiing, it could work out! A new resort!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 08, 2026 05:33 PM (WONhk)

6 it's not nuts at all. it's an important location.

It should be ours.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 08, 2026 05:33 PM (emBoF)

7 Just get an enhanced security agreement. Don't sell natural resources to the Russians or Chinese.
Make the mines ecological wonders, but get the rare earths.

Purchase is a nutty idea, but this is how Trump negotiates. Asking for everything first, then bargaining.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 08, 2026 05:34 PM (u82oZ)

8 "The Danish PM has warned that if the US annexes Greenland -- without their permission, I think she means -- then that means the NATO treaty is formally nullified."

I don't believe there's a mechanism within NATO to eject a member who attacks another NATO member. It's not an Article 5 violation, as that covers attacks from outside NATO. If the annexing isn't violent, there would be even less reason to dissolve NATO.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 08, 2026 05:34 PM (0CU3H)

9 could we swap it for Minnesota?

Posted by: DanMan at January 08, 2026 05:34 PM (8uzBS)

10 Can we send Somalia's in Minnesota, Maine, Ohio, etc. to Greenland to work the mines? I'm onboard for that.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 08, 2026 05:35 PM (u82oZ)

11 And Trump's going to pay for it?

Posted by: Tuco at January 08, 2026 05:35 PM (vFG9F)

12 >>> FOIST
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 08, 2026 05:31 PM (WONhk)

======

Would it me too much to ask to get a first with Kathy Ireland? Or maybe Elle Macpherson

Posted by: Turn 2 at January 08, 2026 05:35 PM (CyFyf)

13 The Danish PM has warned that if the US annexes Greenland -- without their permission, I think she means -- then that means the NATO treaty is formally nullified.

If Greenland itself agrees what say does Denmark have?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 05:35 PM (sKqQm)

14 Beads?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 08, 2026 05:35 PM (UQJzP)

15 So, buy Greenland for national and world security, and leave NATO as a condition for doing so. At a cost of less than the Somali daycare and taxi driver corruption schemes.

Now that is what I call a fantastic WIN-WIN!

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 08, 2026 05:35 PM (4nEGa)

16 That last pic of Marco as Megyn Kelly made me lol. Thanks, Ace

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 08, 2026 05:36 PM (n4Qav)

17 The US bought the (now US Virgin Islands) from Denmark in early 1917 for $25,000,00 in gold coin. Don't know what that would be today, but it wouldn't be the first time Denmark sold islands.

Posted by: Historically Minded Miklos at January 08, 2026 05:36 PM (f/3mU)

18 Greenland will be another solid Alaska type
Purchase, just with more snow

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at January 08, 2026 05:36 PM (REq0p)

19 Turn 2

Yes. You are too late.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 08, 2026 05:36 PM (u82oZ)

20 Be, Me, I've heard it both ways.

Posted by: Turn 2 at January 08, 2026 05:36 PM (CyFyf)

21 This is one of those very enlightening topics: there are talking heads all over yelling about invading Greenland and how its illegal and the Danish will fight to the last of the 30 or so men on the island and so on.

And the Trump administration has zero interest or intent to invade and steal the island LOL. Its like watching people angrily yelling that you cannot carry the ball around like that in Soccer when people are playing baseball.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2026 05:36 PM (3Amc7)

22 It's not like there isn't historical precedence for this maneuver.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 08, 2026 05:36 PM (ESVrU)

23 How many NATOs do we need?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 08, 2026 05:36 PM (UQJzP)

24 I wish Trump would knock off the Greenland nonsense

Rare earth metals actually aren’t all that rare it’s refining them that’s a mess

Posted by: Maroon at January 08, 2026 05:36 PM (feMiE)

25 This would be perfect because we will be able to give reparations in the form of 400 acres and a snowmobile.

Posted by: Tuco at January 08, 2026 05:36 PM (vFG9F)

26
Truman offered to buy Greenland after the war for $100 million. Denmark said no. Truman should have made a second offer of $75 million.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 05:37 PM (tgvbd)

27 And Trump's going to pay for it?
Posted by: Tuco

Mexico will pay for Trump to buy Greenland.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at January 08, 2026 05:37 PM (Yw2TI)

28 President Trump plans to buy Greenland rather than invade it
-
Has anyone in the administration ever actually suggested conquering Greenland?

I'm pretty sure this was always in the realm of giving them an invitation in some form or other.

Posted by: Methos at January 08, 2026 05:37 PM (vSvIl)

29 And maybe after Trump purchases Greenland it can be renamed to Whiteland to finally be accurate

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at January 08, 2026 05:37 PM (REq0p)

30 7 Just get an enhanced security agreement. Don't sell natural resources to the Russians or Chinese.
Make the mines ecological wonders, but get the rare earths.

Purchase is a nutty idea, but this is how Trump negotiates. Asking for everything first, then bargaining.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 08, 2026 05:34 PM (u82oZ)

See the budget bill that just passed the House...it is lower than 2025 b/c Trump asked for everything, so as Rs gave in to Ds, it still ended up smaller vs the norm of always getting bigger...I don't think we've ever had a budget bill come in lower than the one before, at least in the 2000s...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 08, 2026 05:37 PM (tOcjL)

31 Marco Rubio Informs Congress That Trump Wants to Purchase Greenland

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Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is warning that NATO itself would collapse if the United States moved to forcibly annex Greenland

I am neither a politician nor a diplomat but these things seem dissimilar.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 05:37 PM (ExV1e)

32 The left: European colonialism is the greatest crime the world has ever seen!

Also the left: Don't let Drumpf steal Greenland from Denmark!

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 05:38 PM (sKqQm)

33 Maroon

Recycling electronics will be enough.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 08, 2026 05:38 PM (u82oZ)

34 Do you think Congress will allow Trump to buy Greenland ? It's a serious question...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2026 05:38 PM (VE6XX)

35 New Trumpenland.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 08, 2026 05:38 PM (UQJzP)

36 Marco Rubio has been a very pleasant surprise this go round. Him in that dress is a hoot and a holler.

Posted by: turambar at January 08, 2026 05:38 PM (Q0yOR)

37
And maybe after Trump purchases Greenland it can be renamed to Whiteland to finally be accurate

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at January 08, 2026 05:37 PM (REq0p)

___________

Yugeclassyandluxuriousland

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 05:38 PM (tgvbd)

38 3 Republican sellouts are going to pass Obamacare for illegal aliens.
Posted by: torabora at January 08, 2026 05:31 PM (MkFn4)


Somebody must have some real interesting pictures.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 08, 2026 05:39 PM (2WIwB)

39 Greenland was the first European colonial possession in the New World, before the Europeans even knew that there was a New World.

Belonged to Norway first, then passed to Denmark.

Posted by: Bulg at January 08, 2026 05:39 PM (77rzZ)

40 Great, now I want a Snickers bar, but my stomach can't handle it.

Dangit, Ace!

Posted by: pookysgirl, shaking her fist at an Ewok at January 08, 2026 05:39 PM (Wt5PA)

41 Nova Local

Thanks. DNKT.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 08, 2026 05:39 PM (u82oZ)

42 Can we send Somalia's in Minnesota, Maine, Ohio, etc. to Greenland to work the mines? I'm onboard for that.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

Note that Rubio said Trump wants to buy it, not the USA.

So they might have to quarry some stone for casinos and a hotel too.

Posted by: Miklos thinks big, beautiful mines, mines like you wouldn't believe at January 08, 2026 05:39 PM (f/3mU)

43 The cream rises to the top.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 08, 2026 05:39 PM (UQJzP)

44 Why is it nutty? Frankly it would be no issue if the President was not named Trump it would simply require negotiating the terms.

Posted by: steevy at January 08, 2026 05:39 PM (YwEeS)

45 Truman should have made a second offer of $75 million.

Yeah everyone is acting like wanting Greenland is this new crazy nonsense by Trump but its been more than half a century we have wanted it as the USA. And it makes sense, from a strategic point of view, it allows us to cut off Europe entirely and not need the bases there as much. Its like the Ballroom, Trump is just doing the stuff a dozen or so presidents before wanted to but never got done.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2026 05:40 PM (3Amc7)

46 "The cream rises to the top.
Posted by: Boss Moss "

That's not cream.

Posted by: Sewage foam at January 08, 2026 05:40 PM (vFG9F)

47 Offer Greenland free association with the US. Greenland is independent, but we're responsible for their defense. Not functionally much different from what it has now with NATO.
We gave it now with Palau, Micronesia and the Marshall Islands

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 08, 2026 05:40 PM (ScJGb)

48 Republican sellouts are going to pass Obamacare for illegal aliens.
Posted by: torabora at January 08, 2026 05:31 PM (MkFn4)

Because what the people really, really want is more spending on people who shouldn't be here to keep the price of 'healthcare' higher than it should be.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 05:40 PM (ExV1e)

49 They need a couple of infantry companies there.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 08, 2026 05:41 PM (UQJzP)

50 The cream rises to the top.
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 08, 2026 05:39 PM (UQJzP)

The Paolo says, "And how!"

Posted by: The Paolo at January 08, 2026 05:41 PM (wVcYX)

51 Marco Rubio has been a very pleasant surprise this go round. Him in that dress is a hoot and a holler.

I saw a good explanation of Rubio: his parents were Cuban and he hates, hates, hates Communism with the firey fury of ten thousand suns and anything that puts a thumb in their eyes, he cannot wait to do.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2026 05:41 PM (3Amc7)

52 Viking-themed casinos!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 08, 2026 05:42 PM (kpS4V)

53 Why Greenland?
Take a look at a globe from the North Pole perspective. Look at the USofA. Look at Russia. Now look where Greenland sits.
Now consider the flight paths of hypersonic missiles or other such things.
That's why.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 08, 2026 05:42 PM (2WIwB)

54 And maybe after Trump purchases Greenland it can be renamed to Whiteland to finally be accurate
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger

We're renaming it Goldland, because once we're done developing it, it's going to be the most incredible place on the planet. The best. Guaranteed. We're going to have resorts, casinos, uh...whale watching. Yes, beautiful, majestic whales up North. It's incredible.

Posted by: Trump at January 08, 2026 05:42 PM (ycI94)

55
What the hell. We just walked into Iceland in 1942 and said we're in charge.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 05:42 PM (tgvbd)

56 The Rubio memes are great

Posted by: 496 at January 08, 2026 05:42 PM (iM0GV)

57 Gobs of cash and deep state files on the Danes will win the day.

Posted by: Kingsman at January 08, 2026 05:42 PM (ehY6c)

58 Maybe DJT knows something we don't know.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 08, 2026 05:42 PM (1Nv0l)

59 We’ve already had a protectorate over Greenland, during WWII.

Posted by: Bulg at January 08, 2026 05:43 PM (77rzZ)

60 I wish Trump would knock off the Greenland nonsense

Rare earth metals actually aren’t all that rare it’s refining them that’s a mess
Posted by: Maroon at January 08, 2026 05:36 PM (feMiE)

Greenland isn't about minerals. It's about national security. He's actually been pretty clear on that point. The minerals would just be a bonus.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 05:43 PM (ExV1e)

61 If Democrats are unwilling to show proper respect to the American people and our constitutional republic, they must be replaced with a functional opposition party as quickly as possible. Until then, they are the enemies of this republic, and should be treated as such. /end

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It is beyond time for President Trump to designate the Democrat-Community Death Cult Party a Domestic Terrorist Organization -- and begin the resultant arrests and prosecutions and imprisonments (ideally in CECOT) pour encourager les autres.

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 05:43 PM (IpnJw)

62 Kind of disappointed that no one I've seen discussing this in the last 24 hours has made an "Unemployed! In GREENLAND!" joke.

Posted by: pookysgirl's favorite movie is The Princess Bride at January 08, 2026 05:43 PM (Wt5PA)

63 I do like they think Trump will annex or invade Greenland though. It is entertaining. They believe their own press.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 08, 2026 05:43 PM (zZu0s)

64 They need a couple of infantry companies there.
Posted by: Boss Moss

USAF airfield security forces. And rotating Marines and Army for cold weather training in Greenland vice Norway.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 08, 2026 05:43 PM (u82oZ)

65 Canada would be a good aquisition as well.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 08, 2026 05:44 PM (UQJzP)

66 The left: Why would anyone want Greenland? it is a frozen wasteland

Also the left: Global warming will melt all the polar ice within 12 years!

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 05:44 PM (sKqQm)

67

Trump has access to Intel we don't have.

He has a good reason for wanting Greenland.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 08, 2026 05:44 PM (3ek7K)

68 With the Chinese and Russians active in the Arctic, it makes sense.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 08, 2026 05:44 PM (kpS4V)

69 * Democrat-COMMUNIST Death Cult Party ... f*cking auto-cucumber!

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 05:44 PM (IpnJw)

70 Just get an enhanced security agreement. Don't sell natural resources to the Russians or Chinese.
Make the mines ecological wonders, but get the rare earths.

Purchase is a nutty idea, but this is how Trump negotiates. Asking for everything first, then bargaining.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 08, 2026 05:34 PM (u82oZ)

no, purchase or independence and annexation. Denmark gets no future votes on Greenland when it is a caliphate or a Eco Communist state.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 08, 2026 05:44 PM (8avO+)

71 Senate voted to reign in Trump on Venezuela. Largely symbolic. Republican usual suspects detected

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 08, 2026 05:44 PM (ScJGb)

72 It'll be a new state. It'll be a great state. Everybody says it's the best state. They said sir we can't do it. I said we have to do it. The Russians can't do it. The Chinese can't do. So we'll do it. And boy are we gonna do it. We'll do it so good they won't know what happened. I asked the first lady, what shall we name the new state, darling? And you know what she said? She said let's name it Trumpland. Well, you can't argue with the first lady, can you? So we'll name it Trumpland. And it will be terrific! A fantastic state!

Posted by: DJT at January 08, 2026 05:44 PM (2Ez/1)

73
Canada would be a good aquisition as well.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 08, 2026 05:44 PM (UQJzP)

_____________

Only if we treat them like America's Bitch.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 05:45 PM (tgvbd)

74 Do you think Congress will allow Trump to buy Greenland ? It's a serious question...
Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2026 05:38 PM (VE6XX)

There are pretty good arguments in favor of it so... not a chance in hell.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 05:45 PM (ExV1e)

75 If I was there with a gold-digger, I would not leave the rented room. Too much ice. Not a lot of snow, but cold outside.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 08, 2026 05:45 PM (u82oZ)

76 I have $5 that the danes try to make a deal with the Chinese for bases on Greenland to spite Trump.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 08, 2026 05:45 PM (zZu0s)

77 >>Rare earth metals actually aren’t all that rare it’s refining them that’s a mess

That issue is far down the list. Trump wants Greenland for national security.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 08, 2026 05:45 PM (viF8m)

78 Make Greenland Green Again. I'm all for that. It's too damn cold.

Posted by: fd at January 08, 2026 05:45 PM (vFG9F)

79 It goes back further--Seward (of Seward's Folly) wanted it too. His Folly worked out. None of them seem to know that we already have a military base there. Or is it a Space Force base now?

Posted by: Lirio100 at January 08, 2026 05:45 PM (ky7/T)

80 Full territorial status.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 08, 2026 05:45 PM (UQJzP)

81 65 Yeah, once all the Canadians leave.

Posted by: Bulg at January 08, 2026 05:45 PM (77rzZ)

82 I just assumed beating the Greenland drum was for refocusing our Euroweeny friends on their paltry defense spending.

Let them ponder What If?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at January 08, 2026 05:46 PM (w/O5Q)

83 If there are mountains for skiing, it could work out! A new resort!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 08, 2026 05:33 PM (WONhk)

There are pretty damned big mountains there. And glaciers. Heli-skiing could definitely be a thing.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 08, 2026 05:46 PM (8zz6B)

84 Marco Rubio has been a very pleasant surprise this go round. Him in that dress is a hoot and a holler.

I saw a good explanation of Rubio: his parents were Cuban and he hates, hates, hates Communism with the firey fury of ten thousand suns and anything that puts a thumb in their eyes, he cannot wait to do.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2026 05:41 PM (3Amc7)

best advertisement I've heard.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 08, 2026 05:46 PM (8avO+)

85 Space Force!
*drinks shot*

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 08, 2026 05:46 PM (kpS4V)

86 Can she threaten IMF and UN dissolution as well? Maybe even EU?

Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 05:46 PM (/HZvU)

87 Flash Gordon?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 08, 2026 05:46 PM (UQJzP)

88 Why don't we at Ace of Spades HQ pool together some coin and purchase Greenland? Better yet let's invade it! Make it a MoMe or something.

Posted by: JROD at January 08, 2026 05:46 PM (IlL6s)

89 {{{All Hail Eris, She Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes}}}

Hope you are thriving.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 08, 2026 05:47 PM (u82oZ)

90 I am, Salty! Thanks for thinking of me.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 08, 2026 05:47 PM (kpS4V)

91 Marco Rubio finding out he’s now the new host of the Megyn Kelly Show.

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Can we get a photoshop of Marco Rubio as MTG in a bikini on The View?

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 05:47 PM (IpnJw)

92 How much do they want anyway? Can we get Rick from Pawn Stars to negotiate?

Posted by: fd at January 08, 2026 05:48 PM (vFG9F)

93
Truman offered to buy Greenland after the war for $100 million. Denmark said no. Truman should have made a second offer of $75 million.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

=============

Announcing, the EU Raffle!

First Prize is one week in Greenland.
Second Prize is two weeks in Greenland.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 08, 2026 05:48 PM (EEvvy)

94 Kind of disappointed that no one I've seen discussing this in the last 24 hours has made an "Unemployed! In GREENLAND!" joke.
Posted by: pookysgirl's favorite movie is The Princess Bride at January 08, 2026 05:43 PM (Wt5PA)
----
When President Trump finally acquires Greenland, there will be more than enough jobs for everyone!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 08, 2026 05:48 PM (ESVrU)

95 Purchase is a nutty idea, but this is how Trump negotiates. Asking for everything first, then bargaining.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 08, 2026 05:34 PM

I had explain Trumpian Deal-Making to my mother last night, who was semi-freaking out: "Are we going to invade Iceland???!!!". Yes, I know it's Greenland, she's 86 and has always been geographically-challenged. And the question, in its semi-freaked out format, also tells me that she had been talking to my DMV-area AWFL cousin.

Posted by: Bert G at January 08, 2026 05:48 PM (VARTN)

96 Alberta Oil Peon

Thor's Peak is in Canada.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 08, 2026 05:48 PM (u82oZ)

97 I think Mette Frederiksen should get to the kitchen and bake some delicious danish pastries for everyone

When I first heard the Greenland stuff I thought it was nutty… but now time has passed and it makes sense… especially in the context of the newly invigorated Donroe Doctrine… Greenland is in our hemisphere… still not tired of winning

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 08, 2026 05:49 PM (xT8gx)

98 Willowed, but germane, especially given the video up there...

My husband, that sneaky devil, was listening to Megyn Kelly as he had lunch. I said, "I don't like her...AGAIN." And told him why.
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It's not different than the Carlson thing... if you watch a person shed skin like a snake every few years and emerge as a completely different person, you should recognize them for the centerless grifters they are, and categorically ignore whatever they say.

If they happen to be right about some given topic, it's coincidental to their own interests being served, and it's entirely disingenuous - if they feel saying the exact opposite thing better serves them, they'll say it with seeming conviction the very next day.

It's just not worth the time or effort to hear them out. There are other people who are right (or wrong, for that matter) without being a cheesy fuckin' scammer nobody can trust.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 08, 2026 05:49 PM (BI5O2)

99 Does iceland have oil?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 08, 2026 05:49 PM (UQJzP)

100 >>Trump has access to Intel we don't have.

>>He has a good reason for wanting Greenland.

It's really a very simple reason. Right now Russia has a very strategic position in the Arctic Sea. We don't but Greenland does. The Arctic Sea is increasingly important for trade but particularly national security.

Trump does some things that at first seem goofy because they aren't talked about in the media or traditional political debate but this is a well know issue in national security circles.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 08, 2026 05:49 PM (viF8m)

101 Better grab Greenland before poo Tin does.

Posted by: torabora at January 08, 2026 05:49 PM (MkFn4)

102
I think the whole idea is nuttier than a Snickers bar

Is it as nutty as a Payday bar?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 08, 2026 05:49 PM (pkeXY)

103 I think the whole idea is nuttier than a Snickers bar but Trump has had nutty ideas before and some of them have worked out. (Other remain nutty.)
++++
I suspect the pan is *not* to buy Greenland.

I suspect the plan is to get the Danes to agree to ice out Red China and grant the US preferential treatment on resource exploitation.

The big, noisy threat: annexation.
The more palatable but still very politically-difficult (for both sides) position: purchase and transfer.
The compromise solution: no access to our enemies, access for ourselves.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2026 05:49 PM (GyQIQ)

104 Iran is getting dicier by the minute - Nioh Berg reports now that all phone service, all internet service, and all electrical service has been shut down for the entire country. Whatever is going to happen looks like it will happen soon.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2026 05:49 PM (uWKK8)

105 I wish Trump would knock off the Greenland nonsense

Rare earth metals actually aren’t all that rare it’s refining them that’s a mess
Posted by: Maroon at January 08, 2026 05:36 PM (feMiE)

Greenland has a lot more than rare earths. Gold, base metals, probably some gemstones, and significant oil and gas prospects.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 08, 2026 05:49 PM (8zz6B)

106
Forthcoming sign: No Blood For Ice!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 05:50 PM (tgvbd)

107
I saw a good explanation of Rubio: his parents were Cuban and he hates, hates, hates Communism with the firey fury of ten thousand suns and anything that puts a thumb in their eyes, he cannot wait to do.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

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And yet he wanted to overrun us with a bunch of socialism-loving Mexicans.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 08, 2026 05:50 PM (EEvvy)

108
Denmark: We'll take 1 billion dollars

Rick: I can give you 700.

Denmark: 700 million?

Rick: 700 dollars

Posted by: fd at January 08, 2026 05:50 PM (vFG9F)

109 83 If there are mountains for skiing, it could work out! A new resort!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 08, 2026 05:33 PM (WONhk)

There are pretty damned big mountains there. And glaciers. Heli-skiing could definitely be a thing.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 08, 2026 05:46 PM (8zz6B)

Problem is lack of daylight. Ski day would be 11am to 3pm in January that far north.

Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 05:50 PM (/HZvU)

110 Can we get a photoshop of Marco Rubio as MTG in a bikini on The View?

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026

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Ewww. This blog has standards, doesn't it?

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 08, 2026 05:50 PM (n4Qav)

111 The US bought the (now US Virgin Islands) from Denmark in early 1917 for $25,000,00 in gold coin. Don't know what that would be today, but it wouldn't be the first time Denmark sold islands.
Posted by: Historically Minded Miklos at January 08, 2026 05:36 PM (f/3mU)

Denmark sold all its home islands when it joined the EU.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 08, 2026 05:50 PM (8avO+)

112
JackStraw,

You are right.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 08, 2026 05:50 PM (3ek7K)

113 Purchase Greenland
$20 same as in town.

Posted by: wth at January 08, 2026 05:50 PM (UjdFS)

114 Excellent!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 08, 2026 05:50 PM (Hkcdp)

115 Why don't we at Ace of Spades HQ pool together some coin and purchase Greenland? Better yet let's invade it! Make it a MoMe or something.

Posted by: JROD at January 08, 2026 05:46 PM (IlL6s)

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Or trade it for the former New Amsterdam (today AKA New Zimbabwe)?

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 05:50 PM (IpnJw)

116 All Hail Eris, She Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes

You went through a lot in 2025.

🍹
Here is to a bright future for you.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 08, 2026 05:50 PM (u82oZ)

117 Mr. Rubio made his remarks in a briefing on Monday with lawmakers from the main armed services and foreign policy committees in both chambers of Congress. The same day, Mr. Trump told aides to deliver an updated plan.
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So there is no plan. Got it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2026 05:50 PM (GyQIQ)

118 Republican sellouts are going to pass Obamacare for illegal aliens.
Posted by: torabora

And Trump will veto it, and there aren't enough sellouts to override, presumably.

To whom are they virtue signalling?

Posted by: mikeski at January 08, 2026 05:50 PM (nhCoE)

119 *holds finger an inch from PM Fredriksen's ear*

I'm not touching you
I'm not touching you

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 08, 2026 05:50 PM (RIvkX)

120 Problem is lack of daylight. Ski day would be 11am to 3pm in January that far north.
Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 05:50 PM (/HZvU)

Go in the summer then when it is day all the time.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 08, 2026 05:51 PM (8avO+)

121 Just buy it and make those 200 people multi millionaires.

F the Danes.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 08, 2026 05:51 PM (n5tGW)

122 How much do they want anyway? Can we get Rick from Pawn Stars to negotiate?
Posted by: fd
________

I'll give you $50. I've to sell it and it's gonna sit on the shelf for a while. Specialty market.

Posted by: Rick at January 08, 2026 05:51 PM (XvL8K)

123 I've used this analogy before, but its like every day Trump walks into the oval office and pulls a card from his deck of "What can I do to screw with the left today?" cards. And so why not Greenland, its not the worst idea in that deck of cards.

Posted by: Crusader at January 08, 2026 05:51 PM (TN0g+)

124 Ewww. This blog has standards, doesn't it?
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 08, 2026 05:50 PM (n4Qav)

Ackbar hasn't been banned yet so apparently not.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 05:51 PM (ExV1e)

125 Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Good analysis.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 08, 2026 05:52 PM (u82oZ)

126 Greenland isn’t worth the squeeze, plus you get all the downsides of Puerto Rico with out hot women and sandy beaches.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 08, 2026 05:52 PM (XV/Pl)

127 Greenland has a lot more than rare earths. Gold, base metals, probably some gemstones, and significant oil and gas prospects.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 08, 2026 05:49 PM (8zz6B)

Plus Captain America's body frozen since WWII. Wasn't that the plot of the comic?

Posted by: Oldcat at January 08, 2026 05:52 PM (8avO+)

128 It's really a very simple reason. Right now Russia has a very strategic position in the Arctic Sea. We don't but Greenland does. The Arctic Sea is increasingly important for trade but particularly national security.

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Isn't it time for Trump to rename it to the American Sea?

/Totally not joking ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 05:52 PM (IpnJw)

129 And Trump will veto it, and there aren't enough sellouts to override, presumably.

Will he? Or will he accept it as part of getting the larger bill done?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 05:53 PM (ExV1e)

130 Why Greenland? Here is a map.
"Greenland - As viewed from a proper map

Why Greenland? Well because Moscow bases almost all of their strategic military assets on the Kola Peninsula next to Finland. This is where the Russian ICBM silos, submarine bases, and their strategic bombers are.

If you look at the flight path (ballistic or powered) from Kola to anywhere on the lower 48, then everything goes over Greenland.

Greenland is the theatre where any strategic exchange between Washington and Moscow is contested"

https://tinyurl.com/rj5x7f7u

Posted by: illiniwek at January 08, 2026 05:53 PM (vbXSk)

131 3 Republican sellouts are going to pass Obamacare for illegal aliens.
Posted by: torabora
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Nope. Don't have the votes. Failure theater. The same bill failed cloture in teh Senate in Dec. and then it requires Trump to sign on (not veto).

Won't happen. The douchebags GOP types voting for this are trying to cover their asses for Nov.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 05:53 PM (WDjG6)

132 Their is a Danish TV show about this type of situation Borgen: Power & Glory on Netflix, Chinese/Russian try and extract oil from Greenland using front companies

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 08, 2026 05:54 PM (FCrpy)

133 Does iceland have oil?
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 08, 2026 05:49 PM (UQJzP)

the erupting volcanoes might interfere with that.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 08, 2026 05:54 PM (8avO+)

134
Somebody convinced the Green Jor-el crystal and it's lair is in Greenland.

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 08, 2026 05:54 PM (IifOV)

135 Today Governor Tim Walz has ordered the Minnesota National Guard to be ready to deploy to Iran to help quell the Trump inspired protests against the "Mostly Peaceful" Government run by the Mullahs....

Governor Walz has been quoted as saying " Praise Allah for Iran"...

Posted by: CNN Breaking News at January 08, 2026 05:54 PM (J9q9v)

136 Actually, it’s the Arctic Ocean, not Sea.

Posted by: Bulg at January 08, 2026 05:54 PM (77rzZ)

137 Here's a view of the globe from the top. Look where the US is. Look where Greenland is. Look where Russia is.

https://tinyurl.com/9zb5d26r

Posted by: JackStraw at January 08, 2026 05:55 PM (viF8m)

138 If I was there with a gold-digger, I would not leave the rented room. Too much ice. Not a lot of snow, but cold outside.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 08, 2026 05:45 PM (u82oZ)

Coastal Greenland is quite pleasant during the Summer. I have pictures.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 08, 2026 05:55 PM (8zz6B)

139 Greenland -- Pemmican is on the menu.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 08, 2026 05:55 PM (u82oZ)

140 How much do they want anyway? Can we get Rick from Pawn Stars to negotiate?
Posted by: fd

We shouldn't pay more than 3c an acre

Posted by: The ghost of Thomas Jefferson at January 08, 2026 05:55 PM (1Nv0l)

141 I wrote this earlier today: just land the 101st on Greenland and plant the flag. There won’t be any resistance… who’s gonna do anything about it? Serve Danish pastries to the native population… ingratiate yourself. Mission accomplished

Bonus points for destroying NATO which needs to happen anyway

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 08, 2026 05:55 PM (xT8gx)

142 Greenland isn’t worth the squeeze, plus you get all the downsides of Puerto Rico with out hot women and sandy beaches.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 08, 2026 05:52 PM (XV/Pl)

Greenland is significantly more valuable, from a 21st century defense perspective, than probably every one of our other possessions combined. Maybe leave off Guam but that's about it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 05:55 PM (ExV1e)

143 Iran is getting dicier by the minute - Nioh Berg reports now that all phone service, all internet service, and all electrical service has been shut down for the entire country. Whatever is going to happen looks like it will happen soon.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2026 05:49 PM (uWKK
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Goldie has been live all day then Tousi. He says a million people are in the streets in Tehran and the IRGC military are deployed.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 08, 2026 05:55 PM (RIvkX)

144 Offer Greenland free association with the US. Greenland is independent, but we're responsible for their defense. Not functionally much different from what it has now with NATO.
We gave it now with Palau, Micronesia and the Marshall Islands
Posted by: Smell the Glove


Free Association is a weird duck. For all practical purposes the people are US Nationals in that individually anyone can move to the US proper anytime they want w/o a visa and work etc.

And the Northern Marianas chose to with territorial status.
The WWII airfields are supposedly being restored (Tinian, etc.)

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 08, 2026 05:55 PM (/lPRQ)

145 I love living without the masks. Refreshing!

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at January 08, 2026 05:55 PM (MzHUZ)

146 Alberta Oil Peon

I know, but that my line to start with.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 08, 2026 05:55 PM (u82oZ)

147
We occupied Iceland before:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_occupation_of_Iceland

Posted by: Don at January 08, 2026 05:55 PM (yy2s0)

148 Republican sellouts are going to pass Obamacare for illegal aliens.
Posted by: torabora
.....

I'm old enough to remember when they promised to repeal it.

Posted by: wth at January 08, 2026 05:55 PM (UjdFS)

149 Actually, it’s the Arctic Ocean, not Sea.
Posted by: Bulg

We knew that, and don't call us notseas.

Posted by: mikeski at January 08, 2026 05:56 PM (nhCoE)

150 I think a lot of people are missing the point of annexing GL. It’s geopolitically very strategic. Why do you think China is sniffing around? Plus, it’s got huge natural resources, and being a territory rather than a state, a lot of icky extraction work can go on there that wouldn’t be possible in the states.

Do I think this will ever happen? No. I think it’s a monster troll.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at January 08, 2026 05:56 PM (Jr2P2)

151 How are we going to 3 American Oceans?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 08, 2026 05:56 PM (UQJzP)

152 Insty copies CNN which says 3 minutes ago that the Minnesota retard just authorized the national guard in Minnesota.

Posted by: Crusader at January 08, 2026 05:56 PM (TN0g+)

153 Trump's ideas are a lot like jokes, some some are winners and some fall flat and some are doa.

But but but at least he has ideas versus the brain-dead fossil who's only idea was tax more so he can grift more.
Now we have a man of action who is actively working to make life better for the 90% who do the working and living and dying in this country.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 08, 2026 05:56 PM (QGaXH)

154
Denmark is threatening that we won't be allowed to subsidize them anymore?

Maybe they want money.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 08, 2026 05:56 PM (xPNeT)

155 It's really a very simple reason. Right now Russia has a very strategic position in the Arctic Sea. We don't but Greenland does. The Arctic Sea is increasingly important for trade but particularly national security

And it gives a place to build big bases and harbors to stage out of for Europe without needing any Europeans.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2026 05:56 PM (3Amc7)

156 99 Does iceland have oil?
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 08, 2026 05:49 PM (UQJzP)

geothermal powered blondes, half viking, half pixie. It's hard for them to date their own men, because the population is so small and isolated that the government maintains a database so they can check and not bang their cousins.

Come to think about it, fire up the Ewok's G6. Grab your banjos and your drinking horns, file a flight plan for Reykjavik, tonight we're line dancing in Valhalla.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at January 08, 2026 05:57 PM (w/O5Q)

157 It may be a nutty idea, but it is wonderful watching the European panties get all bunched up like they are confronting a second Genghis Kahn.

"Oh deary! Mean yellow man is gonna steal my land" and there is ***NOTHING*** they can do about it. That alone should give them pause.

If Trump was Xi or Putin, Greenland would be gone, baby. Stalin stole Japanese islands because he felt like it, and made all the Japs living their get on boats. China did that Tibet. China always claims it is a "strategic imperative."

If the only reason to do this is to make China think that maybe the US is not the pushover sad sacks they assume we are, then that is justification enough for me. If China starts to think "oh shit, USA might take over the whole north and south continents and then what?"

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 08, 2026 05:57 PM (bIWgk)

158 It is happening.
The Regime is falling.
https://tinyurl.com/mvshu6z5

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2026 05:57 PM (t/2Uw)

159 Somebody convinced Trump that the Green Jor-el crystal and it's lair is in Greenland.

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 08, 2026 05:57 PM (IifOV)

160 Will he? Or will he accept it as part of getting the larger bill done?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Funding illegals is done. The problem is that the Democrats have is that they cannot back down and insist on the extension covering illegals (they dance aroudn that part). Probably some GOPe types taking big bucks from insurors would love to pass it but their voters will take them out if they do, especially now it is highly salient and visible.

So, there might be some folding into the minibus with the exclusion of illegals language but then the Dems have to decide to shut down the government again for departments that hand out goodies to their constituents. The NDAA, VA, etc. have been passed so the hostage has been shot for the GOP. That makes another shutdown explicitly on illegals unlikely to happen but enraged Dems might do YOLO again and make us shut down the whole part of government that issue fradulent payments to assholes.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 05:58 PM (WDjG6)

161 >>>anxiety over President Trump's sharpened focus on the Arctic.
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Russia's been laying claim to the Arctic since the Soviet days. Now, that China can stay under water without blowing the hatches they are planting flags too.

Those two can fight over the little pieces in their hemisphere. Not over here.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 08, 2026 05:58 PM (I1a0i)

162 Thats what realists do, buy and sell properties.
But if your President, buy and sell countries.
He ought to try and unload Minnesota.

Posted by: Skip at January 08, 2026 05:58 PM (Ia/+0)

163 Protest at Minnesota shooting site set to begin at 5:30 central time.

Posted by: Crusader at January 08, 2026 05:58 PM (TN0g+)

164 History is being made

https://tinyurl.com/bdz8jaff

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2026 05:58 PM (t/2Uw)

165 I was re-reading about Leroy Fincum's death. He was a Cliven Bundy protestor that was shot in the back.

It went through the courts and the argument seems to be it was a good shoot because he was armed even though he had his weapon holstered at the time.

Why? Well he was resisting arrest.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 05:58 PM (sKqQm)

166 Problem is lack of daylight. Ski day would be 11am to 3pm in January that far north.
Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 05:50 PM (/HZvU)

Ski season would be Spring and Summer, I expect.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 08, 2026 05:58 PM (8zz6B)

167 uh oh, the Philly smellies have deployed the ... drums!

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 08, 2026 05:58 PM (HXT0k)

168 I wouldn't make it a state. Territory at best. I do see why it would benefit our country.

Posted by: Case at January 08, 2026 05:58 PM (4rWc3)

169 158 It is happening.
The Regime is falling.
https://tinyurl.com/mvshu6z5
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)
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I pray this is so.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 05:59 PM (WDjG6)

170 Who would have ever bet that the way we exit NATO would be, 'thrown out'. hahahah Truth is stranger than fiction.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 08, 2026 05:59 PM (I1a0i)

171 "As many people have said: We accept your terms, now kindly fuck off and join the Greater Islamic Caliphate per your current political trajectory."

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Excellent!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 08, 2026 05:59 PM (QGaXH)

172 Pray for the protestors who want the Shah back.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 05:59 PM (8Xy/A)

173 Call it 60k Greenlanders and 6m Danes.

$250k to each Greenlander personally, plus citizenship via territorial status: $15b

$2.5k to each Dane personally: $15bn

$30b to the Government of Denmark, with $10bn of it guaranteed for purchase of American goods within one year.

Net cost: $60b; trade deficit reduced by $10b with big profit incentives for American firms.

That would pass a fair vote in all three countries.

Not that it matters, of course. It won't happen.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2026 05:59 PM (GyQIQ)

174 Monarchy? Too British.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 08, 2026 06:00 PM (UQJzP)

175 169 158 It is happening.
The Regime is falling.
https://tinyurl.com/mvshu6z5
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)
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I pray this is so.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 05:59 PM (WDjG6)

I am praying for the people of Iran to take their country back

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 08, 2026 06:00 PM (n4Qav)

176 Can we send Somalia's in Minnesota, Maine, Ohio, etc. to Greenland to work the mines? I'm onboard for that.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 08, 2026 05:35 PM (u82oZ)

Even better is if there is some weird invisible gas that makes them turn on each other with pick axes.

I learned that watching star trek. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 08, 2026 06:00 PM (snZF9)

177 The Goffnor of Minnasoda has personally supported the "Rotting Carcass" of Saint George of Floyd" to be the next Guffnor of Minnie-Soda-Stan...

Posted by: CNN Breaking News at January 08, 2026 06:00 PM (J9q9v)

178 The northern countries' claims are based on the undersea shelves (sorry, Ace) that extend up from their continental territories.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 08, 2026 06:01 PM (kpS4V)

179 Greenland would be good for naval bases to protect the Arctic and North Atlantic, defensive early-warning systems & missile defense, and a forward operating base in case Ireland, UK, and Western Europe go sideways over the next fews decades (which isn't out of the realm of possibility).

Also, oil & minerals.

Trump is starting off with what he wants the most; outright ownership after purchase, but he'll settle for basing and mineral rights agreements with long-term leases.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 08, 2026 06:01 PM (6ydKt)

180 Marco Rubio - Miami Dolphins. Considering Rubio's wife used to be a Miami Dolphin's cheerleader, not so far fetched.

Do you think Rubio has aspirations to be POTUS? The man is living in a pressure cooker 24/7....do you think after 4 years of this that he actually would want the top job?

Posted by: Cheri at January 08, 2026 06:01 PM (oiNtH)

181 Thats what realists do, buy and sell properties.
But if your President, buy and sell countries.
He ought to try and unload Minnesota.
Posted by: Skip
____________

Give it to the Indians as reparations. Watch Minnesota Karen's head explode on what to do.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 08, 2026 06:01 PM (XvL8K)

182 Does NATO serve any purpose in the year 2026 ???

Posted by: Jackson K. at January 08, 2026 06:01 PM (J9q9v)

183 165 I was re-reading about Leroy Fincum's death. He was a Cliven Bundy protestor that was shot in the back.

It went through the courts and the argument seems to be it was a good shoot because he was armed even though he had his weapon holstered at the time.

Why? Well he was resisting arrest.
Posted by: 18-1
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None of the left's arguments are serious. They are simply bad rhetoric to change the subject from Somali massive fraud encouraged and protected by Dem officeholders.

The left would shoot you down in a minute and dance in celebration if you happened to be a bad person like Charlie Kirk. They mourn when their criminals FAFO. There is no truth in them and arguing with them or seekign common ground is impossible with committed ideologues. Communism is their faith and religion and has been since that wretched piece of shit Roussean and Marx put a name to that doctrine of envy, hate, and death.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 06:01 PM (WDjG6)

184 "Marco Rubio Informs Congress That Trump Wants to Purchase Greenland"


Somebody needs to make sure that Trump uses the black card when he purchases greenland to get the 1% cash back.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 08, 2026 06:02 PM (0N4FZ)

185
"Prime Minister, you can have my answer now if you like. My offer is this: nothing."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 06:02 PM (tgvbd)

186 Who would have ever bet that the way we exit NATO would be, 'thrown out'. hahahah Truth is stranger than fiction.
----
They'll probably demand an exit fee.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 08, 2026 06:02 PM (kpS4V)

187 Here's my offer

Nothing

Hey Vito, explain it to Bjorn

Posted by: President Niccolo J. Trumpo at January 08, 2026 06:02 PM (f/3mU)

188 Plus, it’s got huge natural resources,
Posted by: Elric the Blade


----------
Another point -- Those resources are hard to extract right now, but if we can pump up those global warming numbers maybe it will be economic in future. China thinks like that.

(off point, but I think one reason Trump is in a hurry to go to the Moon is because of this. China is confronted with territory claims on many islands, and it goes back to "who discovered, who used resources, and who had permanent continuous presence"

China wants that claim for the Moon. Bank on it. We need to maintain our priority claims. Remember, China thinks in terms of centuries and in 100 years, the Moon might have real value to whoever can claim it.)

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 08, 2026 06:02 PM (bIWgk)

189 182 Does NATO serve any purpose in the year 2026 ???
Posted by: Jackson K.

Grift. Russia is not a serious threat anymore and the real threat is Muzzies that the EU waves in to oppress and put down the natives.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 06:02 PM (WDjG6)

190 Honestly, if it ends NATO...the strategic importance of acquiring Greenland is moot.

Take it to end NATO alone. It's worth any price.

Posted by: garrett at January 08, 2026 06:02 PM (ZcsJV)

191 Iran is getting dicier by the minute - Nioh Berg reports now that all phone service, all internet service, and all electrical service has been shut down for the entire country. Whatever is going to happen looks like it will happen soon.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2026 05:49 PM (uWKK
++++
A total blackout?

If true, is it due to stress-related failure, gross incompetence, rebel sabotage, or official action?

Place your bets.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2026 06:03 PM (GyQIQ)

192 >>> it's like watching people angrily yelling that you cannot carry the ball around like that in Soccer when people are playing baseball.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2026 05:36 PM (3Amc7)

--

Soccer fans are defensive about soccer because deep down they know it sucks. Even in baseball, something occasionally happens.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at January 08, 2026 06:03 PM (NYInA)

193 Kind of disappointed that no one I've seen discussing this in the last 24 hours has made an "Unemployed! In GREENLAND!" joke.
Posted by: pookysgirl's favorite movie is The Princess Bride

Anybody want a peanut?

Posted by: Fezzik at January 08, 2026 06:03 PM (Yw2TI)

194 China wants that claim for the Moon. Bank on it. We need to maintain our priority claims. Remember, China thinks in terms of centuries and in 100 years, the Moon might have real value to whoever can claim it.)
Posted by: bob
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Had not thought about it but you are probably correct.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 06:03 PM (WDjG6)

195 The Danish PM has warned that if the US annexes Greenland -- without their permission, I think she means -- then that means the NATO treaty is formally nullified.
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TWO BIRDS, ONE STONE!

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 08, 2026 06:03 PM (xvV+O)

196 It is happening.
The Regime is falling.
https://tinyurl.com/mvshu6z5
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)

Thanks for the updates.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 06:03 PM (ExV1e)

197 I wouldn't make it a state. Territory at best. I do see why it would benefit our country.
Posted by: Case

Greenland? Population: 56,000.

If that deserves two senators and a rep, we need to carve the rest of the country into a lot more states.

Posted by: mikeski at January 08, 2026 06:03 PM (nhCoE)

198 Apparently Marco Rubio has enough energy if you put him on a gerbil treadmill he could power a large city…. Positively Trumpish in the energy category

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 08, 2026 06:03 PM (xT8gx)

199 Place your bets.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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Death of regime.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 06:04 PM (WDjG6)

200
Ewww. This blog has standards, doesn't it?
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
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Ackbar hasn't been banned yet so apparently not.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

*squint an eye*
That still only cpunts as one! Do you have her phone number?

Posted by: Gimli - at January 08, 2026 06:04 PM (QVmho)

201

Iceland is the portal to the Centre of the Earth where all the minerals lay.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 08, 2026 06:04 PM (pkeXY)

202
I'd like to see a bunch of grateful Iranians move to Minnesota.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 08, 2026 06:04 PM (EEvvy)

203 Canada would be a good aquisition as well.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Don't laugh, but I've read Trump is reaching out to the First Nations (Woo Woo Indians, Not Dot) of Canada to buy their land. It would make getting Alberta and such easier, but whoa! What an idea!

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 08, 2026 06:04 PM (cxFcK)

204 Give Minny-Soda back to the Hekawis led by Chief Wild Eagle for a six pack of Schlitz Lite Beer...

Posted by: Jackson K. at January 08, 2026 06:04 PM (J9q9v)

205 10 Can we send Somalia's in Minnesota, Maine, Ohio, etc. to Greenland to work the mines? I'm onboard for that.
Posted by: NaCly Dog
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We can send them back to Somalia.
All of them.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 08, 2026 06:04 PM (I1a0i)

206 Death of regime.
Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 06:04 PM (WDjG6)
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Possibly.

But I meant causes, not outcomes.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2026 06:04 PM (GyQIQ)

207 179 Greenland would be good for naval bases to protect the Arctic and North Atlantic, defensive early-warning systems & missile defense, and a forward operating base in case Ireland, UK, and Western Europe go sideways over the next fews decades (which isn't out of the realm of possibility).

Also, oil & minerals.

and organic free-range ice cubes

Posted by: anachronda at January 08, 2026 06:04 PM (oY6Yp)

208 "Iceland is the portal to the Centre of the Earth where all the minerals lay.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr"

If you can get past the Mole People.

Posted by: fd at January 08, 2026 06:04 PM (vFG9F)

209 187 Here's my offer

Nothing

Posted by: President Niccolo J. Trumpo

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See this hand? I promised myself I'ld wipe my ass with this hand. Not even the Pope could walk out of here with this hand.

Posted by: Bedbug Eddie at January 08, 2026 06:04 PM (bIWgk)

210 Alberta Oil Peon

Thor's Peak is in Canada.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 08, 2026 05:48 PM (u82oZ)

Maybe not for long!

Posted by: Oldcat at January 08, 2026 06:05 PM (8avO+)

211 Swap Minnesota for Alberta. Alberta can come in as a state.
And Minnesota can take their bitching asses to Canada. Let Canada deal with them.

Posted by: Case at January 08, 2026 06:05 PM (4rWc3)

212 >>I am praying for the people of Iran to take their country back


I am praying for more video of Iranians in cars running down the retreating IRGC Thugs.

Those are my new favorite.

Posted by: garrett at January 08, 2026 06:05 PM (ZcsJV)

213 Are there mØØse in Greenland?

Posted by: banana Dream at January 08, 2026 06:05 PM (3uBP9)

214 For some reason, nobody mentions another existing option-

Free State in Association

PR has that, and some islands in the Pacific

Posted by: Miklos offers Options at January 08, 2026 06:05 PM (f/3mU)

215
A total blackout?

If true, is it due to stress-related failure, gross incompetence, rebel sabotage, or official action?

Place your bets.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

All of the above.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 08, 2026 06:06 PM (pkeXY)

216 The Danish PM has warned that if the US annexes Greenland -- without their permission, I think she means -- then that means the NATO treaty is formally nullified.
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TWO BIRDS, ONE STONE!

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 08, 2026 06:03 PM (xvV+O)

Kinda like when my brother's wife says she's not talking to him, and he says "oh no, not that". lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 08, 2026 06:06 PM (snZF9)

217 190 Honestly, if it ends NATO...the strategic importance of acquiring Greenland is moot.

Take it to end NATO alone. It's worth any price.
Posted by: garrett
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Yep. What a happy day. Then we can sit back while Russia retaliates against the EU because the EU wants to steal hundreds of billions in Russian assets to pay back their Ukraine loans.

They are thieves and assholes posing as our friends to con and make us pay for their defense.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 06:06 PM (WDjG6)

218 Guys-
it's not even that green

Posted by: Don Black at January 08, 2026 06:06 PM (ZxPkt)

219 Acquiring Greenland ...just an extension of The Monroe Doctrine.

(they're in the Western Hemisphere, aren't they?)

Posted by: illiniwek at January 08, 2026 06:06 PM (vbXSk)

220 Under two years of being an American territory under Trump, Greenland would likely easily have a million people.

And two major sports teams.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 06:06 PM (06Hmj)

221 I'm getting 1989 Berlin Wall vibes from Iran. Hope this is it for the mullahs.

Posted by: PA Dutchman at January 08, 2026 06:06 PM (h/O4U)

222 Place your bets.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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Death of regime.
Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 06:04 PM (WDjG6)
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Maybe. But we could just as likely wake up tomorrow with the regime standing atop a pile of bloody skulls. Hard to know what’s really going on over there.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at January 08, 2026 06:06 PM (Jr2P2)

223 Does NATO serve any purpose in the year 2026 ???

Depends on your perspective. Its useless for its stated purpose, but if you run a European nation or the EU its a gold mine allowing you to run a faux socialist state without spending much on defense.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2026 06:06 PM (3Amc7)

224 In the Dave Rubin clip on Megyn, in literally the next breath she says she is NOT talking about his views on "race, Jews and the Holocaust" (which Dave leaves out), and then of course Dave goes on to splice in clips of Fuentes talking about race, Jews and the Holocaust to imply that Megyn approves of these views.

That's the thing about tribalism. The guiding principle is what's best for the tribe, not whether it is true. Will the smear work? That's the only question.

Posted by: TITP at January 08, 2026 06:06 PM (r3hkP)

225 109 83 If there are mountains for skiing, it could work out! A new resort!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 08, 2026 05:33 PM (WONhk)

There are pretty damned big mountains there. And glaciers. Heli-skiing could definitely be a thing.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 08, 2026 05:46 PM (8zz6B)
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Sculp that ice with dynamite into some really nice slopes.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 08, 2026 06:06 PM (I1a0i)

226 A total blackout?

If true, is it due to stress-related failure, gross incompetence, rebel sabotage, or official action?

Place your bets.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2026 06:03 PM (GyQIQ)

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"Pretty sure it's the Joooooos and Mossad! It's easier to control the grid when you control the weather, bigots ..."

/obligatory Cucker Qatarlson, Candy-O, and their love child Nick something

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 06:06 PM (IpnJw)

227 Thats what realists do, buy and sell properties.
But if your President, buy and sell countries.
He ought to try and unload Minnesota.
Posted by: Skip at January 08, 2026 05:58 PM (Ia/+0)
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Isn't Minnesota where we keep our Strategic Lutefisk Reserve?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 08, 2026 06:06 PM (ESVrU)

228 Does NATO serve any purpose in the year 2026 ???
Posted by: Jackson K. at January 08, 2026 06:01 PM (J9q9v)

It allows the EU to fund their over-socialized systems because we're paying for their defense.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 06:07 PM (ExV1e)

229
I am praying for more video of Iranians in cars running down the retreating IRGC Thugs.

Cars don't hurt people.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 08, 2026 06:07 PM (pkeXY)

230 Swap Minnesota for Alberta. Alberta can come in as a state.
And Minnesota can take their bitching asses to Canada. Let Canada deal with them.
Posted by: Case at January 08, 2026 06:05 PM (4rWc3)

No, we need territorial status to weed out any residual canadianism from the province. Scrap every bit of it, replace it with winner take all.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 08, 2026 06:07 PM (8avO+)

231 A total blackout?

If true, is it due to stress-related failure, gross incompetence, rebel sabotage, or official action?

Place your bets.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

I've read reports that Elon is supplying free internet via Starlink.

Posted by: Cheri at January 08, 2026 06:07 PM (oiNtH)

232 193 Kind of disappointed that no one I've seen discussing this in the last 24 hours has made an "Unemployed! In GREENLAND!" joke.
Posted by: pookysgirl's favorite movie is The Princess Bride

Anybody want a peanut?
Posted by: Fezzik at January 08, 2026 06:03 PM (Yw2TI)

Inconceivable!

Posted by: Vizzini at January 08, 2026 06:07 PM (brIJB)

233
Soon there will be 3,637 daycare centers in Greenland.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 06:07 PM (tgvbd)

234 Case

Why do you hate Canada and Canadians?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 08, 2026 06:07 PM (u82oZ)

235 Russia and China are going to get really nervous if the Islamic Republic of Iran fails so soon after the Maduro maneuver.

But, what can the Russians say, or more importantly, do?
Nada, other than act the hypocrite on the world stage.

All China will do is get antsy over Taiwan, biding their time, while acting the hypocrite on the world stage.

They wanted a Multi-Polar world, well, this is what it entails; regional hegemony in spheres of influence.

The Russians and Chinese are getting kicked out of South America and most of the Middle East and they'll just have to get used to it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 08, 2026 06:07 PM (6ydKt)

236 " Guys-
it's not even that green"

"But it will be in five years, once Global Warmening kicks in" ... Al Gore, 1995.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 08, 2026 06:08 PM (vbXSk)

237 >>I've read reports that Elon is supplying free internet via Starlink.


Yeah - Starlink is up. Everything else is shut down.

Posted by: garrett at January 08, 2026 06:08 PM (ZcsJV)

238 Does NATO serve any purpose in the year 2026 ???
Posted by: Jackson K. at January 08, 2026 06:01 PM (J9q9v)

It allows the EU to fund their over-socialized systems because we're paying for their defense.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 06:07 PM (ExV1e)

The EU drones staffing it cost money and work against US interests.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 08, 2026 06:08 PM (8avO+)

239 I wonder what kind of sport fishing they have in Nuuk. That would be an epic road trip.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 08, 2026 06:08 PM (cxFcK)

240 Jimmy Kimmel says Trump falls asleep too much because he's old and failing, and that Venezuela was just a cash grab,

So now it all makes sense.

This noise about buying Greenland is the product of a fever dream, and Trump plans to accomplish it with cash extracted from Venezuela.

Wheels within wheels, man - but it's all just so damn OBVIOUS if you wake up and open your eyes!!!!!!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2026 06:08 PM (GyQIQ)

241 If there are mountains for skiing, it could work out! A new resort!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 08, 2026 05:33 PM (WONhk)

There are pretty damned big mountains there. And glaciers. Heli-skiing could definitely be a thing.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 08, 2026 05:46 PM (8zz6B)
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Sculp that ice with dynamite into some really nice slopes.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 08, 2026 06:06 PM (I1a0i)

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Hell, make it Mt. Trumpmore while you're at it.

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 06:08 PM (IpnJw)

242 Top reason for taking Greenland: snow golf.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at January 08, 2026 06:08 PM (HTCU3)

243 But I meant causes, not outcomes.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

The regime dying is why it can't either protect its own assets because it is trying stave off total death in the streets or it is trying to kill its own citizens by denying power, light, and heat.

That simply enrages people already in teh street and that shuts down a lot of the ways that the regime uses to identify and stop protesters.

I think it is a bit of both, gas workers are on strike is one example last night.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 06:08 PM (WDjG6)

244 If we can persuade Denmark to part with Greenland willingly, that would be great

Trump is a deal-maker, after all
anyone who says we're just going to seize it, is full of shite

Posted by: Don Black at January 08, 2026 06:09 PM (ZxPkt)

245 I wonder if the BBC has done even one minute of coverage of the rebellion in Iran

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2026 06:09 PM (3Amc7)

246 Free association or territory. Territory will keep the wolves away.
No New States.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 08, 2026 06:09 PM (I1a0i)

247 I’d oat a dollar for that!

Posted by: Eromero at January 08, 2026 06:09 PM (o2ZRX)

248 I am praying for more video of Iranians in cars running down the retreating IRGC Thugs.

Best of all... the IRGC can't shoot the drivers.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 06:10 PM (ExV1e)

249 I heard Don "Corleone" Trump say early today.,....

I'm gonna make Denmark an offer it can't refuse."

Spoken by the POTUS (played by Donny Trump), encapsulates the power and influence of the US Military in a succinct and memorable way.

Posted by: Marco Rubio at January 08, 2026 06:10 PM (J9q9v)

250 Ski season would be Spring and Summer, I expect.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 08, 2026 05:58 PM (8zz6B)

It’s too hot then. Even in the arctic it gets warm-ish in summer. 24 hour sun isn’t exactly conducive to good ski conditions.

There is some year round skiing on glaciers in the Alps and Whistler sometimes. but it’s pretty shitty conditions. People do it just to do it (hey I skied in July!!). It’s limited terrain like a run or two.

Alyiaska the big resort in Alaska is right at 60 degrees north and they close in April or May since it gets too warm past that.

Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 06:10 PM (/HZvU)

251 Ok, I guess no mØØse in Greenland but they do have elonmuskox, what ever that is. Pretty big mammal still, might still try to bight your sister, especially if she's young and fertile.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 08, 2026 06:10 PM (3uBP9)

252 Bodø Is a great place for cold/arctic aviation training. Greenland has a way to go to replicate that but Iceland Keflavik has it over both of them. However, if Trump starts developing Greenland, wheeeeeee!

Posted by: epador at January 08, 2026 06:10 PM (TRnzq)

253 I wonder what kind of sport fishing they have in Nuuk. That would be an epic road trip.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 08, 2026 06:08 PM (cxFcK)

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I wonder what kind of Nuukie they have in Nuuk?

* searching for Greenlandic Mannix Babes returns no results *

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 06:10 PM (IpnJw)

254 At this point in history, what purpose does it serve for the US to be in NATO anyway? It was assembled for the purposes of mutual defense against the Soviet Union and its satellite nations behind the Iron Curtain/in the Eastern Bloc. The Soviet Union collapsed decades ago, and was arguably largely ineffectual before then. There is no Iron Curtain anymore, and no Eastern Bloc anymore. So other than allowing NATO countries to free-ride on US military protection, just how compelling a purpose does it serve in the modern era taking into account the sea changes in geopolitics?

Posted by: Some food for thought I guess at January 08, 2026 06:10 PM (TbWk/)

255 I've read reports that Elon is supplying free internet via Starlink.
Posted by: Cheri at January 08, 2026 06:07 PM (oiNtH)
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So did I, but that will affect a small number of people in the best case.

During a generalized comms and electrical blackout - if that's what going on - it will affect an even smaller number of people.

Now the people involved could be quite important either way, and it might enable *some* ability for information to leak out, but it won't be relevant at scale.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2026 06:10 PM (GyQIQ)

256 SpeakingOf

China would be in a great deal of trouble if they had to pay market price for Iranian and Venezuelan oil.

I say: Bring it.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 08, 2026 06:11 PM (u82oZ)

257 >>anyone who says we're just going to seize it, is full of shite


The consequences of taking it are pretty small, really.

It's not like there would be an actual fight for it. We'd just pull up on it and take it.
Denmark would really have no say in the matter.

Posted by: garrett at January 08, 2026 06:11 PM (ZcsJV)

258 Why is a "nutty" idea to purchase Greenland? It's a strategic piece of real estate and Denmark can't defend it.

We already have a military presence there. We certainly don't want China or Russia to be there.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 08, 2026 06:11 PM (pJWtt)

259 Free association or territory. Territory will keep the wolves away.
No New States.

Posted by: Braenyard
___________

It currently doesnt have the population. I think it's 60k in the constitution for statehood.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 08, 2026 06:11 PM (XvL8K)

260 Sculp that ice with dynamite into some really nice slopes.

Posted by: Braenyard

That's what I said.

Posted by: Jeremy Clarkson at January 08, 2026 06:11 PM (Yw2TI)

261 The EU drones staffing it cost money and work against US interests.
Posted by: Oldcat

Euroland is Janus faced. NATO is America is our Friendz, please protect us from evil Vlad, remember the pittance we sent to safe places in Afghanistan? The EU is that the US is a vicious nasty bully that seeks to destroy the planet by allowing citizens to have guns, free speech, and carbon burning vehicles and power.

F*ckem They can face the same thing Iran's mullahs are--enraged citizens with pitchforks and torches storming the castles.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 06:11 PM (WDjG6)

262 After World War 2, most European countries gave up their colonies. Why should Denmark get to keep Greenland?

Anyone here know the demographics of the current residents of Greenland? Are they mostly descendants of Danish colonizers, or mostly descendants of original indigenous people?

Posted by: a.moron at January 08, 2026 06:12 PM (X5Jzz)

263 The problem with paying the Danegeld is you never get rid of the Dane.

What's that? They're American now?

Never mind.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 08, 2026 06:12 PM (cxFcK)

264 I’ve never trusted Megyn Kelly… I’m beginning to see my instincts were correct

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 08, 2026 06:12 PM (xT8gx)

265 If there are mountains for skiing, it could work out! A new resort!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 08, 2026 05:33 PM (WONhk)

There are pretty damned big mountains there. And glaciers. Heli-skiing could definitely be a thing.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 08, 2026 05:46 PM (8zz6B)
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Sculp that ice with dynamite into some really nice slopes.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 08, 2026 06:06 PM (I1a0i)
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GL is a bit of an odd topography for top quality skiing. It has huge elevation with ice and glaciers (over 12k feet), but the average height isn’t much more than Vermont. It’s like Antarctica only not as high.

Of course, the best skiing is often about snow quality, and I have no idea the quality in GL. Could be awesome. Could be shit. But I’d love to ski it!

Posted by: Elric the Blade at January 08, 2026 06:12 PM (Jr2P2)

266
Yeah - Starlink is up. Everything else is shut down.
Posted by: garrett

Hope they have a buttload of batteries.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 08, 2026 06:12 PM (pkeXY)

267 Denmark would really have no say in the matter.
Posted by: garrett at January 08, 2026 06:11 PM (ZcsJV)

The only countries worth a damn who might support Denmark... would probably not support Denmark.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 06:12 PM (06Hmj)

268 The Democrat Party is many things: massive money-laundering operation, domestic terrorist organization, agent of hostile foreign powers, authoritarian, subversive. It has ceased to be a functioning part of American Democracy in any meaningful sense

Bullshit.

It is functioning EXACTLY how Democracy works. That’s the whole point. Universal Suffrage doesn’t work either.

This is why the founders set up the government the way they did, separation of powers, divided government and the so-called “antidemocratic” Senate, the Electoral College, and independent judiciary and the rest of it. Democracy is Mobocracy. They hated Democracy as much as any King or potentate or dictator.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 08, 2026 06:12 PM (dgu/T)

269 Sluice box-loaded, generator-loaded, Excavator-loaded, Shovels, picks, rakes, other implements of destruction-loaded, metal detector-loaded. Ready to shove off for the goldfields of Greenland. Just waiting for the thaw and the The final go-ahead from Trump and Marco.

Posted by: Grizzled Ol' Prospector at January 08, 2026 06:12 PM (oftw2)

270 China wants that claim for the Moon. Bank on it. We need to maintain our priority claims. Remember, China thinks in terms of centuries and in 100 years, the Moon might have real value to whoever can claim it.)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 08, 2026 06:02 PM (bIWgk)

Think China might be surprised what happens once the commissars are 250,000 miles away

Posted by: Oldcat at January 08, 2026 06:12 PM (8avO+)

271 I wonder if the BBC has done even one minute of coverage of the rebellion in Iran
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2026 06:09 PM (3Amc7)
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On their front page:
Internet blackout in Iran as large anti-government protests held across country

Summary
* Large anti-government demonstrations are taking place across Iran, including in the capital city Tehran

* It is the 12th night protesters have taken to the streets in a wave of unrest sparked by the country's economic crisis

* Internet monitoring group NetBlocks has reported a "nationwide blackout"

* Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of the late Shah of Iran, had called for demonstrations to take place tonight

* Verified videos show large crowds in some cities, but Iranian state media is downplaying the protests

* In recent days Iranian security forces have been involved in violent clashes with demonstrators - read more on how the protests grew

* US President Donald Trump has repeated his threat to strike Iran "very hard" if government forces kill protesters

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2026 06:13 PM (GyQIQ)

272 I hope Rubio is getting a laugh out of these memes about him taking on all these jobs. I think they're hilarious.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 08, 2026 06:13 PM (qBdHI)

273 I heard Don "Corleone" Trump say early today.,....

I'm gonna make Denmark an offer it can't refuse."

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BREAKING: Danish PM Wakes Up With John Kerry's Severed Head In Her Bed. Developing ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 06:13 PM (IpnJw)

274 Our Republican leaders in the house just past a bill that extends JEF's obamacare subsidies. We're owning the libs again!!!

Posted by: banana Dream at January 08, 2026 06:13 PM (3uBP9)

275 They wanted a Multi-Polar world, well, this is what it entails; regional hegemony in spheres of influence.

The Russians and Chinese are getting kicked out of South America and most of the Middle East and they'll just have to get used to it.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
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Israel as the hegemon in Middle East would make it a helluva lot more peaceful.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 06:13 PM (WDjG6)

276 245 I wonder if the BBC has done even one minute of coverage of the rebellion in Iran

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2026 06:09 PM (3Amc7)

It is surreal to think that in 2026, we could have a better relationship with a new government in Iran than with the current one in UK.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 08, 2026 06:13 PM (n4Qav)

277 "They are thieves and assholes posing as our friends to con and make us pay for their defense." Posted by: whig

Reminds me of the "If You Don't Buy This Book, We'll Kill This Dog! " gag. But Europe is the dog, and we keep paying them to not shoot themselves.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 08, 2026 06:13 PM (vbXSk)

278 I wonder what kind of Nuukie they have in Nuuk?
* searching for Greenlandic Mannix Babes returns no results *
Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability

You make me sick when you speak, Maurice.

_ Frog Pussy

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 08, 2026 06:14 PM (cxFcK)

279 Tucker using fake face #37. Very serious with pain you can't even comprehend fagot.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 08, 2026 06:14 PM (EyfuW)

280 272 I hope Rubio is getting a laugh out of these memes about him taking on all these jobs. I think they're hilarious.
Posted by: Lady in Black
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That is part of the whole meme though, he looks so miserable and depressed in that photo.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 06:14 PM (WDjG6)

281 They put lights on ski slopes.

Posted by: fd at January 08, 2026 06:14 PM (vFG9F)

282 Mighty cold.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 08, 2026 06:14 PM (UQJzP)

283 I don’t understand what means for “Musk to provide Starlink”… it’s a nice sentiment but in order for anyone to use that network you need to have some specific equipment… you can’t just connect your cell phone to Starlink without that equipment… so how’s he passing out that equipment?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 08, 2026 06:14 PM (xT8gx)

284 House Rs that are owning the libs by keeping obamacare alive,

Reps. Mike Carey (OH), Andrew Garbarino (NY), Ryan Mackenzie (PA), Mike Lawler (NY), Brian Fitzpatrick (PA), David Joyce (OH), Tom Kean (NJ), Nick LaLota (NY), Max Miller (OH), David Valadao (CA), Rob Wittman (VA), Jeff Hurd (CO), Maria Elvira Salazar (FL), Rob Bresnahan (PA), Derrick Van Orden (WI), Zach Nunn (IA), and Monica De La Cruz (TX)

Posted by: banana Dream at January 08, 2026 06:14 PM (3uBP9)

285 BREAKING: Danish PM Wakes Up With John Kerry's Severed Head In Her Bed. Developing ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 06:13 PM (IpnJw)
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LOL

Man, that would be horrifying.

John Kerry's plastic surgeon *must* have been a Republican. There is no other explanation for why someone would stuff his face full of mattress batting.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2026 06:14 PM (GyQIQ)

286 >>The only countries worth a damn who might support Denmark... would probably not support Denmark.


The Europeans don't unite for anything.
They bitch.
They moan.

And then they roll over and take the dick.

It's who they are.

Posted by: garrett at January 08, 2026 06:14 PM (ZcsJV)

287 279 Tucker using fake face #37. Very serious with pain you can't even comprehend fagot.
Posted by: thug dolphin
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Qatar and Iran have ramped up the remote buttplug voltage.

Sucks to take the ticket.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 06:15 PM (WDjG6)

288 Leftists and democrats: STARLINK FOR UKRAINE YEAH!!!!

Leftists and democrats: STARLINK FOR IRAN REVOLT BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 08, 2026 06:15 PM (xvV+O)

289 220 Under two years of being an American territory under Trump, Greenland would likely easily have a million people.

And two major sports teams.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 06:06 PM (06Hmj)

and a Costco.....?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 08, 2026 06:15 PM (QGaXH)

290 Anyone here know the demographics of the current residents of Greenland? Are they mostly descendants of Danish colonizers, or mostly descendants of original indigenous people?

Posted by: a.moron at January 08, 2026 06:12 PM (X5Jzz)

There were never any Danish colonizers. Norse to Iceland, Iceland to Greenland for a real estate scam in 900 AD. Pretty much all Inuit types.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 08, 2026 06:15 PM (8avO+)

291 and a Costco.....?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 08, 2026 06:15 PM (QGaXH)

lawnmowers at a great price!

Posted by: Oldcat at January 08, 2026 06:15 PM (8avO+)

292 Free yhe natives from the opression of the Danelaw.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 08, 2026 06:15 PM (UQJzP)

293 And then they roll over and take the dick.

It's who they are.
Posted by: garrett
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You forgot emptying the john's wallet while they sleep or take a shower. That is the EU.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 06:16 PM (WDjG6)

294 289 220 Under two years of being an American territory under Trump, Greenland would likely easily have a million people.

And two major sports teams.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 06:06 PM (06Hmj)

and a Costco.....?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 08, 2026 06:15 PM (QGaXH)

or a Wal-Mart or two.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 08, 2026 06:16 PM (QGaXH)

295 The Europeans don't unite for anything.
They bitch.
They moan.

And then they roll over and take the dick.

It's who they are.

Posted by: garrett
===

That's a lie. They enthusiastically take the dick.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 08, 2026 06:16 PM (xvV+O)

296 I said this yesterday, but I hope it's new to some of you.

Barron Trump marries Danish Princess Isabella (who wouldn't?). We get Greenland as a dowry (plus cookies).

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 08, 2026 06:16 PM (cxFcK)

297 We already have a military presence there. We certainly don't want China or Russia to be there.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 08, 2026 06:11 PM (pJWtt)

It's not dark in here. It's light. The lights are all on. We can see just fine. Maybe you're not well. Maybe you shouldn't be allowed to make important decisions for yourself anymore.

Yadda yadda.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 06:16 PM (06Hmj)

298


Dude shouldn't have shot this idiot.

A vigorous arrest would have been much better.

Posted by: Rev DR E Buzz at January 08, 2026 06:16 PM (et1vG)

299 The only countries worth a damn who might support Denmark... would probably not support Denmark.


The Europeans don't unite for anything.
They bitch.
They moan.

And then they roll over and take the dick.

It's who they are.
Posted by: garrett at January 08, 2026 06:14 PM (ZcsJV)
——-

[perks up]

— Pete Bootyjuice

Posted by: Elric the Blade at January 08, 2026 06:16 PM (Jr2P2)

300 Not sure why, watchjng one of the wordt war movies ever mafe
Battle of the Bulge

Posted by: Skip at January 08, 2026 06:16 PM (Ia/+0)

301 Naja Mathilde Rosing, the first Greenland representative to Miss Grand International in 2024:
http://tiny.cc/4ydx001

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2026 06:16 PM (GyQIQ)

302 And two major sports teams.
Posted by: Warai-otoko
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Built for hockey training for our Olympic teams.

Good place for winter games Olympics too.

Lake Placid North Annex.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 06:17 PM (WDjG6)

303 >>I don’t understand what means for “Musk to provide Starlink”… it’s a nice sentiment but in order for anyone to use that network you need to have some specific equipment… you can’t just connect your cell phone to Starlink without that equipment… so how’s he passing out that equipment?


They have some equipment...but it's not widespread.
If I had to guess, Israel/Mossad are probably responsible for much of the equipment they do have getting in.
Though, the CIA is no doubt on the ground there as well.

Posted by: garrett at January 08, 2026 06:17 PM (ZcsJV)

304 I don’t understand what means for “Musk to provide Starlink”… it’s a nice sentiment but in order for anyone to use that network you need to have some specific equipment… you can’t just connect your cell phone to Starlink without that equipment… so how’s he passing out that equipment?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 08, 2026 06:14 PM (xT8gx)

Any number of ways to smuggle starlink receivers in country, probably staged in depots for a while.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 08, 2026 06:17 PM (8avO+)

305 Dude shouldn't have shot this idiot.

A vigorous arrest would have been much better.

Posted by: Rev DR E Buzz at January 08, 2026 06:16 PM (et1vG)

At this point I'd have cheered if he had shot her on the ground in handcuffs. To hell with these mutants. They want a war, they can have it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 06:17 PM (06Hmj)

306 289 220 Under two years of being an American territory under Trump, Greenland would likely easily have a million people.

And two major sports teams.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 06:06 PM (06Hmj)

and a Costco.....?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 08, 2026 06:15 PM (QGaXH)

or a Wal-Mart or two.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 08, 2026 06:16 PM (QGaXH)
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That's what Brian Boitano would do!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 08, 2026 06:17 PM (ESVrU)

307 300 Not sure why, watchjng one of the wordt war movies ever mafe
Battle of the Bulge
Posted by: Skip

Yes, that one sucks the big one. Battleground was the superior picture albeit at small unit level and Patton got the snow and cold right but really short.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 06:18 PM (WDjG6)

308 >>> Once someone occupies space, anything down a gravity well, including the moon or earth are harder to defend. Good luck on them holding the moon if they don't own space. Take the asteroid belts, and all that convenient mass, then everything else is yours.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 08, 2026 06:18 PM (3uBP9)

309 Naja Mathilde Rosing, the first Greenland representative to Miss Grand International in 2024:
http://tiny.cc/4ydx001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2026 06:16 PM (GyQIQ)

Pretty! But she’s not green like that one chick Kirk was hot for in an episode

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 08, 2026 06:18 PM (xT8gx)

310 and a Costco.....?

Come try the new McNarwhal!

Posted by: t-bird at January 08, 2026 06:18 PM (cUMVS)

311 Anyone here know the demographics of the current residents of Greenland? Are they mostly descendants of Danish colonizers, or mostly descendants of original indigenous people?
Posted by: a.moron at January 08, 2026 06:12 PM (X5Jzz
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Primarily Eskimo, per Wikipedia (so grains of salt are called for)
The Inuit population makes up approximately 85–90% of the total (2009 est.). 6,792 people from Denmark live in Greenland, which is 12% of its total population.

The average Greenlander has 75% inuit ancestry and 25% European ancestry, tracing about half of their paternal DNA to Danish male ancestors.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2026 06:18 PM (GyQIQ)

312 You are right Whig, as usual.

Posted by: garrett at January 08, 2026 06:18 PM (ZcsJV)

313 I’ve never trusted Megyn Kelly… I’m beginning to see my instincts were correct

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 08, 2026 06:12 PM (xT8gx)

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"You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her ,,, wherever."

/Heh. Never gets old ... what was it Ace dubbed her: "Me-Again Kelly?"

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 06:18 PM (IpnJw)

314 222 Place your bets.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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Death of regime.
Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 06:04 PM (WDjG6)
——

Maybe. But we could just as likely wake up tomorrow with the regime standing atop a pile of bloody skulls. Hard to know what’s really going on over there.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at January 08, 2026 06:06 PM (Jr2P2)

Depends if there's enough protestors willing to risk their lives to get their hands on the IRGs guns. If they can arm themselves it's lights out for the Mullahs

That's why we NEVER give up the second amendment - even if, like me, you don't own any guns, you still have a dog in that fight.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 08, 2026 06:18 PM (QGaXH)

315 That was supposed to be for: >>> China wants that claim for the Moon. Bank on it. We need to maintain our priority claims. Remember, China thinks in terms of centuries and in 100 years, the Moon might have real value to whoever can claim it.)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 08, 2026 06:02 PM (bIWgk)


Once someone occupies space, anything down a gravity well, including the moon or earth are harder to defend. Good luck on them holding the moon if they don't own space. Take the asteroid belts, and all that convenient mass, then everything else is yours.

Posted by: banana Dream - but I'm dumb at January 08, 2026 06:19 PM (3uBP9)

316 Top reason for taking Greenland: snow golf.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at January 08, 2026 06:08 PM (HTCU3)


I'm in!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at January 08, 2026 06:19 PM (2WIwB)

317 >>I wonder what kind of sport fishing they have in Nuuk. That would be an epic road trip.

Greenland Shark. Always wanted to catch a 500 year old fish.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 08, 2026 06:19 PM (viF8m)

318 Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal . 12h

pieces:
Delta Force has reportedly pivoted to the Middle East, with Army Rangers and Air Assault Forces from Europe being quickly repositioned.

Delta Force operators are reportedly taking positions along Iraq's borders with Syria and Jordan, possibly targeting Iran-backed militias refusing to disarm

Flight tracking shows US and British refueling tankers headed into the region.An unexplained blackout across Greek and Cypriot airspace Monday may have masked US asset movements.

https://tinyurl.com/7cc6nap3

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 08, 2026 06:19 PM (I1a0i)

319 Naja Mathilde Rosing, the first Greenland representative to Miss Grand International in 2024:
http://tiny.cc/4ydx001
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Joe Mannix I trust.

If he ever makes Admiral, though....

Posted by: Naive and Trusting Miklos at January 08, 2026 06:19 PM (f/3mU)

320 285 BREAKING: Danish PM Wakes Up With John Kerry's Severed Head In Her Bed. Developing ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 06:13 PM (IpnJw)
++++


Shane, you outdid yourself, you magnificent bastard!

I spewed at this.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 06:19 PM (WDjG6)

321
Posted by: Some food for thought I guess at January 08, 2026 06:10 PM (TbWk/)

===============

Average Johann in Germany actually is worried about an attack from Russia. The leaders do everything to make Germany vulnerable, so I don't know how it makes sense, but I think there is some deep and prevailing distrust between those two.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 08, 2026 06:20 PM (EEvvy)

322 Anyone here know the demographics of the current residents of Greenland? Are they mostly descendants of Danish colonizers, or mostly descendants of original indigenous people?

Posted by: a.moron at January 08, 2026 06:12 PM (X5Jzz)

The ones I met appeared to have both Viking and Inuit blood in them. Much taller than the Inuit across the strait on Baffin island. And they very much considered themselves to be a distinct people from the Inuit.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 08, 2026 06:20 PM (8zz6B)

323 >>Greenland Shark. Always wanted to catch a 500 year old fish.


I would think the giant Tuna, in the Late Summer / Early Fall, would pass their waters.

Posted by: garrett at January 08, 2026 06:20 PM (ZcsJV)

324 Though, the CIA is no doubt on the ground there as well.
Posted by: garrett

No doubt? Hm. I wonder which side they are on.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 08, 2026 06:20 PM (Dv3i1)

325 ... Delta Force operators are reportedly taking positions along Iraq's borders with Syria and Jordan, possibly targeting Iran-backed militias refusing to disarm ...
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 08, 2026 06:19 PM (I1a0i)
++++
"Stay in Iran?"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2026 06:20 PM (GyQIQ)

326 Acquiring Greenland opens a new direct trade route with Asia that reduces shipping times by 40% and eliminates reliance on the Panama Canal. That cost savings will offset the end retail costs of tariffs.

Posted by: Brisco County Sr at January 08, 2026 06:21 PM (GOAAq)

327 No doubt? Hm. I wonder which side they are on.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 08, 2026 06:20 PM (Dv3i1)
+++++
Do you really?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2026 06:21 PM (GyQIQ)

328 NPR straightens us out.

NPR just now: ‘There is controversy in Minnesota after an ICE agent shot and killed a woman while she was sitting in her car.’

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 08, 2026 06:21 PM (L/fGl)

329
231

I've read reports that Elon is supplying free internet via Starlink.
Posted by: Cheri at January 08, 2026 06:07 PM

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All tha mainstream media say is that internet and telephone are cut off. Like, that's that. No reporting by other means, just nothing.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 08, 2026 06:21 PM (HLgI3)

330 >>I would think the giant Tuna, in the Late Summer / Early Fall, would pass their waters.

Likely. Swordfish too I'd guess.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 08, 2026 06:21 PM (viF8m)

331 Death of regime.
Posted by: whig

X has posted that mullahs have been seen at Moscow airport. But X says a lot of things.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 08, 2026 06:21 PM (cxFcK)

332 The traffic jam is over the states.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 08, 2026 06:22 PM (UQJzP)

333 AsonJasonMBrodsky . 1h

Surreal scenes in Tehran, #Iran tonight. Police equipment is in flames. And the Iranian people want to take their country back.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 08, 2026 06:22 PM (I1a0i)

334 Greenland is where I want to be, narwhales and herring from the sea.

Posted by: Eromero at January 08, 2026 06:22 PM (o2ZRX)

335 Joe Mannix I trust.

If he ever makes Admiral, though....

Posted by: Naive and Trusting Miklos

That's silly, cops don't have Admiral as a rank.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 08, 2026 06:22 PM (Dv3i1)

336 We could make everyone in Greenland rich enough live nicely and become entrepreneurs to support the needs of the growing new territory. Or blow it. Whatever.

Posted by: fd at January 08, 2026 06:22 PM (vFG9F)

337
Delta Force operators are reportedly taking positions along Iraq's borders with Syria and Jordan, possibly targeting Iran-backed militias refusing to disarm

https://tinyurl.com/7cc6nap3
Posted by: Braenyard

==============

Whaaaattt?? (whiney voice)

Boots on the ground in the Middle Fujcking East?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 08, 2026 06:23 PM (EEvvy)

338 One of my sergeants was on the last plane out of Tehran before the embassy takeover. He really enjoyed his tour there working in the embassy and seeing the country.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 08, 2026 06:23 PM (2WIwB)

339 >>NPR just now: ‘There is controversy in Minnesota after an ICE agent shot and killed a woman while she was sitting in her car.’


I listened to one of those bimbos who sounds like Nin Totenberg giving a 1/06 Eulogy the other day...completely rife with outright lies.

Posted by: garrett at January 08, 2026 06:23 PM (ZcsJV)

340 That's silly, cops don't have Admiral as a rank.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 08, 2026 06:22 PM (Dv3i1)
++++
The SP have an admiral - eventually - at the top of their chain of command.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2026 06:23 PM (GyQIQ)

341 Crocs on the ground.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 08, 2026 06:24 PM (UQJzP)

342 OMG… I just happened upon the old Jack Reacher movie… and it hit me: Rosamund Pike is a dead ringer for Karoline Leavitt

Anyway that has nothing to do with Greenland but they’re both hot

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 08, 2026 06:24 PM (xT8gx)

343 Average Johann in Germany actually is worried about an attack from Russia. The leaders do everything to make Germany vulnerable, so I don't know how it makes sense, but I think there is some deep and prevailing distrust between those two.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 08, 2026 06:20 PM (EEvvy)

Well, their government seems to be hell bent on causing such a war, so first step would be to toss those assholes out. They need a new constitution, their government has been in tatters for a decade but no new blood seems to reach the top.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 08, 2026 06:24 PM (8avO+)

344
Boots on the ground in the Middle Fujcking East?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 08, 2026 06:23 PM (EEvvy)

Pretty sure we already had boots on the ground in those countries

Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2026 06:24 PM (VE6XX)

345 @234. Case, why do you hate Canada?

I don't hate Canada. I think Canadians can better understand the people in Minnesota. And maybe they can get the bitches to calm down.

Posted by: Case at January 08, 2026 06:24 PM (4rWc3)

346 Eventually, Greenland gets two senators. Rhode Island and Delaware get two senators each. We may have to revisit that issue.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 08, 2026 06:24 PM (cxFcK)

347 Though, the CIA is no doubt on the ground there as well.
Posted by: garrett

No doubt? Hm. I wonder which side they are on.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 08, 2026 06:20 PM (Dv3i1)

------------

TBF, and credit where credit's due: they did a pretty good job in Venezuela leading up to Operation Absolute Resolve (although I would have called it "Operation Crossfire Boomrang" owing to their rampant decades of committing election fraud here and abroad).

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 06:24 PM (IpnJw)

348
The average Greenlander has 75% inuit ancestry and 25% European ancestry, tracing about half of their paternal DNA to Danish male ancestors.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

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Rapists. The history of the world.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 08, 2026 06:24 PM (EEvvy)

349 327 No doubt? Hm. I wonder which side they are on.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 08, 2026 06:20 PM (Dv3i1)
+++++
Do you really?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Not really. But I don't know that I would be sure that we have CIA personnel in Iran right now. Maybe we do.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 08, 2026 06:25 PM (Dv3i1)

350 Less than 1% of Greenland is forested, so any organic tree farmers are probably out of luck.

Posted by: Son of a Beech at January 08, 2026 06:25 PM (oftw2)

351 Well, she was sitting in her car. Mashing the gas pedal.

Posted by: fd at January 08, 2026 06:25 PM (vFG9F)

352 It would be kind of awesome if, instead of getting involved directly in Iran, we covered the protestors from the periphery, taking down overseas IRGC assets and preventing them from joining the fight.

The terrorists running Syria right now hate the Iranians, and are even playing footsie with Israel too. Would be a nice little geopolitical kumbaya moment for that area, basically as a freebie.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 06:25 PM (06Hmj)

353 Reminds me of the "If You Don't Buy This Book, We'll Kill This Dog! " gag. But Europe is the dog, and we keep paying them to not shoot themselves.
Posted by: illiniwek
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Classic cover on National Lampoon magazine. But yes, they double down on idiocy except for Melloni, Poland, and Hungaria. Even in Poland, PM Tusk wants to suck the EU dick but the President and the rest of Parliament have staved that off.

Trump had to warn the Euros off from stealing Russia's foreign assets directly so they borrowed against it and sent the money to Ukraine and Zelinsky anyway. Our funding is about nil nowadays and little Z is reshuffling the deck so he can keep grifting. Little bastard is probably somewhere in the EU while his people die and suffer.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 06:26 PM (WDjG6)

354 Greenland, Greenland, Greenland!

Where I quite want to be!

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 08, 2026 06:26 PM (cxFcK)

355 On their front page:
Internet blackout in Iran as large anti-government protests held across country

Finally, they had it blacked out for more than a day. Not a single mention.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2026 06:26 PM (3Amc7)

356 339 >>NPR just now: ‘There is controversy in Minnesota after an ICE agent shot and killed a woman while she was sitting in her car.’


Seriously ?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2026 06:26 PM (VE6XX)

357 >>Well, she was sitting in her car. Mashing the gas pedal.


I can't tell you the number of comments I have seen claiming she was just sitting in her car, in her driveway.

These people are evil, or retarded.

Posted by: garrett at January 08, 2026 06:26 PM (ZcsJV)

358 BREAKING

Marco Rubio Has Turned Down An Offer To Coach The Miami Dolphins

Posted by: Don Black at January 08, 2026 06:26 PM (ZxPkt)

359 Less than 1% of Greenland is forested, so any organic tree farmers are probably out of luck.
Posted by: Son of a Beech at January 08, 2026 06:25 PM (oftw2)

Organic ice sculptures

Posted by: Oldcat at January 08, 2026 06:26 PM (8avO+)

It Is Beyond Time for the Insurrection Act

If the left wants Civil War, we should give it to them, all they can bear and then twice more.


Doctor_Zero
@Doctor_Zer0

4h

The Democrat Party is many things: massive money-laundering operation, domestic terrorist organization, agent of hostile foreign powers, authoritarian, subversive. It has ceased to be a functioning part of American democracy in any meaningful sense.

The Democrat Party claims it has the right to use violence to nullify laws it does not like. We, the patriotic people of the United States of America, formally reject this claim, wholly and without reservation.

The Democrats claim their political violence is the fault of the victims who refused to submit to their demands. This is the catechism of terrorism - the blood is on your hands for resisting us. We, the American people, reject this doctrine and will hold Democrats accountable.

The Democrat Party believes it should operate without oversight or responsibility, running massive fraud operations in multiple states and using its control of the media to protect the criminal operations, while Dem politicians rake in cash. We energetically reject this demand.

The Democrat Party believes elections it loses are invalid, and it has an unlimited right to stage insurrections until it is returned to power. We, the American people, wholly and completely reject this belief, and will insist Democrats serve as the loyal opposition.

Democrats believe their Party dogma is superior to duly-passed laws, and they have an unlimited right to interfere with the enforcement of laws the Party hates, exercising power beyond democracy. We, the American people, insist Democrats cease their interference with the law.

Democrat feel no duty toward lawful American citizens and believe foreign nationals are morally and practically superior. We insist the Democrat Party reaffirm and abide by its duty to the people and constitution of the United States.

Democrats feel no responsibility whatsoever to safeguard taxpayer money, protect the integrity of our elections, or build trust in our institutions. We insist they begin attending to these duties, instead of profiteering from the corrupt system they have created.

We refuse to live under the rules Democrats are trying to write, where they can overturn elections they lose and nullify laws they don't like. We will no longer be terrorized, or looted. We will no longer allow every square inch of our lives to be politicized.

If Democrats are unwilling to show proper respect to the American people and our constitutional republic, they must be replaced with a functional opposition party as quickly as possible. Until then, they are the enemies of this republic, and should be treated as such. /end

Robby Starbuck
@robbystarbuck

50m

Very important info about the ICE shooting:

The agent that shot Renee Good yesterday, as she drove toward him, had been dragged by a car over 300ft just 6 months ago by a man who had been charged with sex crimes against a child.

This is a photo of him in the hospital.

This happened one month after Tim Walz called ICE the modern day Gestapo. The agent had over 30 stitches, luckily escaping death.

So being hit or dragged by a car wasn't some theoretical event he had the luxury of Monday morning quarterbacking. He had ONE SECOND to make a judgement call with a car accelerating at him: Shoot to save my life or potentially die being run over or caught and dragged by this car?

A very compelling argument can be made that Democrat politicians are to blame for both events here. In one, an illegal was radicalized to believe he could run from the "Gestapo" and likely believed the Walz Admin would protect him. In this one a woman radicalized by Dem politicians and media believed that she could impede law enforcement without consequence. She ended up dead as a result.

The position Democrats are putting our ICE agents in is just objectively dangerous and evil.

hospitalizedICEdraggingvictim.jpg


Kurt Schlichter
@KurtSchlichter

A DEEP DIVE -- Thoughts From a Competent Lawyer on the Minneapolis ICE Shooting:

1. The left is positively turgid about this INCIDENT. They wanted a shooting and did everything they could to set the conditions that made it inevitable, from the rhetoric of the Democrat politicians to the provocations on the street. One leftist white lady dead is a small price to pay for the martyr they wanted.

2. Note that yesterday (1/6/26), the Democrats changed from "The feds are the Gestapo" to "A zillion federal officers died defending Our Democracy, and we support these heroes- here's a plaque!" back to "The feds are the Gestapo" the very next day.

3. The law is clear -- you can use deadly force against someone threatening you with deadly force. The ICE agent had no duty to retreat. This does not matter to the left and its narrative. You will see many experts with zero actual knowledge of the law opining -- including the typically terrible cadre of leftist lawyers.

4. The video is clear that the driver was heading at and came in contact with the ICE agent. He had a right to use deadly force to defend himself. This does not matter to the left and its narrative. The left will do everything it can to keep people from looking at the actual video that shows the incident. It will push video that does not show the incident clearly, as well a perjured or irrelevant witness statements.

5. The leftist narrative will be "Trump's ICE nazis are literally murdering innocent people." This will work on Democrats and Republican sissies. Normal people will ask why she did not comply with the officers' orders and why she drove at a cop. Properly addressed, we can leverage the gross irresponsibility of the Dem pols and communist foot soldiers to defeat their bogus narrative.

6. The corrupt state of Minnesota will "investigate" even though its senior officials have already announced that this was murder, and the ICE agent will be indicted in state court. The feds will remove it to federal court, where the case will fail.

7. There will be a civil suit against the US government and the shooter. It will be heard in federal court. Qualified immunity will apply.

8. The shooter will be doxed and his family threatened by leftists, who will cheer this on.

9. There will be rioting in Minneapolis, probably low-grade, since too much will make the left lose sympathy. If it gets serious, look to Trump to send in the armed forces, perhaps under the Insurrection Act.

10. The anti-ICE direct actions will accelerate. Trump will not back down. There will be a decision point facing to the left: Continue the current level of actions, which will have zero effect, or escalate into (further) attempts to murder ICE agents. Some leftists will embrace escalated violence.

The Administration should focus rigorously on the following key points:

1. ICE was present in Minneapolis doing its job removing dangerous criminals.

2. Democrat politicians are creating a dangerous situation with their rhetoric and caused this incident.

3. Democrat activists have been putting people at risk with their dangerous action and it must stop.

4. The communist woman was ordered to stop but attempted to kill a federal agent, who lawfully defended himself with deadly force. WATCH THE VIDEO.

5. WE WILL NTO BACK DOWN FROM MAKING AMERICA SAFE FORM ILLEGAL ALIEN CRIMINALS, INCLUDING FRAUDSTERS.

The hags 'n fags of the Bulwark are in full #Resistance mode:

Cathy Young 🇺🇸🇺🇦
@CathyYoung63

Jan 7

He isn't "hit by the car," David. He's slightly winged by its side as it drives away and is in no danger whatsoever. Have a smidgen of decency.

He was only "winged" by the car. Coincidently, this ghastly, grotesque Gas-Hag has a Ukrainian flag in her bio. Ukraine, of course, was only "winged" by Russia, in as much as Russia only invaded the "side" of Ukraine.


More attempts to create a George Floyd moment:


Harrison Krank
@HarrisonKrank

18h

Guys guys guys,

Everybody calm down,

She was only trying to run over ice agents, it's not like she was doing something crazy like speaking freely on a Utah college campus.

fascisthaditcoming.jpg

Minnesota's teachers gave themselves two days off so they could protest.

So you're going to see some spelling that would make the Quality Learing Center proud.

justiteforreneegood.jpg

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1 Time to bring the pain.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 04:32 PM (ExV1e)

2 I alerted the previous thread.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 04:32 PM (ExV1e)

3 Yes. I don't know what Trump is waiting for, but several jurisdictions are in open rebellion.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 08, 2026 04:33 PM (zjgNU)

4 @Lukewearechange
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Reality

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This video entertained me greatly yesterday.

Seriously...dude grabbed for a federal law enforcement officer's weapon and then immediately got shot in the face with some kind of mace projectile.

It was hilarious.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 04:34 PM (GBKbO)

5 I would like to point out that the democrats really, really want Trump to invoke the insurrection act.


If he does that they have an iron clad 100% guarantee to sweep the mid terms.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 08, 2026 04:34 PM (0N4FZ)

6 Nick Shirley on Shawn Ryan show...Things are worse than we even thought in our wildest nightmares.

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at January 08, 2026 04:35 PM (WQDw6)

7 Why are Commie Protesters always Extremely Homely Obese Females with Purple/Green Hair or Spineless Pencil Armed Homos with Che Guevara T-Shirts and 50 Metal Objects Pierced into their Face????

Posted by: Jackson K. at January 08, 2026 04:35 PM (rvNIn)

8 Who knew MN was so retarded and faggy?

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 08, 2026 04:36 PM (pLaQB)

9 Driver hit the guy with her car. She got dead for it. Anything else to say?

Posted by: tubal at January 08, 2026 04:36 PM (pDt9x)

10 Oh, ICE guys deploy.

Posted by: mrp at January 08, 2026 04:36 PM (rj6Yv)

11 I'm sorry, but the last picture with the black protester and the ICE guy looks either staged or like AI.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 04:37 PM (8Xy/A)

12 Minnesota! Minnesota! Minnesota!

Posted by: Jan Brady at January 08, 2026 04:37 PM (wVcYX)

13 Seriously...dude grabbed for a federal law enforcement officer's weapon and then immediately got shot in the face with some kind of mace projectile.

It was hilarious.

There's an old meme of a young woman yelling at riot police. The heading says "wants more government".
The next picture is of her being pepper sprayed in the face. The heading says "more government".

Posted by: Archimedes at January 08, 2026 04:37 PM (Riz8t)

14 @8.
Guess everybody needs a uniform.

Posted by: Case at January 08, 2026 04:38 PM (4rWc3)

15 They wanted a martyr.

Posted by: steevy at January 08, 2026 04:38 PM (YwEeS)

16 What we have here is failure to communicate

Posted by: Ray McKigney at January 08, 2026 04:38 PM (HcoTw)

17 Here it is.
https://is.gd/JojZtX

Posted by: Archimedes at January 08, 2026 04:38 PM (Riz8t)

18 14 There's an old meme of a young woman yelling at riot police. The heading says "wants more government".
The next picture is of her being pepper sprayed in the face. The heading says "more government".

Posted by: Archimedes at January 08, 2026 04:37 PM (Riz8t)

=======

"Drop commies from the helos!"
-libertarians when Democrats are in power

"How dare you offend a commie's feelings!"
-libertarians when Trump is hitting back at commies

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 04:39 PM (GBKbO)

19 Somebody threw a water bottle. Sounds like some pepper spray was sprayed and the thrower got chased by about a dozen ICE guys.

Posted by: mrp at January 08, 2026 04:39 PM (rj6Yv)

20 Jutice? Really ?? FFS.

Posted by: Heavy Sigh at January 08, 2026 04:39 PM (1M7sl)

21 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2026 04:39 PM (Zz0t1)

22 They wanted a martyr.

The bloody shirt is a tried and true way to stir up the idiots.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 08, 2026 04:39 PM (Riz8t)

23 Can't verify any of this, so I'm going to assume it's an AI/Photoshop pic, but if it's true...

x.com/merica_F1R5T/status/2009317776146509982
@merica_F1R5T
The bullet that actually hit and killed her came through the windshield. From straight on as she struck the agent. 2 is through the mirror. Front to back. So still from ahead of the vehicle. The third shot is fired downward as he was launched by being hit while attempting to dodge.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 08, 2026 04:39 PM (mlg/3)

24 16 They wanted a martyr.
Posted by: steevy at January 08, 2026 04:38 PM (YwEeS)

Always someone else for them, though. They may get tired of the ante before this is over.

Posted by: tubal at January 08, 2026 04:39 PM (pDt9x)

25 ICE caught the water-bottle thrower. He's in cuffed and on his way to the pokey.

Posted by: mrp at January 08, 2026 04:40 PM (rj6Yv)

26 I just turned 63 and i can say without flinching that we live in the dumbest part of the galaxy.
I sometimes wonder why we aren't instantaneously sucked into this giant void of insanity.

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at January 08, 2026 04:40 PM (WQDw6)

27 The one thing I know about martyrs is that they are all dead.

Well, except for Louis "Calypso Louie" Farrakhan, the Living Martyr.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 08, 2026 04:40 PM (jc0TO)

28 Somebody threw a water bottle. Sounds like some pepper spray was sprayed and the thrower got chased by about a dozen ICE guys.

I'm sure they know that if they don't squash the rioters immediately, it will get much worse.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 08, 2026 04:40 PM (Riz8t)

29 Who knew MN was so retarded and faggy?
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 08, 2026 04:36 PM (pLaQB)

One needs only to look at MN's current Governor to discern the answer.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 08, 2026 04:40 PM (wVcYX)

30 Thankfully the Trump Administration is giving no ground.

They are sending more agents to the area and continuing immigration raids.

Tim Miller is clearly mentally unwell. If you want a good laugh, watch the video of him with his colleagues on election night 2024.

Posted by: Jay in PA at January 08, 2026 04:41 PM (9mw3J)

31 No jutice, no peas.

Posted by: Heavy Sigh at January 08, 2026 04:41 PM (1M7sl)

32 James Alex Fields Jr.

Posted by: remember his name at January 08, 2026 04:41 PM (gKWVE)

33 Here is the lieutenant governor of Minnesota telling protesters to "put their bodies on the line"

https://instapundit.com/768027/

Posted by: steevy at January 08, 2026 04:41 PM (YwEeS)

34 About 25 protestors left. Civil War IIb has been averted.

Posted by: mrp at January 08, 2026 04:41 PM (rj6Yv)

35 What in hell is "Jutice?"

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 08, 2026 04:42 PM (6Bc88)

36 That cartoon is sadly correct.

I haven't been celebrating this woman's death. She was stupid and caused this whole incident, but I still think it's sad she's dead. (I think she panicked when faced with actual consequences, but you don't get to try to kill people because you are panicking.)

The left actively celebrated (and STILL celebrates) assassinations of actually peaceful people.

We are not the same.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 08, 2026 04:42 PM (zjgNU)

37 Battle Hymn of the Republic gets real again.

Posted by: epador at January 08, 2026 04:42 PM (TRnzq)

38 >>> 16 They wanted a martyr.

yeah but she was white....ick

Posted by: Leftists at January 08, 2026 04:42 PM (jGJov)

39 33 Here is the lieutenant governor of Minnesota telling protesters to "put their bodies on the line"

https://instapundit.com/768027/
Posted by: steevy at January 08, 2026 04:41 PM (YwEeS)

Can you spot the operative word here, steevy?

Posted by: tubal at January 08, 2026 04:42 PM (pDt9x)

40 Some people need killing.

Posted by: General W.T. Sherman at January 08, 2026 04:42 PM (GlDYx)

41 The ICE agent had no duty to retreat.

Repeat that - FEDERAL AGENTS PERFORMING THEIR DUITES HAVE NO OBLIGATION TO RETREAT.

There is no heckler's veto in law enforcement.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 08, 2026 04:42 PM (0zh1t)

42 30 Thankfully the Trump Administration is giving no ground.

They are sending more agents to the area and continuing immigration raids.

Tim Miller is clearly mentally unwell. If you want a good laugh, watch the video of him with his colleagues on election night 2024.

Posted by: Jay in PA at January 08, 2026 04:41 PM (9mw3J)

=======

Dead serious:

The main plank of the 2028 Democrat campaign for president is going to be repatriation of every illegal immigrant deported back into the United States with full citizenship and amnesty.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 04:42 PM (GBKbO)

43 Who knew MN was so retarded and faggy?
Posted by: Pudinhead

The whistleblowers and auditors ???

Posted by: Martha's Vinyard Refugee Welcoming Committee . . . at January 08, 2026 04:43 PM (3ZUWJ)

44 What in hell is "Jutice?"

At's easy. Otay?

Posted by: Buckwheat at January 08, 2026 04:43 PM (Riz8t)

45 38 >>> 16 They wanted a martyr.

yeah but she was white....ick

Posted by: Leftists at January 08, 2026 04:42 PM (jGJov)

======

"But it could have been me!!!!"
-the AWFLs

"We wish it had been you."
-their black allies

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 04:43 PM (GBKbO)

46 Here is the lieutenant governor of Minnesota telling protesters to "put their bodies on the line"

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THE BALLS. You zombies go out there and take a bullet to protect our graft machine....the fuck is wrong with minnesotans.

Posted by: Heavy Sigh at January 08, 2026 04:43 PM (1M7sl)

47 7 Why are Commie Protesters always Extremely Homely Obese Females with Purple/Green Hair or Spineless Pencil Armed Homos with Che Guevara T-Shirts and 50 Metal Objects Pierced into their Face????
Posted by: Jackson K. at January 08, 2026 04:35 PM (rvNIn)

Because if they didn't have something external to devote their anger and hatred toward, they would have to look internally to find the cause.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 08, 2026 04:44 PM (6Bc88)

48 The video where the ICE agent is clearly struck by the car is not being used anywhere by the media... Wonder why...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2026 04:44 PM (VE6XX)

49 I misspoke in last thread.
VAT is not an import tariff.
It is an import tariff PLUS an export subsidy.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 08, 2026 04:44 PM (bIWgk)

50 The idiot Bulwarkian seems to be highlighting an officer standing BESIDE the mirror. The shooter (and victim of the vehicular assault) was in front of the vehicle.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 08, 2026 04:44 PM (zjgNU)

51 A very compelling argument can be made that Democrat politicians are to blame for both events here. In one, an illegal was radicalized to believe he could run from the "Gestapo" and likely believed the Walz Admin would protect him. In this one a woman radicalized by Dem politicians and media believed that she could impede law enforcement without consequence. She ended up dead as a result.
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This is the point. This is why they incite it, and why lefties have things like ICE tracking apps. It isn't about preventing deportation, it's about directing street warriors - and a lot of AWFLs are, or will become street warriors - to interfere. The goal of that interference is likely not a cessation of deportation or raids, but to trigger a lethal response. They want martyrs, because martyrs provide a nucleus around which other and more intensive action can coalesce.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2026 04:44 PM (GyQIQ)

52 What in hell is "Jutice?"
Posted by: tcn in AK at January 08, 2026 04:42 PM (6Bc8

It's sorta like a henway.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 08, 2026 04:44 PM (wVcYX)

53 Don't remember if I saw this link here or elsewhere, but it makes the argument that a lot of what the Trump Admin has done is part of building the legal framework for the Insurrection Act to be invoked.

I think it's a bit too presumptive, especially the part about the Supreme Court. The SC is like the guy who gets engaged, and then bails out before the wedding day.

https://ekolovesyou.com/p/the-insurrection-proclamation

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at January 08, 2026 04:45 PM (MZ+PY)

54 Who knew MN was so retarded and faggy?

* raises hand *

Posted by: Texas at January 08, 2026 04:45 PM (Fs0KI)

55 No Jutice no Peas.

Posted by: tubal at January 08, 2026 04:45 PM (pDt9x)

56 The smellies at this protest are near as active as the LA smellies of last year.

Must be cold-blooded smellies; the sad way they are just shuffling around there in the wet and slush.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 08, 2026 04:45 PM (HXT0k)

57 JUTICE!!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 08, 2026 04:45 PM (Kt19C)

58 I've watched too many body cam footages of stupid Karens elevating a simple traffic stop into a felony.

Do NOT hassle police officers performing their duties. Do not touch them, do not argue with them. If they tell you to do somehting...do it. About half the fucking time the officer will let you off with a warning. Or a stupid ticket you can pay with a credit card.

That idiot woman could have just complied with the officers...and be home with her family right now.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 08, 2026 04:46 PM (0zh1t)

59 THE BALLS. You zombies go out there and take a bullet to protect our graft machine....the fuck is wrong with minnesotans.

As has been pointed out, MN is like a virgin population with no prior exposure to a virus. They have no native resistance because they didn't need it.

It's a pity our money was used to shield them from the consequences of their folly.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 08, 2026 04:46 PM (Riz8t)

60 He isn't "hit by the car," David. He's slightly winged by its side as it drives away and is in no danger whatsoever. Have a smidgen of decency.
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I've been "winged" by a car. A love tap. Nothing serious, thankfully.

It put me down on my ass *hard* and I hurt for days. And I was young - a teenager - when it happened. If it happened today, I'd be in traction.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2026 04:46 PM (GyQIQ)

61 What in hell is "Jutice?"
Posted by: tcn in AK

$20, same as in town ...

Posted by: Martha's Vinyard Refugee Welcoming Committee . . . at January 08, 2026 04:46 PM (3ZUWJ)

62 FEEDOM!

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 08, 2026 04:46 PM (jc0TO)

63 If the stuff coming out on the "martyr " is true they're gonna be dropping this real quick

Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2026 04:46 PM (VE6XX)

64 Do not EVER try and grab the gun of an armed individual. Especially not a police officer. You will be very lucky not to die on the spot.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 08, 2026 04:46 PM (0zh1t)

65 What in hell is "Jutice?"

$20, same as in town.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 08, 2026 04:47 PM (Kt19C)

66 The whole "she just barely brushed him" narrative is a lie. And one people are knowingly repeating to stoke violence
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It's a lie, but it's also irrelevant. Being "brushed" by a car is still getting your ass hit by a car. When it's an accident, it's an accident. Be happy you walked away.

When it isn't by accident, it's attempted murder.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2026 04:47 PM (GyQIQ)

67 Jutice? Really ?? FFS.
Posted by: Heavy Sigh

Jutice Preest! Jutice Preest!
Iern Maden! Iern Maden!

Posted by: Preest vs Maden at January 08, 2026 04:47 PM (KAi1n)

68 "No jutice, no peas"

Initially read this as "no juice, no peas"

well, it is tantrum time

Posted by: barbarausa at January 08, 2026 04:47 PM (enw9G)

69 How in the heck was the ICE agent supposed to know that the vehicle would slip on the icy road *away* from him in that split second?

Also to the "she just brushed him" crowd: So you're volunteering for me to do the same to you with my minivan?

Posted by: pookysgirl is willing to help with understanding physics at January 08, 2026 04:47 PM (Wt5PA)

70 Will Ice Shutdown al the Minnesota Learing Centers ????

Posted by: Jackson K. at January 08, 2026 04:47 PM (rvNIn)

71 We do indeed have a shocking Jutice Deficit!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2026 04:47 PM (GyQIQ)

72 FREEBID!

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 08, 2026 04:48 PM (wVcYX)

73 (I think she panicked when faced with actual consequences, but you don't get to try to kill people because you are panicking.)


Happens all the time. OMG! How did I get pregnant? This can't happen to me to be punished with a baby!

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 08, 2026 04:48 PM (KhyP1)

74 All Trump has to do is deputize us and we would solve the commie problem tomorrow.

Posted by: mossomo at January 08, 2026 04:48 PM (pky95)

75 Walz, Frey, and their followers think they want civil war because they are soft men who have never put their lives on the line for anything or anyone. They stand in front of microphones and bleat and posture and whip up their crowds of equally soft men and women who know how to protest, throw rocks, block cars, etc. but they know nothing about actually prosecuting a war. They are frauds who have no discipline, are weaklings at heart, and could not face up to real men and women. This they will find out if this continues much longer and God help them if an ICE agent or other LE gets killed. Ms. Karma is just sharpening her nails and finishing her martini before she has a go at them.

Posted by: Cheri at January 08, 2026 04:48 PM (oiNtH)

76 Vance announced that a special asst AG to be appointed to work across the country on fraud cases but also target who is organizing and funding these anti ICE demonstrations. This person will have the powers of a Special Counsel so can work in any jurisdiction. This person needs to be confirmed but Thune has been read the riot act and says that this will be quickly done.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2026 04:48 PM (t/2Uw)

77 If the left regains power we're gonna need militia-type strength, readiness, and arms to stop their swat teams from midnight-raiding us like they did to the Jan6ers, because while their sweeps nailed over a thousand then, it'll be millions next time.

Posted by: M. Gaga at January 08, 2026 04:48 PM (KiBMU)

78 61 What in hell is "Jutice?"
Posted by: tcn in AK

$20, same as in town ...
Posted by: Martha's Vinyard Refugee Welcoming Committee . . . at January 08, 2026 04:46 PM (3ZUWJ)

Only took 40 comments. You folks are slipping.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 08, 2026 04:49 PM (6Bc88)

79 So the agent had been run over before.
Experience!
Who better to have to make a split second decision than someone who has been there?
I doubt there are too many others in the DHS who have valuable experience like this.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 08, 2026 04:49 PM (2WIwB)

80 Walz threatening to call up the Guard to oppose the FedGov should result in a division of regular army deployed to the Twin Cities.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2026 04:49 PM (GyQIQ)

81 8 shot, 2 killed at Mormon funeral in SLC. Civilization: it was nice while it lasted.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 08, 2026 04:49 PM (L/fGl)

82 47 7 Why are Commie Protesters always Extremely Homely Obese Females with Purple/Green Hair or Spineless Pencil Armed Homos with Che Guevara T-Shirts and 50 Metal Objects Pierced into their Face????
Posted by: Jackson K. at January 08, 2026 04:35 PM (rvNIn

because sometimes cats are just not enough.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 08, 2026 04:49 PM (0zh1t)

83 One needs only to look at MN's current Governor to discern the answer"

/ zombie Jesse Ventura waves

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 04:50 PM (XuXeR)

84 That cartoon is sadly correct.
==
Yeah. Mostly. There is no moral equivalence. Certainly not between charlie kirk/ Trump. You may say the lady in the capital was tresspassing, and crossing a security line and i would not try to say she wasnt. That situation is not the same as this. She was not armed. She was arguably tresspassing and breaking the law but not a felony. Its not as clear as CK and Trumps head shot.

Posted by: Heavy Sigh at January 08, 2026 04:50 PM (1M7sl)

85
This video entertained me greatly yesterday.

Seriously...dude grabbed for a federal law enforcement officer's weapon and then immediately got shot in the face with some kind of mace projectile.

It was hilarious.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 04:34 PM (GBKbO)

Was it a white viscuos liquid? That's the best thing to hit your face!

Posted by: Pete Buttgiger at January 08, 2026 04:50 PM (syz3H)

86 ... I haven't been celebrating this woman's death. She was stupid and caused this whole incident, but I still think it's sad she's dead. (I think she panicked when faced with actual consequences, but you don't get to try to kill people because you are panicking.) ...
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 08, 2026 04:42 PM (zjgNU)
++++
Panic is a pretty normal response, especially if you firmly believe - and she likely did - that to be arrested is to be murdered.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2026 04:50 PM (GyQIQ)

87 They stand in front of microphones and bleat and posture and whip up their crowds of equally soft men and women who know how to protest, throw rocks, block cars, etc. but they know nothing about actually prosecuting a war.

You forgot cell phones. They bravely record everything with their cell phones. It's a pretty Audie Murphy move.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 08, 2026 04:50 PM (Riz8t)

88 80 Walz threatening to call up the Guard to oppose the FedGov should result in a division of regular army deployed to the Twin Cities.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2026 04:49 PM (GyQIQ)

A Brigade ought to be sufficient.

Posted by: tubal at January 08, 2026 04:50 PM (pDt9x)

89 81 8 shot, 2 killed at Mormon funeral in SLC. Civilization: it was nice while it lasted.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 08, 2026 04:49 PM (L/fGl)

I think it was a funeral for a non Mormon a Tongan I believe, and the shootings were gang related ?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2026 04:50 PM (VE6XX)

90 Hey, TJM.

I just checked out that wiki link in last thread on sparrows, and that reminds me. (I know you did Ozu a while back from your nic. back then)

Did you watch the silent ones too? One of my favorites is "I was Born But" and it is silent, but really watchable and top notch.

I thought of it since the kids eat sparrow eggs to power up. I thought it interesting, kind of a proto-video game tactic. It's just a lovely movie all around though.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 08, 2026 04:50 PM (bIWgk)

91 I'm sorry, but the last picture with the black protester and the ICE guy looks either staged or like AI.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 04:37 PM (8Xy/A)

It's real. It's just 'conveniently' timed. The black guy had just grabbed the officer's gun and then stepped back and put his hands up with a look of terror because he knew someone was filming and they'd get that very shot.

It's terrorist propaganda.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 04:51 PM (ExV1e)

92 So the agent had been run over before.
Experience!
Who better to have to make a split second decision than someone who has been there?
I doubt there are too many others in the DHS who have valuable experience like this.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 08, 2026 04:49 PM (2WIwB)

Give that man a red cape, some swords, and a very tight-fitting uniform. Ole!

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 08, 2026 04:51 PM (wVcYX)

93 Question is, how much death can we stand?

Posted by: Eromero at January 08, 2026 04:51 PM (o2ZRX)

94 You know who else was winged?

Posted by: fd at January 08, 2026 04:51 PM (vFG9F)

95 A Brigade ought to be sufficient.
Posted by: tubal at January 08, 2026 04:50 PM (pDt9x)
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I's not about sufficiency, it's about overwhelming force to achieve the objective and put everyone else on notice.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2026 04:52 PM (GyQIQ)

96 The Hussars?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 08, 2026 04:52 PM (UQJzP)

97 You know who else was winged?

Oh, F you.

Posted by: Zombie Icarus at January 08, 2026 04:52 PM (Fs0KI)

98 93 Question is, how much death can we stand?
Posted by: Eromero at January 08, 2026 04:51 PM (o2ZRX)

Well the last time it was around 680,000.

Posted by: tubal at January 08, 2026 04:52 PM (pDt9x)

99 I think it was a funeral for a non Mormon a Tongan I believe, and the shootings were gang related ?
Posted by: It's me donna

Tongans can be Mormons, too. The LDSs had a big missionary effort in the S. Pacific.

Posted by: Bulg at January 08, 2026 04:53 PM (77rzZ)

100 Send in the scoops.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 08, 2026 04:53 PM (jc0TO)

101 or escalate into (further) attempts to murder ICE agents. Some leftists will embrace escalated violence.

Hopefully the feds are tracking trantifa, the John Brown gun club and their like. I think an ambush/assassination attempt on ICE agents is their next ploy. They are salivating for PDT to invoke the Insurrection Act. Pray for the brave men and women in ICE.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 08, 2026 04:53 PM (vzcgi)

102 Oh, F you.
Posted by: Zombie Icarus at January 08, 2026 04:52 PM (Fs0KI)
++++
:: snort ::

Well done

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2026 04:53 PM (GyQIQ)

103 The agent that shot Renee Good yesterday, as she drove toward him, had been dragged by a car over 300ft just 6 months ago by a man who had been charged with sex crimes against a child.

This poor refugee was just sexually assaulting the kids Americans won't.

Really its an act of love

Posted by: Tim Walz echoing Jeb Bush at January 08, 2026 04:53 PM (sKqQm)

104 Rebecca Good isn't.

Posted by: Change my mind at January 08, 2026 04:53 PM (2Ez/1)

105 If you're going to invoke the Insurrection Act you better be committed to following through. And I'd like to see some efforts to prepare the country for it, to build the case. Vance today pretty much dismissed Walz and his threats as a joke.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 08, 2026 04:53 PM (t+TFX)

106
Tongans can be Mormons, too. The LDSs had a big missionary effort in the S. Pacific.
Posted by: Bulg at January 08, 2026 04:53 PM (77rzZ)

Did not know that.. Anyway it was thought to be gang related

Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2026 04:53 PM (VE6XX)

107 Also to the "she just brushed him" crowd: So you're volunteering for me to do the same to you with my minivan?
Posted by: pookysgirl is willing to help with understanding physics"

By the 2nd full generation of that Honda, curb weights were over four thousand pounds. Two tons plus. Even at low speeds (velocity), that's more force than a human body can take without damage.

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 04:53 PM (XuXeR)

108 Walz threatening to call up the Guard to oppose the FedGov should result in a division of regular army deployed to the Twin Cities.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

A Brigade ought to be sufficient.
Posted by: tubal

1 Riot, 1 Space Marine ...

Posted by: Robert A Heinlein at January 08, 2026 04:54 PM (3ZUWJ)

109 I have to commend the courage of the ICE agent who was dragged by a car and then was just was almost run over, yet he went back to work. I wish there was a fund raiser for him. If he was doxxed, may God protect he and his family.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 04:54 PM (8Xy/A)

110 Question is, how much death can we stand?
Posted by: Eromero at January 08, 2026 04:51 PM (o2ZRX)

Well the last time it was around 680,000.

Out of a population of 30M. Equivalent today would be about 8M.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 08, 2026 04:54 PM (Riz8t)

111 Who knew MN was so retarded and faggy?

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 08, 2026 04:36 PM (pLaQB)

Iowans, Wisconsinites, North and South Dakotans, and even those in Manitoba (not Ontario, they're worse than Minnesota).

Posted by: pookysgirl could get MPR on her car if she wanted to at January 08, 2026 04:54 PM (Wt5PA)

112 I don't know guys, I think 10,000th time of "get the F out of my city!!" incantation with the requisite hip thrusts and middle finger display with finally work and ICE will magically disappear from MN.

The smellies are sure convinced it will work.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 08, 2026 04:54 PM (HXT0k)

113 It looks like MN AWFL moms finally compared their private daycare bills to the Somali (and let's be honest, it wasn't limited to Somali grift) galactic-level fraudulent daycare subsidy theft. Because the DFL-Dem rank-and-file isn't turning out for the protests.

Walz is in a lot of trouble.

Posted by: mrp at January 08, 2026 04:55 PM (rj6Yv)

114 NO BLAUDE FOR OYL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


WEE Most Transorte to SOLLER Powar Now !!!!

Posted by: Official Position of the Minnisotar Learing School Staff at January 08, 2026 04:55 PM (rvNIn)

115 So looking at lefty forums there are two talking points they have going right now

1) The agent stepped in from of her car so she had a right to drive through him which is quite a hot take from the BLM/highway protest people

2) Karen turned her wheels at the last moment trying to avoid the agent. I don't get this one because she still hit him. And because they are still claiming she had a right to drive through him anyway.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 04:55 PM (sKqQm)

116 Kamikaze Karen's wife was in the perfect position to record what they hoped would be a viral video to bolster their narcissistic narrative of ICE = Gestapo.

They went there to cause an over reaction, classic guerrilla tactic to delegitimize the government.

So play stupid games win fatal prizes.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 08, 2026 04:55 PM (45BvE)

117 There are online musings that seem to indicate the stage has been set to invoke the Insurrection Act.

And not have it challenged in court.

YMMV

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 08, 2026 04:55 PM (NwnyJ)

118 his name is Robert Paulson ... Project Mayhem continues on ...

Posted by: The Dark Lord at January 08, 2026 04:55 PM (DBAaD)

119 President Trump prepares US Troops in the Middle East to confront the IRGC.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 04:55 PM (6mogZ)

120 Just here for the "needed that like a hole in the head" jokes.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at January 08, 2026 04:55 PM (wBaIH)

121 Riot training 101 - do not, ever, let anyone involved in the riot grab you or anything you are holding. Because they will drag you into the mob and likely beat you to death.

If a rioter grabs their baton, shield, or tear gas dispenser, they will be lucky to survive the night. They police are being extremely tolerant even letting you get that close. The general rule is they back the crowd off at least three feet from where they are standing. 6-10 feet is preferable. You run up to a cop during a protest and lay hands on them - you may well fucking die.

Deservedly. I don't care if you are a granny and the mother of six. You do not lay hands on a cop during a protest.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 08, 2026 04:56 PM (0zh1t)

122 Vance today pretty much dismissed Walz and his threats as a joke.
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Its called goading. And fat gov is stupid enough to react to it.

Posted by: Heavy Sigh at January 08, 2026 04:56 PM (1M7sl)

123 She played chicken with a bullet and lost.

Posted by: fd at January 08, 2026 04:56 PM (vFG9F)

124 Has ICE released bodycam footage yet?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2026 04:56 PM (GyQIQ)

125 Just saw a vid of Minneapolis during Covid when the police thought nothing of ordering people into their homes and firing teargas at them to comply. Trying to find it again on X.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 08, 2026 04:57 PM (2WIwB)

126 Jutice in: Teachers can't spell.

News at 11.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 08, 2026 04:57 PM (n5tGW)

127 Early this year we talked about how far the left would go to retain power and advance their goals. How there were no depths that they would not stoop to. No lie too great, no deed too evil.

And they insist on proving this true every week.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2026 04:57 PM (3Amc7)

128 Bring me a Bucket !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Gov Walz at January 08, 2026 04:57 PM (rvNIn)

129 Poor bullet.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 08, 2026 04:57 PM (UQJzP)

130 > 35 What in hell is "Jutice?"
Posted by: tcn in AK at January 08, 2026 04:42 PM (6Bc8

You'd know the answer to this if you'd gone to a Learing Center rather than a racist, colonialist, homophobic white supremacist school.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 08, 2026 04:58 PM (IG3/x)

131 Neck shot right?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 08, 2026 04:58 PM (UQJzP)

132 Only took 40 comments. You folks are slipping.
Posted by: tcn in AK at January 08, 2026 04:49 PM (6Bc8

https://youtu.be/0IobpIKshr8?t=11

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 04:58 PM (ExV1e)

133 Jutice - Jussie Smollet's brother?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 08, 2026 04:58 PM (45BvE)

134 They are salivating for PDT to invoke the Insurrection Act. Pray for the brave men and women in ICE.
***
Why are they so excited for the Insurrection Act.?They thinking this is 2020 and Trump is going to roll over? Do they think they have the support of the general population?

Posted by: Megthered at January 08, 2026 04:58 PM (BI0Xv)

135 What in hell is "Jutice?"
Posted by: tcn in AK

20 pieces of silver, same as in Jerusalem

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at January 08, 2026 04:59 PM (9RMci)

136 This is not going to end as the left thinks and with governors and politicians egging them on the gimme dat army best rethink things. But they won't. They never do.

Posted by: turambar at January 08, 2026 04:59 PM (Q0yOR)

137 Just saw a vid of Minneapolis during Covid when the police thought nothing of ordering people into their homes and firing teargas at them to comply. Trying to find it again on X.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 08, 2026 04:57 PM (2WIwB)
====

I suspect that there was a fair amount of scrubbing being done after Walz was picked for Harris' VP spot.

Posted by: mrp at January 08, 2026 04:59 PM (rj6Yv)

138 134 They are salivating for PDT to invoke the Insurrection Act. Pray for the brave men and women in ICE.
***
Why are they so excited for the Insurrection Act.?They thinking this is 2020 and Trump is going to roll over? Do they think they have the support of the general population?
Posted by: Megthered at January 08, 2026 04:58 PM (BI0Xv)

Yes. That is a VERY stupid thing to wish for.

Posted by: tubal at January 08, 2026 04:59 PM (pDt9x)

139 The just winged by the car crap?

So if I just wound you a little with a gun? you don't get to defend yerself?

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 08, 2026 05:00 PM (mP0Kj)

140 "she just brushed him" is irrelevant.

As I said this morning, she put the Death Card in play when she clunked the transmission into "drive."
When she refused to comply with the order--lawful or not.

When you play the Death Card, you're gambling a life. Including yours.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 08, 2026 05:00 PM (HXT0k)

141 I suspect that there was a fair amount of scrubbing being done after Walz was picked for Harris' VP spot."

/ don't be Google

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 05:00 PM (XuXeR)

142 Thankfully I have no need to know anything about immigration law. I would hope that a 'legal refugee, or other legal immigrant' that commits felony fraud before becoming completely naturalized gets deported the same as the illegal that waded across the Rio Grande.

Posted by: PaleRider at January 08, 2026 05:00 PM (hhkIi)

143 A civilian has the right to drive through another group of civilians blocking the road - because they have no idea what the attempt of that blocker might be (carjacking? Kidnapping?). There are illegitimate and irregular forces. They carry no weight of law.

BUT. Law enforcement is LAW ENFORCEMENT. You do not have any sort of self-defense right against them. Which, by the way, something BLM has told to a lot of stupid people, that they have the right of self-defense against the police.

No, no you don't. There is no such right.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 08, 2026 05:01 PM (0zh1t)

144 If he does that they have an iron clad 100% guarantee to sweep the mid terms.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 08, 2026 04:34 PM (0N4FZ)

Naw, they'd all be rounded up and gassed.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 08, 2026 05:01 PM (8zz6B)

145 Stupid bitch was sure she was protected by her Democratium activist armor. She should have read the warrany better.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 08, 2026 05:01 PM (sDNVV)

146 What in hell is "Jutice?"
Posted by: tcn in AK

It's ice from Jutland.

Which is the peninsula that Denmark is on.

So maybe it's ice from Greenland?

Anyway, orange man bad. QED.

Posted by: mikeski at January 08, 2026 05:01 PM (nhCoE)

147 And I love how they made the "t" in "Jutice" look like a cross.

Posted by: Bulg at January 08, 2026 05:01 PM (77rzZ)

148 You gotta picture the left as a rabid dog backed into a corner, losing money, losing influence, losing cultural impact, losing power. They are biting absolutely everything that comes near.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2026 05:01 PM (3Amc7)

149 Rebecca Good isn't.
Posted by: Change my mind at January 08, 2026 04:53 PM (2Ez/1)

Is she related to Renee?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 05:01 PM (ExV1e)

150 It's like they don't understand that driving a vehicle directly at a cop is treated the same as if you pulled a gun and pointed it at him with your finger on the trigger.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 08, 2026 05:01 PM (ClDUJ)

151 - Tousi tv livestreaming on utube now.
Irgc has gone into cities, shooting civilians. Millions of civilians in the streets. Some attacking irgc with, wait for it,,, cars. Running them down. Showing vids.

Posted by: TeeJ at January 08, 2026 05:01 PM (oN30K)

152 116 Kamikaze Karen's wife was in the perfect position to record what they hoped would be a viral video to bolster their narcissistic narrative of ICE = Gestapo.

They went there to cause an over reaction, classic guerrilla tactic to delegitimize the government.

So play stupid games win fatal prizes.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Saw several posts that they weren't from Minnesota. Apparently they were "rapid responders" . The car supposedly had Missouri plates.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 08, 2026 05:02 PM (vzcgi)

153 Walz needs to call up the guard to escort him to jail.

Posted by: Case at January 08, 2026 05:02 PM (4rWc3)

154 Why are they so excited for the Insurrection Act.?
=
They think they can call him a dictator and the suburbanites and country club class will turn their noses up at him and they will win the mid terms. Its a bold strategy cotton, lets see what happens.....

Posted by: Heavy Sigh at January 08, 2026 05:03 PM (1M7sl)

155 Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, Iran's internet has been cut off by the mad mullahs, so it has been reported that our favorite crafty bastard Elon has supplied the country free internet via Starlink....stay tuned

Posted by: Cheri at January 08, 2026 05:03 PM (oiNtH)

156 Oh, a ANTIFA soy boy is giving the FOX LIVE camera people sh*t for covering the "protest".

Posted by: mrp at January 08, 2026 05:03 PM (rj6Yv)

157 Ace,
Put Gunthar Eagleman's X complete video of the fool and the ICEman up instead of the after effect still photo used by leftist assholes. Guy tried to grab the pepperball gun and got shot at close range by it.

20 second video
https://tinyurl.com/Gunthar-Eagleman-ICE-video

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 05:03 PM (WDjG6)

158 Is she related to Renee?"

Or Saint Pancake?

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 05:03 PM (XuXeR)

159 Iran is getting more sporty it seems

Posted by: turambar at January 08, 2026 05:04 PM (Q0yOR)

160 "she just brushed him" is irrelevant.

When a DC cop beat Rosanne Boyland to death with her baton on J6 the argument was she was a threat because she bumped into the police cordon. The face there was a crowd and she was being pushed into the police didn't matter...well then.

Just being in that situation meant her death was a FAFO moment apparently. But for some reason this is different (tm)

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 05:04 PM (sKqQm)

161 I don't want the insurrection act activated globally but Governor Walz openly and repeatedly declared war on the federal government and that is illegal and must be acted on.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2026 05:04 PM (3Amc7)

162 And not have it challenged in court.

Donald Trump couldn't eat a kale salad with vinaigrette dressing without it being challenged in court.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 05:04 PM (ExV1e)

163 Apparently they were "rapid responders" . The car supposedly had Missouri plates."

This. They were on the side of good. You, not so much.

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 05:04 PM (XuXeR)

164 And I love how they made the "t" in "Jutice" look like a cross.
Posted by: Bulg

* rolls eyes *

Luterans.

Posted by: mikeski at January 08, 2026 05:05 PM (nhCoE)

165 There can never be justice for Renee Good. She was killed instantly. As a Communist activist, justice would have taken several weeks of unrelenting torment to be served.

Bitch got off way too easy.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 08, 2026 05:05 PM (BI5O2)

166 150 It's like they don't understand that driving a vehicle directly at a cop is treated the same as if you pulled a gun and pointed it at him with your finger on the trigger.
Posted by: CaliGirl
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They also left out the ICE guy trying to stop her and being dragged a bit before the shooting occurred. That alone was felony assault on a federal agent.

Plus you can see the agents literally slipping in part of the video as the road was slippery.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 05:05 PM (WDjG6)

167 They think they can call him a dictator and the suburbanites and country club class will turn their noses up at him and they will win the mid terms. Its a bold strategy cotton, lets see what happens.....
Posted by: Heavy Sigh at January 08, 2026 05:03 PM (1M7sl)
++++
And it might work out that way. Actual battle in the streets is one hell of an escalation. It's a high-risk play all around, both creating the conditions that make it necessary and the necessary response. It could go either way, popularly.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2026 05:05 PM (GyQIQ)

168 FOX gave him about 30 sec and then cut to a street demonstration forming up in Minneapolis.

Posted by: mrp at January 08, 2026 05:05 PM (rj6Yv)

169 They need to install deer catchers first. Otherwise fender bends back to tire.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 08, 2026 05:05 PM (UQJzP)

170 You all would not believe the hagiography going on with the SUV woman. According to Twixxer, she's a wonderful mother and person, a committed mother, a devoted Christian, her glovebox was full of stuffed animals you monsters!!!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2026 05:06 PM (3Amc7)

171 BUT. Law enforcement is LAW ENFORCEMENT. You do not have any sort of self-defense right against them. Which, by the way, something BLM has told to a lot of stupid people, that they have the right of self-defense against the police.

No, no you don't. There is no such right.
-
You are assuming a legal worldview is relevant here. If you're in a war, civil or otherwise, you do what you need to do in any given situation.

It wasn't that long ago that police were enforcing the left's covid bullshit, and little reason to believe they wouldn't have enforced the jabs if ordered to do so.

Posted by: Methos at January 08, 2026 05:06 PM (vSvIl)

172 Early this year we talked about how far the left would go to retain power and advance their goals. How there were no depths that they would not stoop to. No lie too great, no deed too evil.

And they insist on proving this true every week.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2026 04:57 PM (3Amc7)

Supposedly the mullahs are in Russia but have ordered their bully-boys to slaughter Iranians in an attempt to hold onto power.

SSDD.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 05:06 PM (ExV1e)

173 Oh, now they have a feed of the downtown smellies.

This duffus is leading a call and repeat call "solid as a rock"

Lame.

Set some fires, burn shit, bust some windows.

Pavement Sandwiches and Hickory Shampoo is on sale today.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 08, 2026 05:07 PM (HXT0k)

174 And it might work out that way. Actual battle in the streets is one hell of an escalation. It's a high-risk play all around, both creating the conditions that make it necessary and the necessary response. It could go either way, popularly
===
I'm excited. *kneels on chair*

Posted by: Heavy Sigh at January 08, 2026 05:07 PM (1M7sl)

175 Actual battle in the streets is one hell of an escalation"

I'm old. And armed. You want march up my street? No problem. You want to mess with me and mine?

Sure thing.

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 05:07 PM (XuXeR)

176 Cattle catchers?

Dump trucks with bucket loaders. Lets go full Soylent Green.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 08, 2026 05:07 PM (45BvE)

177 They screwed up with their Martyr...Couldn't they have gotten a black woman? Although lesbian is part of the protected class, a white lesbian ?And a woman who is evidently not gonna be awarded mother of the year ? Do better dems....

Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2026 05:07 PM (VE6XX)

178 What the hell was that man trying to do, fondling the soldier's gun?

The video is nonsensical, and the soldier showed a lot of restraint. In the image that purportedly paints the picture of a black man being threatened, you can see in the soldier's body language that he is alarmed, surprised, and scared too.

What is going on? Was he trying to get himself shot? Did his brain short circuit? Clearly the soldier didn't want to fight. The black man wasn't really trying to fight either. What was he thinking?

Posted by: Mad Jojo at January 08, 2026 05:07 PM (LTRDy)

179 Actual battle in the streets is one hell of an escalation"

This is a pretty traditional way the left takes power. It worked in Russia. It almost worked in Germany.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 05:08 PM (sKqQm)

180 20 second video
https://tinyurl.com/Gunthar-Eagleman-ICE-video
Posted by: whig

-----------
Who is the guy in grey who shows and and tries to block the now yellow tellytubby from reengaging? His friend? Supervisor? Riot coordinator? Someone must know.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 08, 2026 05:08 PM (bIWgk)

181 When a DC cop beat Rosanne Boyland to death with her baton on J6 the argument was she was a threat because she bumped into the police cordon. The face there was a crowd and she was being pushed into the police didn't matter...well then.

Just being in that situation meant her death was a FAFO moment apparently. But for some reason this is different (tm)
Posted by: 18-1
======
They don't give one shit that Rosanne died. She was a non person to them. Same with the other victim and with those suffering and dying in DC and other fed prisons.

I no longer give one shit when their various criminal assholes get knocked off for doing felonies either by cops or by killing each other.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 05:08 PM (WDjG6)

182 > You all would not believe the hagiography going on with the SUV woman. According to Twixxer, she's a wonderful mother and person, a committed mother, a devoted Christian, her glovebox was full of stuffed animals you monsters!!!
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2026 05:06 PM (3Amc7)


You forgot "poet".

You know who else was a poet?


Charles Manson.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 08, 2026 05:08 PM (IG3/x)

183 An 18-year-old Wisconsin man accused of killing his parents and stealing their money to fund a plan to assassinate President Trump pleaded guilty to two homicide counts in a deal with prosecutors Thursday, locking himself into two life prison sentences.

Nikita Casap pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree intentional homicide in Waukesha County Circuit Court in connection with the deaths of his stepfather, Donald Mayer, and his mother, Tatiana Casap, last year. In exchange, prosecutors dropped seven other charges, including two counts of hiding a corpse and theft.

Posted by: SMOD at January 08, 2026 05:08 PM (r5p5k)

184 Also the left is building an entire mythology around this. They were UNMARKED CARS, and the ICE agents were plainclothes, scary men with guns! She barely bumped one of them while trying to escape! And besides, ICE cannot arrest citizens and its not legal to order someone out of their car because they aren't law enforcemet!

its amusing and sad at the same time.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2026 05:08 PM (3Amc7)

185 Apparently they were "rapid responders" . The car supposedly had Missouri plates."

I guess they showed her.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at January 08, 2026 05:08 PM (9RMci)

186 Why are they so excited for the Insurrection Act.?They thinking this is 2020 and Trump is going to roll over? Do they think they have the support of the general population?
Posted by: Megthered at January 08, 2026 04:58 PM (BI0Xv)

Yes. That is a VERY stupid thing to wish for.
Posted by: tubal

Yes it is an incredibly stupid thing think to wish for. Should we tabulate a laundry list of very stupid things the left has done in the last 5 years? IMO, they feel that invoking the Insurrection act will galvanize their support. That and a portion of the left just wants an excuse to burn sh*t.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 08, 2026 05:08 PM (vzcgi)

187 We don't need no civil war.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 08, 2026 05:08 PM (UQJzP)

188 committed mother, a devoted Christian"

Well, she's no concerned conservative...

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 05:08 PM (XuXeR)

189 127 Early this year we talked about how far the left would go to retain power and advance their goals. How there were no depths that they would not stoop to. No lie too great, no deed too evil. And they insist on proving this true every week.Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2026 04:57 PM (3Amc7)

Thing is - trump is not attacking them rhetorically, he's attacking the basis of their power. Election and campaign fraud. NGOs funded by the government. Illegal immigration. Funding frauds.

2.5 million illegals have been deported. Wanna guess how many illegally voted in the last election? Or donated money to the Dems? All that money stolen by the Somali fraudsters - how much went to the dems for the next election? He's rapidly cutting the legs out from under them. The DNC is losing money. That is no coincidence.

And it is just going to get worse - by next year, 5 million illegals may be gone. More and more Medicaid fraud will be exposed. NGOs will be out of government funds. What then?

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 08, 2026 05:08 PM (0zh1t)

190 If Kamikaze Karen cared for her kids, she would be at home with them

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 08, 2026 05:08 PM (45BvE)

191 You all would not believe the hagiography going on with the SUV woman. According to Twixxer, she's a wonderful mother and person, a committed mother, a devoted Christian...

And a poet. A POET! Damn you Drumpf!!

Posted by: Oddbob at January 08, 2026 05:09 PM (Fs0KI)

192 You all would not believe the hagiography going on with the SUV woman. According to Twixxer, she's a wonderful mother and person, a committed mother, a devoted Christian, her glovebox was full of stuffed animals you monsters!!!
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2026 05:06 PM (3Amc7)
++++
A communist provocateur is never a good person. A good mother? Stuffed animals in the glovebox? Cool. Good for her.

All of it is canceled out and then some by being a communist street warrior. That is incompatible with "goodness."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2026 05:09 PM (GyQIQ)

193 Ace,
Put Gunthar Eagleman's X complete video of the fool and the ICEman up instead of the after effect still photo used by leftist assholes.
>>>>>Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 05:03 PM (WDjG6)

Come on Ace, do what you are told!

Posted by: Same Old at January 08, 2026 05:09 PM (XKqch)

194 8 shot, 2 killed at Mormon funeral in SLC. Civilization: it was nice while it lasted.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 08, 2026 04:49 PM (L/fGl)

Not sure if the funeral was Moemon, or if they just rented out the chapel.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 08, 2026 05:09 PM (8zz6B)

195 Dead serious:

The main plank of the 2028 Democrat campaign for president is going to be repatriation of every illegal immigrant deported back into the United States with full citizenship and amnesty.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 04:42 PM (GBKbO)

Let them. They are at 6 percent approval NOW.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 08, 2026 05:09 PM (8avO+)

196 What was he thinking?"

Thinking?

Sure

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 05:09 PM (XuXeR)

197 170 You all would not believe the hagiography going on with the SUV woman. According to Twixxer, she's a wonderful mother and person, a committed mother, a devoted Christian, her glovebox was full of stuffed animals you monsters!!!
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2026 05:06 PM (3Amc7)


Yes , wonderful mother... A mother who had 2 of her 3 kids removed from her and given custody of to the Father ? That mother of the year ?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2026 05:10 PM (VE6XX)

198 If you are serious about putting down an insurrection, time is of the essence. You simply cannot hem and haw about "optics" or "political ramifications" if (if) you're serious. And have some framework to stand on.

Personally, I think all the metrics have been met in MN.

Like, weeks ago.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 08, 2026 05:10 PM (NwnyJ)

199 We don't need no civil war.
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 08, 2026 05:08 PM (UQJzP)
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Because it feeds the rich and buries the poor?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2026 05:10 PM (GyQIQ)

200 Just winged by a 2000 lbs moving object.

‘Tis but a scratch eh?

Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 05:10 PM (/HZvU)

201 Apparently they were "rapid responders" . The car supposedly had Missouri plates."

I guess they showed her.
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks

I saw You showed me what you did there.

Posted by: mikeski at January 08, 2026 05:11 PM (nhCoE)

202 A communist provocateur is never a good person. A good mother? Stuffed animals in the glovebox? Cool. Good for her.

All of it is canceled out and then some by being a communist street warrior. That is incompatible with "goodness."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2026 05:09 PM (GyQIQ)

Since she's a commie, her mom status and other details don't matter. The details of my life didn't matter to her.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 08, 2026 05:11 PM (8avO+)

203 You forgot "poet".

Yeah I forgot that one LOL

Um we don't care if she was a poet. We care that she was interfering with law enforcement protecting the country, then tried to run one down

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2026 05:11 PM (3Amc7)

204
It wasn't that long ago that police were enforcing the left's covid bullshit, and little reason to believe they wouldn't have enforced the jabs if ordered to do so.
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Cops.in chicago walked the streets and shot people on their porches with pellet guns, apparently, during quarantine for not being inside. Thats totes ok. But shoot a lesbo protester who is trying to run you down while resisting arrest, worst thing ever. When will these crazy commie bitches fuck all the way off.

Posted by: Heavy Sigh at January 08, 2026 05:11 PM (1M7sl)

205 It is obvious that trump's end goal is a civil war or there to be just enough uprising for him to have a reason to put in place the insurrection act to avoid future elections!

There will be troops/ice outside of voting booths in democratic areas (the excuse wll be to keep the peace due to domestic terrorist threats). This will be enough to intimidate enough voters and win Rs the midterms.

Can you please provide a source that blue States as well as cities openly don't support ice? I know fox news and right wing media will have you think this but unless there's actual proof of this, there's no way that full States would not want any immigration polices help at all.

As An American, The American People of 2026 Are The Worst Collective Populace Of A Nation In Human History. Why haven't we seen people rebel considering the situation in the US ? Is the second amendment just a justification to play with guns ?

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 08, 2026 05:11 PM (ycI94)

206 Leftists keep attacking Federal agents, the threats are a daily occurrence

Posted by: Skip at January 08, 2026 05:11 PM (Ia/+0)

207 You know who else was winged?
Posted by: fd at January 08, 2026 04:51 PM (vFG9F)

Our Hussars?

Posted by: Poland at January 08, 2026 05:12 PM (8zz6B)

208 190 If Kamikaze Karen cared for her kids, she would be at home with them
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 08, 2026 05:08 PM (45BvE)

Her kids were in Somali Day Care.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at January 08, 2026 05:12 PM (9RMci)

209 She was expendable, and the left expended her.

Posted by: Eromero at January 08, 2026 05:12 PM (o2ZRX)

210 Yes , wonderful mother... A mother who had 2 of her 3 kids removed from her and given custody of to the Father ? That mother of the year ?

And abandoned them to drive 350 miles to another state to protest against law enforcement??

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2026 05:12 PM (3Amc7)

211 Who is the guy in grey who shows and and tries to block the now yellow tellytubby from reengaging? His friend? Supervisor? Riot coordinator? Someone must know.
Posted by: bob

They have directors just like a play and have their patsies play their part. Remember Magic hoo haw woman who was nekkid and opening her legs to give cops a full pron viewing in the street. Portland protest I think.

A tough old bastard that helped created the operations division of the OSS, Col. Rex Applegate. He later consulted with various latino countries about riots, etc. including Venezuela btw (leftists frequently staged violent riots and attacke VP Nixon's car one time in Caracas).

In his book, Kill or Be Killed, the last chapters dealth with Commie riot techniques and how to defeat and avoid them. This from his consultations with governments.

Basically he argued that a sniper armed with a 22 LR should identify the command and control cadre and put 22 LR bullets into their arms or legs. Not enough to be a martyr causing death but likely enough to take them out of the fight and thus leaving the riot without direction.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 05:12 PM (WDjG6)

212 Saw several posts that they weren't from Minnesota. Apparently they were "rapid responders" . The car supposedly had Missouri plates.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 08, 2026 05:02 PM (vzcgi)

She crossed state lines? I thought was a super duper hyper uber violent capital felony!

Posted by: Maybe just in Michigan at January 08, 2026 05:12 PM (TbWk/)

213 A quiet day. Calm before the storm? Or the left recalibrating

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 08, 2026 05:13 PM (ScJGb)

214 Lib crowd being entertained in Spanish.

Posted by: mrp at January 08, 2026 05:13 PM (rj6Yv)

215


You forgot "poet".

You know who else was a poet?


Charles Manson.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 08, 2026 05:08 PM (IG3/x)

no need to slander the man with 'poet'.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 08, 2026 05:13 PM (8avO+)

216 205 There will be troops/ice outside of voting booths in democratic areas (the excuse wll be to keep the peace due to domestic terrorist threats). This will be enough to intimidate enough voters and win Rs the midterms.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 08, 2026 05:11 PM (ycI94)

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Why would a legal voter be intimidated by ICE outside a voting location?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 05:13 PM (GBKbO)

217 Did it have its kids with it?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 08, 2026 05:13 PM (UQJzP)

218 It is obvious that trump's end goal is a civil war or there to be just enough uprising for him to have a reason to put in place the insurrection act to avoid future elections! ...
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 08, 2026 05:11 PM (ycI94)
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The true evidence that we - as a country and more broadly as a civilization - are too rich to survive is that we found the money to send this person an iron lung and high-tech gadgets. Someone who is clearly too stupid to breathe unassisted is nonetheless alive and posting on the internet.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2026 05:13 PM (GyQIQ)

219 If Kamikaze Karen cared for her kids, she would be at home with them
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Nah, they have Somali daycare centers for that.

Posted by: Crusader at January 08, 2026 05:13 PM (TN0g+)

220 209 She was expendable, and the left expended her.
Posted by: Eromero
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I view all leftists as wicked people bound for destruction one way or another.

There is no truth in them.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 05:14 PM (WDjG6)

221 Can you please provide a source that blue States as well as cities openly don't support ice? I know fox news and right wing media will have you think this but unless there's actual proof of this, there's no way that full States would not want any immigration polices help at all.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 08, 2026 05:11 PM (ycI94)

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"Sanctuary city status is a right wing creation," is a real take.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 05:14 PM (GBKbO)

222 What does Insurrection Act do to habeas corpus?

If Insurrection Act is invoked, and US Military brought in, and engagement happens thereupon...

Won't any trials that happen as a result be in military tribunals?

That's how Trump's actions won't be challenged in court-- the civilian courts won't have any jurisdiction.

I drool at the prospect of Walz being convicted of Insurrection by a military court. If any federal officers or soldiers died engaging with his goons, he likely gets executed and quickly.

After which known Democrats will be about as welcome in elected office as Nazis were in postwar Germany.

Tell me why I'm wrong.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at January 08, 2026 05:14 PM (GD2xa)

223 ... As An American, The American People of 2026 Are The Worst Collective Populace Of A Nation In Human History. Why haven't we seen people rebel considering the situation in the US ? Is the second amendment just a justification to play with guns ?
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 08, 2026 05:11 PM (ycI94)
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What is going on in the Blue Hives if not open rebellion?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2026 05:14 PM (GyQIQ)

224 I'd say "rabid responder" to be fair. I read where she had been spotted at other protests, too. Not a surprise. Seen that before.

Posted by: turambar at January 08, 2026 05:14 PM (Q0yOR)

225 LIVE feed is from a Philly protest.

Posted by: mrp at January 08, 2026 05:14 PM (rj6Yv)

226 Walz wants to keep his slaves.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 08, 2026 05:15 PM (UQJzP)

227 "If the left wants Civil War, we should give it to them, all they can bear and then twice more."

Leftists need to understand: If you want to be a soldier in the Resistance! Revolution, you have to accept that you might lose your life. Is the cause worth it? Then have at it. That's war.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 08, 2026 05:15 PM (zYpTz)

228 205 As An American, The American People of 2026 Are The Worst Collective Populace Of A Nation In Human History. Why haven't we seen people rebel considering the situation in the US ? Is the second amendment just a justification to play with guns ?

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 08, 2026 05:11 PM (ycI94)

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Worse than Genghis Khan? Wow, that's pretty bad.

And do people not care about illegal immigrants being deported? Oh, my. How awful that they have to go back to their countries with socialized medicine.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 05:15 PM (GBKbO)

229 As An American, The American People of 2026 Are The Worst Collective Populace Of A Nation In Human History. Why haven't we seen people rebel considering the situation in the US ? Is the second amendment just a justification to play with guns ?
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 08, 2026 05:11 PM (ycI94)

LOL. even their love of gun control breaks away and is forgotten

Posted by: Oldcat at January 08, 2026 05:15 PM (8avO+)

230 Why would a legal voter be intimidated by ICE outside a voting location?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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ICE agents aren't Black Panthers whose reassuring presence in Philly voting precincts was a reminder to vote Dem.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 05:15 PM (WDjG6)

231 Yesterday I was in a “this sucks it happened but it was a justified response by ice” mood.

Today I’m in “glad the bitch is dead” mood.

Fuck you, war.

Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 05:15 PM (/HZvU)

232 Dead serious:

The main plank of the 2028 Democrat campaign for president is going to be repatriation of every illegal immigrant deported back into the United States with full citizenship and amnesty.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 04:42 PM (GBKbO)

Let them. They are at 6 percent approval NOW.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 08, 2026 05:09 PM (8avO+)

All we need is a bit of time for rents to start dropping and the yoots to notice. Time for them to wonder why the rents are dropping and actually think about things for a change. Actually being given concrete proof that leftist policies harmed them... only 90% of single women under 30 would vote Dem.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 05:16 PM (ExV1e)

233 As An American, The American People of 2026 Are The Worst Collective Populace Of A Nation In Human History. Why haven't we seen people rebel considering the situation in the US ? Is the second amendment just a justification to play with guns ?

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 08, 2026 05:11 PM (ycthat's?

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We aren't self-loathing blue haired twats?

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 08, 2026 05:16 PM (n4Qav)

234 guess they showed her"

*applause*

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 05:16 PM (XuXeR)

235 The smellies are protesting in Philly.

These ones have candles and pre-printed signs.

"ICE has never existed to protect communities."

Nope.
But it's protecting the nation.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 08, 2026 05:16 PM (HXT0k)

236 "Sanctuary city status is a right wing creation," is a real take.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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There is no truth in any leftist take, only narratives.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 05:17 PM (WDjG6)

237 I think the cop had legal basis to shoot but really shouldn't have, she wasn't a threat to him any more. I get it, seconds to respond, adrenaline, fear for your life, and reasonable lethal attempt. And you have seconds or less to respond to someone trying to hit you with a car, who knows what she'd do next. But still, restraint would have served us all better.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2026 05:17 PM (3Amc7)

238 Wax my ass,
Scrub my balls.
The Cow has risen,
Provide Milk.

Oh, Milky wonder, sing for us once more,
Live your life, everlusting joy.
Thrust your hooves up my analytic passage,
Enjoy my fruits

Provider of Cheese and other wonderful dairy products,
We will cleanse your inner intestines.
We will bathe in your Pungent Odor,
Gather cotton.

Count my eyes,
Smell my skin,
Love the Scarecrow and the Milkman.
I live only for eternity,
Thirst for the undrinkable.
Hold the heat,
Praise the dough boy at the pizza shop.
Love the Oxen dung!

Posted by: Robert Francis O'Rourke, Renowned Left-Wing Poet at January 08, 2026 05:17 PM (GyQIQ)

239 DocZero's thing is all sorta correct, but meh.

"The Democrat Party believes it should operate without oversight or responsibility". The voters who put/keep it in office are responsible. The people all around us (most of us).

The Dems don't "control the media". It doesn't need to be controlled, it's 95% like-mindless. Just like the guvamint workers who need no/little direction to instantly become vile totalitarian thugs (remember Joe the Plumber?), or the vapid apparatchiks who make up most of the judiciary.

Civil war in America - the thing that's always descending on the country but only ever landing, as chatter, at AOSHQ.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 08, 2026 05:17 PM (U/Byj)

240 235 The smellies are protesting in Philly.

These ones have candles and pre-printed signs.

"ICE has never existed to protect communities."


If your "communities" consist of illegals no....

Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2026 05:17 PM (VE6XX)

241 I think the cop had legal basis to shoot but really shouldn't have, she wasn't a threat to him any more. I get it, seconds to respond, adrenaline, fear for your life, and reasonable lethal attempt. And you have seconds or less to respond to someone trying to hit you with a car, who knows what she'd do next. But still, restraint would have served us all better.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2026 05:17 PM (3Amc7)

nope. reducing the count of monsters that think running any person over with a care is a good thing is priority one.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 08, 2026 05:18 PM (8avO+)

242 it is an incredibly stupid thing think to wish for. Should we tabulate a laundry list of very stupid things the left has done in the last 5 years? IMO, they feel that invoking the Insurrection act will galvanize their support. That and a portion of the left just wants an excuse to burn sh*t.
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This is an inescapable conclusion. I have accepted it as inevitable. But for divine intervention, the shit is going to bit the fan. The left has its tit in the wringer and tried in various and sundry ways to get it out. Impeachments, covid, stolen election, open borders. Assassination. It hasnt worked. Now their crimes, real basic mafia horseshit is exposed, and the whole stinking pile will be uncovered. They couldnt kill him. They cant steal this election. They have only one choice. Well two, but leftists never surrender. They are going hot and they are doing it soon.

Posted by: Heavy Sigh at January 08, 2026 05:18 PM (1M7sl)

243 "ICE has never existed to protect communities."
—

100% of the time when someone says this or that “community”, they can fuck off.

Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 05:18 PM (/HZvU)

244 I drool at the prospect of Walz being convicted of Insurrection by a military court.

Looks to me like an open and shut case, so easy to prove.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2026 05:18 PM (3Amc7)

245 As the resident of a blue hive, this busty brunette is preparing to bug out to her boyfriend's hunting cabin:
http://tiny.cc/pwdx001

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2026 05:19 PM (GyQIQ)

246 She had been stalking ICE all day, and in that moment, intentionally blocking them.

That is not typical behavior. That is not Soccer mom behavior. That’s is radical activist behavior. She chose that.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 08, 2026 05:19 PM (Hkcdp)

247 There will be troops/ice outside of voting booths in democratic areas (the excuse wll be to keep the peace due to domestic terrorist threats). This will be enough to intimidate enough voters and win Rs the midterms.

Two questions...

1) If you are a citizen why would ICE be a concern?
2) When the Black Panthers stationed armed militants outside voting locations the FNM told me it was nothing to worry about - they were there to keep the peace...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 05:19 PM (sKqQm)

248 235 The smellies are protesting in Philly.

These ones have candles and pre-printed signs.

"ICE has never existed to protect communities."

Nope.
But it's protecting the nation.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
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Pedo and Epstein friend Reid Hoffman, Alex Soros who is Huma's wife, and Neville Singh whose wife runs Code Pink and a Chicom by choice living in Shanghai are the usual suspects in funding this shit.

Time to send them and their money packing to Gitmo for interrogation as terrorists.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 05:19 PM (WDjG6)

249
I hate the word community. It is a communist word.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 08, 2026 05:19 PM (3ek7K)

250 she's a wonderful mother and person, a committed mother, a devoted Christian...

Her poetry would seem to indicate she's not a big fan of Christianity.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 05:19 PM (8Xy/A)

251 That guy who kept swiping at the officers weapon should have been shot in the face.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 08, 2026 05:20 PM (UQJzP)

252 100% of the time when someone says this or that “community”, they can fuck off"

*more applause *

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 05:20 PM (XuXeR)

253 148 You gotta picture the left as a rabid dog backed into a corner, losing money, losing influence, losing cultural impact, losing power. They are biting absolutely everything that comes near. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2026 05:01 PM (3Amc7)


^^^^^^ this. So much this. They don't mind so much losing elections, and losing prestige, and losing control. They always think the wheel of history moves forward, and every set back will be followed by a greater triumph.

But Trump is breaking the machine that gives them power. breaking the money train. The left has always had FAR more influence than their proposed policies would warrant. A lot of this influence is bought with OUR money. With illegal immigrants. With corrupted institutions.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 08, 2026 05:20 PM (0zh1t)

254 Wonder if Pres. Trump will ignore Thune and judiciary after winning the midterms? Time to have the fight and finish it win ,lose ,or draw.

Posted by: Kingsman at January 08, 2026 05:20 PM (ehY6c)

255 I'm not sure the newest member of the dead poet's society is the hill the left in MN want to die on.

But, who am I to argue with what they want?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 08, 2026 05:20 PM (NwnyJ)

256 Why do marxist come here? Is it an attraction similar to nazis watching jewish porn.

They should be embarrassed.
Probably just a manly algorithm

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 08, 2026 05:20 PM (EyfuW)

257 But still, restraint would have served us all better.
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Spoken after the fact by one who wasnt in line to get run over by an suv if he slipped on the icy ground.

Be better.

Posted by: Heavy Sigh at January 08, 2026 05:20 PM (1M7sl)

258 someone trying to hit you with a car

She succeeded in hitting him with her car.

restraint would have served us all better

We've shown restraint for decades. That's why we're here.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 05:20 PM (ExV1e)

259 reducing the count of monsters that think running any person over with a care is a good thing is priority one.

I don't think she meant to hit him but either way: I don't see her as a monster, just a fool.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2026 05:20 PM (3Amc7)

260 Cultural Marxism Seminaries have been brainwashing kids for 50 years

Posted by: Skip at January 08, 2026 05:20 PM (Ia/+0)

261 Lesbian was an abomination before God.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 08, 2026 05:21 PM (UQJzP)

262
Sad about my own family.

Got all this communist insurrection stuff going on in the country.

Not shaping up to be a very pleasant year.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 08, 2026 05:21 PM (HLgI3)

263 I like how the smellie in Philly is shouting out her spiel in Spanish for the 5 or so folks in the crowd that speak that language.

"BA-DADA, ABADADA, DA DE DA!!"

[Crowd yells in agreement]

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 08, 2026 05:21 PM (HXT0k)

264 As the resident of a blue hive, this busty brunette is preparing to bug out to her boyfriend's hunting cabin:
http://tiny.cc/pwdx001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2026 05:19 PM (GyQIQ)

You don't come here for the hunting, do you?

Posted by: Bear, to the boyfriend while eyeing the girlfriend at January 08, 2026 05:22 PM (wVcYX)

265 She's been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 08, 2026 05:22 PM (pkeXY)

266 >>"The Worst Collective Populace Of A Nation In Human History."


Is she/her talking about us?
I'm blushing.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 08, 2026 05:22 PM (bIWgk)

267 I never hear anyone talk about the “straight white male tax payer community”.

Weird huh?

Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 05:22 PM (/HZvU)

268 I don't think she meant to hit him but either way: I don't see her as a monster, just a fool.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2026 05:20 PM (3Amc7)

It doesn't matter what she meant to do.

She drove her car at a federal government law enforcement officer, and she got shot for her troubles.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 08, 2026 05:22 PM (n9ltV)

269 I think the cop had legal basis to shoot but really shouldn't have, she wasn't a threat to him any more

Karen had just hit one ICE agent. Why would you just let an armed attempted murderer flee?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 05:22 PM (sKqQm)

270 But still, restraint would have served us all better.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2026 05:17 PM (3Amc7)

It's easy from here, where we can see the videos. If you're standing in front of an SUV driven by a crazed and angry resister, and you have less than two seconds to make the decision, it's easy to see why you'd shoot.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 08, 2026 05:22 PM (zYpTz)

271 glurpflop shuugblab weegklop

Posted by: raimondo at January 08, 2026 05:23 PM (Xap2A)

272 she wasn't a threat to him any more."

Four thousand pounds at 10 or so m.p.h.

Vs the human body.

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 05:23 PM (XuXeR)

273 Theoretically restraint might have been better; but there was always going to be an incident that was going to set them off, they were all primed and waiting for it. It was just a matter of a short amount of time, so it might have well been this as anything else.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2026 05:23 PM (uWKK8)

274 It won'y be doing that again.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 08, 2026 05:23 PM (UQJzP)

275 I hate the word community. It is a communist word.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 08, 2026 05:19 PM (3ek7K)

Kohms word. *spits*

Posted by: Cloud William at January 08, 2026 05:24 PM (wVcYX)

276 What’s happening? Bless their souls. The world keeps changing.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 08, 2026 05:24 PM (1HW+a)

277 I don't think she meant to hit him but either way: I don't see her as a monster, just a fool.


We've been told repeatedly that if you hit someone blocking your car in traffic you are a criminal - BLM/environuts/Antifa all have a right to stop your car and you have no right to respond.

Now a law officer attempts to detain a criminal and she has a right to drive through him?

Sorry, that's not how this works.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 05:24 PM (sKqQm)

278 Basically he argued that a sniper armed with a 22 LR should identify the command and control cadre and put 22 LR bullets into their arms or legs. Not enough to be a martyr causing death but likely enough to take them out of the fight and thus leaving the riot without direction.
Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 05:12 PM (WDjG6)

The Israelis did that for a while with silenced .22s, but eventually gave up since the casualty rate was about what they would get if they aimed center mass instead.
I believe they started aiming center mass, but I think they don't advertise that.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 08, 2026 05:24 PM (rbvCR)

279 Wasn't "JUTICE" the guy who betrayed Jesus to the Roman Governor in Judea ????

Posted by: Jackson at January 08, 2026 05:25 PM (J9q9v)

280 LOL, now the Philly smellies are chanting "chinga la migra."

Welp.
Fold up the chairs and take down the tent boys--they got us good.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 08, 2026 05:25 PM (HXT0k)

281 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2026 05:19 PM (GyQIQ)

It doesn't look like she too quick to bug out. She needed to model her boobies.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 05:25 PM (8Xy/A)

282 Civil war in America - the thing that's always descending on the country but only ever landing, as chatter, at AOSHQ."

Seems to me most of what's said here is a warning against such an event..

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 05:25 PM (XuXeR)

283 it's easy to see why you'd shoot.

Sure, and that's what I said. But :/ this just energizes the left and drives them berserk, they have been prepping for this for a year.

Yet, as Tom Servo notes... this was eventually going to happen.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2026 05:25 PM (3Amc7)

284 Love the Oxen dung!

It's the dog park.
It's the dog park.
What are you eating?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 08, 2026 05:25 PM (Kt19C)

285 33 Here is the lieutenant governor of Minnesota telling protesters to "put their bodies on the line"

https://instapundit.com/768027/
Posted by: steevy at January 08, 2026 04:41 PM (YwEeS)

How is this in any way legal? It can't be.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 08, 2026 05:26 PM (4nEGa)

286 don't think she meant to hit him but either way: I don't see her as a monster, just a fool.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2026 05:20 PM (3Amc7

She wasn’t there randomly. She was leading the convoy of cars that impeded ICE all day. She wasn’t a victim. She’s a dead enemy combatant.

Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 05:26 PM (/HZvU)

287 you're standing in front of an SUV driven by a crazed and angry resister, and you have less than two seconds to make the decision, it's easy to see why you'd shoot.
==
Yes but you arent serving " US". You just want to live. To go home to your family. Selfishly.

Raylan woukd have capped this beatch fo sho

Posted by: Heavy Sigh at January 08, 2026 05:26 PM (1M7sl)

288 279 Yes. In a Pilates studio.

Posted by: Bulg at January 08, 2026 05:26 PM (77rzZ)

289 Posted by: steevy at January 08, 2026 04:41 PM (YwEeS)

I don't see Walz putting his body on the line.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 05:27 PM (8Xy/A)

290
They are already berserker.

Dragons can be killed.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 08, 2026 05:27 PM (3ek7K)

291 Good shot placement.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 08, 2026 05:27 PM (UQJzP)

292 So the official position of every Democrat who says ice out now is no immigration law enforcement. At all.

Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 05:27 PM (/HZvU)

293 https://x.com/sven10077/status/2009318930473734456

Minnesota Statutes § 609.02, subd. 6 defines a "dangerous weapon" as any device designed as a weapon and capable of producing death or great bodily harm, or any other device or instrumentality that, in the manner it is used or intended to be used, is calculated or likely to produce death or great bodily harm.Vehicles routinely qualify under this when weaponized (e.g., accelerating toward a person).

Minnesota Statutes § 609.066 governs peace officers' use of deadly force and defines "deadly force" as force that the actor uses with purpose of causing, or should reasonably know creates a substantial risk of causing, death or great bodily harm.This aligns with civilian self-defense under § 609.065 (justification in defense of person/property), allowing reasonable deadly force against perceived imminent threat.

Posted by: sven at January 08, 2026 05:27 PM (MUJd1)

294 Precedent: Vehicle as Dangerous Weapon
The Minnesota Supreme Court explicitly ruled in State v. Blevins (2024) that a vehicle can constitute a dangerous weapon under § 609.02 if its use is "likely to produce" death or great bodily harm, regardless of the driver's specific intent to cause harm.

The court rejected arguments that controlled operation (e.g., not full-speed ramming) prevents classification.
This upheld charges like second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon (§ 609.222) or first-degree assault (§ 609.221) involving vehicles.

Other cases (e.g., appellate decisions on vehicular assault) consistently treat cars as dangerous weapons in contexts like drive-by threats, ramming officers, or fleeing while endangering lives.

Posted by: sven at January 08, 2026 05:27 PM (MUJd1)

295 241 I think the cop had legal basis to shoot but really shouldn't have, she wasn't a threat to him any more. I get it, seconds to respond, adrenaline, fear for your life, and reasonable lethal attempt. And you have seconds or less to respond to someone trying to hit you with a car, who knows what she'd do next. But still, restraint would have served us all better.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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You are wrong as a matter of law and this was not a civilian shooting in self defense.

A civilian is required to stop shooting when the threat was over. Not true for a law enforcement officer who has a duty to apprehend violent felons.

And FWIW, the first shot was through the windshield and was probably a headshot. That woman was a threat to others as an escaping violent felon and other agents with her irrationality. She nearly injured another agent before she tried to run one down. And the additional shots occurred roughly 2 seconds after the first while the car was still moving.

Fleeing felons end up dead in many cases because they just keep doing stupid shit.

In this case, encouraged by the left's howler monkey politicians, social media, and press actions.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 05:27 PM (WDjG6)

296
She wasn’t there randomly. She was leading the convoy of cars that impeded ICE all day. She wasn’t a victim. She’s a dead enemy combatant.
Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 05:26 PM (/HZvU)

Yes.. She wasn't some soccer mom who had just dropped off the car pool and happened on the scene... The more info coming out on her the sooner the hysteria will die down

Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2026 05:28 PM (VE6XX)

297 279 Yes. In a Pilates studio."

Before or after washing hands?

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 05:28 PM (XuXeR)

298 The shoot was justified under MN and Federal law.

Posted by: sven at January 08, 2026 05:28 PM (MUJd1)

299 That might be the troll's most cogent thought ever

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 08, 2026 05:28 PM (ScJGb)

300 All these Rich Liberals all believe in "COLLECTIVISM" until the Governor of Californica passed the Billionaires Tax....

Then they all left Californica for Florida like a Fat Purple Haired Lesbo out of Hell....

Posted by: Jackson at January 08, 2026 05:28 PM (J9q9v)

301 Civil War. Nope, not going to happen. Anyone see groups of people pushing back on the protestors? Groups defending ICE?

Posted by: Ben Had at January 08, 2026 05:28 PM (sDNVV)

302 296 Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2026 05:28 PM (VE6XX)

The left and media BIRM is granting the left a spectrum of civil liberties that do not exist for the right.

Posted by: sven at January 08, 2026 05:28 PM (MUJd1)

303 restraint would have served us all better

Another part of this here because I see this a lot, we cannot demand that people in the moment, being attacked by criminals, will make split second decisions that are perfectly media friendly.

Yes in an ideal world her victim jumps aside and the other ICE agents shoot her tires or have a rumble strip setup.

But...why would anyone assume that this is a reasonable setup? The Karen just ran down one officer and there was no reason to assume she was just going to surrender after that.

This was an ambush that failed for the ambushers. Their intent was to block in ICE long enough to let the criminals they were searching for escape. Everyone involved should be arrested, and they should all face attempted murder charges for one of their number attempted to kill an ICE agent

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 05:29 PM (sKqQm)

304 I never thought white liberal Karens would leapfrog over Islamic terrorists to become the greatest violent threat to western civilization but here we are

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at January 08, 2026 05:29 PM (REq0p)

305 Protect the farmers. Seal off the city roads, interstate, county roads.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 08, 2026 05:29 PM (EyfuW)

306 That might be the troll's most cogent thought ever

I think we all can agree with it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2026 05:29 PM (3Amc7)

307 I demand Jutice like the sign says!

I am putting away Christmas decor into a basement closet. My husband, that sneaky devil, was listening to Megyn Kelly as he had lunch. I said, "I don't like her...AGAIN." And told him why.

I will give credit, she mentioned the cellphone held by the ICE officer and said it will help him vs what is said above by the whiners.She seems to be on the right side for this.

Perfection, Ace, of the wannabe George Floyd eejit grabbing the vest of the LEO photos. At first I was annoyed by all the cameras, then glad as it shows what he did and then pretended to be scared. Like a bad actor in a B movie.

I think it is accurate that the non-working teachers are now living the life fantastic and freezing to protest. Probably paid, regardless.

I wish so much wasn't going on and I could finish the undecor jobs. Plus it's snowing (finally) and I'd rather look at that rare scene of this winter than do chores.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 08, 2026 05:29 PM (WONhk)

308 #8. The shooter will be doxed and his family threatened by leftists, who will cheer this on.


This has already happened, thanks to the local paper the Star Tribune. See, they *can* quickly investigate news.

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at January 08, 2026 05:29 PM (gUs21)

309 People would be smart to follow the wise advise of Chris Rock.

https://tinyurl.com/ysytx6nv

The courts have already settled the question, a car is considered a deadly weapon if it is aimed at a person. Cops will shoot you if you attempt to hit them and they will be found innocent.

Don't like it? Change the law. Until then don't try to run cops over. Not a terribly difficult concept.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 08, 2026 05:29 PM (viF8m)

310 301 Posted by: Ben Had at January 08, 2026 05:28 PM (sDNVV)

If the Feds declare MN to be in a state of insurrection and call for volunteer militias things will change.

Posted by: sven at January 08, 2026 05:29 PM (MUJd1)

311 I don't see Walz putting his body on the line.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 05:27 PM (8Xy/A)

'Leaders' are too important to risk themselves. If something happened to Tim Walz... the manliest man to ever man, a man devoid of weird, a man who dedicated years to performing cleanliness checks on young boys peepees... if something happened to him, how would they recover?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 05:29 PM (ExV1e)

312 The Libs are just "PISSING IN THE WIND".....

A week from now it will the next manufactured Crisis to protest...

Posted by: Jackson at January 08, 2026 05:30 PM (J9q9v)

313 I want one of those pepper spray cannons.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 08, 2026 05:30 PM (WONhk)

314 they are building the myth that she was "defending" communities.

Man, I am so relieved that the left is now against expanding the power of the state.
And horrified at the realization that armed agents of the state can and do kill citizens.

Oh, this just in:
Just the power that they can't use against conservatives and Republicans.
The still want the rest of the machinery to grind up their opposition.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 08, 2026 05:30 PM (HXT0k)

315 309 Posted by: JackStraw at January 08, 2026 05:29 PM (viF8m)

But Jack her right to flee! Her right to assault officers!

I am not even pissed off at the left about their lies they are at least self-serving...what really pisses me off is the Cuck Caucus and NT all-stars up to their 2020 antics.

Posted by: sven at January 08, 2026 05:30 PM (MUJd1)

316 The Israelis did that for a while with silenced .22s, but eventually gave up since the casualty rate was about what they would get if they aimed center mass instead.
I believe they started aiming center mass, but I think they don't advertise that.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 08, 2026 05:24 PM (rbvCR)

and when they were doing that, they were attacked as brutal monsters who were maiming people because they enjoyed inflicting pain, and it wasn't any better for them than just shooting the troublemakers cleanly.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2026 05:30 PM (uWKK8)

317 Other cases (e.g., appellate decisions on vehicular assault) consistently treat cars as dangerous weapons in contexts like drive-by threats, ramming officers, or fleeing while endangering lives.
Posted by: sven

Sven, this was a federal case (supremacy clause applies) and federal law explictly considers trying to assault a law officer with a car as a deadly weapon. Intention does not matter if the whole chain of events is escalating criminal actions leading to an escape. She already had feloniously assaulted another agent whose arm was inside the vehicle trying to stop her after teh verbal orders did not, and then she ate one bullet through the windshield when she hit the other agent.

Whole confrontation was in 20 seconds of less.

She chose poorly.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 05:31 PM (WDjG6)

318 Interesting how in 5.5 years Minneapolis saw St George Floyd, The Somali Pirates, BroFo Congresswoman, the Domestic terrorist yesterday all overseen by Walz who was the VP nominee.

That’s a lot of action for a city nobody ever talked about outside of sports before.

Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 05:31 PM (/HZvU)

319 237 I think the cop had legal basis to shoot but really shouldn't have, she wasn't a threat to him any more. I get it, seconds to respond, adrenaline, fear for your life, and reasonable lethal attempt. And you have seconds or less to respond to someone trying to hit you with a car, who knows what she'd do next. But still, restraint would have served us all better.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

I agree. The fact that the cop was previously dragged by a vehicle makes the whole thing make more sense. I observed last night that it looks like he panicked and committed, which is why he continued shooting through the side window even though she wasn't a threat at that point.

But everything is ultra-polarized now. It is required by the outrage rules that we have an equal but opposite reaction to that of Democrats.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 08, 2026 05:31 PM (1Nv0l)

320 It doesn't matter what she meant to do.

She drove her car at a federal government law enforcement officer, and she got shot for her troubles.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 08, 2026 05:22 PM (n9ltV)

She was not any kind of innocent bystander. She was there to stir up shit, and some of it splashed on her. Tough shit.

Posted by: Poland at January 08, 2026 05:31 PM (8zz6B)

321 I don't see Walz putting his body on the line.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 05:27 PM (8Xy/A)
++++
It's good to be the king.

This is one reason why what we did to Maduro is psychologically important. "You are not off limits because you are in charge" is a good rule.

I'd like to see Walz arrested and thrown in a dungeon for the same reason. "If you're at the top, you're not protected - your the number one objective" is an inversion that is desperately overdue.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2026 05:31 PM (GyQIQ)

322 When you have the legal basis to shoot, shoot, don't talk!

Posted by: Tuco at January 08, 2026 05:31 PM (vFG9F)

323 Rebecca Good is the supposed "wife" of the now dead Renee Good.

How messed up is her life today.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 08, 2026 05:31 PM (2Ez/1)

324 Life Insurance?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 08, 2026 05:32 PM (UQJzP)

325 When you have the legal basis to shoot, shoot, don't talk!
Posted by: Tuco

Fair enough

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2026 05:33 PM (3Amc7)

326 This is madness. Don’t unleash the beast.

You may not like what comes next.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 08, 2026 05:33 PM (1HW+a)

327 She wasn't some soccer mom who had just dropped off the car pool and happened on the scene"

Well, who among us, while driving down an ice and snow covered street, haven't dropped someone off to take pics, then backed up and revved forward, while bouncing said ride off snowbanks and parked cars?

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 05:33 PM (XuXeR)

328 311 I don't see Walz putting his body on the line.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 05:27 PM (8Xy/A)

I would rather have Walz standing in front of me rather than wearing a Kevlar vest when the bullets fly...

Just Sayin......

Posted by: Jackson at January 08, 2026 05:33 PM (J9q9v)

329 er...um...nood

Posted by: DanMan at January 08, 2026 05:33 PM (8uzBS)

330 323 Rebecca Good is the supposed "wife" of the now dead Renee Good.

How messed up is her life today.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 08, 2026 05:31 PM (2Ez/1)

Well a GoFundMe was set up for her and her "son" and it had over 600 thousand dollars in it early this morning.

Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2026 05:33 PM (VE6XX)

331 The angle from down the street showed the agent being hit by car. Subsequent vid shows the agent limping. Not an intelligent move by the lady

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 08, 2026 05:34 PM (ScJGb)

332 Get damn near killed by a illegal then months later have a Lesbian try and run you over see if you don't shoot first

Posted by: Skip at January 08, 2026 05:34 PM (Ia/+0)

333 The Israelis did that for a while with silenced .22s, but eventually gave up since the casualty rate was about what they would get if they aimed center mass instead.
I believe they started aiming center mass, but I think they don't advertise that.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 08, 2026 05:24 PM (rbvCR)

Better to go for a one-shot kill; that way the surrounding survivors may not be able to locate the sniper.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 08, 2026 05:34 PM (8zz6B)

334 No need to 'invade' Minneapolis. Just cordon it off. Closing the airport is a piece of cake; the interstates are not even an issue. Rerouting freight trains will take a little work, but it can be done.

Put on a lid and let it stew. Things will sort themselves out.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 08, 2026 05:34 PM (zdLoL)

335 Well, who among us, while driving down an ice and snow covered street, haven't dropped someone off to take pics, then backed up and revved forward, while bouncing said ride off snowbanks and parked cars?

Just the women.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 08, 2026 05:34 PM (UQJzP)

336 I am so grateful that I live in a "red" State.

None of that nonsense going on here.

Posted by: no one at January 08, 2026 05:34 PM (qFwJc)

337 That’s a lot of action for a city nobody ever talked about outside of sports before."

/ Lutheran services smiles

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 05:35 PM (XuXeR)

338 Rebecca Good is the supposed "wife" of the now dead Renee Good.

How messed up is her life today.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 08, 2026 05:31 PM (2Ez/1)

Given that reports suggest that she's the big time antifa person and 'suggested' to Renee that she should be the one to go for glory, not nearly enough.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 05:35 PM (ExV1e)

339 303 restraint would have served us all better

Another part of this here because I see this a lot, we cannot demand that people in the moment, being attacked by criminals, will make split second decisions that are perfectly media friendly.

Yes in an ideal world her victim jumps aside and the other ICE agents shoot her tires or have a rumble strip setup.
Posted by: 18-1

That is why qualified immunity doctrine was invented by the Rehnquist court in the 80's.

Brown v. US 1921
"On appeal, the Supreme Court disagreed and reversed the lower court's conviction holding “that if a man reasonably believes that he is in immediate danger of death or grievous bodily harm from his assailant he may stand his ground and that if he kills him he has not exceed the bounds of lawful self-defense.”

In writing the opinion, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes stated that “Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife. Therefore, in this Court, at least, it is not a condition of immunity that one in that situation should pause to consider whether a reasonable man might not think it possible to fly with safety or to disable his assailant rather than to kill him.”

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 05:35 PM (WDjG6)

340 I though doxing was illegal.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 08, 2026 05:35 PM (EyfuW)

341 Its not a tv show but ffs have you never seen cops. You go out of your way to get yourself arrested by interferring with cops, you get arrested. You try to run one over you get shot. Must have happened 20 times on COPs.

Posted by: Heavy Sigh at January 08, 2026 05:35 PM (1M7sl)

342 Just the women.
Posted by: Boss Moss"

Touche

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 05:36 PM (XuXeR)

343 And there it is:
"Next Wednesday, we're going to have our general meeting to discuss how to get ICE out of Philly."

Fucking commies and their obsession with general meetings.

This commie lawyer is trying to sputter out names she can't pronounce while pouring as much "I'm about to cry" into her inflection as she can.

LOLGF

You're supposed to be all torn up about all these folks they're claiming were killed by ICE.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 08, 2026 05:36 PM (HXT0k)

344 Given that reports suggest that she's the big time antifa person and 'suggested' to Renee that she should be the one to go for glory, not nearly enough.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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Sounds like a perfect application of the federal felony murder rule. She should be tried for the death of her wife by inciting her to do illegal activities.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 05:36 PM (WDjG6)

345 Civil War. Nope, not going to happen. Anyone see groups of people pushing back on the protestors? Groups defending ICE?
Posted by: Ben Had at January 08, 2026 05:28 PM (sDNVV)

There weren't any groups defending Ft Sumter aside from the US Army.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 08, 2026 05:36 PM (8avO+)

346
Look, I've gotta be fair. The side window is open. Easy to shoot through that into a driver.

That said, I believe we have yet to find out how many bullets even hit her, and which one was the lethal shot -- front or side.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 08, 2026 05:37 PM (EEvvy)

347 340 I though doxing was illegal.
Posted by: thug dolphin

It is. Whoever provided that information and the press reporter can be held in contempt/jail until they release the name is guilty. Put both of them in the hoosegow.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 05:37 PM (WDjG6)

348 317 Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 05:31 PM (WDjG6)

I know Whig, I am pointing out under even MN law it was justified. MS-COW is spreading that Queefe Ellison is stating he somehow "has a case" and deleting corrections. None of this is to say that MN has not proven its enforcement and litigations of law are not unequal in application ask Chauvin or Sarah West and Yusef. You do not have a right to impede Federal officers in the commission of their duties is not a hard thing to wrap your head around.

If we are at the point that the left unilaterally has this right through the willful scofflawing of its citizenry condoned by state and municipal judges and DAs let's go ahead and break up the country because eventually it will lead to blood.

Posted by: sven at January 08, 2026 05:38 PM (MUJd1)

349 Well a GoFundMe was set up for her and her "son" and it had over 600 thousand dollars in it early this morning.
Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2026 05:33 PM (VE6XX)

Go seize that and apply it to the deficit.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 08, 2026 05:38 PM (8avO+)

350 My husband, that sneaky devil, was listening to Megyn Kelly as he had lunch. I said, "I don't like her...AGAIN." And told him why.
------
It's not different than the Carlson thing... if you watch a person shed skin like a snake every few years and emerge as a completely different person, you should recognize them for the centerless grifters they are, and categorically ignore whatever they say.

If they happen to be right about some given topic, it's coincidental to their own interests being served, and it's entirely disingenuous - if they feel saying the exact opposite thing better serves them, they'll say it with seeming conviction the very next day.

It's just not worth the time or effort to hear them out. There are other people who are right (or wrong, for that matter) without being a cheesy fuckin' scammer nobody can trust.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 08, 2026 05:39 PM (BI5O2)

351 Walz threatening to call up the Guard to oppose the FedGov should result in a division of regular army deployed to the Twin Cities.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2026 04:49 PM (GyQIQ)

Cut the power to the city, drop Delta Force from helicopters into the homes of Walz and Frey, arrest them for fomenting riots, Mirandize and extract them for arraignment. Bonus points for losing them somewhere over any of the 10,000 lakes. Oops, oopsie...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 08, 2026 05:39 PM (nbLIj)

352 I don't think she meant to hit him but either way: I don't see her as a monster, just a fool.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Fools often pay the price for their foolishness. This time it was unfortunately fatal. She'd been attempting to block them on several different occasions. When see saw agents surrounding her, her brain did a cortisol dump and she panicked. The problem with being foolish is that consequences are generally only considered in hindsight. I wouldn't consider her a monster. The people who have incited and encouraged the fools are the monsters.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 08, 2026 05:41 PM (vzcgi)

353 Cattle catchers?

Dump trucks with bucket loaders. Lets go full Soylent Green.
Posted by: Anna Puma
.....

Steamrollers. Soylent Green pancakes.

Posted by: wth at January 08, 2026 05:42 PM (UjdFS)

354 At that point after the first shot, she was a fleeing felon and lethal force could be employed.

The rest of Brown says,
"In reviewing the lower court's decision, Justice Holmes noted that there was evidence that Brown fired his last shot after Hermes went down. Brown testified in the lower court that this was an accidental discharge. The Court determined that a person need not lose a self-defense claim if a last shot followed closely to the others during the heat of conflict and if a person believed that he was fighting for his life."

And this was a civilian case. Basically kibitizers about a 2-3 second deadly encounter after a whole afternoon and specifically 20 seconds before the shooting where the driver already committed felony assault among other crimes on one ICE officer (the guy being dragged first), and she tried then to escape by running over another officer who shot her in self defense and to stop the threat of a felony attempted murderer escaping.

The lesson is don't be a douchebag depending on privilege to save your ass.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 05:42 PM (WDjG6)

355 352 I don't think she meant to hit him but either way: I don't see her as a monster, just a fool.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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When you try to obstruct federal officers for a day and get paid to do it, you are no less than a terrorist. And yes, she was a monster of the left's making.

I have no sympathy to give her.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 05:43 PM (WDjG6)

356 355 Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 05:43 PM (WDjG6)

The "sympathy" is why the left can thwart the right when we win and we cannot do shit to the left.

Any non leftist who grants it is a fool, not aimed at you whig.

Posted by: sven at January 08, 2026 05:44 PM (MUJd1)

357 Things are getting spicy, or dicey, I forget. Getting to be glad I live in New Orleans.

Posted by: javems at January 08, 2026 05:48 PM (q6pnv)

358 It's just not worth the time or effort to hear them out. There are other people who are right (or wrong, for that matter) without being a cheesy fuckin' scammer nobody can trust.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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It is like expecting a con artist to run a fair game the next time.

Scorpion and the frog comes to mind.

The con artist works his magic on smart people because they magically fill in the blanks of isolated facts while the dumber people would say, I don't understand. Clever people always fear being found out as wrong and so never absorb new information than what they already have decided is the answer. That is why the con works. Their victims fill in the blanks and then come away persuaded with never seeing the manipulation of facts to make it so.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 05:48 PM (WDjG6)

359 Any non leftist who grants it is a fool, not aimed at you whig.
Posted by: sven

Deep down, a lot of it is fear of confrontation, not virtue. Like what if we lose? Etc. Golden rule only applies to those who don't previously have a history to trying to take advantage of you.

Willingly being fooled the second time is not virtuous. I've had my fill with turning their life around, dindu nuffin, and other excuses used by asswipes and their families.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 05:50 PM (WDjG6)

360 Mirandize and extract them for arraignment. Bonus points for losing them somewhere over any of the 10,000 lakes. Oops, oopsie...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 08, 2026 05:39 PM (nbLIj)

Military courts!

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at January 08, 2026 05:51 PM (GD2xa)

361 Waltz did it. In clearer terms, he asked her to put the bomb vest on.

So she drove.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 08, 2026 05:52 PM (EyfuW)

362 We are a nation split between the law-abiding and the lawless. If that were the sentiment among the civilian population, it would be one thing; the problem is that the constituents are being egged on constantly by their lying government officials. Walz's hyperbole the other day of being "at war" with the Feds is not as far off as I believe his stupid, shortsighted rhetoric had intended.

Posted by: red speck at January 08, 2026 05:53 PM (Ve/HL)

363 25 ICE caught the water-bottle thrower. He's in cuffed and on his way to the pokey.


..down several flights of stairs. (i wish)

Posted by: Nelly at January 08, 2026 05:53 PM (7gpcF)

364
Her poetry would seem to indicate she's not a big fan of Christianity.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 05:19 PM (8Xy/A)

I couldn't read it. Keeping my brain pure! Sort of!

I do see photos of the "lovely" couple and she looks barking mad in the selfies with her handywoman. Who looks a tad trans, but could just be a plain old fashioned butch type.

I assume she took "her" name since they got "married."

I wish I had the ability to see if the mother was the abuser of the 6yo, or if the new mama/daddy was.

I read she lost her first two kids to her first husband due to abuse.

Have read that people who try to avoid CPS move around a lot. He's six. Hoping the parental granfather (second husband who died in 2023) gets custody vs the "wife/widow."

They moved to Canada after Trump won in 2024. Then to MN recently. Prior to that Missouri, as the SUV is registered to Rebecca.

Prior to Missouri, CO (where second husband died).

She had 3 addresses in Virginia (because I found them under her name when last name was Macklin). Graduate of Old Dominion. Unsure what type of degree. Feminist studies? Professional protester? Political science?

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 08, 2026 05:55 PM (WONhk)

365 It is. Whoever provided that information and the press reporter can be held in contempt/jail until they release the name is guilty. Put both of them in the hoosegow.
Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 05:37 PM (WDjG6)

Praying the ICE agent and family are safe. I saw on UK DM it was a FBI agent or "source"(unnamed, of course) who doxxed him.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 08, 2026 05:58 PM (WONhk)

366 *jingle bells*

I'm dreaming of a black martyr
Just like George Floyd from years ago
Where black people riot
And the voters buy it
Not some white dead lesbian schmoe!
...
...

Posted by: Tampon Tim and the Timettes at January 08, 2026 05:58 PM (iJfKG)

367 Take all the box wine away from the state.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 08, 2026 05:59 PM (EyfuW)

368 If you're holding a sign that says "ICE out of MN" you - by definition - are saying "We secede." It's baked into the cake.

Posted by: Acck, ack, ack-ack-ack, aaaaacck! at January 08, 2026 06:04 PM (6k1i1)

369 If Kamikaze Karen cared for her kids, she would be at home with them
Posted by: Anna Puma

Mildly surprised she didn't have them in the car with her.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 08, 2026 06:14 PM (a+4eV)

370 351 Walz threatening to call up the Guard to oppose the FedGov should result in a division of regular army deployed to the Twin Cities. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2026 04:49 PM (GyQIQ)

ANY person in the Nat. guard who follows any such orders from Walz is likely to end up at Leavenworth. Hence, no doubt, most of the Guard would refuse such an order.

The Guard is designed to be a state militia used to SUPPORT the federal government in time of crises, not the opposite. If they oppose the feds, the relevant law simply states the president can federalize the guard, and they must report to him, not Walz. In fact, if I were Trump, I'd point to Walz's clear statement of intent and federalize the guard now, just to clear up any confusion for the soldiers.

After that there is no discussion. Well except one - will Frey and Walz be charged with insurrection and hanged? I'd say no, they are entirely impotent at that point.

I'd then use the guard as crowd/riot control and keep doing the ICE raids. And get a LOT more eager to arrest anyone interfering with federal officers, especially anyone from out of state, who are more likely to be the agitators.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 08, 2026 06:23 PM (0zh1t)

Unexpectedly, US Trade Deficit Plummets to Lowest Level Since Global Depression Year 2009, Shattering "Expert" "Expectations"

Exports rose a solid 2.6% while imports fell 3.2%.

The trade deficit--a measurement by which the cost of a country's imports is worth more than its exports--shrank to $29.4 billion in October, the narrowest gap since June 2009 and a 39% decrease from September ($48.1 billion), the Bureau of Economic Analysis reported.

Imports decreased 3.2% in the month to $331.4 billion from September, while exports jumped 2.6% to $302 billion, according to the agency.

Wall Street expected the trade gap to widen to $60.6 billion, according to FactSet.

The effective tariff rate imposed by the U.S. was 17.9% in October, the highest since 1934, according to the Budget Lab at Yale.

Forbes claims that this shows that Trump's tariffs "disrupted international trade more than expected." That's one way to put it, I guess.


Posted by: Ace at 03:33 PM




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1 The Blade whips it out FIRST

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 03:32 PM (iFTx/)

2 Shocking!

Posted by: Avi at January 08, 2026 03:33 PM (UlHnw)

3 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at January 08, 2026 03:33 PM (LdBR/)

4 What? I was told we were all going to die because of this!

Posted by: Piper at January 08, 2026 03:33 PM (Q9G/L)

5 Waiting on that tariff inflation here, boss.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 08, 2026 03:34 PM (jc0TO)

6 I'm starting to think that some of those experts aren't very good at their jobs.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 03:34 PM (ExV1e)

7 But tariffs cause inflation!!!

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 08, 2026 03:34 PM (HXT0k)

8 so the deficit is being centered?

Posted by: gnats local 678 at January 08, 2026 03:34 PM (CWTWj)

9 I have no strong opinion on this because I don't understand the advantages or disadvantages of trade imbalances.

So, Star Trek...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 03:34 PM (GBKbO)

10 U.S. trade deficit hits $29.4 billion, lowest since 2009



That's less than the Minnesota somali fraud.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 03:35 PM (6mogZ)

11 It could not hold

Posted by: 496 at January 08, 2026 03:35 PM (YpWtw)

12 maybe we should apply tariffs to the obamacare policies that will save the average family 2500 a year

Posted by: gnats local 678 at January 08, 2026 03:35 PM (CWTWj)

13 Howdy Ace!

Posted by: Moonbeam at January 08, 2026 03:36 PM (rbKZ6)

14 Maybe this Trump guy is onto something....

Posted by: brak at January 08, 2026 03:36 PM (jGJov)

15 Wait til they add the recouped bazillions from Somolians and other illegals bleeding the taxpayers dry! Woo hoo!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 08, 2026 03:36 PM (WONhk)

16 >>> 9 I have no strong opinion on this because I don't understand the advantages or disadvantages of trade imbalances.

So, Star Trek...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 03:34 PM (GBKbO)

But you do know that Trump is a big stupid dummy who only has good things happen because he's lucky.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 03:36 PM (ULPxl)

17 UNEXPECTEDLY

Anyone that listens to an expert without skepticism is a fool

Posted by: FDR's TV at January 08, 2026 03:36 PM (Rz6zo)

18 These trade and global economics insta-experts don't really seem to have a good grasp of things, do they?

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 08, 2026 03:36 PM (wVcYX)

19 16 But you do know that Trump is a big stupid dummy who only has good things happen because he's lucky.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 03:36 PM (ULPxl)

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Well, duh.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 03:36 PM (GBKbO)

20 "Experts" = Stupid gay faggots who prowl subways to suck fresh farts out of bench seats

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 03:36 PM (iFTx/)

21 But you do know that Trump is a big stupid dummy who only has good things happen because he's lucky.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket


I'd give my left nut to have his luck.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 03:37 PM (6mogZ)

22 Economists warn stockpile drawdowns may be distorting the data
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In which direction?

Posted by: ... at January 08, 2026 03:37 PM (0Sg1Q)

23 I'm starting to think "experts" is synonymous with "idiots."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 08, 2026 03:37 PM (ESVrU)

24 20 "Experts" = Stupid gay faggots who prowl subways to suck fresh farts out of bench seats

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 03:36 PM (iFTx/)

=====

"Aged farts are superior, but only in fresh oak casks."
-experts

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 03:37 PM (GBKbO)

25 Almost as if Trump and his team understand things like "trade" and "economics."

Unlike the left. That only knows violence and fear as ways to do politics.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 08, 2026 03:37 PM (NwnyJ)

26 Whatever happened I have been assured tariffs are bad.

Posted by: connected and litigious at January 08, 2026 03:37 PM (cS1cw)

27 I'm thinking it's the "experts " who are shattered.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 08, 2026 03:37 PM (2WIwB)

28 LOL, they've mustered about maybe 100 smellies to protest outside some fed facilities in MN.

Lot's of vulgar displays and speech.

You guys are totally winning.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 08, 2026 03:37 PM (HXT0k)

29 WHAT A SHOCK

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 08, 2026 03:37 PM (zjgNU)

30 When the Somalians are deported, does that count toward exports, or as contra imports?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 08, 2026 03:37 PM (Dv3i1)

31 The economic ruin is hiding- just like all the heat of global warming is hiding in the ocean.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 08, 2026 03:38 PM (zZu0s)

32 I'd give my left nut to have his luck.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 03:37 PM (6mogZ)

Been there done that

Posted by: A Schickel at January 08, 2026 03:38 PM (0Sg1Q)

33 yum yum shit
yummy shit pebbles
in my mouth

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at January 08, 2026 03:38 PM (ozAEz)

34 What made me most mad about the whole tariff blow up Is everyone acted like the United States was the only country that ever had a tariff

You go to basically everywhere else in the world and it’s way way worse with tariffs. We just let the rest of the world do this to us without ever fighting back

Posted by: Maroon at January 08, 2026 03:38 PM (JPwyH)

35 Winning

Posted by: garrett at January 08, 2026 03:38 PM (ZcsJV)

36 Unexpected and experts don't seem to go together very well.

If unexpected things keep happening to your projections you aren't an expert.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 08, 2026 03:38 PM (viF8m)

37 I have two neighbors working at two different manufacturing plants that did not get their usual Holiday shut down this year, with one working significant overtime. Tariffs? Maybe.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 08, 2026 03:39 PM (gm9Sb)

38 I was told by the experts that inflation would increase due to the Tariffs

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 08, 2026 03:39 PM (FCrpy)

39 Shut up, turdsnacker.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 08, 2026 03:39 PM (jc0TO)

40 The only thing worse than "experts" now is "authorities".

Posted by: ... at January 08, 2026 03:39 PM (0Sg1Q)

41 Make no mistake, trade deficits represent the outflow of wealth from the country. We send them gold, and they send us tumu consumable crap.

They use that gold to buy our assets, our bonds, our companies and our resources. It is somewhat mitigated when they buy bonds and we then devalue the currency, but that is a one time gain since the more we do that, the lower value the bonds have when sold. (The US has mostly avoided this problem since everyone else in the world is worse and has higher risk. Our money should be as good as gold, but it only slightly better than the other shit fiat currencies.)

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 08, 2026 03:39 PM (bIWgk)

42 Tariffs are bad I am told

Posted by: Skip at January 08, 2026 03:39 PM (Ia/+0)

43 Unexpertedly

Posted by: ... at January 08, 2026 03:39 PM (0Sg1Q)

44 The only thing "experts" seem to be "expert" in is in being wrong about everything.

Wish I could get paid for that kind of "expertise."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 08, 2026 03:40 PM (ESVrU)

45 >>> 43 Unexpertedly
Posted by: ... at January 08, 2026 03:39 PM (0Sg1Q)

I like it.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 03:40 PM (ULPxl)

46
When the Somalians are deported, does that count toward exports, or as contra imports?
Posted by: Chuck Martel

It's a drawdown of the stockpile.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 08, 2026 03:40 PM (pkeXY)

47 Well any good news is a welcoming change.

Posted by: Case at January 08, 2026 03:40 PM (4rWc3)

48 I'd give my left nut to have his luck.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 03:37 PM (6mogZ)

Been there done that
Posted by: A Schickel at January 08, 2026 03:38 PM (0Sg1Q)

Which one is the asymmetrical-sized one?

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 08, 2026 03:40 PM (wVcYX)

49 tarf ah bah

Posted by: Gabby Giffords at January 08, 2026 03:40 PM (6lTeg)

50 This all just proves Trump is a putin stooge, somehow

Posted by: 496 at January 08, 2026 03:40 PM (YpWtw)

51 28 LOL, they've mustered about maybe 100 smellies to protest outside some fed facilities in MN.

Lot's of vulgar displays and speech.

You guys are totally winning.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 08, 2026 03:37 PM (HXT0k)

=======

The 2020 BLM riots worked so well that six states had to shut down ballot counting in the middle of the night to ballot box stuff like Tammany Hall to barely beat Trump in the electoral college after months of mail in ballot fraud.

I just like to remember that from time to time, especially since the act just ended radicalizing Trump and making him more powerful in the end.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 03:40 PM (GBKbO)

52 I kind of almost miss Rainmondo.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 08, 2026 03:40 PM (zZu0s)

53 41 Make no mistake, trade deficits represent the outflow of wealth from the country. We send them gold, and they send us tumu consumable crap.

They use that gold to buy our assets, our bonds, our companies and our resources. It is somewhat mitigated when they buy bonds and we then devalue the currency, but that is a one time gain since the more we do that, the lower value the bonds have when sold. (The US has mostly avoided this problem since everyone else in the world is worse and has higher risk. Our money should be as good as gold, but it only slightly better than the other shit fiat currencies.)
Posted by: bob

I applaud, your insights are far better than what trash they show or print on business news. Would also give Economist writers and international bankers the vapors. They would have fainted that someone rumbled their con.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 03:41 PM (WDjG6)

54 Experts apparently train at the same schools as 'legal observers'

Posted by: 2009Refugee at January 08, 2026 03:41 PM (D4Co6)

55 Not tired of winning ...

Posted by: Martha's Vinyard Refugee Welcoming Committee . . . at January 08, 2026 03:41 PM (3ZUWJ)

56 Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at January 08, 2026 03:38 PM (ozAEz)

If you meet your goal of making enough stupid comments for the day, are you rewarded by being allowed to lick Keir Starmer's wife's bull clean after he services her?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 03:41 PM (ExV1e)

57 I have no strong opinion on this because I don't understand the advantages or disadvantages of trade imbalances.

So, Star Trek...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 03:34 PM (GBKbO)

Most of the advantages/disadvantages are stated in ideal conditions, without regard for ease of capital movement.

MOST economists aren't smart enough to realize that, though, as they were trained this is the answer and don't question it. (Few ever question what is the effect if "ceteris paribus" doesn't hold, because that's a much harder question.)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 08, 2026 03:41 PM (zjgNU)

58 52 I kind of almost miss Rainmondo.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
=====
Why? There are always new fleas to jump aboard. Legion in fact.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 03:41 PM (WDjG6)

59 The only thing "experts" seem to be "expert" in is in being wrong about everything.

Wish I could get paid for that kind of "expertise."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 08, 2026 03:40 PM (ESVrU)

It's a good living.

Posted by: Nobel Winner and Enron Advisor Paul Krugman at January 08, 2026 03:42 PM (wVcYX)

60 all trolls are Average Joe

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 08, 2026 03:42 PM (jc0TO)

61 There is no magic wand you can wave to bring back manufacturing jobs. Those jobs are gone! Never coming back. There will always be a trade deficit.

Posted by: Dog eater at January 08, 2026 03:42 PM (1M7sl)

62 Raimondos never die, they just fade away

Posted by: ... at January 08, 2026 03:42 PM (0Sg1Q)

63 If unexpected things keep happening to your projections you aren't an expert.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 08, 2026 03:38 PM (viF8m)

Based on news reports over the course of my life, I think you've got that backward.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 03:42 PM (ExV1e)

64 Video from Iran sending chills up my spine.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 08, 2026 03:42 PM (RIvkX)

65 That's My President!

Posted by: fd at January 08, 2026 03:42 PM (vFG9F)

66 LinkedIn News is tying itself in knots again to spin every single thing as bad news.

That garbage platform is a class in how to hate the media more. Wish I wasn't required to use it for my work.

It's like DU meets Ellis from Die Hard.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 08, 2026 03:42 PM (Z1MCL)

67 Heh...troll out there saying that 4.6% GDP is a lie.

It is to laugh.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 03:42 PM (GBKbO)

68 I've missed the gabby giffords socks. Nobody does corky anymore and I've missed that too.

Posted by: NCKate at January 08, 2026 03:43 PM (uQzkA)

69 Funny, ain't it, how things work out for someone who follows *real* economics instead of "animal spirits" . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 08, 2026 03:43 PM (wzUl9)

70 THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 08, 2026 03:43 PM (jc0TO)

71 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2026 03:44 PM (Zz0t1)

72 I just like to remember that from time to time, especially since the act just ended radicalizing Trump and making him more powerful in the end.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 03:40 PM (GBKbO)

Counter: thousands of people were imprisoned and tortured from J6. Tons of people lost their jobs. Kids were wrecked psychologically in ways we can't predict.

Before we start the '2020 turned out swell!' Train.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 08, 2026 03:44 PM (zZu0s)

73 MOST economists aren't smart enough to realize that, though, as they were trained this is the answer and don't question it. (Few ever question what is the effect if "ceteris paribus" doesn't hold, because that's a much harder question.)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian

I realized macroeconomics was a bullshit pseudo science back when my degree was in it. Micro is a science and particular areas like Labor economics or Money and Banking produce repeatable results and good predictions.

Macro predictions are like assholes, everyone has one. Ditto for their worthless attempts to quantify everything and accept bad data from bullshit fake and gay countries like Chicoms or EU land.
All ideologically driven answers while ignoring the big questions.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 03:44 PM (WDjG6)

74 TRUMP!!!!!

You magnificent bastard.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2026 03:44 PM (Zz0t1)

75 I was told tariffs would be a disaster.

I was told tariffs would cause inflation.

I was told tariffs would make avocados disappear.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 08, 2026 03:44 PM (RIvkX)

76 Reminder: "Unexpectedly" is a lie. They know what works and what doesn't. They're just on the other team.

Posted by: Part-time Thinker at January 08, 2026 03:44 PM (aVO1v)

77 6 I'm starting to think that some of those experts aren't very good at their jobs.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 03:34 PM (ExV1e)

Heh.

They're *great* at their jobs.

Their job is to be wrong about everything and slap on a veneer of credibility onto the wrongness like cheap formica.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 03:44 PM (06Hmj)

78 You know who else can make an avocado disappear?

Posted by: Barry Soetero at January 08, 2026 03:44 PM (0Sg1Q)

79 67 Heh...troll out there saying that 4.6% GDP is a lie.

It is to laugh.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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They live in Bangladesh.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 03:45 PM (WDjG6)

80 Generally a country that has positive exports has a better economy to put it very simply. But think about Saudi Arabia get very wealthy in the 70's and there ya go.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 08, 2026 03:45 PM (n5tGW)

81 I think it might be time for us to redefine what exactly an economic "expert" is.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 08, 2026 03:45 PM (0N4FZ)

82 Do these retards know what "unexpectedly" means?

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 08, 2026 03:45 PM (XMwZJ)

83 LOL, muzzie rag wearer is out "fighting for her neighbors, this Nazi invasion, that's taking grandmas and grandpas from their places of work and homes."

But not J6, right?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 08, 2026 03:45 PM (HXT0k)

84 75 I was told tariffs would be a disaster.

I was told tariffs would cause inflation.

I was told tariffs would make avocados disappear.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 08, 2026 03:44 PM (RIvkX)

=======

Tariffs: the only government tax/fee that economists think has inflationary effects.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 03:45 PM (GBKbO)

85 The experts have an amazing average. They're wrong 100% of the time.

Posted by: ... at January 08, 2026 03:45 PM (0Sg1Q)

86 62 Raimondos never die, they just fade away
Posted by: ...
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that happens when the paychecks don't clear.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 03:46 PM (WDjG6)

87 You're still going to have to explain why a trade "deficit" is bad. Since it is a number made up by the media to make President Ford (yes Ford) look bad. Why should we care?

Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at January 08, 2026 03:46 PM (P7Iz+)

88 79 67 Heh...troll out there saying that 4.6% GDP is a lie.

It is to laugh.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
=======
They live in Bangladesh.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 03:45 PM (WDjG6)

=======

ASS's IP says NYC. Probably a VPN, though, considering he's been banned multiple times.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 03:46 PM (GBKbO)

89 >>> 83 LOL, muzzie rag wearer is out "fighting for her neighbors, this Nazi invasion, that's taking grandmas and grandpas from their places of work and homes."

But not J6, right?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 08, 2026 03:45 PM (HXT0k)

Um...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 03:46 PM (ULPxl)

90 Economists warn stockpile drawdowns may be distorting the data

Economists also warn that Zuul is angry, and cannot be appeased without virgin sacrifices. Seriously, what use are they?

Posted by: Archimedes at January 08, 2026 03:46 PM (Riz8t)

91 reminds me of a meme I've been sending ever since the Tarriff news came out:

"I'm generally a staunch defender of the economics profession, but the fact that an 80 year old reality show star and his ragtag crew of like 5 alabama university undergrads are running circles around 10 thousand PhD's for like a year now does raise some questions one cannot ignore."

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2026 03:46 PM (uWKK8)

92
Funny, ain't it, how things work out for someone who follows *real* economics instead of "animal spirits" . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 08, 2026 03:43 PM (wzUl9)

--------------

Make Knucklebones Great Again!

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 03:46 PM (IpnJw)

93 The Fox Live Feed for the MN "protests" looks like the media outnumbers the protestors.

Posted by: mrp at January 08, 2026 03:46 PM (rj6Yv)

94 You know who else can make an avocado disappear?
Posted by: Barry Soetero at January 08, 2026 03:44 PM (0Sg1Q)

That's particularly gross

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 08, 2026 03:47 PM (zjgNU)

95 Turn those machines back on!!!!

Posted by: Dog eater at January 08, 2026 03:47 PM (1M7sl)

96 Free trade is more dogma than science.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 08, 2026 03:47 PM (YotdA)

97 Remember, they still consider Paul Krugman an expert.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2026 03:47 PM (Zz0t1)

98 >>> 93 The Fox Live Feed for the MN "protests" looks like the media outnumbers the protestors.
Posted by: mrp at January 08, 2026 03:46 PM (rj6Yv)

Their budget has been slightly reduced over the past year.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 03:47 PM (ULPxl)

99 Without going into detail, my older brother was an "expert" and the last time I spoke to him was an argument over tariffs where he got nasty and attacked me in front of my fiance. This was during the Reagan administration.

I could not argue back since I was not going to drop to his level, and he was my parent's favorite and I had grown up getting beaten up by him, and then if I cried out my father would show up with the belt to finish the job. (My father just wanted peace and quiet.)

He was an econ grad and according to him, I was a fucking moron for thinking tariffs are good and deficits are bad.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 08, 2026 03:48 PM (bIWgk)

100
Our money should be as good as gold, but it only slightly better than the other shit fiat currencies.


Fiat-based economies are idiotic. Do you know how difficult it is to stuff your wallet with Fiat 124s?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 08, 2026 03:48 PM (y9nCu)

101 BTW James, economists don't think tariffs cause inflation. That's a straw man argument. Tariffs increase cost while inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.

Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at January 08, 2026 03:48 PM (P7Iz+)

102 You know who else can make an avocado disappear?
Posted by: Barry Soetero at January 08, 2026 03:44 PM (0Sg1Q)



*fistbump*

Posted by: Robert Francis Beto O'rourk at January 08, 2026 03:48 PM (Zz0t1)

103 Why do we care about trade deficit instead of federal debt, employment and CPI? if we just tanked the US dollar we could bring the trade deficit to a surplus

It turns out that when people can't afford to buy things they don't buy as many things. Elon literally jumped around on stage like a dipsh1t telling Americans they were going to have to buy less stuff and accept austerity and a lower standard of living.

This seems ominous. The US prints its own currency and sells things in its currency — it imports stuff and exports *inflation*. Inflation is still here so this means Americans will bear more of the brunt while the world stops using dollars as a reserve currency.

As a european, the thing that really terrifies me in this case is that US once upon a time promised the world they will be a stable and reliable partner as a reserve currency printer, and now not only is the current administration destroying the world order US build for itself, it seems to be heading into a full economic collapse which in turn will make the 2008 world financial crisis look like a cake party.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 08, 2026 03:48 PM (ycI94)

104 >>>The Blade whips it out FIRST

That's what you do for all the guys.

Posted by: Max Power at January 08, 2026 03:48 PM (SwyyQ)

105 You're still going to have to explain why a trade "deficit" is bad. Since it is a number made up by the media to make President Ford (yes Ford) look bad. Why should we care?
Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at January 08, 2026 03:46 PM (P7Iz+)

The additional monetary outflow is used to employ people in the other country and allow the other country to purchase things in this country (like politicians). This, in turn, leads to more employment loss in this country and more tax dollars flowing elsewhere to help other people.

So... their country gets better and ours gets worse.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 03:48 PM (ExV1e)

106
I have no strong opinion on this because I don't understand the advantages or disadvantages of trade imbalances.

So, Star Trek...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

=============

Same here, so the things I read confuse me.

>>the finds that manufacturing employment has contracted for nine consecutive months. The Bureau of Labor Statistics, even with the chill that came from for producing “biased” numbers, reports that there are in manufacturing today than when Trump took office and 67,000 fewer since Liberation Day in April. Even more alarming, job openings in manufacturing have in the same time span. Not only are there fewer jobs in manufacturing today, but there is less opportunity, too.

the beloved steel industry? cut 1,200 jobs in Michigan and Minnesota. announced that it was shuttering its mill in Illinois, though, thanks to a deal they signed with the Trump administration, the 800 workers will remain employed through 2027. In other words, US Steel is losing so much money by making steel that it’s cheaper for them to pay their workers not to do so.

There's more...

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 08, 2026 03:48 PM (Uo+RY)

107 Our money should be as good as gold, but it only slightly better than the other shit fiat currencies

Better, if we can wrangle Psyche into our orbit.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 08, 2026 03:48 PM (gKWVE)

108 101 BTW James, economists don't think tariffs cause inflation. That's a straw man argument. Tariffs increase cost while inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.

Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at January 08, 2026 03:48 PM (P7Iz+)

=======

Oh, I can pull quotes from economists who said it over the past year.

Because their partisanship overtook their academic concerns.

No True Economist, though, I'm sure.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 03:48 PM (GBKbO)

109 Now check the countries we have a trade deficit with and start knocking off $1million/day for every one of their citizens here who have overstayed their visas.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at January 08, 2026 03:49 PM (vBrmG)

110 The CNBC 'shocked' tweet is a little misleading, in that the person who delivered the news is Rick Santelli, longtime CNBC on-air personality.

That name should ring a bell for many in the Horde, because it was his impassioned commentary around TARP in 2008 that gave the TEA Party its name.

If he was 'shocked' over the numbers, it's because he's super happy over them. He's one of ours.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 08, 2026 03:49 PM (0CU3H)

111 Whammy!

>>@agusantonetti
·
3h
>>Translated from Spanish
🇻🇪‼️— The Venezuelan dictatorship has just announced that, starting from this moment, they will begin releasing political prisoners from the torture centers.

>>Venezuelan and foreign political prisoners. Historic moment.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 08, 2026 03:49 PM (viF8m)

112 reminds me of a meme I've been sending ever since the Tarriff news came out:

"I'm generally a staunch defender of the economics profession, but the fact that an 80 year old reality show star and his ragtag crew of like 5 alabama university undergrads are running circles around 10 thousand PhD's for like a year now does raise some questions one cannot ignore."
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2026 03:46 PM (uWKK

Good economists generally don't make the pronouncements that end up in headlines.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 08, 2026 03:49 PM (zjgNU)

113
Experts: We thought you were dead

The Economy: I got better

Posted by: ... at January 08, 2026 03:49 PM (0Sg1Q)

114 85 The experts have an amazing average. They're wrong 100% of the time.
Posted by: ...
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In macro, we simply do not have the capacity to build world economies with predictive models. So they simply make up shit to describe what they see at any moment as eternally true.

So these models fail to predict (if I predict a ball will run downhill, I can keep doing it until I get tired of replicating the original result--physics is a science) and cannot be replicated in different societies, different eras, etc. The usual excuse is some sort of cosmological economic constant is to blame.

I look forward to even worse models coming forth when idiots use AI to try to analyze econometric models. Garbage theory, garbage data, garbage results.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 03:49 PM (WDjG6)

115 So far, I've only seen white protestors. The usual sort.

Posted by: mrp at January 08, 2026 03:49 PM (rj6Yv)

116 103 As a european, the thing that really terrifies me in this case is that US once upon a time promised the world they will be a stable and reliable partner as a reserve currency printer, and now not only is the current administration destroying the world order US build for itself, it seems to be heading into a full economic collapse which in turn will make the 2008 world financial crisis look like a cake party.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 08, 2026 03:48 PM (ycI94)

=======

Translation:

Germany is going to have to tank its entire welfare state to pay for an army soon.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 03:49 PM (GBKbO)

117 LOL, muzzie rag wearer is out "fighting for her neighbors, this Nazi invasion, that's taking grandmas and grandpas from their places of work and homes."

But not J6, right?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 08, 2026 03:45 PM (HXT0k)


Funny, considering the muzzie rag wearer is a lot closer to the Nazi than ICE is.

Posted by: Robert Francis Beto O'rourk at January 08, 2026 03:50 PM (Zz0t1)

118 Well shit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2026 03:50 PM (Zz0t1)

119 I won’t know what to make of this until I hear from Emmy award winning Paul Krugman.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 08, 2026 03:50 PM (1HW+a)

120 >>> 101 BTW James, economists don't think tariffs cause inflation. That's a straw man argument. Tariffs increase cost while inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.
Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at January 08, 2026 03:48 PM (P7Iz+)

The "experts" on teewee, whatever their official jobs titles, were shrieking about tariff-driven inflation as soon as OrangeManBad started talking about them. There were also many commenters here expressing concerns about the same.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 03:50 PM (ULPxl)

121 You know who else can make an avocado disappear?
Posted by: Barry Soetero

Turns out, the number is surprisingly large.

Posted by: Emergency rooms worldwide at January 08, 2026 03:51 PM (Riz8t)

122 I'm beginning to think that economists are full of shit

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 08, 2026 03:51 PM (ScJGb)

123 Didn't Thomas Sowell say that inflation is caused by one thing and one thing only?

Government f*cking spending.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2026 03:51 PM (Zz0t1)

124 For far too long "free trade" has meant America takes it up the ass from the protectionist and internal subsidization policies of every single other country in the world without doing anything about it, then begging for more, daddy, because we've been bad. Finally we get someone in office to clench the cheeks, pull up the pants, and start fucking back.

Posted by: If you resist forcible sodomy you're a Nazi!!!! at January 08, 2026 03:51 PM (TbWk/)

125 120 >>> 101 BTW James, economists don't think tariffs cause inflation. That's a straw man argument. Tariffs increase cost while inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.
Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at January 08, 2026 03:48 PM (P7Iz+)

The "experts" on teewee, whatever their official jobs titles, were shrieking about tariff-driven inflation as soon as OrangeManBad started talking about them. There were also many commenters here expressing concerns about the same.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 03:50 PM (ULPxl)

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Jerome Powell, Chair of the Fed, said for 3 quarters in a row that he couldn't lower interest rates because of inflation from tariffs.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 03:51 PM (GBKbO)

126 Free trade is more dogma than science.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 08, 2026 03:47 PM (YotdA)

It is, for the reasons I listed.

Economic analysis says it's nothing but win-win.

The free-traders don't ever look into the assumptions that underpin that analysis, so it is taken as gospel writ.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 08, 2026 03:51 PM (zjgNU)

127 I'm generally a staunch defender of the economics profession, but the fact that an 80 year old reality show star and his ragtag crew of like 5 alabama university undergrads are running circles around 10 thousand PhD's for like a year now does raise some questions one cannot ignore."
==
The is an underlying reality that the phd dont factor in. When the imbalance is so horrific, there is no downside. It wont get worse when the only change that is possible is improvement. It either stays the same, shitty, or gets better. Trump who has been at rock bottom, more than once, has lived this axiom. He is the right man for the job. No doubt.

Posted by: Donnie two scoops got game at January 08, 2026 03:52 PM (1M7sl)

128 "I'm generally a staunch defender of the economics profession, but the fact that an 80 year old reality show star and his ragtag crew of like 5 alabama university undergrads are running circles around 10 thousand PhD's for like a year now does raise some questions one cannot ignore."
Posted by: Tom Servo

Modern economists were never trained other than tariffs bad, global flows good. There is a whole era where we had very good data in the late 1890's and through the 1940's of tariff effects. These were ignored in favor of the fake story that Smoot Hawley tariffs caused the Great Depression. Instead, it was their beloved FDR who could not stop interfering with the economy when it tried to recover.

He and his cast of expert idiots were to blame.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 03:52 PM (WDjG6)

129 Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 03:49 PM (WDjG6)

I dunno. If you train an AI to say the opposite of the experts every time, you would have the smartest computer in the world.

Posted by: ... at January 08, 2026 03:52 PM (0Sg1Q)

130 So far, I've only seen white protestors. The usual sort.
Posted by: mrp at January 08, 2026 03:49 PM (rj6Yv)


Blacks don't like the cold and Somali's are terrified they'll be rounded up and deported, being illegal.

It's up to fat, liberal white women to carry the torch.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2026 03:52 PM (Zz0t1)

131 123 Didn't Thomas Sowell say that inflation is caused by one thing and one thing only?

Government f*cking spending.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2026 03:51 PM (Zz0t1)

======

Well, really, the Fed's printing of money, mostly M2 currency supplies. If the Fed didn't print the money to pay for the spending from Congress, there'd be no inflation, just IOUs.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 03:52 PM (GBKbO)

132 reminds me of a meme I've been sending ever since the Tarriff news came out:

"I'm generally a staunch defender of the economics profession, but the fact that an 80 year old reality show star and his ragtag crew of like 5 alabama university undergrads are running circles around 10 thousand PhD's for like a year now does raise some questions one cannot ignore."

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2026 03:46 PM (uWKK

--------------

All I learned about Economics was all I needed to -- and in the first five minutes of my first Econ class:

. Human Nature (Incentive & Disenctive) Never Changes;
. Supply & Demand; and if fortunate
. The Luxury of Freedom and Free Markets (which we've never had in this country yet, unfortunately -- but pretty much better than every other nation).

YMMV

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 03:52 PM (IpnJw)

133 I just got home so don't know if this has been discussed but apparently Tehran is on fire.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2026 03:52 PM (t/2Uw)

134 >>> 125

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Jerome Powell, Chair of the Fed, said for 3 quarters in a row that he couldn't lower interest rates because of inflation from tariffs.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 03:51 PM (GBKbO)

Chair of the Fed != Economist.

Posted by: Snopes EXPERTS! at January 08, 2026 03:53 PM (ULPxl)

135 Experts don't think tariffs are bad. They think tariffs by Republicans are bad. Tariffs by Democrats are good.

Posted by: ... at January 08, 2026 03:53 PM (0Sg1Q)

136 133 I just got home so don't know if this has been discussed but apparently Tehran is on fire.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2026 03:52 PM (t/2Uw)

Kebab roast time!

Posted by: Or whatever they eat over there at January 08, 2026 03:53 PM (TbWk/)

137 133 I just got home so don't know if this has been discussed but apparently Tehran is on fire.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2026 03:52 PM (t/2Uw)
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4 alarm fire?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at January 08, 2026 03:53 PM (36PRH)

138 Jerome Powell, Chair of the Fed, said for 3 quarters in a row that he couldn't lower interest rates because of inflation from tariffs.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 03:51 PM (GBKbO)

Yeah, that wasn't economic analysis, that was lame excuses to try to keep Trump from having a growing economy.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 08, 2026 03:54 PM (zjgNU)

139 I just got home so don't know if this has been discussed but apparently Tehran is on fire.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2026 03:52 PM (t/2Uw)


Well, them following the California example, there's no water available to put them out, so.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2026 03:54 PM (Zz0t1)

140 The President of Austria previews the future of Austria, and its accommodation to Austria's new rulers:

“With increasing Islamophobia - the day will come where we have to ask ALL Women to wear a head scarf to show solidarity with those who do so for religious reasons”

Less than half the first graders in Vienna speak German, and 41% of the school kids in Vienna are Muslim.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 08, 2026 03:54 PM (nlTPx)

141 It's up to fat, liberal white women to carry the torch.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2026 03:52 PM (Zz0t1)

-------------

So you're saying we can expect Michael Moore to appear?

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 03:54 PM (IpnJw)

142 I won’t know what to make of this until I hear from Emmy award winning Paul Krugman.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 08, 2026 03:50 PM (1HW+a)

See me at #59

Posted by: Nobel Winner and Enron Advisor Paul Krugman at January 08, 2026 03:54 PM (wVcYX)

143 >>> 137 133 I just got home so don't know if this has been discussed but apparently Tehran is on fire.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2026 03:52 PM (t/2Uw)
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4 alarm fire?
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at January 08, 2026 03:53 PM (36PRH)

FIVE alarms! It's a FIVE ALARM FIRE!!!

Posted by: Alexandria Occasional-Cortex at January 08, 2026 03:54 PM (ULPxl)

144 >As a european, the thing that really terrifies me in this case is that US once upon a time promised the world they will be a stable and reliable partner as a reserve currency printer, and now not only is the current administration destroying the world order US build for itself, it seems to be heading into a full economic collapse which in turn will make the 2008 world financial crisis look like a cake party.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 08, 2026 03:48 PM (ycI94)

It's amazing that so many people are experts at so many things. I guess I'm just a windowlicker that admits I don't know what I don't know.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 08, 2026 03:54 PM (NgqoH)

145 Atlanta Fed is predicting 5+% GDP growth for Q4 now.

All while, again, we're going to have net out-migration and probably an outright decline in population.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 03:54 PM (GBKbO)

146 It's almost like Trump knows what he's doing. So weird.

Posted by: Peaches at January 08, 2026 03:54 PM (VyqMH)

147 Being a moron, I have always thought that trade imbalances reflected the problem of manufacturing of all manner of goods outsourced to foreign countries was a bad thing. It essentially gutted our industries, costing jobs and tax revenues, with the added problem of enriching other counries ( many of whom are not our friends) and while sending our currency abroad.
But, I am a moron.

Posted by: tubal at January 08, 2026 03:55 PM (pDt9x)

148
Oh, no! Our expert economists were wrong!

How could that happen?

How I ask!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at January 08, 2026 03:55 PM (iJfKG)

149
The President of Austria previews the future of Austria, and its accommodation to Austria's new rulers:

“With increasing Islamophobia - the day will come where we have to ask ALL Women to wear a head scarf to show solidarity with those who do so for religious reasons”

Posted by: The ARC of History!

==============

ayfkm? Did this really happen?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 08, 2026 03:55 PM (Uo+RY)

150 Atlanta Fed is predicting 5+% GDP growth for Q4 now.

All while, again, we're going to have net out-migration and probably an outright decline in population.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 03:54 PM (GBKbO)
_______

THE ECONOMY IS OVERHEATING! IT'S GOING INTO MELTDOWN! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 03:56 PM (iFTx/)

151 Wait, if that dude's records don't go back far enough, doesn't that mean that the trade deficit is at an all-time low? It works that way for temperatures and hurricanes...

Posted by: Octochicken at January 08, 2026 03:56 PM (oCS0o)

152 103 Why do we care about trade deficit instead of federal debt, employment and CPI? if we just tanked the US dollar we could bring the trade deficit to a surplus

--------------
Debt is the US spending (consuming) more than it produces. IE, trade deficits.

Employment is people out of work because some slave factory environmental disaster site in China can produce the same stuff cheaper.

CPI is not just cost of a product, but how affordable it is and if the company where you work is owned by the Chinese (using that cash we sent them for crap) and all the high value add steps are done in China, you job is shit and you can't afford anything.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 08, 2026 03:56 PM (bIWgk)

153 >>> 149
The President of Austria previews the future of Austria, and its accommodation to Austria's new rulers:

“With increasing Islamophobia - the day will come where we have to ask ALL Women to wear a head scarf to show solidarity with those who do so for religious reasons”

Posted by: The ARC of History!

==============

ayfkm? Did this really happen?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 08, 2026 03:55 PM (Uo+RY)

We can't keep up.

Posted by: Babylon Bee at January 08, 2026 03:56 PM (ULPxl)

154 Modern economists were never trained other than tariffs bad, global flows good. There is a whole era where we had very good data in the late 1890's and through the 1940's of tariff effects. These were ignored in favor of the fake story that Smoot Hawley tariffs caused the Great Depression. Instead, it was their beloved FDR who could not stop interfering with the economy when it tried to recover.

He and his cast of expert idiots were to blame.
Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 03:52 PM (WDjG6)

Give me a one-handed economist.

Posted by: Harry S Truman at January 08, 2026 03:56 PM (wVcYX)

155 I've missed the gabby giffords socks. Nobody does corky anymore and I've missed that too.
Posted by: NCKate
......

We don't need Corky when we have Tim Walz.

Posted by: wth at January 08, 2026 03:56 PM (v0R5T)

156 So no one is interested in buying slightly used Somalis?

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 08, 2026 03:56 PM (pLaQB)

157
So you're saying we can expect Michael Moore to appear?
Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 03:54 PM (IpnJw)


Last I heard, they were still working on the portal and crane setup to get him out of his bedroom.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2026 03:56 PM (Zz0t1)

158 Economics is the art of plausibly explaining what already happened. It sucks balls at predicting what will happen on any basis less than very long term. ie you can't borrow money forever etc.

With billions of independent actors in the market, the information problem is real.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 08, 2026 03:56 PM (jc0TO)

159 And the only reason we know that Tehran is on fire is because Elon managed to sneak Starlinks into Iran. It looks like this has escalated and may truly be the end of the Ayatollah. This is all because of Trump's daring moves on Iran, supporting Israel taking out Iran's proxies and grabbing Maduro.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2026 03:56 PM (t/2Uw)

160 I just got home so don't know if this has been discussed but apparently Tehran is on fire.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2026 03:52 PM (t/2Uw)

I understand that the wording of this question is odd but... in a good way or a bad way?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 03:56 PM (ExV1e)

161 I've missed the gabby giffords socks. Nobody does corky anymore and I've missed that too.
Posted by: NCKate
......



I do sock the Corkster on occasion.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2026 03:57 PM (Zz0t1)

162 Tariffs are not a one fit all cause and effect.

Tariffs can be misused and cause an economic disaster. But when used properly to sustain fair trade things seem to work out positive for the most part.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 08, 2026 03:57 PM (KDPiq)

163 change is coming quickly to Iran

very fast

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 08, 2026 03:57 PM (emBoF)

164 Please G-d Lord of the Universe, restore Iran to the righteousness of Cyrus

Posted by: gKWVE at January 08, 2026 03:57 PM (gKWVE)

165 Didn't Thomas Sowell say that inflation is caused by one thing and one thing only?

Government f*cking spending.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2026 03:51 PM (Zz0t1)


Well, it makes sense, right? Without government devaluing the currency by printing more, you would nkt have the inflationary phenomenon.

Although, you have to wonder: could a non Fiat currency survive in today's world of fiat currencies?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 08, 2026 03:57 PM (zZu0s)

166 160 I just got home so don't know if this has been discussed but apparently Tehran is on fire.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2026 03:52 PM (t/2Uw)

I understand that the wording of this question is odd but... in a good way or a bad way?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 03:56 PM (ExV1e)

It will burn brightly for a long time. No water.

Posted by: tubal at January 08, 2026 03:58 PM (pDt9x)

167
The Blade whips it out FIRST

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 03:32 PM (iFTx/)


"Sir, this is Waffle House....Carry on."

Posted by: naturalfake at January 08, 2026 03:58 PM (iJfKG)

168 160 I just got home so don't know if this has been discussed but apparently Tehran is on fire.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2026 03:52 PM (t/2Uw)

=====

Because our 300,000 troops we had to send after the bombing of Fordow finally reached the city?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 03:58 PM (GBKbO)

169 I do sock the Corkster

Willie Brown calls this something else

Posted by: gKWVE at January 08, 2026 03:58 PM (gKWVE)

170 Being a moron, I have always thought that trade imbalances reflected the problem of manufacturing of all manner of goods outsourced to foreign countries was a bad thing. It essentially gutted our industries, costing jobs and tax revenues, with the added problem of enriching other counries ( many of whom are not our friends) and while sending our currency abroad.
But, I am a moron.
==
That giant sucking sound you hear is .... not coming from the Cli ton bedroom

Posted by: Ross big ears at January 08, 2026 03:58 PM (1M7sl)

171 Less than half the first graders in Vienna speak German, and 41% of the school kids in Vienna are Muslim.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 08, 2026 03:54 PM (nlTPx)

Not quite to "conquered" status, but the siege of Vienna is almost over now that the musselmen aggressors are conquering it from the inside this time.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 08, 2026 03:58 PM (zjgNU)

172 I just got home so don't know if this has been discussed but apparently Tehran is on fire.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2026 03:52 PM

Too bad they have run out of water.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 08, 2026 03:58 PM (jc0TO)

173 The free-traders don't ever look into the assumptions that underpin that analysis, so it is taken as gospel writ.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian

Ricardian vice. Ricardo was not an economic thinker but primarily a speculator and lobbyist. At the time, England had the Corn laws (really wheat but Brits are weird), that restricted importation of grain because England needed to feed itself and the rural MPs were from agricultural districts favoring protecting this industry.

Industrialists wanted cheaper food so as to pay their workers less and the bien pensant lobbies wanted cheaper food as well. So Ricardo jimmied up his examples to both lobby Parliament and to produce a public backswell using his comparative advantage model. Cloth and wine, Portugal and England.

The real aim was critquing the Corn Laws but by mentioning cloth (England was the king of textiles then) and wine (English wine?) it flew past normal critics.

In a multidimensional world of raw materials, goods, processes, etc. it gets complicated very fast, add in national defense, more so, add in other key factors like labor/capital mobility, even more so.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 03:58 PM (WDjG6)

174 As a european, the thing that really terrifies me in this case is that US once upon a time promised the world they will be a stable and reliable partner as a reserve currency printer, and now not only is the current administration destroying the world order US build for itself, it seems to be heading into a full economic collapse which in turn will make the 2008 world financial crisis look like a cake party.

Interesting choice of words.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 03:58 PM (ExV1e)

175 17 UNEXPECTEDLY

Anyone that listens to an expert without skepticism is a fool
Posted by: FDR's TV

Read a couple of articles regarding the TD reduction this morning. Both authors implied this might be a harbinger of a coming recession. Their analysis was on par with a C- paper in a Community College Econ 101 class. I put the econ experts in the same class as weather forecasters, basically a tribe of chimps at the Golden Corral.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 08, 2026 03:58 PM (vzcgi)

176 The President of Austria previews the future of Austria, and its accommodation to Austria's new rulers:

“With increasing Islamophobia - the day will come where we have to ask ALL Women to wear a head scarf to show solidarity with those who do so for religious reasons”

Posted by: The ARC of History!
.......

Beauty salons in Austria hardest hit.

Posted by: wth at January 08, 2026 03:59 PM (v0R5T)

177 3-Alarm, 4-Alarm, and 5-Alarm chili is rather tasty.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 08, 2026 03:59 PM (wVcYX)

178 Speaking of economic experts. I started options trading Oct 20 of last year. I'm up 12.45% as of yesterday. I've made a bit over $3K in that time. Not big money, but it compounds over time. Assuming I can keep it up, of course.

I'm following the Wheel method.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 08, 2026 03:59 PM (Yp6az)

179 172 I just got home so don't know if this has been discussed but apparently Tehran is on fire.
Posted by: Sharon

Mullahs are to blame for all of their misrule, corruption, and murders that need to be paid for by their lives, liberties, and blood by the people of Iran.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 03:59 PM (WDjG6)

180 https://tinyurl.com/yc73tvhr

Not only Tehran but also Shiraz. Th e revolution has begun. The building a burning are government buildings which they want to burn down because there is no water.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2026 03:59 PM (t/2Uw)

181 ayfkm? Did this really happen?

In 2017, apparently.

The President of Austria apparently **was** ahead of his time...

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 08, 2026 04:00 PM (nlTPx)

182 “With increasing Islamophobia - the day will come where we have to ask ALL Women to wear a head scarf to show solidarity with those who do so for religious reasons”

------------

Can mandatory clitorectomies be far behind?

"National suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
And Austrians can smite it if they please."

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 04:00 PM (IpnJw)

183 159 And the only reason we know that Tehran is on fire is because Elon managed to sneak Starlinks into Iran. It looks like this has escalated and may truly be the end of the Ayatollah. This is all because of Trump's daring moves on Iran, supporting Israel taking out Iran's proxies and grabbing Maduro.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2026 03:56 PM (t/2Uw)

We're certainly not going to get this news from CNN. It's nowhere on their website. I wonder if Tony Dukopil is going to mention it tonight.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 08, 2026 04:00 PM (0CU3H)

184 175 17 UNEXPECTEDLY

Anyone that listens to an expert without skepticism is a fool
Posted by: FDR's TV

Read a couple of articles regarding the TD reduction this morning. Both authors implied this might be a harbinger of a coming recession. Their analysis was on par with a C- paper in a Community College Econ 101 class. I put the econ experts in the same class as weather forecasters, basically a tribe of chimps at the Golden Corral.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 08, 2026 03:58 PM (vzcgi)

=====

Posit:

All dominant economic thinking is based on a mode of government stewardship of the economy that is no longer valid because Trump is changing so much, therefore their conclusions are going to be unexpectedly terrible until the conventional wisdom changes with the times.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 04:00 PM (GBKbO)

185 178 Speaking of economic experts. I started options trading Oct 20 of last year. I'm up 12.45% as of yesterday. I've made a bit over $3K in that time. Not big money, but it compounds over time. Assuming I can keep it up, of course.

I'm following the Wheel method.
Posted by: bonhomme

Hope you continue to have good luck. Just avoid leverage unless you got house money to lose.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 04:00 PM (WDjG6)

186 Speaking of economic experts. I started options trading Oct 20 of last year. I'm up 12.45% as of yesterday. I've made a bit over $3K in that time. Not big money, but it compounds over time. Assuming I can keep it up, of course.

I'm following the Wheel method.
Posted by: bonhomme at January 08, 2026 03:59 PM

I am trying to study up on option trading but it gives me a headache.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 08, 2026 04:00 PM (jc0TO)

187 Re: national debt

If anybody has input on national spending it is the US house of representatives, then confirmed by the senate and either vetoed or granted by the president.

We need to claw back the wealth of politicians that enabled the debt. To think MTG gets a pension that will set her for life for having less than two terms or Biden getting half a million after all the destruction he caused...

Posted by: DanMan at January 08, 2026 04:01 PM (8uzBS)

188 With billions of independent actors in the market, the information problem is real.
Posted by: toby928(c)

And the rational model of humans in some economics isn't based on actual human behavior. And all models suck 99/100. And...

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 08, 2026 04:01 PM (mlg/3)

189 Please G-d Lord of the Universe, restore Iran to the righteousness of Cyrus
Posted by: gKWVE at January 08, 2026 03:57 PM (gKWVE)

Ugh. Every time I play Civilization, that guy turns into a PITA.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 04:01 PM (ExV1e)

190 The sad part to me is even if we had great inflows into this country economically, the politicians would never think about reducing debt, they'd just spend more somolians. We would never have anything like a "Saudi Wealth Fund"

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 08, 2026 04:01 PM (n5tGW)

191 I'd prefer the government buildings were taken over and their records seized so that the people know who the rats are.
As with the Stasi.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 08, 2026 04:01 PM (gKWVE)

192 LOL, the smellies have a barricade of old pallets, a discarded Christmas tree, and some traffic barrels.

Some fag (really) is leading the chanting:
Say it once!
Say it twice!
We will not put with ICE!

That's really rousing the crowd.

Calling them (ICE) terrible Americans.
Oof. That will leave a mark.

Now saying something about their mothers.
And that they should have been aborted.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 08, 2026 04:01 PM (HXT0k)

193 172 I just got home so don't know if this has been discussed but apparently Tehran is on fire.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2026 03:52 PM

Too bad they have run out of water.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 08, 2026 03:58 PM (jc0TO)

I feel you, T.

Posted by: Karen Bass at January 08, 2026 04:02 PM (0CU3H)

194 Not only Tehran but also Shiraz. Th e revolution has begun. The building a burning are government buildings which they want to burn down because there is no water.
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Well, that could escalate quickly.

Posted by: FIRE MARSHALL BILL at January 08, 2026 04:02 PM (1M7sl)

195 Every time I play Civilization, that guy [Cyrus II] turns into a PITA.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Tell me about it!

Posted by: Croesus of Lydia at January 08, 2026 04:02 PM (gKWVE)

196 Although, you have to wonder: could a non Fiat currency survive in today's world of fiat currencies?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 08, 2026 03:57 PM (zZu0s)

It could, but the people would have to adjust to a deflationary currency.

Things like having to pay the bank to use bank accounts, lack of incentive to make loans, etc...

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 08, 2026 04:02 PM (zjgNU)

197 It's come out that Jacob "Communist-Minnesota" Frey's wife is the legal counsel for one of the fraudulent Somali "charities".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 08, 2026 04:02 PM (IG3/x)

198 I just got home so don't know if this has been discussed but apparently Tehran is on fire.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2026 03:52 PM (t/2Uw)

Assume a full reservoir . . .

Posted by: Nobel Winner and Enron Advisor Paul Krugman at January 08, 2026 04:02 PM (wVcYX)

199 Oh, no! Our expert economists were wrong!

How could that happen?

How I ask!!!

Posted by: naturalfake
......

I don't know. It's like Math or something.

Posted by: wth at January 08, 2026 04:02 PM (v0R5T)

200 >>> 191 I'd prefer the government buildings were taken over and their records seized so that the people know who the rats are.
As with the Stasi.
Posted by: gKWVE at January 08, 2026 04:01 PM (gKWVE)

We need that *here*.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 04:02 PM (ULPxl)

201 Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 08, 2026 04:01 PM (n5tGW)

The State of Texas Rainy Day Fund.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 08, 2026 04:02 PM (KDPiq)

202 Forbes claims that this shows that Trump's tariffs "disrupted international trade more than expected." That's one way to put it, I guess.

—

Lol.

I went on a diet.
I lost 20 lbs.

Forbes: the diet disrupted my eating consumption more than expected

Uhm yah that’s kinda the point dumbass.

Man when did that magazine because just a mouthpiece for China?

Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 04:03 PM (/HZvU)

203 I put the econ experts in the same class as weather forecasters, basically a tribe of chimps at the Golden Corral.
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Does Golden Corral still have Chocolate Fountain?

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 08, 2026 04:03 PM (pLaQB)

204 Also "stunning" the genius economic "experts Atlanta Fed has GDP growth at +5.4%. AN almost vertical line on the GDP growth chart.

Experts wrong again... and again... and again.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 08, 2026 04:03 PM (xvV+O)

205 > Hope you continue to have good luck. Just avoid leverage unless you got house money to lose.

No leverage. I started with cash and only using that account.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 08, 2026 04:03 PM (Yp6az)

206 >>> 197 It's come out that Jacob "Communist-Minnesota" Frey's wife is the legal counsel for one of the fraudulent Somali "charities".
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 08, 2026 04:02 PM (IG3/x)

Unexpectedly!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 04:03 PM (ULPxl)

207 You know who else can make an avocado disappear?
Posted by: Barry Soetero

Is that the nickname for your chef?

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at January 08, 2026 04:03 PM (c6twD)

208 Leverage is good.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 08, 2026 04:04 PM (jc0TO)

209 I saw on X that tomorrow the USSC will rule on the tariffs?

that could be ... annoying

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 08, 2026 04:04 PM (emBoF)

210 204 Also "stunning" the genius economic "experts Atlanta Fed has GDP growth at +5.4%. AN almost vertical line on the GDP growth chart.

Experts wrong again... and again... and again.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 08, 2026 04:03 PM (xvV+O)

=====

Atlanta Fed does tend to be overly optimistic. I'd be surprised if we did actually get 5.4%.

Another mid-4s seems likely.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 04:04 PM (GBKbO)

211 159 And the only reason we know that Tehran is on fire is because Elon managed to sneak Starlinks into Iran. It looks like this has escalated and may truly be the end of the Ayatollah. This is all because of Trump's daring moves on Iran, supporting Israel taking out Iran's proxies and grabbing Maduro.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2026 03:56 PM (t/2Uw)

Yes, and all phone service and all internet service to Iran has now been shut down by the government. BUT they cannot stop Starlink, which is why these images are getting out.

At a bare minimum, shutting down all phone and internet means that the economy of Iran is now totally shutdown, for everyone. Something has to break, one way or the other, and given that several government building are now on fire, I think I can guess which way it's breaking.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2026 04:04 PM (uWKK8)

212 You have Left leaning economists and Right leaning economists. Guess which ones have always gone full retard.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 08, 2026 04:04 PM (KDPiq)

213 My econ professor in college was an admitted, overt, communist. Pretty much tells you the quality of the economists profession when a communist can be a professor of economics; as an avowed commie, almost by definition, has no idea how an actual economy, dealing with actual human beings, works.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 08, 2026 04:04 PM (XMwZJ)

214 The Stupid Guy With A Loudspeaker finally showed up at the protest.

This is the lamest protest I've seen for a long time. If Walz is counting on these goofballs to start the sh*t, he's wasting his time.

Oh look, the black ICE SUVs just drove past the protestors, beeping their horns LOL.

Must be a shift change.

Posted by: mrp at January 08, 2026 04:04 PM (rj6Yv)

215 This is because brave Iranians took to the streets without weapons to confront the IRGC with only their bodies. This takes incredible courage. Not something to be made light of. I saw pictures of women without hijabs dancing and singing knowing they could be murdered at any moment.i hope they succeed and can rejoin the West and give women back their human rights.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2026 04:04 PM (t/2Uw)

216 Forbes claims that this shows that Trump's tariffs "disrupted international trade more than expected." That's one way to put it, I guess.
++++
Trump: We have bad trade deals that are bad for America. We buy from abroad, they don't buy from us. We need to fix this and bring it back into balance, and tariffs are the means to do it.*

Analysts: The trade deficit is meaningless, tariffs can't fix it anyway and are also inflationary, and this is the end of the world.

:: fast forward ::

Analysts: The trade deficit still doesn't matter, but it's falling if you care for some reason. Also, tariffs appear to be disinflationary and the world hasn't ended. So many things are defying expectations!

* Some of the tariffs, anyway. Others are not primarily economic, used as a foreign policy tool.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2026 04:04 PM (GyQIQ)

217 Jacob Frey looks like some actor I have seen but I can’t come up with the name.

Posted by: tubal at January 08, 2026 04:04 PM (pDt9x)

218 It's come out that Jacob "Communist-Minnesota" Frey's wife is the legal counsel for one of the fraudulent Somali "charities".
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 08, 2026 04:02 PM (IG3/x)

$100 says the fraudsters are Paolo-ing her as well. Another $50 says he watches.

Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 04:05 PM (/HZvU)

219 Helena, it's happening here
x.com/InsiderWire/status/2009280030413656301#

Posted by: gKWVE at January 08, 2026 04:05 PM (gKWVE)

220 I bet they hate music. Which bands do marxist listen to?

Don't say New Order. Even though they always tell me how to feel.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 08, 2026 04:05 PM (EyfuW)

221 209 I saw on X that tomorrow the USSC will rule on the tariffs?

that could be ... annoying

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 08, 2026 04:04 PM (emBoF)

======

"Lower courts ruled incorrectly. They need to take each tariff ruling individually to see if the president followed established law. Also, the president can change his reasoning to another section and dispense with this whole affair."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 04:05 PM (GBKbO)

222 Whatever you do don't take away the current accounts surplus.

Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at January 08, 2026 04:05 PM (P7Iz+)

223 Not only Tehran but also Shiraz. Th e revolution has begun. The building a burning are government buildings which they want to burn down because there is no water.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2026 03:59 PM (t/2Uw)

America's best move here is probably to just kick back and watch, let the fire clear out the underbrush, and simply watch to make sure it doesn't spill out into any neighboring countries.

Lots of goofy ethnic hostilities around the borders of the hopefully soon to be former Iran. Don't need the whole region going up in flames right now. Just burn out the mullahs and the IRGC, and things ought to be fine.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 04:05 PM (06Hmj)

224 Leverage is good.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 08, 2026 04:04 PM (jc0TO)


It wasn't a bad show, but wasn't as good when they kicked Timothy Hutton off of it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2026 04:05 PM (Zz0t1)

225 Economists warn stockpile drawdowns may be distorting the data
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Yeah, to some degree. Inventories climbed and they are now falling. Lots of front-running of tariffs happened.

But that happened a year ago. We've been in this groove for a while now.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2026 04:05 PM (GyQIQ)

226 It's come out that Jacob "Communist-Minnesota" Frey's wife is the legal counsel for one of the fraudulent Somali "charities".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 08, 2026 04:02 PM (IG3/x)

Mostly surprised that twink has a wife and not a husband.

Posted by: Peaches at January 08, 2026 04:05 PM (VyqMH)

227 The so called leaders of Iran are to busy watching the sky's over their heads than worrying about anything else.

Posted by: Case at January 08, 2026 04:05 PM (4rWc3)

228 The President of Austria previews the future of Austria, and its accommodation to Austria's new rulers:

“With increasing Islamophobia - the day will come where we have to ask ALL Women to wear a head scarf to show solidarity with those who do so for religious reasons”

Posted by: The ARC of History!

What? Wait! Why were we fought again?

-WWI & WWII drinking Pernod at a Paris Bistro.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 08, 2026 04:05 PM (iJfKG)

229 To think MTG gets a pension that will set her for life for having less than two terms

She was in the House. Five years == 2.5 terms.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 04:05 PM (ExV1e)

230 But the news is reporting that the Iranian regime has cut off internet and phone access. How will the protesters contact each other?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 04:05 PM (8Xy/A)

231 You have to go yo YouTube: Goldie Ghamari

Live blogging of Iran Revolution. She is still at it.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 04:05 PM (6mogZ)

232 209 I saw on X that tomorrow the USSC will rule on the tariffs?

that could be ... annoying
Posted by: BlackOrchid

Prepped for annoyance. It's becoming a regular thing.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 08, 2026 04:06 PM (abIsI)

233 The hell are they teaching these experts in kollege? We thought companies would import even more stuff then before instead of turning to local sources where possible when they had to cover 18% tariffs? In what clown world 'experts'?

Posted by: PaleRider at January 08, 2026 04:06 PM (hhkIi)

234 It's come out that Jacob "Communist-Minnesota" Frey's wife is the legal counsel for one of the fraudulent Somali "charities".
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
......

Ooh! Billable hours!

Posted by: wth at January 08, 2026 04:06 PM (v0R5T)

235 https://tinyurl.com/mtjrt25t

Here's another one.
If not for Starlink we would have no idea as the Mullahs shut down the internet this morning. So, in this case, the Revolution is being televised.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2026 04:06 PM (t/2Uw)

236 >>> 219 Helena, it's happening here
x.com/InsiderWire/status/
2009280030413656301#
Posted by: gKWVE at January 08, 2026 04:05 PM (gKWVE)

Heh.

Are you saying some things that might not at first appear to be related, are in fact related?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 04:06 PM (ULPxl)

237 3-Alarm, 4-Alarm, and 5-Alarm chili is rather tasty.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 08, 2026 03:59 PM (wVcYX)

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24-Carrot God, Jerry!

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 04:06 PM (IpnJw)

238 How will the protesters contact each other?

Starlink?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 08, 2026 04:07 PM (abIsI)

239 Inventories?

I thought every corporation switched to the JIT system?

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 08, 2026 04:07 PM (KDPiq)

240 Read a couple of articles regarding the TD reduction this morning. Both authors implied this might be a harbinger of a coming recession. Their analysis was on par with a C- paper in a Community College Econ 101 class. I put the econ experts in the same class as weather forecasters, basically a tribe of chimps at the Golden Corral.

Posted by: Sock Monkey
========
I do think that EU etc. are going into recession, probably China too. Both have pissed away their investments into non productive but politically useful directions. China is propping up its oversized mfg. sector and housing sectors, to keep people employed and off the streets. The Euros are doing the same shit with war in Ukraine and their idiotic green industry crap.

Investment increases, malinvestment, and decreases tied to productivity gains are the actual predictors of recessions.

For the US, the risk is the AI bubble but like the Web 2.0 recession, it will leave value behind. Failed green investments, plants that run at increasing losses requiring more subsidies (Brits tried that one in the 70's), and ghost cities for a dying population are all examples of bad investment that leaves nothing but debt behind.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 04:07 PM (WDjG6)

241 Leverage is good.
Posted by: toby928(c)

I know, right?

Posted by: Archimedes at January 08, 2026 04:07 PM (mlg/3)

242 Heh...troll out there saying that 4.6% GDP is a lie.

It is to laugh.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Five is right out!

Posted by: 496 at January 08, 2026 04:07 PM (YpWtw)

243 Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 04:05 PM (6mogZ)

I've been looking at Tousi*. I was worried at first linking him here b/c he was so far ahead of the curve it looked like copium, but he's turned out to be prescient.

*Tous is the old name of the city which Islamists call "Mashhad"

Posted by: gKWVE at January 08, 2026 04:07 PM (gKWVE)

244 How will the protesters contact each other?

Smoke signals.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 08, 2026 04:07 PM (jc0TO)

245 My econ professor in college was an admitted, overt, communist. Pretty much tells you the quality of the economists profession when a communist can be a professor of economics; as an avowed commie, almost by definition, has no idea how an actual economy, dealing with actual human beings, works.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 08, 2026 04:04 PM (XMwZJ)

I had a few of those as well. But back in the before times, they would present both sides and encourage debate. Doubt any do today.

Funniest part of Econ is the qualifier of “imagine a perfect society where everyone acts rationally”. Uhm yeah so basically we’re dealing with a fantasy world in this lesson.

Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 04:08 PM (/HZvU)

246 >>52 I kind of almost miss Rainmondo.

Thinking there is more than one Raimondo: one who writes coherent sentences, appears more than once at night, and is a NASCAR-chick-driver-fan; one (or more) who write incoherent a-grammatical one-shot drive-bys.

Posted by: Nazdar at January 08, 2026 04:08 PM (NcvvS)

247 240 I do think that EU etc. are going into recession, probably China too. Both have pissed away their investments into non productive but politically useful directions. China is propping up its oversized mfg. sector and housing sectors, to keep people employed and off the streets. The Euros are doing the same shit with war in Ukraine and their idiotic green industry crap.

Investment increases, malinvestment, and decreases tied to productivity gains are the actual predictors of recessions.

For the US, the risk is the AI bubble but like the Web 2.0 recession, it will leave value behind. Failed green investments, plants that run at increasing losses requiring more subsidies (Brits tried that one in the 70's), and ghost cities for a dying population are all examples of bad investment that leaves nothing but debt behind.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 04:07 PM (WDjG6)

======

The US having 5+% GDP while Europe is shrinking will be amazing.

I want it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 04:08 PM (GBKbO)

248 Football game tonight.

Posted by: FIRE MARSHALL BILL at January 08, 2026 04:08 PM (1M7sl)

249 Not only Tehran but also Shiraz. The revolution has begun.

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My God! The wines!!!

Posted by: Geopolitical Wine Mom at January 08, 2026 04:08 PM (4DY5T)

250 ... As a european, the thing that really terrifies me in this case is that US once upon a time promised the world they will be a stable and reliable partner as a reserve currency printer, and now not only is the current administration destroying the world order US build for itself, it seems to be heading into a full economic collapse which in turn will make the 2008 world financial crisis look like a cake party.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 08, 2026 03:48 PM (ycI94)
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The funny thing is that this person is actually almost right. The US *did* destroy the "reserve currency" system to its - and our primary trading partner-allies' - tremendous detriment. But Trump didn't do that, Biden did through his Russia-Ukraine sanctions that destroyed the veneer of an even playing field in global settlements and Dollar safety.

Trump is working to *re-establish* it as best he can. Tariffs are one tool. Aggressive action against non-Dollar settlement (see: Venezuela, in part) is another. He can't put Humpty-Dumpty back together again, but he can try to shore up the system to avoid an outright failure of the "reserve currency" system.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2026 04:08 PM (GyQIQ)

251 > Mostly surprised that twink has a wife and not a husband.
Posted by: Peaches at January 08, 2026 04:05 PM (VyqMH)

Yeah, I confess being a little surprised by that myself.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 08, 2026 04:08 PM (IG3/x)

252 246 one (or more) who write incoherent a-grammatical one-shot drive-bys.

Posted by: Nazdar at January 08, 2026 04:08 PM (NcvvS)

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Who gets real spicy when the topic is India.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 04:08 PM (GBKbO)

253 As a european, the thing that really terrifies me in this case is that US once upon a time promised the world they will be a stable and reliable partner as a reserve currency printer, and now not only is the current administration destroying the world order US build for itself, it seems to be heading into a full economic collapse which in turn will make the 2008 world financial crisis look like a cake party.

The European economy is in a very bad place. Germany, France and the UK have very ill economies. They want to blame US trade policies while they are bleeding out from multiple self inflicted wounds. Personally, I give a significant chunk of Europe about 2 years before the streets catch fire.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 08, 2026 04:09 PM (vzcgi)

254 You know who else can make an avocado disappear?

Hitler?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 08, 2026 04:09 PM (Kt19C)

255 Left: we want lower prices

Trump: ok how about sub $2 gas?

Left: This is an outrage. We demand $4 gas like in the good old days of Biden.

Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 04:09 PM (/HZvU)

256 The only authority I need to hear from is CNBC's Jim Cramer. He's an experts' expert.

And then I'll do the opposite.

Best. Advisor. Ever.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at January 08, 2026 04:09 PM (gLikB)

257 Yes, and all phone service and all internet service to Iran has now been shut down by the government. BUT they cannot stop Starlink, which is why these images are getting out.
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And that is why the eu is so hostile to Musk. They know their time is about up and musk will keep the revolutionaries in information.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 08, 2026 04:09 PM (xvV+O)

258 253 The European economy is in a very bad place. Germany, France and the UK have very ill economies. They want to blame US trade policies while they are bleeding out from multiple self inflicted wounds. Personally, I give a significant chunk of Europe about 2 years before the streets catch fire.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 08, 2026 04:09 PM (vzcgi)

======

"Why is this happening?! We banned the AfD, didn't we? Why did that not fix everything?"
-Germany

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 04:10 PM (GBKbO)

259 One of the smellies is holding a sign, "who wants to be first?"

While half of the smellies are wearing masks, they keep calling ICE cowards for not uncovering their faces.

Now they're messing up the Elder Smellies holy chant:
The people
united
Will never be
defeated

dum-dums, last word is "divided"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 08, 2026 04:10 PM (HXT0k)

260 BREAKING:

Gunfire has been reported in multiple Iranian cities.

It seems that the Islamic security forces have been given the green light to use lethal force against anti-regime protesters on the streets.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2026 04:10 PM (t/2Uw)

261 People of Iran are revolting? This is not who they are!!!

Posted by: Elder Statesman Obama at January 08, 2026 04:10 PM (GUnoj)

262 Europe better be praying for a moderate winter is all I'm saying.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 08, 2026 04:10 PM (jc0TO)

263 But does this reduction of the Trade Deficit help millennials buy a house? !

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 08, 2026 04:10 PM (KDPiq)

264 Mostly surprised that twink has a wife and not a husband.
Posted by: Peaches at January 08, 2026 04:05 PM (VyqMH)

Yeah, I confess being a little surprised by that myself.
=
He puts on a french maid outfit and cleans up the bulls after.
Just a hunch.

Posted by: Bill Kristol at January 08, 2026 04:10 PM (1M7sl)

265 Stockpile drawdowns?
Usually bad?

Ahhhh...no. Unless you're talking ammo.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 08, 2026 04:11 PM (2WIwB)

266 248 Football game tonight.
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Hurricanes v Rebels. What's your opinion on winner?

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 08, 2026 04:11 PM (pLaQB)

267 dum-dums, last word is "divided"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 08, 2026 04:10 PM (HXT0k)
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They can't say 'divided' because they're a bunch of zeroes

Posted by: 496 at January 08, 2026 04:11 PM (YpWtw)

268 The European economy is in a very bad place. Germany, France and the UK have very ill economies. They want to blame US trade policies while they are bleeding out from multiple self inflicted wounds. Personally, I give a significant chunk of Europe about 2 years before the streets catch fire.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 08, 2026 04:09 PM (vzcgi)
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Could be. Its economic engines are failing. Germany because they starved themselves of energy through "green" madness, and France because they starved themselves of capital through end-stage Eurosocialist destruction.

And none of that is America's fault. That's *entirely* on them.

And the upcoming economic and financial crisis is real, but it won't look a lot like 2008. More like a hybrid of 2001 and 2010-202 - led by tech and sovereign dbt.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2026 04:11 PM (GyQIQ)

269 260 BREAKING:

Gunfire has been reported in multiple Iranian cities.

It seems that the Islamic security forces have been given the green light to use lethal force against anti-regime protesters on the streets.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2026 04:10 PM (t/2Uw)


This means things will break one of two ways, soon.

Posted by: tubal at January 08, 2026 04:11 PM (pDt9x)

270 The US had a stable currency until the Socialists started spreading money out faster than it came in, somewhere around 1930s

Posted by: Skip at January 08, 2026 04:11 PM (Ia/+0)

271 266 248 Football game tonight.
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Hurricanes v Rebels. What's your opinion on winner?
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 08, 2026 04:11 PM (pLaQB)

They will have more points.

Posted by: tubal at January 08, 2026 04:12 PM (pDt9x)

272 Europeans will be freezing to death in their hovels and still believe it was worth it to save us from climate warming change.

Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 04:12 PM (/HZvU)

273 Whoa. They just called out Guliani, Pompeo & Ponce as being bought by the Iranian MEK.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 04:12 PM (6mogZ)

274 This means things will break one of two ways, soon.
Posted by: tubal at January 08, 2026 04:11 PM

There are always three options. It gets better, it gets worse, or it stays the same.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 08, 2026 04:12 PM (jc0TO)

275 Elon has unlocked free Starlink for Iranians

Posted by: steevy at January 08, 2026 04:12 PM (YwEeS)

276 It's come out that Jacob "Communist-Minnesota" Frey's wife is the legal counsel for one of the fraudulent Somali "charities".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 08, 2026 04:02 PM (IG3/x)

Mostly surprised that twink has a wife and not a husband.
Posted by: Peaches
.......

His brother was unavailable.

Posted by: wth at January 08, 2026 04:12 PM (v0R5T)

277 It seems that the Islamic security forces have been given the green light to use lethal force against anti-regime protesters on the streets.
That's a really bad idea--as soon as the populace gets their own arms, e.g., by raiding armories, taking them from dead IRGC--they will have no compunction about extreme payback.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 08, 2026 04:12 PM (XMwZJ)

278 My God! The wines!!!
Posted by: Geopolitical Wine Mom

Persians used to love their wine. Or so I read.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 08, 2026 04:12 PM (gKWVE)

279 now is the opportunity to suspend/end Federal Income Tax. Can the President declare a 'TaxHoliday' ? does it have to go to Congress?
what mechanism of govt. sets the Federal tax rate(s)?

Posted by: IrwinShiff at January 08, 2026 04:12 PM (5LiC7)

280 What's striking to me on the matter of the Iranian protests is the number of pre-revolutionary Pahlavi flags in the protest marches. That's a shift from anti-government demonstrations to abject regime change.

Posted by: mrp at January 08, 2026 04:13 PM (rj6Yv)

281 I predict the team who plays better will have an excellent chance at winning the game.
- Sports Analysts

Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 04:13 PM (/HZvU)

282 217 Jacob Frey looks like some actor I have seen but I can’t come up with the name.
Posted by: tubal at January 08, 2026 04:04 PM (pDt9x)

You're thinking of Long Dong Silver. Trust me on this.

Posted by: Sec. Pete B. at January 08, 2026 04:13 PM (wGerL)

283 I thought every corporation switched to the JIT system?
Posted by: Opinion fact

Many are switching back. Massive inventory buildup in Q1 and Q2 in 2025 in the US along with big mfg good trade deficits because companies were anticipating Trump actions on tariffs. As those inventories decline, replacement (and more likely domestic) production will ensue. This is shifting the global supply chain to something shorter and more resilient often using multiple sources than the old JIT.

JIT was perfected in Japan where all the factories were in fact close together in distance, culture, and similar context. Thus supply chain disruption was rare--something like big earthquakes, oil shocks, etc. affecting the entire Japanese economy.

Business school types imported this to the US, in part because inventories are often taxed as properties, lowering them could artificially boost stock prices due to lack of carrying costs and the one time bang from dropping inventory without spending to replenish it, etc. It undervalued any supply shocks to a longer and longer system at greater and greater distances.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 04:13 PM (WDjG6)

284 If you're going to predict, predict often.

Rule #1 of financial advice and prognostication. Also, don't tell anyone where you live.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at January 08, 2026 04:13 PM (gLikB)

285 The only authority I need to hear from is CNBC's Jim Cramer. He's an experts' expert.

And then I'll do the opposite.

Best. Advisor. Ever.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at January 08, 2026 04:09 PM (gLikB)


Isn't there a fund out there you can invest in that's the Opposite Cramer fund? Like there's a Follow Pelosi fund?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2026 04:13 PM (Zz0t1)

286 Mostly surprised that twink has a wife and not a husband.
Posted by: Peaches at January 08, 2026 04:05 PM (VyqMH)

He was previously married to some chick who is a distance runner and is employed by Apple. Presumably, he got rid of her so that he could marry someone more involved in the business of corruption.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 04:13 PM (ExV1e)

287
This means the Great Depression is just around the corner.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 04:13 PM (tgvbd)

288 This busty bikini blonde is so pleased about the declining trade deficit that she went to the beach:
http://tiny.cc/tudx001

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2026 04:13 PM (GyQIQ)

289 >>>My econ professor in college was an admitted, overt, communist. Pretty much tells you the quality of the economists profession when a communist can be a professor of economics; as an avowed commie, almost by definition, has no idea how an actual economy, dealing with actual human beings, works.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent

>Mostly all economists are commies. They choose to control, not survey. Economics is a lie.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 08, 2026 04:13 PM (1HW+a)

290 The original chant in Spanish says "defeated"

La puebla
conjuntos
nunca sera vincados

or something like that.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 04:13 PM (06Hmj)

291 A big part of the problem is that in the 70s and 80s, the Dems wanted targeted tariffs to protect specific companies or industries. That was tried in Europe and those companies (steel, auto, consumer electronics, ...) became sclerotic and overly unionized and eventually just failed.

So tariffs to protect overpriced, inefficient manufacturers are bad. Republicans argued against them. But then what? a country still needs these industries in times of war so you can't just ship it all overseas and become a "service economy" (I hate that term and still don't know what it is supposed to mean.)

But deficits are unsustainable, even with fiat currency. Tariffs solve both problems but economists can not see that. "Assume a can opener" and shove it up your ass.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 08, 2026 04:13 PM (bIWgk)

292 274 This means things will break one of two ways, soon.
Posted by: tubal at January 08, 2026 04:11 PM

There are always three options. It gets better, it gets worse, or it stays the same.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 08, 2026 04:12 PM (jc0TO)

Maybe. But piles of dead bodies do tend to build more resentments. Have to wait and see I guess.

Posted by: tubal at January 08, 2026 04:14 PM (pDt9x)

293 I predict the team who plays better will have an excellent chance at winning the game.
- Sports Analysts
Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 04:13 PM

You have to get a hat on a hat.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 08, 2026 04:14 PM (jc0TO)

294 This means things will break one of two ways, soon.
Posted by: tubal at January 08, 2026 04:11 PM (pDt9x)

And that’s we need to help someway though I have no idea how.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 08, 2026 04:14 PM (KDPiq)

295 277 It seems that the Islamic security forces have been given the green light to use lethal force against anti-regime protesters on the streets.
That's a really bad idea--as soon as the populace gets their own arms, e.g., by raiding armories, taking them from dead IRGC--they will have no compunction about extreme payback.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 08, 2026 04:12 PM (XMwZJ)

=====

I imagine most Iranians remember the last time this happened when most people who were leaders in the protests probably ended up dead at the hands of the regime.

I don't think this stops until the mullahs are overthrown or Iran is a smoldering heap of ashes to be ruled by a diminished regime.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 04:14 PM (GBKbO)

296
Persians used to love their wine. Or so I read.
Posted by: gKWVE at January 08, 2026 04:12 PM (gKWVE)


There's a 'reality' show on the horrific WE channel. It's rich Persians doing nefarious things in America because rich....and stupid.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2026 04:14 PM (Zz0t1)

297 This busty bikini blonde is so pleased about the declining trade deficit that she went to the beach:
http://tiny.cc/tudx001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2026 04:13 PM (GyQIQ)
_________

3:45 pm

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 04:15 PM (iFTx/)

298 And that is why the eu is so hostile to Musk. They know their time is about up and musk will keep the ...
==
Global khalifate And Globalism do have something in common dont they. They dont mind everyone wearing trashbags if they can administer the trashbag state and collect the goodies.

Posted by: Beauracrats dont have ideology beyond self interest at January 08, 2026 04:15 PM (1M7sl)

299 Eurosocialist destruction.
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Isn't it called Eurosclerosis?

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 08, 2026 04:15 PM (pLaQB)

300 The Blade whips it out FIRST
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 03:32 PM

Since one of The Horde's unofficial mottoes is "When in doubt, whip it out", does this mean you're first in doubt?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 08, 2026 04:15 PM (4C4DQ)

301 This busty bikini blonde is so pleased about the declining trade deficit that she went to the beach:
http://tiny.cc/tudx001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2026 04:13 PM (GyQIQ)

Buoyant!

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 08, 2026 04:15 PM (wVcYX)

302 >>> 285
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Isn't there a fund out there you can invest in that's the Opposite Cramer fund? Like there's a Follow Pelosi fund?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2026 04:13 PM (Zz0t1)

NANC

There's also a CRUZ fund.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 04:16 PM (ULPxl)

303 In which direction?
Posted by: ...

Boosting earnings temporarily by drawing down excess inventory accumulated in Q1 and Q2 by businesses expecting supply shocks from tariffs.

Like a sugar high, sooner or later you have to acquire new stock inventory to sell or use to make your goods.

Problem is that these analysts are using static analysis based on inflows and outflows but not considering (data is not there) as to reshoring and shortening supply chains that tariffs incentivize.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 04:16 PM (WDjG6)

304 Oh boy, some US ships and aircraft might have a long night tonight

Posted by: Skip at January 08, 2026 04:16 PM (Ia/+0)

305 Tweet about Iran with pictures. From X:

https://x.com/omid9/status/2009368409213956421

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 04:16 PM (8Xy/A)

306 301 This busty bikini blonde is so pleased about the declining trade deficit that she went to the beach:
http://tiny.cc/tudx001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2026 04:13 PM (GyQIQ)

Buoyant!
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 08, 2026 04:15 PM (wVcYX)

She would have issues in a weightless environment.

Posted by: tubal at January 08, 2026 04:16 PM (pDt9x)

307 LinkedIn News is tying itself in knots again to spin every single thing as bad news.

That garbage platform is a class in how to hate the media more. Wish I wasn't required to use it for my work.

It's like DU meets Ellis from Die Hard.
Posted by: sifty boones at January 08, 2026 03:42 PM (Z1MCL)

Linked In...I signed up for that once as the corp said they would be using it. Every so often they would send me notifications about my dead sister, not once anything useful.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 08, 2026 04:16 PM (8avO+)

308 > Persians used to love their wine. Or so I read.
Posted by: gKWVE at January 08, 2026 04:12 PM (gKWVE)


A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,
A Jug of Wine, A Loaf of Bread—and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness—
Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!


Omar Khayyam was Persian.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 08, 2026 04:16 PM (IG3/x)

309 he original chant in Spanish says "defeated"

La puebla
conjuntos
nunca sera vincados

or something like that.

I prefer the Pavarotti version.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hzAoiyxYsF4?feature=share

Posted by: Archimedes at January 08, 2026 04:17 PM (Riz8t)

310 Iranian Morality cop getting his ass kicked. LOL.
The guy liveblogging with Goldie keeps saying "I don't think we can show this on YouTube".

Goldie keeps saying, "Show it. Show it".


LOL.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 04:17 PM (6mogZ)

311 NANC

There's also a CRUZ fund.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 04:16 PM (ULPxl)

I invested in the Swalwell tracker ETF, and all that happened was some dudes in a black SUV came to my house and kicked me in the grundle.

: (

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 04:17 PM (06Hmj)

312 Back on topic: brace yourselves, but Paul Krugman was wrong
x.com/Cernovich/status/2009354914515046640#

Posted by: gKWVE at January 08, 2026 04:17 PM (gKWVE)

313 Elon has unlocked free Starlink for Iranians
Posted by: steevy at January 08, 2026 04:12 PM (YwEeS)
++++
This is the "spoiler" on my Bingo card for the next couple of years.

So long as Starlink was *purely* civilian, it was in a safer category and unlikely to be a military target, not being a military asset.

That is no longer true. Ukraine has been using it for military purposes. We have the ability to use it for military purposes. Opening it up to insurgents in Iran is arguably a military purpose. That all makes it a military target.

But hard to take it out. Starlink is *big* and far away. The easiest way to do it - and it's a method available to both Russia and Red China - is just to start interfering with orbits with other satellites that happen to explode. Create mess and interference by converting some of the constellation into a lot of wreckage.

And that can close space travel entirely for a goodly while due to the debris field.

I think the odds are low, but they're non-zero and it would be one hell of a black swan.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2026 04:17 PM (GyQIQ)

314 Is the Mannix babe an ode to the art this morning?

Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 04:17 PM (/HZvU)

315 This busty bikini blonde is so pleased about the declining trade deficit that she went to the beach:
http://tiny.cc/tudx001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2026 04:13 PM

I don't think she's actually blonde.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 08, 2026 04:17 PM (4C4DQ)

316 But deficits are unsustainable, even with fiat currency. Tariffs solve both problems but economists can not see that. "Assume a can opener" and shove it up your ass.
Posted by: bob
=======
The next step was currency manipulation using central banks. Then it was VAT.

Tariffs are far more transparent.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 04:18 PM (WDjG6)

317 >>> 307 LinkedIn News is tying itself in knots again to spin every single thing as bad news.

That garbage platform is a class in how to hate the media more. Wish I wasn't required to use it for my work.

It's like DU meets Ellis from Die Hard.
Posted by: sifty boones at January 08, 2026 03:42 PM (Z1MCL)

Linked In...I signed up for that once as the corp said they would be using it. Every so often they would send me notifications about my dead sister, not once anything useful.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 08, 2026 04:16 PM (8avO+)

Just curious, has anyone really gotten a job through it?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 04:18 PM (ULPxl)

318 Is the Mannix babe an ode to the art this morning?
Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 04:17 PM (/HZvU)
_____

See my comment above ... looks like the same girl

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 04:18 PM (iFTx/)

319 http://tiny.cc/tudx001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2026 04:13 PM (GyQIQ)

***

Why is that buxom blonde wearing 1960's era Quasar Television on her face?

Posted by: Truck Monkey at January 08, 2026 04:18 PM (Bo9Yf)

320 My econ professor in college was an admitted, overt, communist. Pretty much tells you the quality of the economists profession when a communist can be a professor of economics; as an avowed commie, almost by definition, has no idea how an actual economy, dealing with actual human beings, works.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent

***

One of my best profs was an Oates anarchist. Taught comparative politics. Great class. I always wore my ROTC uniform to class. Discussions were fun.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 08, 2026 04:19 PM (2WIwB)

321 Remembering the 2009 Iranian uprising, I sure hope Michael Jackson doesn't die again and wipe out the news cycle.

Posted by: Rex B at January 08, 2026 04:19 PM (GUnoj)

322 This busty bikini blonde is so pleased about the declining trade deficit that she went to the beach:
http://tiny.cc/tudx001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
......

She's holding the camera crooked.

Posted by: wth at January 08, 2026 04:19 PM (v0R5T)

323 I'm really sad the smellies can't even muster a giant paper mache head.

These theater kids ain't even trying anymore.

And only a single Mexican flag?

Entertain me!

Oh, the fag with the bullhorn has a tote bag and is wearing a muzzie rag.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 08, 2026 04:19 PM (HXT0k)

324 Musk, for all of his foibles, is a force that I am glad is sympathetic to our side.

Posted by: tubal at January 08, 2026 04:19 PM (pDt9x)

325 Football game tonight.
------------
Hurricanes v Rebels. What's your opinion on winner?
==
Comeback victory for ole miss.

Lane Kiffin plotzes shortly after about needing his full coaching staff.

Posted by: Never tell me the odds kid at January 08, 2026 04:19 PM (1M7sl)

326
I don't think she's actually blonde.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 08, 2026 04:17 PM (4C4DQ)


Seems we need a closer inspection.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2026 04:19 PM (Zz0t1)

327 > Paul Krugman was wrong

Remember when you didn't used to get a Nobel Prize (well, a pseudo-Nobel Prize) for being wrong 100% of the time?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 08, 2026 04:19 PM (IG3/x)

328 Sponge: "Isn't there a fund out there you can invest in that's the Opposite Cramer fund? Like there's a Follow Pelosi fund?"

99.9% sure there was one once. Besides, there's a fund for pretty much everything. It's like gambling. There's a game and a wager for you somewhere at every moment.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at January 08, 2026 04:19 PM (gLikB)

329 We be alls thank Presdent Obana should few something about Trump pulling Nazi likes tr atacs in Minniesota.

Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt at January 08, 2026 04:20 PM (wXPKd)

330 317 Just curious, has anyone really gotten a job through it?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 04:18 PM (ULPxl)

======

Got my last job through it. Knew no one at the company, but the job board I applied through was on LinkedIn.

Not as much luck this time, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 04:20 PM (GBKbO)

331
Lane Kiffin plotzes shortly after about needing his full coaching staff.
Posted by: Never tell me the odds kid at January 08, 2026 04:19 PM (1M7sl)


I know Weiss Jr. is following that prick, but has anyone else said they're leaving?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2026 04:20 PM (Zz0t1)

332 Personally, I give a significant chunk of Europe about 2 years before the streets catch fire.

And, in all likelihood, they'll decide on the exact wrong direction to take afterward.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 04:20 PM (ExV1e)

333 >Mostly all economists are commies. They choose to control, not survey. Economics is a lie.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 08, 2026 04:13 PM (1HW+a)

The Austrians had some good ideas. As a result they were blacklisted and expelled from all universities even in the 40s and 50s. Likely they would have been evolved into nonsense themselves if they had been allowed to exist there.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 08, 2026 04:20 PM (8avO+)

334 >>> Budget Airline Cancels Its Deportation Contract With ICE, Citing ‘Political Controversy’

If it is typical Federal contract they wouldn't have the authority to "cancel" the contract. What the airline would have done is be in default and the government would then Terminate for Default (T4D). Most companies that get T4D usually dissolve as they will never be able to get bonded again.

To bad there is not a Force Work clause in the FAR - basically terminate the contractors management, seize all resources, and take over management of the workforce.

Force Work clause was a holdover from the WWII martial law days in Hawaii.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 08, 2026 04:20 PM (/lPRQ)

335 But hard to take it out. Starlink is *big* and far away. The easiest way to do it - and it's a method available to both Russia and Red China - is just to start interfering with orbits with other satellites that happen to explode. Create mess and interference by converting some of the constellation into a lot of wreckage.


Starlink recently moved hundreds, if not thousands, of satellites to new orbits so that they'd deorbit more quickly. China would have to make all the near-earth orbits to take down Starlink. There's a reason they're building their own networks.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 08, 2026 04:20 PM (Riz8t)

336 I think the odds are low, but they're non-zero and it would be one hell of a black swan.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2026 04:17 PM (GyQIQ)

Give it two years and Elon will be launching a fleet of space garbage trucks that sweep along in the same orbit as the commsats, collect anything that isn't a "Friendly", grind it up, and either deorbit it, or pulverize it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 04:20 PM (06Hmj)

337 the old definition of "expert" ... i.e. you know 5% more than everyone else in the room ... is flawed in this case because much of what todays "experts" know is just plain wrong ...

Posted by: The Dark Lord at January 08, 2026 04:20 PM (DBAaD)

338
Just curious, has anyone really gotten a job through it?

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I have. A couple of times.

Also one indirectly as someone I worked with previously, got in touch with me on LI who then hooked me up with someone that was looking to hire.

If you just use it for its original intent, a career networking platform, and avoid all the bullshit, it is useful.

Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 04:21 PM (/HZvU)

339 About 50 protestors in front of the Bishop Whipple Federal Building. The crowd is getting smaller, so folks must be leaving to find food and a warm place to bake.

Posted by: mrp at January 08, 2026 04:21 PM (rj6Yv)

340
Just curious, has anyone really gotten a job through it?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

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My friends and I who said Yes to LinkedIn job alerts only ever got emails for jobs where hundreds had already applied (the app admits to 100+, which is probably a couple hundred at least) or the job had been taken down.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 08, 2026 04:21 PM (Uo+RY)

341 Yes, and all phone service and all internet service to Iran has now been shut down by the government. BUT they cannot stop Starlink, which is why these images are getting out.
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And that is why the eu is so hostile to Musk. They know their time is about up and musk will keep the revolutionaries in information.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 08, 2026 04:09 PM (xvV+O)

Have Starlink phones shipped yet?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 04:21 PM (ExV1e)

342 But hard to take it out. Starlink is *big* and far away. The easiest way to do it - and it's a method available to both Russia and Red China - is just to start interfering with orbits with other satellites that happen to explode. Create mess and interference by converting some of the constellation into a lot of wreckage.

And that can close space travel entirely for a goodly while due to the debris field.

I think the odds are low, but they're non-zero and it would be one hell of a black swan.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

China, like the old USSR, figures command of space is a critical industry and that is why they are aiming at the Moon, space stations, etc. I don't think they will do it. Likewise the Russians have a lot more to lose from it than gain. Iran is not Russia nor was Venezuela. They have their ass overcommitted enough in Ukraine as to not cause the entire world to want them dead by pulling shit like that.

Iran, I think doesn't have the means anymore to do that. Launching missiles will tend to bring on the IDF in short order. A perchlorate plant blew up this week and the US alos just stopped a Chicom ship and destroyed the missile components at sea and dumped them.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 04:21 PM (WDjG6)

343 Trade deficits CAUSE inflation so anyone who said the opposite is an idiot.

Posted by: dagny at January 08, 2026 04:21 PM (ILGo9)

344 The presstitutes take great pride in wordsmithing doublespeak. They never give their Orange Nemesis any credit for anything that's good.

Posted by: torabora at January 08, 2026 04:22 PM (MkFn4)

345 133 I just got home so don't know if this has been discussed but apparently Tehran is on fire.

Careful people! This is where we need to apply the "Wait 48 hours, ask Paul Krugman, and reverse the answer" rule!

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at January 08, 2026 04:22 PM (FpP3s)

346 > "Isn't there a fund out there you can invest in that's the Opposite Cramer fund? Like there's a Follow Pelosi fund?"
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"Inverse Cramer Fund" It's an "autopilot" thing.... not managed. It out performed Pelosi's version... which I think is not her "actual" portfolio.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 08, 2026 04:22 PM (NwnyJ)

347 Goldie keeps saying, "Show it. Show it".
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The women are always the bloodthirtyest.

Posted by: My history professor at January 08, 2026 04:22 PM (1M7sl)

348 334 >>> Budget Airline Cancels Its Deportation Contract With ICE, Citing ‘Political Controversy’

Looks to me like it's time for an IRS audit

Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2026 04:22 PM (VE6XX)

349 It seems that the Islamic security forces have been given the green light to use lethal force against anti-regime protesters on the streets.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2026 04:10 PM (t/2Uw)

Sad that so many will die. Hopefully the security forces are put down with a vengeance.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 04:23 PM (ExV1e)

350 @334 Wouldn't be surprised if that same budget airline was previously flying illegals all over the country under contract with the Biden admin.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at January 08, 2026 04:23 PM (36PRH)

351 This busty bikini blonde is so pleased about the declining trade deficit that she went to the beach:
http://tiny.cc/tudx001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

You realize that by posting that, you've delayed Ace's next thread.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 08, 2026 04:23 PM (vzcgi)

352 Wouldn't God be pure God? Otherwise you get into the Arian heresy?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 08, 2026 04:23 PM (zZu0s)

353 133 I just got home so don't know if this has been discussed but apparently Tehran is on fire.

Careful people! This is where we need to apply the "Wait 48 hours, ask Paul Krugman, and reverse the answer" rule!
Posted by: Ray Van Dune at January 08, 2026 04:22 PM (FpP3s)
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Doesn't matter. The mullahs are already looking for a new capital site because Tehran is running out of water.

Posted by: mrp at January 08, 2026 04:23 PM (rj6Yv)

354 The Austrians had some good ideas. As a result they were blacklisted and expelled from all universities even in the 40s and 50s. Likely they would have been evolved into nonsense themselves if they had been allowed to exist there.
Posted by: Oldcat

About half of my undergraduate economics professors were either public choice or Austrians, the other half were left or commies. My economic degree though came from the business school rather than liberal arts which skewed the percentages.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 04:24 PM (WDjG6)

355
I have. A couple of times.

Also one indirectly as someone I worked with previously, got in touch with me on LI who then hooked me up with someone that was looking to hire.

If you just use it for its original intent, a career networking platform, and avoid all the bullshit, it is useful.
Posted by: Really??

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That's great!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 08, 2026 04:24 PM (Uo+RY)

356 You can bet Musk has an orbital garbage truck ready to go. And if they mess with our stuff, theirs is going to be junk too.

Posted by: torabora at January 08, 2026 04:24 PM (MkFn4)

357
You realize that by posting that, you've delayed Ace's next thread.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 08, 2026 04:23 PM (vzcgi)


Why? Busty, yes. Lesbian? The jury is out on that one.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2026 04:24 PM (Zz0t1)

358 You realize that by posting that, you've delayed Ace's next thread.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 08, 2026 04:23 PM (vzcgi)

Oh, only by like thirty seconds or so, it's no big deal.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 04:24 PM (06Hmj)

359 Okay, this is really bizarre.
Iranian Regime TV showing Tucker Carlson
https://tinyurl.com/3mjvd5j3

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2026 04:24 PM (t/2Uw)

360 China, like the old USSR, figures command of space is a critical industry and that is why they are aiming at the Moon, space stations, etc. I don't think they will do it. Likewise the Russians have a lot more to lose from it than gain. Iran is not Russia nor was Venezuela. They have their ass overcommitted enough in Ukraine as to not cause the entire world to want them dead by pulling shit like that.

Iran, I think doesn't have the means anymore to do that. Launching missiles will tend to bring on the IDF in short order. A perchlorate plant blew up this week and the US alos just stopped a Chicom ship and destroyed the missile components at sea and dumped them.
Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 04:21 PM (WDjG6)
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I don't think Iran is a risk. I agree with you on Red China and Russia, and suspect that's the thought process there. But even if Starlink can remain up, closing off space launch ability by filling the sky with trash would be a hell of a thing to do. "Last act of a desperate man" territory, but that's why they're black swans!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2026 04:25 PM (GyQIQ)

361 The next step was currency manipulation using central banks. Then it was VAT.

Tariffs are far more transparent.
Posted by: whig

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Yes, VAT is just a hidden tariff.
not "like" a tariff, it *is* a tariff and why I think Trump went too easy on the EU.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 08, 2026 04:25 PM (bIWgk)

362 Git rid of the teachers.

Better breed of humans everywhere.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 08, 2026 04:25 PM (EyfuW)

363 Posted by: Chairman LMAO at January 08, 2026 04:23 PM (36PRH)

I would almost guarantee it.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 08, 2026 04:25 PM (KDPiq)

364
My econ professor in college was an admitted, overt, communist. 

____________

Was your astronomy professor a geocentric?

Communism is supposed to be scientific, but if a scientist ran the same experiment over and over and it failed every time the same way, you'd think he may conclude the hypothesis was wrong.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 04:25 PM (tgvbd)

365 About 50 protestors in front of the Bishop Whipple Federal Building. The crowd is getting smaller, so folks must be leaving to find food and a warm place to bake.

Don't under estimate the social influence of a fire hose in Minnisomalia in the winter.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 08, 2026 04:25 PM (nAS9C)

366 Often wrong but never in doubt. And laughing all the way to the bank.

*strokes feline companion pussy*

Posted by: Nobel Winner and Enron Advisor Paul Krugman at January 08, 2026 04:25 PM (wVcYX)

367 I know Weiss Jr. is following that prick, but has anyone else said they're leaving?
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Two other guys are there for the playoff run then lsu. One is OL coach. Other is linebacker coach i think.

Posted by: My history professor at January 08, 2026 04:25 PM (1M7sl)

368 360 I don't think Iran is a risk. I agree with you on Red China and Russia, and suspect that's the thought process there. But even if Starlink can remain up, closing off space launch ability by filling the sky with trash would be a hell of a thing to do. "Last act of a desperate man" territory, but that's why they're black swans!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2026 04:25 PM (GyQIQ)

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Space is...big.

Taking out thousands of satellites in a giant constellation across the entire planet would take thousands of missiles hitting their targets precisely.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 04:26 PM (GBKbO)

369 "The trade deficit--a measurement by which the cost of a country's imports is worth more than its exports--shrank to $29.4 billion in October"

I'm old enough to remember when breaking through $30M/mo was outrageous and scary. But that was so last century.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/BOPGSTB

Posted by: illiniwek at January 08, 2026 04:26 PM (vbXSk)

370 We can always go back to air recon over their territory. Unmanned, stealthy. Just takes more time, costs more.
Not ridiculous like those Biden balloons.

Posted by: torabora at January 08, 2026 04:26 PM (MkFn4)

371 Okay, this is really bizarre.
Iranian Regime TV showing Tucker Carlson
https://tinyurl.com/3mjvd5j3
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2026 04:24 PM (t/2Uw)

Why, I bet they don't even pay for broadcast rights.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 08, 2026 04:26 PM (rbvCR)

372 Two other guys are there for the playoff run then lsu. One is OL coach. Other is linebacker coach i think.
Posted by: My history professor at January 08, 2026 04:25 PM (1M7sl)


Fagz.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2026 04:26 PM (Zz0t1)

373 What’s the airline? Bud Light time.

Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 04:26 PM (/HZvU)

374 See people.......... President "Rambo" Biden's Economic Policies are working.

It just 5 years and now look at our economy

And Trump is taking credit for the plan he stole from Joe "Wolf of Wall Street" Biden...????

Posted by: Jackson K. at January 08, 2026 04:26 PM (J9q9v)

375 364 Was your astronomy professor a geocentric?

Communism is supposed to be scientific, but if a scientist ran the same experiment over and over and it failed every time the same way, you'd think he may conclude the hypothesis was wrong.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 04:25 PM (tgvbd)

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I recently learned that Communist China outlawed birds at one point.

It didn't turn out well.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 04:26 PM (GBKbO)

376 I recently learned that Communist China outlawed birds at one point.

It didn't turn out well.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 04:26 PM (GBKbO)


How the hell do you do that?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2026 04:27 PM (Zz0t1)

377 Don't under estimate the social influence of a fire hose in Minnisomalia in the winter.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 08, 2026 04:25 PM (nAS9C)
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So far, the ICE guys facing the protestors look bored.

Posted by: mrp at January 08, 2026 04:27 PM (rj6Yv)

378 I'm old enough to remember when breaking through $30M/mo was outrageous and scary. But that was so last century.

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I’m old enough to remember when $1B was a lot of money. That was like 1995. lol.
Now $1B for the govt is a rounding error.

Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 04:28 PM (/HZvU)

379
Yes, VAT is just a hidden tariff.
not "like" a tariff, it *is* a tariff and why I think Trump went too easy on the EU.

I am still wondering why Libertarians, who have a hard-on for the "Fair Tax" (effectively a very high VAT with lots of cut-outs) but lost their drug-addled minds on the tariff which is a high consumption tax on foreign goods.

Apparently they love taxing everything no matter where it comes from.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 08, 2026 04:28 PM (nAS9C)

380 The jury is out on that one.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

So a hung jury?

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 08, 2026 04:28 PM (vzcgi)

381 343 Trade deficits CAUSE inflation so anyone who said the opposite is an idiot.
Posted by: dagny

That is where their predictive model breaks down. They consider economies as static (because dynamic models are quite frankly beyond macro right now overall) so a reduced trade deficit means less goods coming in and less competition and thus higher prices in the future. Ceterus paribus.

Where it fall short is what the effect of US deportations of at least two million hungry mouths, what is the effect of onshoring using robotics, etc. rather than cheap Chicom or global labor, what is the effect of shorter supply chains, etc. etc. etc.

To these macro types, generally the pie is fixed, a change in one slice must result in the other pie slices being reshuffled. Not a bigger pie.

That is the difference between a useful predictive model rather than the lame ass descriptive models after the fact.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 04:28 PM (WDjG6)

382 I recently learned that Communist China outlawed birds at one point.

It didn't turn out well.

They also mandated blast furnaces in everyone's backyard. That turned out about as well as you'd expect.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 08, 2026 04:28 PM (Riz8t)

383 And that is why the eu is so hostile to Musk. They know their time is about up and musk will keep the ...
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Global khalifate And Globalism do have something in common dont they. They dont mind everyone wearing trashbags if they can administer the trashbag state and collect the goodies.
Posted by: Beauracrats dont have ideology beyond self interest at January 08, 2026 04:15 PM (1M7sl)

They prefer the trashbag wearing rather than the goodies. The problem they don't understand is they can't administer even a trashbag state properly and would be overturned and lined up and shot come the revolution they work to.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 08, 2026 04:28 PM (8avO+)

384 Space is...big.

Taking out thousands of satellites in a giant constellation across the entire planet would take thousands of missiles hitting their targets precisely.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 04:26 PM (GBKbO)

Why, there's only one nation that can do something like that! ... Oh, right, it's us. Well that's good. Got worried there for a second.

Poland might be able to too soon if we keep selling Literally Everything to them. But they seem pretty chill. Should be fine.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 04:28 PM (06Hmj)

385 376 I recently learned that Communist China outlawed birds at one point.

It didn't turn out well.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 04:26 PM (GBKbO)


How the hell do you do that?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2026 04:27 PM (Zz0t1)

Well, you start by making a Reeeaaally big cage, then

Posted by: tubal at January 08, 2026 04:28 PM (pDt9x)

386
So a hung jury?
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 08, 2026 04:28 PM (vzcgi)


I don't get it.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2026 04:28 PM (Zz0t1)

387
I’m old enough to remember when $1B was a lot of money. That was like 1995. lol.
Now $1B for the govt is a rounding error.

Or a fraction of a PowerBall winning ticket.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 08, 2026 04:29 PM (nAS9C)

388 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2026 04:25 PM (GyQIQ)

Space is...big.

Taking out thousands of satellites in a giant constellation across the entire planet would take thousands of missiles hitting their targets precisely.

A COUPLE OF ON ORBIT NUDETS WOULD WIPE ALMOST ALL BIRDS IN GEO-SYNC ORBIT..........

BUT ALSO DESTROY THEIR OWN ON ORBIT BIRDS...

Posted by: Jackson K. at January 08, 2026 04:29 PM (rvNIn)

389 "Taking out thousands of satellites in a giant constellation across the entire planet would take thousands of missiles hitting their targets precisely."

or maybe one satellite with a nice big laser weapon?

Posted by: illiniwek at January 08, 2026 04:29 PM (vbXSk)

390 know Weiss Jr. is following that prick, but has anyone else said they're leaving?
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Cloony said he's leaving but that would be a lie.

Posted by: torabora at January 08, 2026 04:29 PM (MkFn4)

391 Carlson is a propagandist for Islam.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 08, 2026 04:29 PM (gKWVE)

392 They hate science. Especially accounting. Also animal husbandry.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 08, 2026 04:29 PM (EyfuW)

393 376 I recently learned that Communist China outlawed birds at one point.

It didn't turn out well.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 04:26 PM (GBKbO)


How the hell do you do that?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2026 04:27 PM (Zz0t1)

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It was apparently some theory by a Russian that pigeons or some other bird were teaching crops bad things, that crops would grow better if China killed all the birds and prevented the passing of anti-communist propaganda from birds to plants (it was something shockingly close to that).

So, the directive came that they should all die. And the peasants went nuts killing them in cities and the country.

The bug population exploded in response.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 04:29 PM (GBKbO)

394 How the hell do you do that?
Posted by: Sponge
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Paid peasants to kill them. The wacked idea of Mao was that birds eat our crops and so must die. The thought of the birds going after insects, etc. never crossed his mind while he was cavorting with his harem.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 04:29 PM (WDjG6)

395 unexpectedly -- definition : adverb; producing positive or beneficial effects to the US economy, safety, interest, or status, especially when combined with increasing Donald Trump's approval rating.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 08, 2026 04:29 PM (XMwZJ)

396 don't get it.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Think "harder".

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 08, 2026 04:30 PM (vzcgi)

397
How the hell do you do that?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2026 04:27 PM (Zz0t1)

____________

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliminate_Sparrows_campaign

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 04:30 PM (tgvbd)

398
The bug population exploded in response.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 04:29 PM (GBKbO)


Well duh.

There's a reason China hasn't developed anything they didn't steal from The United States first.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2026 04:30 PM (Zz0t1)

399 389 "Taking out thousands of satellites in a giant constellation across the entire planet would take thousands of missiles hitting their targets precisely."

or maybe one satellite with a nice big laser weapon?

Posted by: illiniwek at January 08, 2026 04:29 PM (vbXSk)

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Again...space is real big. It would take a long time, long enough to take out a few and then get hit by a missile.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 04:31 PM (GBKbO)

400 385 376 I recently learned that Communist China outlawed birds at one point.

It didn't turn out well.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 04:26 PM (GBKbO)


How the hell do you do that?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2026 04:27 PM (Zz0t1)

Well, you start by making a Reeeaaally big cage, then
Posted by: tubal at January 08, 2026 04:28 PM (pDt9x)
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A bird jail in every home!

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at January 08, 2026 04:31 PM (36PRH)

401 Mao- Harem. My skin crawls.

Posted by: tubal at January 08, 2026 04:31 PM (pDt9x)

402 Linked In...I signed up for that once as the corp said they would be using it. Every so often they would send me notifications about my dead sister, not once anything useful.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 08, 2026 04:16 PM (8avO+)

LinkedIn is how I found out that my BIL is dead to me. I thought he was sane, unlike my sisters in law, but I was wrong.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 04:31 PM (ExV1e)

403 Poland might be able to too soon if we keep selling Literally Everything to them. But they seem pretty chill. Should be fine.
Posted by: Warai-otoko
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Poland and Hungary would be well served by going nuclear to protect their homelands. Both aren't that defensible from those to the West or Russia to the East.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 04:31 PM (WDjG6)

404 Funniest part of Econ is the qualifier of “imagine a perfect society where everyone acts rationally”. Uhm yeah so basically we’re dealing with a fantasy world in this lesson.
Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 04:08 PM (/HZvU)

Counterpoint:

Most famous question from Walter Williams for his Econ 611 (Graduate Microenomics) was "What do humans and flatworms have in common?"

Answer: "Both behave as though they are rational.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 08, 2026 04:31 PM (zjgNU)

405 Why are Commie Protesters always Extremely Homely Females or Spineless Pencil Armed Homos ????

Posted by: Jackson K. at January 08, 2026 04:31 PM (rvNIn)

406 , the directive came that they should all die. And the peasants went nuts killing them in cities and the country.

The bug population exploded in response.
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Win win!!!

Posted by: Eat Ze Bugz!!! at January 08, 2026 04:31 PM (1M7sl)

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It's the IRGC's headquarters for the Iranian capital city.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2026 04:31 PM (t/2Uw)

408 394 How the hell do you do that?
Posted by: Sponge
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Paid peasants to kill them. The wacked idea of Mao was that birds eat our crops and so must die. The thought of the birds going after insects, etc. never crossed his mind while he was cavorting with his harem.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 04:29 PM (WDjG6)

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One of the major reasons tens of millions of Chinese died in a few years under Mao.

Because science.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 04:31 PM (GBKbO)

409 Mao was a certifiable psychopath and sexual deviant.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 08, 2026 04:32 PM (XMwZJ)

410 When the Somali fraud money dries up there's going to be regional economic collapses.

Obama gamed all this out. He can't believe it's lasted 20 years.

Posted by: torabora at January 08, 2026 04:32 PM (MkFn4)

411 Nood. Minnesota and stuff.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 04:32 PM (ExV1e)

412 In all fairness, pigeons are an invasive menace to all cities.
Other birds are cool though.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 08, 2026 04:32 PM (gKWVE)

413 "I'm old enough to remember when breaking through $30M/mo was outrageous and scary. But that was so last century."

that should have been $30B

Posted by: illiniwek at January 08, 2026 04:32 PM (vbXSk)

414 How the hell do you do that?
Posted by: Sponge
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Serious answer because the subject fascinates me and I have asked people involved how it could happen.

They had the peasants go around with bamboo poles and just harass them 24 hours a day never letting them rest until they dropped dead of exhaustion. They couldn't eat, sleep, or nest.

This is what you can do with 1.2 billion idiots who worship Mao. It seems much of the country is within bamboo pole distance of a loyal peasant.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 08, 2026 04:33 PM (bIWgk)

415 Poland and Hungary would be well served by going nuclear to protect their homelands. Both aren't that defensible from those to the West or Russia to the East.
Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 04:31 PM (WDjG6)

Some days I swear we've already given Poland nuclear weapons and made them pinky swear to just not tell no one.

They have wayyyyy too much swagger for a non nuclear country that's spent 99% of the last three centuries being ruled by foreigners.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 04:33 PM (06Hmj)

416 391 Carlson is a propagandist for Islam.
Posted by: gKWVE
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He is a dhimmi for pay nowadays. Might as well go trans as well.

I understand that becoming trans is pretty common surgery in Iran fwiw.

That way, he would not have to go gay like he claims we are supporting in Venezuela.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 04:33 PM (WDjG6)

417 So a hung jury?
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 08, 2026 04:28 PM (vzcgi)

***

This is about me isn't it...

Posted by: Peter North at January 08, 2026 04:34 PM (Bo9Yf)

418
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliminate_Sparrows_campaign
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 04:30 PM (tgvbd)


Wow......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2026 04:34 PM (Zz0t1)

419
become a "service economy" (I hate that term and still don't know what it is supposed to mean.)

I mow your yard and you mow mine.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 08, 2026 04:34 PM (pkeXY)

420 This is what you can do with 1.2 billion idiots who worship Mao. It seems much of the country is within bamboo pole distance of a loyal peasant.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 08, 2026 04:33 PM (bIWgk)

God damn, even a stupid little story about birds winds up being brutal and horrible.

Fuck China. Seriously, what a horrible place full of horrible people.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 04:35 PM (06Hmj)

421 We could outlaw pigeons and seagulls.

Posted by: wth at January 08, 2026 04:35 PM (v0R5T)

422 Some days I swear we've already given Poland nuclear weapons and made them pinky swear to just not tell no one.

They have wayyyyy too much swagger for a non nuclear country that's spent 99% of the last three centuries being ruled by foreigners.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

They are a country like Japan or Taiwan, Australia, Germany, or Canada that could go nuclear in a very short period of time if they liked. All have the engineering expertise and access to nuclear materials to do it. The science is fully developed at this point and I am sure that plans for making them have been gathered by most of the developed world by now.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 04:35 PM (WDjG6)

423 Space is...big.

Taking out thousands of satellites in a giant constellation across the entire planet would take thousands of missiles hitting their targets precisely.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 04:26 PM (GBKbO)
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Not really. LEO is easy to get to. Throw a big satellite up in Starlink path and blow it up. Stuff hits the debris fields and turns into more debris. Big smear of debris across LEO would be fairly straightforward - albeit in an "if I'm going down, you're all coming with me" way.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2026 04:35 PM (GyQIQ)

424 Wow......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2026 04:34 PM (Zz0t1)

You never read or heard about the Pests campaign? Or the Olds (which saw a lot of history destroyed.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 08, 2026 04:36 PM (zZu0s)

425 uh oh, the smellies did something and now some are being chased down

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 08, 2026 04:37 PM (HXT0k)

426 That is where their predictive model breaks down. They consider economies as static (because dynamic models are quite frankly beyond macro right now overall) so a reduced trade deficit means less goods coming in and less competition and thus higher prices in the future. Ceterus paribus. ...
Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 04:28 PM (WDjG6)
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They also all pretend that the other kind of deficit - fiscal deficits - have nothing to do with inflation.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2026 04:37 PM (GyQIQ)

427 The Kessler Syndrome, also known as the Kessler Effect, collisional cascading, or ablation cascade, is a scenario proposed by NASA scientists Donald J. Kessler and Burton G. Cour-Palais in 1978. It describes a situation in which the density of objects in low Earth orbit (LEO) becomes so high due to space pollution that collisions between these objects cascade, exponentially increasing the amount of space debris over time. You may now continue.

Posted by: @SOEarpiece at January 08, 2026 04:38 PM (jc0TO)

428 423 Not really. LEO is easy to get to. Throw a big satellite up in Starlink path and blow it up. Stuff hits the debris fields and turns into more debris. Big smear of debris across LEO would be fairly straightforward - albeit in an "if I'm going down, you're all coming with me" way.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2026 04:35 PM (GyQIQ)

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From my understanding of an astrophysicist watching the movie Gravity...nah, bruh. It don't really work like that. Space is way too big.

Plus, it's not like those satellites are stationary. They can maneuver.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 04:38 PM (GBKbO)

429 Something isn't right with her bikini bottom

Posted by: Skip at January 08, 2026 04:38 PM (Ia/+0)

430 Japan could 'go nuclear' in about a week if they wanted to.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 08, 2026 04:38 PM (zZu0s)

431 Seriously, what a horrible place full of horrible people.
Posted by: Warai-otoko
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Most Chinese keep their heads down because the new boss is usually just the same or worse than the old boss. The choice of warlordism, invasion of new tyrants, or centralized existing tyrants has been the curse of the Chinese civilization since its history began.

Communism, by displacing traditional Confucianism, added the corrupt veneer of a decadent ruling class as well and destroyed morality among the rest of the population like in other commie nations.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 04:38 PM (WDjG6)

432 The effects off free trade have mainly been to transfer trillions of dollars of wealth to the already wealthy and to arm communists.

That's about it.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 08, 2026 04:39 PM (T3mTe)

433 Some smellie tossed a water bottle at ICE and now he's being chased down.

I'm sad we're not getting to see the Pavement Sandwich Eating Contest.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 08, 2026 04:39 PM (HXT0k)

434
You never read or heard about the Pests campaign? Or the Olds (which saw a lot of history destroyed.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 08, 2026 04:36 PM (zZu0s)


Small town Texas public education in the 80's, I guess. However, the Catholic school in Illinois didn't say anything about that either. I'd never heard about that before.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2026 04:39 PM (Zz0t1)

435 They also all pretend that the other kind of deficit - fiscal deficits - have nothing to do with inflation.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

That was when they changed GNP to GDP as a measure. GNP gave away the game.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 04:39 PM (WDjG6)

436 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2026 04:39 PM (Zz0t1)

437 I really dislike communism.

Just thought I'd put that out there.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 08, 2026 04:40 PM (zZu0s)

438 oh, the old smellie in the orange coat, who'd been wandering about for a bit, is being lead away in handcuffs.

He must've been the one who threw the water bottle.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 08, 2026 04:41 PM (HXT0k)

439 Japan could 'go nuclear' in about a week if they wanted to.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 08, 2026 04:38 PM (zZu0s)
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Back in 2020, I figured they would. Japan and Korea at least - and probably Taiwan - *could* have nuclear weapons in fairly short order if they need to. They choose not to because nukes are an exorbitant cost center and a security nightmare. If you don't need them for either your own security or your own external ambitions, pursuing them is foolish in the extreme.

After The Steal, though, it would surprise me not at all if the countries in Asia that *could* do it but *hadn't* yet immediately took the next logical step. Whether they've actually built bombs or just put everything together in a place where they can be assembled rapidly is way outside my knowledge, but I can't imagine they took no action after what happened Over Here. Our nukes were their security umbrella, and it could no longer be counted on. Probably still can't be.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2026 04:42 PM (GyQIQ)

440 Any businesses pulling out of state?

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 08, 2026 04:42 PM (EyfuW)

441 433 Some smellie tossed a water bottle at ICE and now he's being chased down.

I'm sad we're not getting to see the Pavement Sandwich Eating Contest.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

Some nutjob got shot in the face at close range with a pepperball by an ICE agent yesterday. Video is online if you care to dig for it.

Douchebag protester tried to grab the agent's pepperball gun (kind of like paintball gun). The left is showing the after affect in a still picture as an example of ICE terror. Instead, it shows the after effects of the dude in the whole confrontation video getting wrecked by the ICE agent teaching that sob a lesson. FAFO lesson.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 04:43 PM (WDjG6)

442
How the hell do you do that?
Posted by: Sponge
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Paid peasants to kill them. The wacked idea of Mao was that birds eat our crops and so must die. The thought of the birds going after insects, etc. never crossed his mind while he was cavorting with his harem.
Posted by: whig

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The Four Pests campaign destroyed some significant part of agriculture for a few years. Central Planning ftl!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 08, 2026 04:44 PM (Uo+RY)

443
Space is...big.

Taking out thousands of satellites in a giant constellation across the entire planet would take thousands of missiles hitting their targets precisely.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 04:26 PM (GBKbO)

It wouldn't take thousands of missiles. Read up on the Kessler effect. It's a real concern and we're getting closer to it than ever due to the increase in these mega constellations.

Posted by: Farquad at January 08, 2026 04:45 PM (CFMhl)

444 Heartwarming pepperball video is at Gunther Eagleman's X account and link to it for non x is at yesterday's GWP.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 04:45 PM (WDjG6)

445 The Four Pests campaign destroyed some significant part of agriculture for a few years. Central Planning ftl!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

And yet curiously millions died. Communism is nothing more than putting deranged killers in charge of an economy. Those they do not kill directly are killed indirectly by the Commies stupid crusades.

Another stupid move by Mao was to order peasants to make steel in their backyards.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 04:47 PM (WDjG6)

446 After The Steal, though, it would surprise me not at all if the countries in Asia that *could* do it but *hadn't* yet immediately took the next logical step. Whether they've actually built bombs or just put everything together in a place where they can be assembled rapidly is way outside my knowledge, but I can't imagine they took no action after what happened Over Here. Our nukes were their security umbrella, and it could no longer be counted on. Probably still can't be.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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Taiwan was part of the South Africa and Israel research group that led to a nuke being set off in south of S. Africa in the late eighties.

They have the plans, the nuke material, and the test knowledge from that action.

Reportedly Japan has the components but have never crossed the line to make one. Estimates back in the day was that Japan would probably take a week or two to assemble one.

Taiwan might take an additional couple of weeks as Japan actually reprocesses nuke fuel while I don't think Taiwan does.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 04:51 PM (WDjG6)

447 A COUPLE OF ON ORBIT NUDETS WOULD WIPE ALMOST ALL BIRDS IN GEO-SYNC ORBIT..........

BUT ALSO DESTROY THEIR OWN ON ORBIT BIRDS...
Posted by: Jackson K. at January 08, 2026 04:29 PM (rvNIn)

Few of these sats are up at GeoSync orbits, they are too high. New satellites are lower down like navigation satellites and rely on swapping between satellites

Posted by: Oldcat at January 08, 2026 04:54 PM (8avO+)

448 Taiwan was part of the South Africa and Israel research group that led to a nuke being set off in south of S. Africa in the late eighties.

They have the plans, the nuke material, and the test knowledge from that action."

I'm glad to see you confirm that. I've heard rumors of such a thing for 30 years, but was never really sure. I had heard it was set off far at sea where no surveillance satellites at the time could spot it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2026 04:55 PM (uWKK8)

449 Taiwan is pretty smart. Their high school students breeze through American schools.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 08, 2026 04:59 PM (EyfuW)

450 The Kessler Syndrome, also known as the Kessler Effect, collisional cascading, or ablation cascade, is a scenario proposed by NASA scientists Donald J. Kessler and Burton G. Cour-Palais in 1978. It describes a situation in which the density of objects in low Earth orbit (LEO) becomes so high due to space pollution that collisions between these objects cascade, exponentially increasing the amount of space debris over time. You may now continue.
Posted by: @SOEarpiece at January 08, 2026 04:38 PM (jc0TO)

Like most scare stories from academia, they don't take into account that you could actually make devices that absorb space trash in orbit if there is money in it.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 08, 2026 04:59 PM (8avO+)

451 China bought Forbes in 2014.

Posted by: Al in St. Louis at January 08, 2026 05:32 PM (pKne7)

Revealed: The ICE Agent Who Shot the Paid Antifa Disruptor When She Turned Her Car on Him... Had Been Run Over By An Illegal Alien Six Months Ago, and Dragged Down the Street With His Arm Trapped in the Car

But they're just "protesting," you know.


The ICE agent who opened fire in Minneapolis Wednesday was dragged 100 yards by an illegal migrant in Minnesota last June after his arm was trapped inside the vehicle during a traffic stop, The Post can reveal.

The attack on the officer, whom The Post is not naming, happened June 17 in Bloomington, Minnesota, exactly a month after embattled Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz labeled ICE agents "modern-day Gestapo" while speaking at a University of Minnesota Law School graduation in May.

ICE agents conducted a traffic stop on Roberto Carlos Munoz, a serial illegal immigrant from Guatemala with a lengthy rap sheet with charges including domestic assault and sex crimes against an underage teenager, according to records.

Munoz refused to exit his vehicle when officers approached his car, and the officer broke the back window in order to open the vehicle from the inside.

The suspect then sped away with the ICE agent's arm caught between the seat and the car frame, according to the Justice Department.

Prosecutors said he was violently dragged more than 100 yards as the suspect weaved back and forth in an attempt to shake him loose from the car.

The agent was hospitalized with "significant injuries to his arm and hand," requiring 33 stitches, but made a full recovery, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement at the time.

...

A photo shared by CBS Minnesota showed the agent laid out on a hospital bed displaying his arms, one covered in blood seeping from several deep gashes.

Munoz was arrested and charged with assaulting the officer and was convicted by a federal jury last month.

This woman, who worked for the George Soros funded, Antifa defense communist law firm the National Lawyers Guild, attempted to disrupt lawful ICE operations with her vehicle.

The Democrats are now calling this political vigilantism "legal observer" work.

shewasalegalobserver.jpg

Tim Walz wants a Civil War -- and we shouldn't be shy about giving it to him.


TheJamesMadison speculated -- or passed on the rumor -- that Walz dropped out of the race because he was served with an official DOJ "targeting letter" informing him that he was a now an official law enforcement target in the exploding fraud scandal. Walz may be looking to launch a civil war just to stay out of jail.

The people crying over the justifiable shooting of this paid Antifa whore were giddy over the execution of Ashley Babbit for Unauthorized Parading.

Posted by: Ace at 02:24 PM




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1 We can't take his subjective view of the matter.

We can only take the subjective view of the driver, who is dead, through a medium.

That's the law, jack.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 02:25 PM (GBKbO)

2 2nd!

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 08, 2026 02:26 PM (XMwZJ)

3 In before that guy that overshares!

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 08, 2026 02:26 PM (jc0TO)

4 Hooded again.

Whig, got through my lumbar fusion surgery well yesterday. Robot assisted, minimally, sort of, invasive.

I can walk steps, but sore.

The doc made me wake up at 3:30am and power down 24 oz of Gatorade. Stops the nausea associated with the anesthesia.

Good luck on your surgery! And recovery. I can’t go to work for about a month.

Posted by: Henry at January 08, 2026 02:27 PM (tWkg3)

5 The internet has made people stupid.

Stupider.

Posted by: huerfano at January 08, 2026 02:27 PM (98kQX)

6 They do seem to be trying to make maximum hay with this. My guess is they are pushing it now under less than ideal circumstances because the funding shit in Minnesota is vital.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 08, 2026 02:28 PM (zZu0s)

7 That chick in the Clown World video needs a Snickers.

And a few laps around the track.

Posted by: Crusader, former Federal Bank Examiner at January 08, 2026 02:28 PM (TN0g+)

8 requiring 33 stitches, but made a full recovery

Um, stuff like that can affect you for the rest of your life. Not so sure about this 'full' thing here.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 08, 2026 02:28 PM (mlg/3)

9 Greg Price: "Tim Walz: "When things looked bleak, it was Minnesota's 1st that held that line for the nation on July 3rd, 1863, and I think now we may be in that moment."

This guy has lost his damn mind."
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This coming from a POS that resigned his post as an acting Sgt. Major just before his unit deployed overseas.

Posted by: mrp at January 08, 2026 02:28 PM (rj6Yv)

10 ICE should go full-on Untouchables now. "They send one of ours to the hospital, we send one of theirs to the morgue!"

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at January 08, 2026 02:29 PM (pco75)

11 Munoz was arrested and charged with assaulting the officer and was convicted by a federal jury last month."

And will be out in 6 months on good behavior

/likely

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 02:29 PM (XuXeR)

12 a serial illegal immigrant = A SERIAL CRIMINAL ILLEGAL INVADER

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 08, 2026 02:29 PM (xvV+O)

13 The internet has made people stupid.

Nah. Just makes it more widely visible. Also allows them to network.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 08, 2026 02:29 PM (OUMaO)

14 Good for VP Vance!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 02:30 PM (8Xy/A)

15 5 The internet has made people stupid.

Stupider.
Posted by: huerfano at January 08, 2026 02:27 PM (98kQX)

They were always stupid, they are just more exposed now.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 08, 2026 02:30 PM (6Bc88)

16 The doc made me wake up at 3:30am and power down 24 oz of Gatorade. Stops the nausea associated with the anesthesia.
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Hope that works well. My post-operative intestinal problems have been much more debilitaing than the surgery itself.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 08, 2026 02:30 PM (XeU6L)

17 Nah. Just makes it more widely visible. Also allows them to network.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 08, 2026 02:29 PM

The herd of independent thinkers.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 08, 2026 02:30 PM (jc0TO)

18 CALM DOWN SOUR TITS!

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 08, 2026 02:30 PM (xvV+O)

19 The internet has made people stupid.

Nah... they've always been stupid. It's just on display now.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at January 08, 2026 02:31 PM (pco75)

20 I don't remember hearing anything about the car dragging story. Must not have been a "Dark Day in History".

Posted by: ... at January 08, 2026 02:31 PM (0Sg1Q)

21 I'm amazed the guy was still on the job. Certainly after getting dragged by a car he coulda gotta disability waiver and pension. But the guy was still out there on the mean streets shooting trantifa fucknuggets in the face. Props.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 02:31 PM (iFTx/)

22 Minnesota's 1st that held that line for the nation on July 3rd, 1863, "

The 20th Maine says "fix bayonets"

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 02:31 PM (XuXeR)

23 3 In before that guy that overshares!
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 08, 2026 02:26 PM (jc0TO)

Well if you don't want to know what new color that container in the back of my fridge has turned today, then fine.

Harrumph.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 02:31 PM (06Hmj)

24 The internet has made people stupid.

Stupider.
Posted by: huerfano at January 08, 2026 02:27 PM (98kQX)

They were always stupid, they are just more exposed now.
Posted by: tcn
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Smart phones + social media have brought about a near catastrophic degration of society.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 08, 2026 02:31 PM (XeU6L)

25 You know what would make our society better?
More middle aged white women with too much time on their hands overdosing on SSRI pharmaceuticals.
That's what would make our society better!

Posted by: Said no one ever at January 08, 2026 02:32 PM (H8Ose)

26 -26 this morning. You'd think this was Fairbanks. You can bet nobody here will be protesting anything outside on the street.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 08, 2026 02:32 PM (6Bc88)

27 Yikes that screeching blimpo is scary....

Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2026 02:32 PM (VE6XX)

28 If the woman thought she was justified in what she was doing why was she trying to run?
And it's stupid to argue with law enforcement in the first place. They order you to stop, you stop.

Posted by: Case at January 08, 2026 02:32 PM (4rWc3)

29 Shouldn't a "legal observer" be, I don't know, too busy observing from a good vantage point and thus not right the fck in the middle of things?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 02:32 PM (ULPxl)

30 *degradation

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 08, 2026 02:32 PM (XeU6L)

31 So The Blade was correct that this story would be mostly gone by the end of the weekend?

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 02:32 PM (iFTx/)

32 I'm getting some ad that locks the main page for AoS.

Firefox hasn't worked for weeks, but this is locking the AoS mainpage in chrome as well

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 02:32 PM (sKqQm)

33 Has Jimmy Kimmel stopped crying over the death of this Karen?

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at January 08, 2026 02:33 PM (4xEtP)

34 CALM DOWN SOUR TITS!"

Hey, that's what the guy should've yelled!

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 02:33 PM (XuXeR)

35 Good luck on your surgery! And recovery. I can’t go to work for about a month.
Posted by: Henry
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Thanks. I replied at the end of the other thread but basically great news on your surgery going fine, prayers to you for a speedy recovery and resuming work. In my case, locked and loaded for surgery next month but trying to clear the deck for my wife before I go under the knife including legal and practical matters just in case.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 02:33 PM (WDjG6)

36 "Smart phones + social media have brought about a near catastrophic degration of society."

SmartPhones, StupidPeople

Posted by: Bad Andrew at January 08, 2026 02:33 PM (DgMqy)

37 This woman bravely gave her life so Somalis can run fake day care centers.

They've officially hit peak stupid.

Posted by: Taylor at January 08, 2026 02:33 PM (MvZ7K)

38 31 So The Blade was correct that this story would be mostly gone by the end of the weekend?
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 02:32 PM (iFTx/)

They're just getting started....

Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2026 02:33 PM (VE6XX)

39 That last video. She seems Minnesota nice.

Posted by: Performative bullshit at January 08, 2026 02:33 PM (TbWk/)

40 it hardly needs saying, but there is no such thing as a "legal observer". The words have no meaning.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2026 02:33 PM (uWKK8)

41 Jan 8, 2026
@greg_price11
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Tim Walz: "When things looked bleak, it was Minnesota's 1st that held that line for the nation on July 3rd, 1863, and I think now we may be in that moment."

This guy has lost his damn mind.

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I've said it before, but:

If Walz knows he's cooked from the Somali corruption probe, if he knows that the DOJ is targeting him in a criminal probe and there's no way he gets out of it, he has every incentive to try and turn his personal culpability into a cause celebre by hiding it behind leading the left in the Second Civil War.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 02:33 PM (GBKbO)

42 TheJamesMadison speculated -- or passed on the rumor -- that Walz dropped out of the race because he was served with an official DOJ "targeting letter" informing him that he was a now an official law enforcement target in the exploding fraud scandal. Walz may be looking to launch a civil war just to stay out of jail.

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It's tea leaf reading, but it seems plausible.

And I will hold onto the plausibility until proven otherwise.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 02:34 PM (GBKbO)

43 32 I'm getting some ad that locks the main page for AoS.

Firefox hasn't worked for weeks, but this is locking the AoS mainpage in chrome as well
Posted by: 18-1
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Brave without any extensions. If you are on ios, Safari is the underlying codebase for all browsers and so any browser skin won't work on occasion.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 02:34 PM (WDjG6)

44 >>> 37 This woman bravely gave her life so Somalis can run fake day care centers.

They've officially hit peak stupid.
Posted by: Taylor at January 08, 2026 02:33 PM (MvZ7K)

Hey, maybe *that's* what all those "I make $37,000 a day working from home" spambots were selling!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 02:34 PM (ULPxl)

45 legal observer"

Where, exactly, can I get that certification? Does it come on nice paper, suitable for framing?

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 02:35 PM (XuXeR)

46 Brave without any extensions. If you are on ios, Safari is the underlying codebase for all browsers and so any browser skin won't work on occasion.
Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 02:34 PM (WDjG6)

Vivaldi is another one that works good.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 08, 2026 02:35 PM (N39Ws)

47 You know what would make our society better?
More middle aged white women with too much time on their hands overdosing on SSRI pharmaceuticals.
That's what would make our society better!

Western countries have always had a problem with bored upper middle class women but in previous years society focused them on issues that nominally needed attention - not saying that ended well, but you could see how alcoholism, for example, was a problem in the early 1900s.

The New Left pointed these women at things that aren't problems and now they are wrecking our society.

Also, it doesn't help that a few generations ago these women had children and grandchildren to occupy their energies and now they have...cats.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 02:35 PM (sKqQm)

48 He's invoking their Civil War record to justify an insurrection (an actual literal one) against the federal government?

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Calling out the national guard to protect illegal immigrants from ICE raids will be edifying.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 02:35 PM (GBKbO)

49 Howdy Hordelings. At the hospital with my mom. She has the flu and it's hitting her hard. She needed ambulance transport this morning because she couldn't get out of bed. She's alert and communicating better now but still very weak. Appreciate prayers for her recovery. And for me because I absolutely despise hospitals. But mostly for her.

Posted by: Doof at January 08, 2026 02:35 PM (NFdz3)

50 Even her wife told her to knock it off.

Posted by: Quality Lerning Center at January 08, 2026 02:35 PM (MkFn4)

51 >>> 41 Jan 8, 2026
@greg_price11
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Follow
Tim Walz: "When things looked bleak, it was Minnesota's 1st that held that line for the nation on July 3rd, 1863, and I think now we may be in that moment."

This guy has lost his damn mind.

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I've said it before, but:

If Walz knows he's cooked from the Somali corruption probe, if he knows that the DOJ is targeting him in a criminal probe and there's no way he gets out of it, he has every incentive to try and turn his personal culpability into a cause celebre by hiding it behind leading the left in the Second Civil War.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 02:33 PM (GBKbO)

Fuck you, Timmeh.

Posted by: zombie Joshua Chamberlain at January 08, 2026 02:36 PM (ULPxl)

52 In before that guy that overshares!
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 08, 2026 02:26 PM (jc0TO)

4 Hooded again.

Whig, got through my lumbar fusion surgery well yesterday. Robot assisted, minimally, sort of, invasive.

I can walk steps, but sore.

The doc made me wake up at 3:30am and power down 24 oz of Gatorade. Stops the nausea associated with the anesthesia.

Good luck on your surgery! And recovery. I can’t go to work for about a month.
Posted by: Henry at January 08, 2026 02:27 PM (tWkg3)

Looks like you just made it.

Posted by: Let me tell you about this toenail fungus at January 08, 2026 02:36 PM (TbWk/)

53 Has Timmy Walz ever been tested for cretinism?

Posted by: Moon Calf at January 08, 2026 02:36 PM (GlDYx)

54 Appreciate prayers for her recovery. And for me because I absolutely despise hospitals. But mostly for her.
Posted by: Doof at January 08, 2026 02:35 PM (NFdz3)



You got it..

Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2026 02:36 PM (VE6XX)

55 They're just getting started...."

So is the cold front. There are some seriously chilly temps on the way.

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 02:36 PM (XuXeR)

56 40 it hardly needs saying, but there is no such thing as a "legal observer". The words have no meaning.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2026 02:33 PM


Now do "International law."

Posted by: No such thing at January 08, 2026 02:36 PM (H8Ose)

57 Wtf is a "legal observer"? I'm a lawyer and I never heard that term before. They just made it up. It's also stupid and rolls off the tongue about as well as gooey stuff dripping out of Kamala's mouth. The Democraps are retards.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 02:37 PM (iFTx/)

58 Prayers up, Doof.

Posted by: Nazdar at January 08, 2026 02:37 PM (NcvvS)

59 49 Howdy Hordelings. At the hospital with my mom. She has the flu and it's hitting her hard. She needed ambulance transport this morning because she couldn't get out of bed. She's alert and communicating better now but still very weak. Appreciate prayers for her recovery. And for me because I absolutely despise hospitals. But mostly for her.

Posted by: Doof at January 08, 2026 02:35 PM (NFdz3)

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God speed, good sir.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 02:37 PM (GBKbO)

60 Tim Walz: "When things looked bleak, it was Minnesota's 1st that held that line for the nation on July 3rd, 1863, and I think now we may be in that moment."


So Timpon can you explain to me for a moment...were those men you are lauding called up by the president to put down an insurrection by a group of governors that believed they didn't have to follow federal law?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 02:37 PM (sKqQm)

61 Doesn't that "legal observer" shit go back to the smellies in the '60s shitting up the streets over the same kind of nonsense?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 02:37 PM (06Hmj)

62 So being a "legal observer" means you're immune from any kind of legal command from LEOs or even private property owners.

"Officer, I wasn't peeping into that women's changing room, I was legally observing them to make sure they're following the laws as they change clothing."

By the way, a belated Happy New Year to everyone. Hope everyone's doing (at least relatively) well.

Posted by: Thrawn at January 08, 2026 02:37 PM (9Ovst)

63 Good luck on your surgery! And recovery. I can’t go to work for about a month.
Posted by: Henry

Glad you are OK, but no snowboarding or parkour for two weeks!

Posted by: Safety Patrol at January 08, 2026 02:37 PM (oftw2)

64 Even her wife told her to knock it off.
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I bet her wife is secretly thinking "Hey man nice shot..."

Posted by: Crusader, former Federal Bank Examiner at January 08, 2026 02:37 PM (TN0g+)

65 {{{Doof}}}

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 02:37 PM (ULPxl)

66 Posted by: Doof at January 08, 2026 02:35 PM (NFdz3)

Will pray for healing for your mother, and patience for you as well.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 02:37 PM (8Xy/A)

67 Without the 20th Maine on July 2nd there would not have been much of a July 3rd.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 08, 2026 02:37 PM (jc0TO)

68 -26 this morning. You'd think this was Fairbanks. You can bet nobody here will be protesting anything outside on the street.
Posted by: tcn in AK

26? Pfft.
Wait, is that a Minus 26?
Celsius or Fahrenheit?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 08, 2026 02:37 PM (/lPRQ)

69 Three thoughts:

1. FAFO.
2. Big or small, deport them all.
3. It shouldn't be easier to vote than it is to buy a gun.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 08, 2026 02:37 PM (0sNs1)

70 29 Shouldn't a "legal observer" be, I don't know, too busy observing from a good vantage point and thus not right the fck in the middle of things?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

National Guild commies were right alongside their antifa active participants, filming, etc. so that lawsuits could be filed.

The entire activist left are shitheads that want martyrs so that funds can be raised, people recruited, and the Revolution advanced.

Just like the commie lawyers did way back with Sacco and Venzetti and later the Scottsboro Boys. The point was not to defend their clients but instead to create martyrs and political hoopla.

All those bastards should be disbarred from legal practice.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 02:37 PM (WDjG6)

71
The 1st Minnesota was the only force Hancock had to try to stop the rebel advance. He ordered Col. Colville, "See those colors? Take them." 262 men went in, 47 came out, with the colors.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 02:38 PM (tgvbd)

72 56 40 it hardly needs saying, but there is no such thing as a "legal observer". The words have no meaning.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2026 02:33 PM


Now do "International law."

Posted by: No such thing at January 08, 2026 02:36 PM (H8Ose)

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A loose collection of treaties and agreements that can only be enforced through war but people act like proclamations are just as good?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 02:38 PM (GBKbO)

73 13 The internet has made people stupid.

Nah. Just makes it more widely visible. Also allows them to network.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 08, 2026 02:29 PM (OUMaO)

Social media is a force multiplier for stupid.

Posted by: Hit the bell and smash the subscribe button at January 08, 2026 02:38 PM (TbWk/)

74 Legal observer = community organizer
They are inventive with the descriptors.

Posted by: torabora at January 08, 2026 02:38 PM (MkFn4)

75 I am a licensed and uniformed Beagle Observer, good sir.

Posted by: Snoopy at January 08, 2026 02:38 PM (7Q0e+)

76 Crisis actors on you tube. This is a color revolution build up.
Buckle up.

Posted by: No joke at January 08, 2026 02:38 PM (1M7sl)

77 The left then: No one has the right to drive into a person just because they feel endangered

The left now: The ICE agent deserved it! He stood in front of this women's car while the other agents were trying to arrest her!

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 02:38 PM (sKqQm)

78 Minnesota's 1st that held that line for the nation on July 3rd, 1863, "

The 20th Maine says "fix bayonets"
Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 02:31 PM (XuXeR)
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The magnificent 1st MN Infantry Regiment fixed their bayonets and charged an onrushing Confederate force several times their number to buy time for Hancock while he built a new defensive line. The 1st Minnesota wasn't holding anything - every man knew they were going to be slaughtered. They had the highest casualty rate for a regiment in the Union Army during the three-day Battle of Gettysburg.

And for Walz to even compare himself to the valor of those brave men is disgusting and infuriating to me.

Posted by: mrp at January 08, 2026 02:38 PM (rj6Yv)

79
Is that last video a man pretending to be a woman?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 08, 2026 02:38 PM (iDnLi)

80 Posted by: Doof at January 08, 2026 02:35 PM (NFdz3)

Prayers up brother 🙏

Posted by: browndog on the Maid of the Mist at January 08, 2026 02:38 PM (TTAGa)

81 Dual MOS:
legal observer
ICE agitator

Posted by: one hour sober at January 08, 2026 02:38 PM (Y1sOo)

82 67 Without the 20th Maine on July 2nd there would not have been much of a July 3rd.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 08, 2026 02:37 PM (jc0TO)

Maine has it's own Somalian fraud problem - primarily focused on Lewiston aka "Little Mogadishu".

You remember Lewiston, right? That was where the mass shooting happened a couple years ago.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 08, 2026 02:38 PM (N39Ws)

83 Vivaldi is another one that works good"

Chopin is better....

*time 4 a doof prayer *

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 02:38 PM (XuXeR)

84 Beau Biden died at Antietam.

Posted by: Not a joke at January 08, 2026 02:38 PM (H8Ose)

85 Appreciate prayers for her recovery. And for me because I absolutely despise hospitals. But mostly for her.

Posted by: Doof
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Done. Prayers sent for you, your family, and mother.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 02:39 PM (WDjG6)

86 "If you bastards keep trying to make me give up all these black people that I bought and paid for, we're going to war!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 02:39 PM (06Hmj)

87 It's not nice in Minnesota.
Another leftist double speak.

Posted by: torabora at January 08, 2026 02:39 PM (MkFn4)

88 People using their cars for "direct action" should expect some "direct action" in return.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 08, 2026 02:40 PM (vbXSk)

89 Watchdd Kristi Noam from last night, she mentioned this agent was in another car attack. And there hss been many car ramming going on around the country as well as In Minnesota

Posted by: Skip at January 08, 2026 02:40 PM (Ia/+0)

90 Wait, is that a Minus 26?
Celsius or Fahrenheit?"

Kelvin

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 02:40 PM (XuXeR)

91 Posted by: Doof at January 08, 2026 02:35 PM (NFdz3)

Prayers offered for your mom, you and family. Had pneumonia a couple months ago that landed me a 5 day stay. It sucks.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 08, 2026 02:40 PM (N39Ws)

92 And for Walz to even compare himself to the valor of those brave men is disgusting and infuriating to me.
Posted by: mrp
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His abandonment of his own NG unit heading for combat is simply the cherry on the cake.

Walz is an evil Chicom pedo clown that has no problem causing death and mayhem just so he can stay outta jail.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 02:40 PM (WDjG6)

93 Well shit, I did *not* know that about the 1st MN (or at best, forgot).

Let us hope timmeh soon learns the difference between himself and those guys, the hard way.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 02:40 PM (ULPxl)

94 Doesn't that "legal observer" shit go back to the smellies in the '60s shitting up the streets over the same kind of nonsense?
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Legal observers can and did get arrested when they broke the law. Running over a guy arresting you is frowned upon. With lead.

Posted by: No joke at January 08, 2026 02:40 PM (1M7sl)

95 39 That last video. She seems Minnesota nice.
Posted by: Performative bullshit at January 08, 2026 02:33 PM (TbWk/)

"She"

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at January 08, 2026 02:40 PM (0bjKf)

96 So being a "legal observer" means you're immune from any kind of legal command from LEOs or even private property owners.

"Officer, I wasn't peeping into that women's changing room, I was legally observing them to make sure they're following the laws as they change clothing."

Jacking off in the ladies room at Planet Fitness is ok though.

Posted by: As one does. at January 08, 2026 02:40 PM (TbWk/)

97 Speaking of Chamberlain and the MN unit at Gettysburg it is certainly an interesting historical what if. Give them a leader like Timpon and they run...and the confederates turn the union flank...which probably gives Lee the major victory on Union soil he wanted.

But...does it actually matter? Does Britain or France recognize the confederates for it? By this point I don't think so...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 02:40 PM (sKqQm)

98 I'm beginning to think sexual deviants have problems with anger issues and impulse control. Crazy lesbians and lunatic cross-dressers seem to be flooding the zone with mayhem. Perhaps we should start funding state asylums with a bit more vigor.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 08, 2026 02:41 PM (6Bc88)

99 Be advised that if you flex on Mr. Walz, the other two pillars of Modern Masculinity, Messers Emhoff and Hogg, are likely to flex on you.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 08, 2026 02:41 PM (0sNs1)

100 Video from Mashad. ICRG are shooting people. People calling for help from Trump and Bibi,

https://www.youtube.com/live/KFWc37fNG1k

Internet is out --- video gets out via starlink.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at January 08, 2026 02:41 PM (kvcnI)

101 Well now I want an "I'm a Legal Observer, y'all" certificate to put next to my scotus frames.

Posted by: NCKate at January 08, 2026 02:41 PM (uQzkA)

102 So The Blade was correct that this story would be mostly gone by the end of the weekend?
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 02:32 PM (iFTx/)

They're just getting started....
Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2026 02:33 PM (VE6XX)
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Nah. I think it's already dying because nobody cares about a dead dyke who kicked a bear in the nuts. The more they talk about her, the more it calls attention to MN and why ICE was there (Somali fraud, etc).

Plus, unlike with Saint George of the Holy Overdose, our side is pushing back with positive reporting on the ICE cop. This story won't get traction in the mainstream, and will die.

By Monday, the Outrage Media will have moved on to another Outrage. That's my prediction, at least.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 02:41 PM (iFTx/)

103 She"
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell "

Heh

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 02:41 PM (XuXeR)

104 88 People using their cars for "direct action" should expect some "direct action" in return.
Posted by: illiniwek
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Cars, by statute, are considered lethal weapons when assaulting federal agents.

So lethal response is warranted to such attacks.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 02:41 PM (WDjG6)

105 legal observer"

Where, exactly, can I get that certification? Does it come on nice paper, suitable for framing?
Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 02:35 PM (XuXeR)

Same place the looney left get their "Press" and "Medic" badge kits for "mostly peaceful protests." It's a PO Box in Pueblo, CO, left unused after the US Gubmint stopped printing up all them brochures.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 08, 2026 02:42 PM (wVcYX)

106 "CALM DOWN SOUR TITS!"

I would say calm down fake tits.

and no jacking the ladypenis after the video.

Posted by: barbarausa at January 08, 2026 02:42 PM (enw9G)

107 I can find no name for the "wife" who was filming yesterday and later sitting in the snow with their dog.

The dyke admits it was "her" fault that the dead lesbo was there. Rumored very early that the "wife/widow" was "well known" as a paid agitator. I read fast and free and am positive I saw this comment in the UK DM yesterday, when the black man was talking to her sobbing as she sat in the snow and she said she was new there and had no friends.

I want to know the name to try to find the rumored child abuse of this person. I say rumored because I am an honest "reporter" and "observer" who is not a dyke.

IF that rumor is true, and this person did burn the child with a cig, I do hope and pray the paternal grandfather can obtain custody. I am unsure but think he resides in CO, where the father of this child died in 2023.

Dyke martyr was apparently married twice and has two older children not living with her. So some comments of her ex husband are the first husband, I guess. Family members of one of the husbands (assume, male) say she had no business there blocking traffic.

It is now written that this "couple" did recently arrive from Missouri, hence the tags on the SUV yesterday.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 08, 2026 02:42 PM (WONhk)

108 I'm beginning to think sexual deviants have problems with anger issues and impulse control. Crazy lesbians and lunatic cross-dressers seem to be flooding the zone with mayhem. Perhaps we should start funding state asylums with a bit more vigor.
Posted by: tcn in AK at January 08, 2026 02:41 PM (6Bc8

You know who has the highest divorce and domestic violence rates? Lesbian couples.

Posted by: Probably because of patriarchy at January 08, 2026 02:42 PM (TbWk/)

109 I will bet that getting shot in the face was not on that Good woman's to-do list for the day.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 08, 2026 02:42 PM (jc0TO)

110 Doof, it seems every virus has been weaponized since they sicced Covid on us. A cold is no longer a cold, and flu isn't just flu anymore. And they l-i-n-g-e-r. And sometimes morph into pnuemonia, viral and bacterial. Good you got Mom to help quickly.

Posted by: Hang Fauci! (metaphorically) at January 08, 2026 02:43 PM (oftw2)

111 102
Plus, unlike with Saint George of the Holy Overdose, our side is pushing back with positive reporting on the ICE cop. This story won't get traction in the mainstream, and will die.

By Monday, the Outrage Media will have moved on to another Outrage. That's my prediction, at least.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 02:41 PM (iFTx/)

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The FBI won't be kneeling to lesbians over this.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 02:43 PM (GBKbO)

112 Minnesota is looking like it has declared war on President Trump

Posted by: Skip at January 08, 2026 02:43 PM (Ia/+0)

113 Good lord. That last video.

Can ICE send someone to deport or kill this bitch, too?

There's no way a warthog is here on a US visa.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 08, 2026 02:43 PM (BI5O2)

114 Women don't have wives.

Posted by: And everybody knows it at January 08, 2026 02:43 PM (H8Ose)

115 100 Video from Mashad. ICRG are shooting people. People calling for help from Trump and Bibi,

https://www.youtube.com/live/KFWc37fNG1k

Internet is out --- video gets out via starlink.
Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at January 08, 2026 02:41 PM (kvcnI)



Awful...Doubt we can do much.. Looks like the Senate has voted to tie Trump's hands in these matters and I'd really rather we didn't get too involved.. Hate to say it

Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2026 02:43 PM (VE6XX)

116 99 Be advised that if you flex on Mr. Walz, the other two pillars of Modern Masculinity, Messers Emhoff and Hogg, are likely to flex on you.
Posted by: Duncanthrax
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Hogg violated teh Dem rules, he stole from the crime bosses at the DNC. I think you will hear and see a lot less of him nowadays. Emhoff is busy chasing tail at his law firm while unemployed Kamala stays home and smokes weed and daydrinks.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 02:43 PM (WDjG6)

117 Give them a leader like Timpon and they run...and the confederates turn the union flank...which probably gives Lee the major victory on Union soil he wanted."

Personally, I'd prefer the W.T. Sherman approach. They want war, let's give it to them, good and hard.

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 02:43 PM (XuXeR)

118 Praying Doof.

Posted by: ... at January 08, 2026 02:44 PM (0Sg1Q)

119 Minnesota's 1st that held that line for the nation on July 3rd, 1863, "

The 20th Maine says "fix bayonets"
Posted by: man

Maine, Minnesota, it was one of those "M" states!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 08, 2026 02:44 PM (L/fGl)

120 If one wants to go play at being a Revolutionary, be aware that there may be consequences. This seems to be lost on some of our privileged entitled Revolutionaries.

Posted by: tubal at January 08, 2026 02:44 PM (pDt9x)

121 IF that rumor is true, and this person did burn the child with a cig, I do hope and pray the paternal grandfather can obtain custody. I am unsure but think he resides in CO, where the father of this child died in 2023.

I suspect the people that tell us spanking is child abuse will rush to defend Sade McLesbo here...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 02:44 PM (sKqQm)

122 Now they will say that ICE agent should not have been on duty because his past trauma caused him to do something rash.

Posted by: fd at January 08, 2026 02:44 PM (vFG9F)

123 he has every incentive to try and turn his personal culpability into a cause celebre by hiding it behind leading the left in the Second Civil War.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 02:33 PM (GBKbO)

He'd have to be both amoral and stupid beyond measure.

Not saying you're wrong...

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 08, 2026 02:45 PM (zZu0s)

124 112 Minnesota is looking like it has declared war on President Trump

Posted by: Skip at January 08, 2026 02:43 PM (Ia/+0)

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Declaring war on the commander in chief of the United States Armed Forces, huh?

How many of the 8,000 MN National Guard will stand between Walz and Trump guarding Walz?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 02:45 PM (GBKbO)

125 Now that's what I call a case of PTSD.

Post-Traumatic Trigger Disorder!

NTTAWWT ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 02:45 PM (IpnJw)

126 I remember being in a muslim country, I think it was around 2001, but before the war.

I was with an English girl who insisted on wearing her tight dresses when we went out to dinner. She was OK during the day, but she wanted to dress up at night. The old ugly arab women would yell at her for showing her knees (and maybe decolletage) in public. I thought it was bizarre but now it reminds me of these crazy tictoc karens. It must be something in the ovaries or something. Some chemical that oozes out and makes women crazy.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 08, 2026 02:45 PM (bIWgk)

127 "Spouse" name is Rebecca Good, age 40.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 08, 2026 02:45 PM (0sNs1)

128 The FBI won't be kneeling to lesbians over this.
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And that is my DEEPEST REGRET!!!!!

Posted by: Wray at January 08, 2026 02:45 PM (1M7sl)

129 Awful...Doubt we can do much.. Looks like the Senate has voted to tie Trump's hands in these matters and I'd really rather we didn't get too involved.. Hate to say it
Posted by: It's me donna
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Doesn't matter. They don't have the votes to override vetoes or get the same resolution through the House. Presentment clause is required in such cases which means veto power applies. They don't even have enough for cloture in the Senate to send to the House right now.

This is simply the Senate's version of failure theater for its theater kids in office.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 02:45 PM (WDjG6)

130
Women don't have wives.

Posted by: And everybody knows it at January 08, 2026 02:43 PM (H8Ose)

____________

Her Majesty and I call them "squeezes".

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 02:46 PM (tgvbd)

131 Ugh.

Imagine if the mainline military gets tie up stomping the ayatollah into the dirt like we promised we would, so the Second American Civil War winds up getting fought by a split of every state's NG lining up and taking sides.... then throw in a bunch of citizen auxiliary militias and various cyberattack efforts back and forth...

What a fucking nightmare we might be heading into.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 02:46 PM (06Hmj)

132 >>> 124 112 Minnesota is looking like it has declared war on President Trump

Posted by: Skip at January 08, 2026 02:43 PM (Ia/+0)

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Declaring war on the commander in chief of the United States Armed Forces, huh?

How many of the 8,000 MN National Guard will stand between Walz and Trump guarding Walz?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 02:45 PM (GBKbO)

Prediction challenge? I'll go with 250.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 02:46 PM (ULPxl)

133 123 he has every incentive to try and turn his personal culpability into a cause celebre by hiding it behind leading the left in the Second Civil War.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 02:33 PM (GBKbO)

He'd have to be both amoral and stupid beyond measure.

Not saying you're wrong...

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 08, 2026 02:45 PM (zZu0s)

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Yeah, it's hard to imagine a politician being amoral and stupid.

I retract my theory.

/jk

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 02:46 PM (GBKbO)

134 Yeah, but Ashley Babbit was committing TREASON!!!

Posted by: Jay in PA at January 08, 2026 02:46 PM (9mw3J)

135 Errbody wants to be a revolutionary until it's time to do revolutionary shit.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at January 08, 2026 02:46 PM (pco75)

136 Now that's what I call a case of PTSD.

Post-Traumatic Trigger Disorder!

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PTTD.

I blew the joke ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 02:46 PM (IpnJw)

137 Was at the gas station last night and saw a guy buying a carton of Lucky Strikes.

Just seemed noteworthy. And LSMFT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 08, 2026 02:46 PM (zZu0s)

138 121 IF that rumor is true, and this person did burn the child with a cig, I do hope and pray the paternal grandfather can obtain custody. I am unsure but think he resides in CO, where the father of this child died in 2023.

If they don't respond to the belt, you have to go a level harder. Only bad parents don't punish their kids.

Posted by: Beat, burn, break. They're resilient. at January 08, 2026 02:46 PM (TbWk/)

139
This ain't Les Miz.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 02:47 PM (tgvbd)

140 Minnesota's 1st that held that line for the nation on July 3rd, 1863, "

The 20th Maine says "fix bayonets"
Posted by: man

Maine, Minnesota, it was one of those "M" states!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 08, 2026 02:44 PM (L/fGl)
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IIRC, the 1st MN made their charge on July 2nd, the same day as when the 20th Maine made their charge.

Posted by: mrp at January 08, 2026 02:47 PM (rj6Yv)

141 @WarMonitor3 1h
NOTAMS have just been issued across Iran. Something big might be about to happen.

Notice to Aviation

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 08, 2026 02:47 PM (mlg/3)

142
"107 I can find no name for the "wife" who was filming yesterday and later sitting in the snow with their dog."



Her name is Rebecca Good.

https://tinyurl.com/5aefy9ar

Posted by: I'm the internet. Ask me at January 08, 2026 02:47 PM (H8Ose)

143 Looking forward to super-patriot Mark Kelly's video telling the Minnesota NG to not obey unlawful orders here.

LOL

Posted by: Jay in PA at January 08, 2026 02:47 PM (9mw3J)

144 Plus, unlike with Saint George of the Holy Overdose, our side is pushing back with positive reporting on the ICE cop. This story won't get traction in the mainstream, and will die.

By Monday, the Outrage Media will have moved on to another Outrage. That's my prediction, at least.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 02:41 PM (iFTx/)

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The FBI won't be kneeling to lesbians over this.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 02:43 PM (GBKbO)
__

Yea, that's part of my point. Nobody cares, and Trump 2.0 gives no fucks about dead criminals. I mean, ICE and law enforcement are out buttfucking Somalis even harder than they did before the shooting.

I don't see this story getting long-term mainstream play. Sure, the left will whine and holler and stamp their feet over it -- and fundraise -- but I think the story will fade fast in terms of general attention.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 02:47 PM (iFTx/)

145 132 How many of the 8,000 MN National Guard will stand between Walz and Trump guarding Walz?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 02:45 PM (GBKbO)

Prediction challenge? I'll go with 250.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 02:46 PM (ULPxl)

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37.

All high-ranking officers who haven't been to the range in an average of 13 years, more than half of whom spend more time trying out high heels than studying war.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 02:47 PM (GBKbO)

146 *If* there is a CWII Retarded Boogaloo, there will be no Reconstruction. If the Retards win, it's automatic death camps. If we win, we need to think long and hard about how we're going to keep any of the retards from ever holding any kind of power ever again.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 02:47 PM (06Hmj)

147 He'd have to be both amoral and stupid beyond measure.
=
Dont forget fat.

Fat amoral and stupid is no way to go through life son.

Posted by: Dean Wormer at January 08, 2026 02:47 PM (1M7sl)

148 >>>I can find no name for the "wife" who was filming yesterday

Rebecca Good, 40, who describes herself as a 'handywoman.'

Posted by: one hour sober at January 08, 2026 02:47 PM (Y1sOo)

149 Footage from Minny getting spicy. Lots of purple hair meeting pavement.

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 08, 2026 02:47 PM (vV6n9)

150 98 I'm beginning to think sexual deviants have problems with anger issues and impulse control. Crazy lesbians and lunatic cross-dressers seem to be flooding the zone with mayhem. Perhaps we should start funding state asylums with a bit more vigor.
Posted by: tcn in AK at January 08, 2026 02:41 PM (6Bc8
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Trannies are mentally ill by definition.

Lesbians suffer from a lack of Vitamin D, iykwim.
They are famously abusive to one another at rates unheard of among gay men. It's almost like toxic femininity unchecked by a larger, more physically powerful man is an absolute danger to everyone. Sorry if that came off as unnecessarily chauvinistic or whatever, but I think it's at the root of a lot of the problems we face right now. Not just lesbians but bored women with no outlet for their female energy other than making their problems everyone else's problems.

Posted by: ballistic at January 08, 2026 02:48 PM (3BwY8)

151 121 IF that rumor is true, and this person did burn the child with a cig, I do hope and pray the paternal grandfather can obtain custody. I am unsure but think he resides in CO, where the father of this child died in 2023.

I suspect the people that tell us spanking is child abuse will rush to defend Sade McLesbo here...
Posted by: 18-1
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Lesbian households have appalling levels of domestic violence. Often because the adults have been abused themselves and thus replicate the behavior. They also have the highest divorce rate by far when compared with heteros and gay men.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 02:48 PM (WDjG6)

152 I enjoyed listening to the lesbian rug muncher hollering Oh my gawd! Oh my gawd! on the radio show this morning as her girlfriend was ventilated.

Made me moist.

Posted by: Razor toting woman at January 08, 2026 02:48 PM (GlDYx)

153 26? Pfft.
Wait, is that a Minus 26?
Celsius or Fahrenheit?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 08, 2026 02:37 PM (/lPRQ)

Minus. F.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 08, 2026 02:49 PM (6Bc88)

154 144 Yea, that's part of my point. Nobody cares, and Trump 2.0 gives no fucks about dead criminals. I mean, ICE and law enforcement are out buttfucking Somalis even harder than they did before the shooting.

I don't see this story getting long-term mainstream play. Sure, the left will whine and holler and stamp their feet over it -- and fundraise -- but I think the story will fade fast in terms of general attention.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 02:47 PM (iFTx/)

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They're fighting the last war.

It's like how we had at least 5 different attempts at restarting covid panic since 2021, all failed and forgotten before the news cycle was out.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 02:49 PM (GBKbO)

155 Women don't have wives.

Posted by: And everybody knows it at January 08, 2026 02:43 PM (H8Ose)

____________

Her Majesty and I call them "squeezes".
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 02:46 PM (tgvbd)

Throw rugs

Posted by: Yeah that's a bit of a reach at January 08, 2026 02:49 PM (TbWk/)

156 Prediction challenge? I'll go with 250.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 02:46 PM (ULPxl)

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37.

All high-ranking officers who haven't been to the range in an average of 13 years, more than half of whom spend more time trying out high heels than studying war.
==
Its minnesota. There is at least 250 of those fairies.

Posted by: Dean Wormer at January 08, 2026 02:49 PM (1M7sl)

157 >>>I can find no name for the "wife" who was filming yesterday

Rebecca Good, 40, who describes herself as a 'handywoman.'
Posted by: one hour sober at January 08, 2026 02:47 PM

I think Renee Nicole Good is the stiff.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 08, 2026 02:49 PM (jc0TO)

158 >>> 131 Ugh.

Imagine if the mainline military gets tie up stomping the ayatollah into the dirt like we promised we would, so the Second American Civil War winds up getting fought by a split of every state's NG lining up and taking sides.... then throw in a bunch of citizen auxiliary militias and various cyberattack efforts back and forth...

What a fucking nightmare we might be heading into.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 02:46 PM (06Hmj)

I doubt we'll get that involved in Iran. Maybe we should air drop some AKs and 3D printers.

However, our current infrastructure *is* way too vulnerable to all kinds of shenanigans, so... CYA, CYA, CYA.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 02:49 PM (ULPxl)

159 Hey Timmy get some training with that scattergun, maybe from some of those Mogadishu thugs in your office.

Posted by: M. Gaga at January 08, 2026 02:49 PM (KiBMU)

160 "When things looked bleak, it was Minnesota's 1st that held that line for the nation on July 3rd, 1863, and I think now we may be in that moment."

I'll be right behind you all.


In Canada.

Posted by: Tim Walz at January 08, 2026 02:49 PM (vBrmG)

161 146 *If* there is a CWII Retarded Boogaloo, there will be no Reconstruction. If the Retards win, it's automatic death camps. If we win, we need to think long and hard about how we're going to keep any of the retards from ever holding any kind of power ever again.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 02:47 PM (06Hmj)
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The left would last about two days in an actual kinetic conflict with the normies.

Posted by: ballistic at January 08, 2026 02:50 PM (3BwY8)

162 Yea, that's part of my point. Nobody cares, and Trump 2.0 gives no fucks about dead criminals. I mean, ICE and law enforcement are out buttfucking Somalis even harder than they did before the shooting.

I don't see this story getting long-term mainstream play. Sure, the left will whine and holler and stamp their feet over it -- and fundraise -- but I think the story will fade fast in terms of general attention.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade
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When the Insurrection Act is declared for NYC, I suggest to Trump that appointing you as Military General over NYC would be appropriate.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 02:50 PM (WDjG6)

163 Not just lesbians but bored women with no outlet for their female energy other than making their problems everyone else's problems.

I think this is another side effect of the birth dirth

A few generations ago these same women would have kids and grandkids taking up their attention.

Now they have fake jobs and cats.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 02:50 PM (sKqQm)

164 So Good was acting as a self-appointed "Legal Observer" or as I heard elsewhere an "ICE Informer." Apparently that somehow, according to her left wing enablers, now carries a quasi legal status for what effectively was her acting as a vigilante obstructionist of a legal law enforcement action. This is just smoke.

That she ended up resisting arrest with the ICE agents was a foreseeable outcome of her earlier actions.

That she ended up getting shot when she drove directly at one of the ICE agents was a case of playing stupid games, win stupid prizes.

All the smoke over whether or not the direction of her SUV's tire is just that that. She injected her self into law enforcement operation, resisted arrest, and then in the act of fleeing she nearly drove over a ICE agent who then defended himself.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at January 08, 2026 02:50 PM (HTCU3)

165 Cold steel. The other guys don't like it up 'em!

Posted by: Lance Corporal Jones at January 08, 2026 02:50 PM (wVcYX)

166 156 37.

All high-ranking officers who haven't been to the range in an average of 13 years, more than half of whom spend more time trying out high heels than studying war.
==
Its minnesota. There is at least 250 of those fairies.

Posted by: Dean Wormer at January 08, 2026 02:49 PM (1M7sl)

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And 213 of them will say, "Ew...war? That's not why I joined up."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 02:50 PM (GBKbO)

167
Lesbian households have appalling levels of domestic violence. Often because the adults have been abused themselves and thus replicate the behavior. 

__________

Also the strengths are more balanced, so the fight goes on longer.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 02:50 PM (tgvbd)

168 Walz is an evil Chicom pedo clown that has no problem causing death and mayhem just so he can stay outta jail.
Posted by: whig

Maybe the Jerry Lundegaard character in Fargo (played so well by William H Macy) was based on Timmy?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 08, 2026 02:51 PM (Dv3i1)

169 Tim Walz wants a Civil War -- and we shouldn't be shy about giving it to him.


Careful what you ask for. Because I can be loaded up and on the road in 2.5 hours.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 02:51 PM (6mogZ)

170 *If* there is a CWII Retarded Boogaloo, there will be no Reconstruction. If the Retards win, it's automatic death camps. If we win, we need to think long and hard about how we're going to keep any of the retards from ever holding any kind of power ever again.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

I severely doubt it's going to be a conflict of any kind. If it does turn violent, the Fed can turn it into a territory and appoint a governor. SCOTUS would undoubtedly force Congress to allow it statehood after some time, of course.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 08, 2026 02:51 PM (mlg/3)

171 How many divisions does Walz have

Posted by: ... at January 08, 2026 02:51 PM (0Sg1Q)

172 However, our current infrastructure *is* way too vulnerable to all kinds of shenanigans, so... CYA, CYA, CYA.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
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E.g. Leftist nutjobs have caused a blackout for many days in Berlin by attacking electric power transmission.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 02:51 PM (WDjG6)

173 169 Tim Walz wants a Civil War -- and we shouldn't be shy about giving it to him.


Careful what you ask for. Because I can be loaded up and on the road in 2.5 hours.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 02:51 PM (6mogZ)

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Newsom would announce that California is joining MN, but first they will have to conduct an environmental study. It will cost $20 billion and be done around 2041.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 02:52 PM (GBKbO)

174 yum yum shit
yummy shit pebbles
in my mouth

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at January 08, 2026 02:52 PM (5uvnW)

175 No Blood For Learing

Posted by: ... at January 08, 2026 02:52 PM (0Sg1Q)

176 I think Renee Nicole Good is the stiff.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 08, 2026 02:49 PM (jc0TO)

Johnny B.'s desperate, degenerate sister.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2026 02:52 PM (uWKK8)

177 171 How many divisions does Walz have
Posted by: ... at January 08

1 billion Somalian warriors

Posted by: Rick in SK at January 08, 2026 02:52 PM (FZYNt)

178 You’re a good son to be with your mom, Doof. Thank you from all is moms. We appreciate you.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 08, 2026 02:52 PM (W2Pud)

179 Iranian regime is broadcasting Tucker Carlson ... apparently ...

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at January 08, 2026 02:52 PM (kvcnI)

180 >>> 171 How many divisions does Walz have
Posted by: ... at January 08, 2026 02:51 PM (0Sg1Q)

We're already guessing, where would you like to place your marker?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 02:52 PM (ULPxl)

181 ideo from Mashad. ICRG are shooting people. People calling for help from Trump and Bibi,

https://www.youtube.com/live/KFWc37fNG1k

Internet is out --- video gets out via starlink.
Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know

Let them win their own freedom. They will value it more than if it is "gifted" at others expense.

Posted by: Joe Mama at January 08, 2026 02:52 PM (TezPK)

182 A few generations ago these same women would have kids and grandkids taking up their attention.

Now they have fake jobs and cats.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 02:50 PM (sKqQm)

Counter: this commie agitator had what, three kids? Did not seem to make her more balanced.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 08, 2026 02:52 PM (zZu0s)

183 Shut up, Dunce.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 08, 2026 02:53 PM (jc0TO)

184 170 I severely doubt it's going to be a conflict of any kind. If it does turn violent, the Fed can turn it into a territory and appoint a governor. SCOTUS would undoubtedly force Congress to allow it statehood after some time, of course.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 08, 2026 02:51 PM (mlg/3)

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I kind of think that Trump should have invoked the Insurrection Act last night after Walz's speech.

Arrest the civilian government of MN, including the judiciary, and appoint a military governor.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 02:53 PM (GBKbO)

185 Maine, Minnesota, it was one of those "M" states!"

Point is that Minny can't wave the flag on it's own. Especially when someone else is charging into harm's way on the same side.

*often thought of the Mainers. No ammo, thirsty, tired. Sure, let's fix bayonets and charge.

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 02:53 PM (XuXeR)

186 I severely doubt it's going to be a conflict of any kind. If it does turn violent, the Fed can turn it into a territory and appoint a governor. SCOTUS would undoubtedly force Congress to allow it statehood after some time, of course.
Posted by: weft cut-loop
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Scotus is likely to have its balls clipped in such a scenario because as Sun Tzu said, if you put a man in a ditch, you better damn well keep them there because if they get out, they will retaliate.

Proscription, with all its bad precedents, is about the only thing that works for a time.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 02:53 PM (WDjG6)

187 .... Tucker being translated into persian by the Mullahs.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at January 08, 2026 02:53 PM (kvcnI)

188 IF that rumor is true, and this person did burn the child with a cig, I do hope and pray the paternal grandfather can obtain custody. I am unsure but think he resides in CO, where the father of this child died in 2023.

I suspect the people that tell us spanking is child abuse will rush to defend Sade McLesbo here...
Posted by: 18-1
========
Lesbian households have appalling levels of domestic violence. Often because the adults have been abused themselves and thus replicate the behavior. They also have the highest divorce rate by far when compared with heteros and gay men.
Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 02:48 PM (WDjG6)
_______

Yes. Some of the worst domestic violence cases I was involved with involved dykes. Super toxic, super violent, with almost no filter or "cooling off" mechanism. Male abusers tend to cool off and then feel sorry about it. Not so women abusers.

Plus, abusive women tend to use weapons to abuse. Men use fists. There's a reason weapons were invented. They cause more damage than fists.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 02:53 PM (iFTx/)

189 Lesbians suffer from a lack of Vitamin D, iykwim.
They are famously abusive to one another at rates unheard of among gay men. It's almost like toxic femininity unchecked by a larger, more physically powerful man is an absolute danger to everyone. Sorry if that came off as unnecessarily chauvinistic or whatever, but I think it's at the root of a lot of the problems we face right now. Not just lesbians but bored women with no outlet for their female energy other than making their problems everyone else's problems.
Posted by: ballistic at January 08, 2026 02:48 PM (3BwY

They abuse because of anger at being deviant I suppose.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 08, 2026 02:53 PM (6Bc88)

190 The left would last about two days in an actual kinetic conflict with the normies.
Posted by: ballistic

You misspelled hours.

Posted by: Joe Mama at January 08, 2026 02:54 PM (TezPK)

191 >>Women don't have wives.


Who kills the Spiders?

Posted by: garrett at January 08, 2026 02:54 PM (ZcsJV)

192 Of course, msNOW *anal*ysts are having vapors over the VP's press conference:

Tim Miller
@Timodc
·
56m
JD Vance is the most appalling person in public life since segregation this is a truly despicable performance

https://x.com/Timodc/status/2009338378102464575

Posted by: Thrawn at January 08, 2026 02:54 PM (9Ovst)

193 Not just lesbians but bored women with no outlet for their female energy other than making their problems everyone else's problems.

I think this is another side effect of the birth dirth

A few generations ago these same women would have kids and grandkids taking up their attention.

Now they have fake jobs and cats.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 02:50 PM (sKqQm)

One thing is for sure, all that excess female energy is NOT going into sexing up their husbands or boyfriends.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 08, 2026 02:54 PM (wVcYX)

194 179 Iranian regime is broadcasting Tucker Carlson ... apparently ...
Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know
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Well, he chose his side and I sure in the hell ain't following his grovelling ass.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 02:54 PM (WDjG6)

195 >>> 184
======

I kind of think that Trump should have invoked the Insurrection Act last night after Walz's speech.

Arrest the civilian government of MN, including the judiciary, and appoint a military governor.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 02:53 PM (GBKbO)

Which Moron wants to be the MN military governor?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 02:54 PM (ULPxl)

196 I see our resident coprophile has arrived.

Posted by: ballistic at January 08, 2026 02:54 PM (3BwY8)

197 The narrative went out!

The woman who tried to kiII ICE agents was a “legal observer“

-------------

Even embedded-supporters get themselves killed in civil wars.

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 02:54 PM (IpnJw)

198 Dont underestimate the power of ssri and cross sex hormones.
They will show up, scream performatively, get shot and then cry.

Posted by: Dean Wormer at January 08, 2026 02:54 PM (1M7sl)

199 E.g. Leftist nutjobs have caused a blackout for many days in Berlin by attacking electric power transmission.

This is one of the odder things about the elements of the left that want some sort of civil war.

If Lefty McLeftface and his tranny militia goes into the burbs or rural areas the damage they can do is limited because things are spread and out and they will stick out like a sort thumb.

Conversely though a group of right leaning militants can easily walk into a big blue shitty and take out a critical bridge or power station and cause serious pain to millions of urbanites...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 02:54 PM (sKqQm)

200 That she ended up getting shot when she drove directly at one of the ICE agents was a case of playing stupid games, win stupid prizes.



"She had children, she had a family, she had a partner."
Yeah...
Charlie Kirk did too-and you spent months saying his kids are better off without him while bashing his wife.
F your fake hypocrisy.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 02:54 PM (6mogZ)

201
I doubt we'll get that involved in Iran. Maybe we should air drop some AKs and 3D printers.

However, our current infrastructure *is* way too vulnerable to all kinds of shenanigans, so... CYA, CYA, CYA.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 02:49 PM

that's the solution I've always wanted: drop a couple of containers of SKS rifles & a siht-ton of 7.62x39 to the ones "yearning to be free"

then make some popcorn and watch from afar

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 08, 2026 02:54 PM (tljrc)

202
 How many divisions does Walz have
Posted by: ... at January 08

1 billion Somalian warriors

Posted by: Rick in SK at January 08, 2026 02:52 PM (FZYNt)

__________

We have 1 billion and one lampposts in this country.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 02:55 PM (tgvbd)

203 One thing is for sure, all that excess female energy is NOT going into sexing up their husbands or boyfriends.
Posted by: Count de Monet
========
Bed death aka no sex is common in lesbian relationships.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 02:55 PM (WDjG6)

204 Honestly, to find out her mental state, I'd really like to know how the 1st husband got custody of both kids (kinda unheard of) and the 3rd child's father departed this mortal coil.

Seeing that she was with an abusive 3rd partner, I have this feeling that she had a mental break with the 1st, something bad happened with the 2nd (thus, why she got custody of kid 3, which having not had it with the 1st and 2nd, although it's easier to get custody if they never married), and continued that badness in the 3rd.

Posted by: Nova Local at January 08, 2026 02:55 PM (tOcjL)

205 192 Of course, msNOW *anal*ysts are having vapors over the VP's press conference:

Tim Miller
@Timodc
·
56m
JD Vance is the most appalling person in public life since segregation this is a truly despicable performance

https://x.com/Timodc/status/2009338378102464575

Posted by: Thrawn at January 08, 2026 02:54 PM (9Ovst)

======

Tim Miller wrote for NRO regularly a few years ago.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 02:55 PM (GBKbO)

206 Yea, that's part of my point. Nobody cares, and Trump 2.0 gives no fucks about dead criminals. I mean, ICE and law enforcement are out buttfucking Somalis even harder than they did before the shooting.

I don't see this story getting long-term mainstream play. Sure, the left will whine and holler and stamp their feet over it -- and fundraise -- but I think the story will fade fast in terms of general attention.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade
=======
When the Insurrection Act is declared for NYC, I suggest to Trump that appointing you as Military General over NYC would be appropriate.
Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 02:50 PM (WDjG6)
__

The Blade is already ready to serve!

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 02:55 PM (iFTx/)

207
PTTD.

I blew the joke ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 02:46 PM (IpnJw)

Post Traumatic Spelling Disorder

Posted by: ... at January 08, 2026 02:55 PM (0Sg1Q)

208 127 "Spouse" name is Rebecca Good, age 40.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 08, 2026 02:45 PM (0sNs1)

Actually, Rebecca BAD. By her own admission, it was her fault.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 08, 2026 02:55 PM (N39Ws)

209 There are hard men on the Left, trained and armed. There just aren't very many of them in the great scheme of things.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 08, 2026 02:55 PM (jc0TO)

210 So we're talking about big bottomed women, rite?

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 08, 2026 02:55 PM (pLaQB)

211 The usual suspects on Facebook that I pointed out this morning were shouting "murder" have been quite today. As have the pols, by and large. The rage must not be polling well

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 08, 2026 02:55 PM (ScJGb)

212 Who writes the identical talking points for the Democrats?

------------

ChiComm GPT.

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 02:55 PM (IpnJw)

213 Quiet not quite

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 08, 2026 02:55 PM (ScJGb)

214 Let them win their own freedom"

This. The fewer men, the greater the honor.

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 02:56 PM (XuXeR)

215
One thing is for sure, all that excess female energy is NOT going into sexing up their husbands or boyfriends.
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 08, 2026 02:54 PM (wVcYX)
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They don't have any of those because they're grossly physically unattractive by way of danger hair and septum piercings and a general foul odor, in addition to being screeching harridans that nobody can stand to be around for more than about six milliseconds.

Posted by: ballistic at January 08, 2026 02:56 PM (3BwY8)

216 206 The Blade is already ready to serve!

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 02:55 PM (iFTx/)

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Not quite Tecumseh Sherman, but he'll do.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 02:56 PM (GBKbO)

217 that's the solution I've always wanted: drop a couple of containers of SKS rifles & a siht-ton of 7.62x39 to the ones "yearning to be free"

then make some popcorn and watch from afar
Posted by: AltonJackson

Better yet--endless waves of drones with grenades and white phosphorus payloads. The drone bodies can even be made of cardboard.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 02:56 PM (WDjG6)

218 Her Majesty and I call them "squeezes".
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 02:46 PM (tgvbd)

Throw rugs
Posted by: Yeah that's a bit of a reach at January 08, 2026 02:49 PM (TbWk/)

No hardwood eh ...

Posted by: browndog sniffing about at January 08, 2026 02:56 PM (3sXRv)

219 @Elric, should we let the story die? There may be an upside to keeping it alive to illustrate some larger points.

Posted by: Taylor at January 08, 2026 02:56 PM (MvZ7K)

220 Tim Walz: "When things looked bleak, it was Minnesota's 1st that held that line for the nation on July 3rd, 1863, and I think now we may be in that moment."

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"Your terms are acceptable, sir."

-- Zombie U.S. Grant

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 02:56 PM (IpnJw)

221
Anything that happens while committing a crime is the fault of the person committing that crime. If someone robs a bank, and someone in the bank has a heart attack during the crime they get charged with their death.

This stupid idiot was blocking ICE with her car, anything happening after that is on HER.

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 08, 2026 02:56 PM (IifOV)

222 One thing is for sure, all that excess female energy is NOT going into sexing up their husbands or boyfriends.

I know a lot of lefty married couples and none of them are particularly happy to be married to each other. Its the oddest thing, you'll get a guy talking about the importance of feminism and then bitching about his wife having no time for him because she's working all the time. Or you'll get a wife discussing the dangers of toxic masculinity then complain her husband is a p*ssy who can't get her motor started.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 02:57 PM (sKqQm)

223 >>There are hard men on the Left, trained and armed. There just aren't very many of them in the great scheme of things.


Train all they want, they'll still be stupid.

Posted by: garrett at January 08, 2026 02:57 PM (ZcsJV)

224 I'd like to know why Good was in Minnesota. Did she come specifically to obstruct ICE or to write bad poetry? And if she came to obstruct ICE who organized it?

These "protests" are clearly being organized by someone and I suspect the same people organizing and funding BLM and antifa.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 08, 2026 02:57 PM (viF8m)

225 178 You’re a good son to be with your mom, Doof. Thank you from all is moms. We appreciate you.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 08, 2026 02:52 PM (W2Pud)

If mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy. Prayers up, Doof.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 08, 2026 02:57 PM (6Bc88)

226 Bed death aka no sex is common in lesbian relationships.
Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 02:55 PM (WDjG6)

As is physical abuse.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 08, 2026 02:57 PM (zZu0s)

227 I want to see some bodycam vids from ICE.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 08, 2026 02:57 PM (/lPRQ)

228 There are hard men on the Left, trained and armed. There just aren't very many of them in the great scheme of things.
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The trannies have the body count so far....

Posted by: Dean Wormer at January 08, 2026 02:58 PM (1M7sl)

229 "Tim Miller
@Timodc
JD Vance is the most appalling person in public life since segregation this is a truly despicable performance"


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Note that Tim Miller is gay.

Posted by: Jay in PA at January 08, 2026 02:58 PM (9mw3J)

230 223 >>There are hard men on the Left, trained and armed. There just aren't very many of them in the great scheme of things.


Train all they want, they'll still be stupid.

Posted by: garrett at January 08, 2026 02:57 PM (ZcsJV)

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Those 32 dead Cuban guards in Caracas were trained.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 02:58 PM (GBKbO)

231 211 The usual suspects on Facebook that I pointed out this morning were shouting "murder" have been quite today. As have the pols, by and large. The rage must not be polling well
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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Streisand effect. They are calling public attention on what is going to be a very seamy story of Leftists trying to hurt, stop, and obstruct federal agents by any means possible.

And also to the Somali problem.

Smart ones would take an L but I think the activist left is dragging the moderates around as human shields for their revolution.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 02:58 PM (WDjG6)

232 The people crying over the justifiable shooting of this paid Antifa whore were giddy over the execution of Ashley Babbit for Unauthorized Parading.

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And giddy over the assassination of Charlie Kirk for Unauthorized Free Speech.

* spits *

* and still sheds a tear or two ... *

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 02:58 PM (IpnJw)

233 I imagine "shrieky feminist lesbo tries to run over cop and gets shot" doesn't play as well with Peoria as the left hoped

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 02:58 PM (sKqQm)

234 Minnesota's 1st that held that line for the nation on July 3rd, 1863, "

The 20th Maine says "fix bayonets"
Posted by: man

Maine, Minnesota, it was one of those "M" states!

*sniff*
Forgotten but for a High School

Posted by: Col. Strong Vincent at January 08, 2026 02:58 PM (W7fvb)

235 Doof - already done

Posted by: 496 at January 08, 2026 02:58 PM (PLjqd)

236
Plus, abusive women tend to use weapons to abuse. Men use fists. There's a reason weapons were invented. They cause more damage than fists.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 02:53 PM (iFTx/)

_________

Two male dogs seeking dominance will scrap briefly, then settle down.

Two female dogs seeking dominance will kill each other.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 02:58 PM (tgvbd)

237 Train all they want, they'll still be stupid.
Posted by: garrett at January 08, 2026 02:57 PM

Don't underestimate your opponent in an encounter is my motto. Use overkill.

A fair fight is for losers.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 08, 2026 02:58 PM (jc0TO)

238 You know who has the highest divorce and domestic violence rates? Lesbian couples.
Posted by: Probably because of patriarchy at January 08, 2026 02:42 PM (TbWk/)

and no sandwiches at the annual picknick...

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at January 08, 2026 02:58 PM (v6XNT)

239 >> I want to see some bodycam vids from ICE.


Fed Agents don't always have Bodycam rolling.

One of the many reasons that keeping local PD away is not working the way they want it to.

Posted by: garrett at January 08, 2026 02:58 PM (ZcsJV)

240 Oh, and thought at lunch, Ashlii Babitt and Rosanne Boyland were trash but this woman was murdered .
Fkin Byrd should have been charged, and think it was a Black police woman who beat Rosanne but don't know her name.

Posted by: Skip at January 08, 2026 02:59 PM (Ia/+0)

241 The people crying over the justifiable shooting of this paid Antifa whore were giddy over the execution of Ashley Babbit for Unauthorized Parading.

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And giddy over the assassination of Charlie Kirk for Unauthorized Free Speech.

AND charged Daniel Perry for murder because he shot a guy blocking his car pointing a gun at him...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 02:59 PM (sKqQm)

242 *sniff*
Forgotten but for a High School
Posted by: Col. Strong Vincent at January 08, 2026 02:58 PM (W7fvb)
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You got a deathbed promotion to Brigadier General...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 08, 2026 02:59 PM (X4XpB)

243 If Lefty McLeftface and his tranny militia goes into the burbs or rural areas the damage they can do is limited because things are spread and out and they will stick out like a sort thumb.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 02:54 PM (sKqQm)
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There were a couple of instances of this during the Summer of Saint George Floyd, and it ended as quickly as it started because the residents of the suburbs all grabbed their long guns and stood quietly in their yards.

Posted by: ballistic at January 08, 2026 02:59 PM (3BwY8)

244 Rebecca Good is a handyman who ran a household repair and maintenance business called B. Good Handys LLC. Also known as LICKEDY SPLIT BEAN FLICKERS LLC.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 08, 2026 02:59 PM (xvV+O)

245 220 Tim Walz: "When things looked bleak, it was Minnesota's 1st that held that line for the nation on July 3rd, 1863, and I think now we may be in that moment."

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"Your terms are acceptable, sir."

-- Zombie U.S. Grant
Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 02:56 PM (IpnJw)

"Tanned, rested and ready"
--General Sherman after Atlanta

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 08, 2026 02:59 PM (N39Ws)

246 Tim Walz: "When things looked bleak, it was Minnesota's 1st that held that line for the nation on July 3rd, 1863, and I think now we may be in that moment."


Stolen valor much? There is ZERO relationship between the MN-1 and you, you mincing, prancing nancy.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 08, 2026 02:59 PM (Riz8t)

247 I know a lot of lefty married couples and none of them are particularly happy to be married to each other. Its the oddest thing, you'll get a guy talking about the importance of feminism and then bitching about his wife having no time for him because she's working all the time. Or you'll get a wife discussing the dangers of toxic masculinity then complain her husband is a p*ssy who can't get her motor started.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 02:57 PM (sKqQm)

And they see no connection between the bullshit they preach and their unhappiness. Why marry at all if you don't know what the basic roles are?

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 08, 2026 03:00 PM (6Bc88)

248 >>> 237
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Don't underestimate your opponent in an encounter is my motto. Use overkill.

A fair fight is for losers.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 08, 2026 02:58 PM (jc0TO)

toby928(c) Johnson is right!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 03:00 PM (ULPxl)

249 Oh, and thought at lunch, Ashlii Babitt and Rosanne Boyland were trash but this woman was murdered

The lefty narrative on both is that they were a danger to the police so of course the police could and SHOULD have killed them.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 03:00 PM (sKqQm)

250
1st Minnesota Lesbian Company C Infantry

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 08, 2026 03:00 PM (IifOV)

251 Two female dogs seeking dominance will kill each other.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

bitches get stiches

Posted by: Rick in SK at January 08, 2026 03:00 PM (FZYNt)

252 "Renee Good is from Colorado. Her husband died in 2023. Less than three years later, the widow is living in Minneapolis with a lesbian “wife” and participating in radical protests? How does this happen?"

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Very good questions.

Posted by: Jay in PA at January 08, 2026 03:00 PM (9mw3J)

253 244 Rebecca Good is a handyman who ran a household repair and maintenance business called B. Good Handys LLC. Also known as LICKEDY SPLIT BEAN FLICKERS LLC.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 08, 2026 02:59 PM (xvV+O)

Good at putting in hardwood floors using tongue-in-groove techniques.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 08, 2026 03:00 PM (N39Ws)

254 Again, for all those upset and angry that this innocent legal observer was killed:

Give in to your anger.
Pull your North Face parka out of the closet,
hop in your Lesbaru and roll into the Twin Cities.
Make a difference!
Make your voice heard!

LOL, fag.
Bleed out in a snow drift, cold, unwanted, and alone.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 08, 2026 03:00 PM (HXT0k)

255 Why are 75% of journos gay? It's like a gay career choice. 90% of weathermen. It boggles.

Posted by: NCKate at January 08, 2026 03:00 PM (uQzkA)

256 If* there is a CWII Retarded Boogaloo, there will be no Reconstruction. If the Retards win, it's automatic death camps. If we win, we need to think long and hard about how we're going to keep any of the retards from ever holding any kind of power ever again.

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In the incredibly unlikely event that happens, whatever territory we retain is going to have to take some serious steps.

1.) All leading Leftist figures must be publicly humiliated and then executed.

2.) All second tier Leftists need to be permanently interned in prison camps.

3.) All Leftist organizations still extant from prior to or during the war must be disbanded and permanently proscribed. This includes the Democrat Party.

4.) This is the big one - a special unamendable Constitutional requirement that no future government may ever - for any reason - make a single transfer payment to a single citizen. Any check they cut must be easily, demonstrably in return for goods & services. Any attempt to circumvent this will be punishable by death, and death alone. Same goes for any public speech demanding a change to these provisions. If you even suggest it, you die.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 08, 2026 03:00 PM (BI5O2)

257 @Elric, should we let the story die? There may be an upside to keeping it alive to illustrate some larger points.
Posted by: Taylor at January 08, 2026 02:56 PM (MvZ7K)
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Possibly, but I think it tends to distract from the much bigger issue of Somali fraud and vermish scumbaggery.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 03:00 PM (iFTx/)

258 >> I kind of think that Trump should have invoked the Insurrection Act last night after Walz's s

I won’t defend the doofus. But what he was inarticulately saying is the NG will be called out if there’s rioting. The NG knows very clearly what their mission constraints and ROE’s are. That’s because there has already been a discussion between the Minnesota NG, the CNGB, SECWAR and within other parts of the CoC.

Walz is in way over his head. He’s also may get a prison vacation with all this being uncovered, a lot of which hasn’t been reported yet.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 08, 2026 03:00 PM (ABedB)

259 >>Don't underestimate your opponent in an encounter is my motto.


Well, they are leftists. Even underestimating them is likely giving them the benefit of the doubt.
They aren't suddenly going to become reasonable because they are trained and armed.
They'll still be retarded. Just a bit more dangerous.

Posted by: garrett at January 08, 2026 03:01 PM (ZcsJV)

260 I know a lot of lefty married couples and none of them are particularly happy to be married to each other. Its the oddest thing, you'll get a guy talking about the importance of feminism and then bitching about his wife having no time for him because she's working all the time. Or you'll get a wife discussing the dangers of toxic masculinity then complain her husband is a p*ssy who can't get her motor started.
Posted by: 18-1
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Humans are not widgets like the left and the liberaltarians think. We have some hardwiring due to development in a flood of hormones, etc. that dictate biological preferences for species survival. There is no blank slate to work with contra Locke. We are products of genetics, society, and culture and the proportion of which dominates depends on the context and the particular behavior exhibited.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 03:01 PM (WDjG6)

261 If we win, we need to think long and hard about how we're going to keep any of the retards from ever holding any kind of power ever again.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Northern Greenland Happy Fun Camp!

Posted by: Joe Mama at January 08, 2026 03:01 PM (TezPK)

262 All I have to say is that I'd be a really bad lesbian. Not going to do well where all she wants to do is sit in the bath together and talk about our relationship.

Posted by: Taylor at January 08, 2026 03:02 PM (MvZ7K)

263 Note that Tim Miller is gay.
_

He just wants to date JD Vance.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 08, 2026 03:02 PM (Dv3i1)

264
Tim Miller
@Timodc

JD Vance is the most appalling person in public life since segregation this is a truly despicable performance

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At least he's not "Literally Literally HItler Hilter 9.0 9.0!"

/Oh wait, nevermind ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 03:02 PM (IpnJw)

265 Sorry, who the hell is Tim Miller?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 08, 2026 03:02 PM (zZu0s)

266 Possibly, but I think it tends to distract from the much bigger issue of Somali fraud and vermish scumbaggery.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade a

Fraud Pandora's Box has already been opened. The Somalis are just the tip of the iceberg, albeit a shit covered tip.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 03:02 PM (WDjG6)

267 248 >>> 237
==
Don't underestimate your opponent in an encounter is my motto. Use overkill.

A fair fight is for losers.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 08, 2026 02:58 PM (jc0TO)

toby928(c) Johnson is right!
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 03:00 PM (ULPxl)

Anything worth doing is worth overdoing. Moderation is for cowards.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 08, 2026 03:02 PM (N39Ws)

268
I know a lot of lefty married couples and none of them are particularly happy to be married to each other.

__________

They were not particularly happy before even meeting each other.

Latter-day feminism tells women that their every natural instinct is wrong and bad.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 03:03 PM (tgvbd)

269 Why are 75% of journos gay? It's like a gay career choice. 90% of weathermen. It boggles.

One odd thing I've noticed. Most weatherwomen are very pretty and they dress "stylishly feminine"

But weathermen? They are either gay as a Liberace's thong or play a clown type character.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 03:03 PM (sKqQm)

270 Minus. F.
Posted by: tcn in AK


Just joking. Was going to make a crack like "Fairbanks? You don't know Fairbanks..." But saw the comment was by you.

Once I put in for a job with your former employer for Anchorage. They called me and "Congrats - you got the job for (hush) Fairbanks..." Ummm.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 08, 2026 03:03 PM (/lPRQ)

271 You should go home. Better yet, leave the country.

Europe will love you.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 08, 2026 03:03 PM (EyfuW)

272 I'll kill a man in a fair fight, or if I think he's going to start one, or if I get paid.

Posted by: Jayne Cobb at January 08, 2026 03:03 PM (jc0TO)

273 We are already in a civil war. It just hasn't gotten to the open warfare stage yet but we are pretty damn close.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 08, 2026 03:03 PM (viF8m)

274 265 Sorry, who the hell is Tim Miller?
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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Who cares, anyone important on the left is both a liar and wicked.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 03:03 PM (WDjG6)

275 Bed death aka no sex is common in lesbian relationships.
Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 02:55 PM (WDjG6)

Now they know what it's like to be a married man. Yay for them I guess.

Posted by: Careful what you wish for at January 08, 2026 03:03 PM (TbWk/)

276 And they see no connection between the bullshit they preach and their unhappiness. Why marry at all if you don't know what the basic roles are?
Posted by: tcn in AK at January 08, 2026 03:00 PM (6Bc8
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This applies not just to their marriages, but to everything leftists believe and touch.

They ruin California with their stupid votes for stupid politicians that make what should be an absolute paradise nearly unlivable, then move to Texas, Colorado, Idaho, etc. and keep voting the same way and doing the same shit. They're the most un-self-aware people on the planet.

Posted by: ballistic at January 08, 2026 03:03 PM (3BwY8)

277 "Tim Miller wrote for NRO regularly a few years ago"

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The slop that the tranny at NRO put out about the shooting was hilarious.

https://tinyurl.com/yy754sun

Posted by: Jay in PA at January 08, 2026 03:03 PM (9mw3J)

278 LOL I had to look up Tim Miller since the name sounds familiar - of course! A flagrantly gay man who writes for the Bulwark!

just one more confirmation that the Bulwark and the rest of the never Trumpers are now even farther left than DU and the other flaming prog sites.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2026 03:03 PM (uWKK8)

279 The Blade is already ready to serve!

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 02:55 PM (iFTx/)

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Not quite Tecumseh Sherman, but he'll do.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 02:56 PM (GBKbO)
_________

Give me Liberty or give me .... scotch and hot young ladies?

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 03:04 PM (iFTx/)

280 This is the prize winning poem by the woman who was shot, for those that didn't see it on an earlier thread:

https://poets.org/2020-on-learning-to-dissect-fetal-pigs

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 03:04 PM (8Xy/A)

281 Video from Tehran showing the people controlling the streets and a burned out IRGC police station.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at January 08, 2026 03:04 PM (kvcnI)

282
If Walz knows he's cooked from the Somali corruption probe, if he knows that the DOJ is targeting him in a criminal probe and there's no way he gets out of it, he has every incentive to try and turn his personal culpability into a cause celebre by hiding it behind leading the left in the Second Civil War.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

===============

Now I wonder if I have to re-read a bunch of (First) Civil War history. Were people this deluded in the 1860s?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 08, 2026 03:04 PM (Uo+RY)

283 Why are 75% of journos gay? It's like a gay career choice. 90% of weathermen. It boggles.
Posted by: NCKate at January 08, 2026 03:00 PM (uQzkA)

For the TV ones, I'd wild guess that the wardrobe allowance, makeup, coiffures, and manicures are the bonus benefits.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 08, 2026 03:04 PM (wVcYX)

284 275 Bed death aka no sex is common in lesbian relationships.
Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 02:55 PM (WDjG6)

Now they know what it's like to be a married man. Yay for them I guess.
Posted by: Careful what you wish for

not tonight i have a headache/it's that time of the month/you don't love me anymore

Posted by: Rick in SK at January 08, 2026 03:05 PM (FZYNt)

285 >>> 281 Video from Tehran showing the people controlling the streets and a burned out IRGC police station.
Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at January 08, 2026 03:04 PM (kvcnI)

XiNN and other timwalzes hardest hit.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 03:05 PM (ULPxl)

286 In the incredibly unlikely event that happens, whatever territory we retain is going to have to take some serious steps.

5) leftist women have to try to be feminine again - no danger hair, no tatts, no unusual piercings, wear sun dresses often (be in good enough shape to wear said sun dress), etc.....

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 08, 2026 03:05 PM (Dv3i1)

287 273 We are already in a civil war. It just hasn't gotten to the open warfare stage yet but we are pretty damn close.
Posted by: JackStraw

That is my estimation. I think the left though is getting desperate enough to try a premature putsch. All their foreign friends are being clipped and neutered and they have made their domestic enemies resolute. They got nowhere else to go except take the L for a generation to regroup or roll the dice.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 03:05 PM (WDjG6)

288 People usually don’t get fucked up if you’re not there stirring up shit to begin with.

$20 same as in town.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 08, 2026 03:05 PM (1HW+a)

289
Breaking News: 5.793 million Minnesotans were NOT shot yesterday.

Why is that? Oh, it's because 5.793 Million fellow Minnesotans didn't try to run over a federal ICE agent.

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 08, 2026 03:05 PM (IifOV)

290 locked and loaded for surgery next month but trying to clear the deck for my wife before I go under the knife including legal and practical matters just in case.
Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 02:33 PM (WDjG6)

I am a lawyer (dirt) as well. Yeah, I did some estate planning with a competent lawyer buddy, got personal papers filed and organized, told the wife and kids where they were. I know the feeling of wanting to fully prepare and worry gets me a few weeks before going under the knife.


But better to get the surgery than lose most of your quality of life!

Posted by: Henry at January 08, 2026 03:05 PM (tWkg3)

291 Why are 75% of journos gay? It's like a gay career choice. 90% of weathermen. It boggles.
Posted by: NCKate at January 08, 2026 03:00 PM (uQzkA)

Well, one fag got hired to at a newspaper or tv station one day to gay things up a bit and now the media is overrun with breechloaders.

Never hire the gay.

Posted by: Pray The Gay Away at January 08, 2026 03:05 PM (GlDYx)

292 "HQ LEGAL OBSERVER" tee shirts, my ticket out.

Posted by: connected and litigious at January 08, 2026 03:05 PM (cS1cw)

293 Thank you all for the prayers. Not long after I posted the request, I came back to her room. The admitting provider was going over the diagnoses and then asked her if she is a Christian and if it was OK to pray with her. God is good and sure does know how to show off!

Posted by: Doof at January 08, 2026 03:05 PM (NFdz3)

294 "If we win, we need to think long and hard about how we're going to keep any of the retards from ever holding any kind of power ever again."

===========

They should have no voting rights and no ability to even run for office. We can ship them to California to work on the train tracks for high speed rail.
Forever.

Posted by: Jay in PA at January 08, 2026 03:05 PM (9mw3J)

295 If I looked like the gal in that last video I'd be pissed too

Posted by: 496 at January 08, 2026 03:05 PM (ncfGW)

296 So Tim Miller is Gabe? Check.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 08, 2026 03:06 PM (zZu0s)

297 >>> 287 273 We are already in a civil war. It just hasn't gotten to the open warfare stage yet but we are pretty damn close.
Posted by: JackStraw

That is my estimation. I think the left though is getting desperate enough to try a premature putsch. All their foreign friends are being clipped and neutered and they have made their domestic enemies resolute. They got nowhere else to go except take the L for a generation to regroup or roll the dice.
Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 03:05 PM (WDjG6)

OrangeManBad has been hitting them in the checkbook and they don't like, not one bit.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 03:06 PM (ULPxl)

298 5) leftist women have to try to be feminine again - no danger hair, no tatts, no unusual piercings, wear sun dresses often (be in good enough shape to wear said sun dress), etc.....
Posted by: Chuck Martel
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You want that, cut off their psychoactive and mood altering drugs aka anti depressants, etc.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 03:06 PM (WDjG6)

299 If he orders a shootout between between the Minnesota Nat’l Guard and federal officers, the most likely outcome is mutiny and he goes to jail.

The less likely outcome is real shooting in which case the U.S. Army takes him into custody and he’s tried by a military court. Civilian courts won’t be able to save him.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at January 08, 2026 03:06 PM (jYRYu)

300 Were people this deluded in the 1860s?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 08, 2026 03:04 PM (Uo+RY)
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Check out some of the Fire-Eaters, like Edmund Ruffin.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 08, 2026 03:07 PM (X4XpB)

301 Posted by: 496 at January 08, 2026 03:05 PM (ncfGW)

I don't think that woman is unattractive, just heavy.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 03:07 PM (8Xy/A)

302 265 Sorry, who the hell is Tim Miller?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 08, 2026 03:02 PM

He's one of the many at NRO who knows what Bill Kristol's dick tastes like.

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 08, 2026 03:07 PM (IifOV)

303 VP Vance announced the are appointing a new Assistant AG who will do nothing but look at fraud in MN.

We need our own Jack Smith.

Posted by: Jay in PA at January 08, 2026 03:07 PM (9mw3J)

304 Don't underestimate your opponent in an encounter is my motto. Use overkill.

A fair fight is for losers.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 08, 2026 02:58 PM (jc0TO)

toby928(c) Johnson is right!
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 03:00 PM (ULPxl)

Anything worth doing is worth overdoing. Moderation is for cowards.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed
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Anybody worth shooting is worth shooting 2-3 times. Mozambique them just to be sure.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 08, 2026 03:07 PM (xvV+O)

305 that dude in the last video is gonna pop a vein if he's not careful

Posted by: DanMan at January 08, 2026 03:07 PM (8uzBS)

306 Here’s my prediction. At some point the Skinnies are going to join the AWFL’s and go kinetic in Minnesota. That’s when the real
Pig roast begins.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 08, 2026 03:07 PM (gnUjt)

307 Why wasn't this woman home taking care of her child?

No, she had to be a fake "hero" in her head.

She was an idiot.

FAFO

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 08, 2026 03:07 PM (aZm/F)

308 ICRG are shooting people. People calling for help from Trump and Bibi,
https://www.youtube.com/live/KFWc37fNG1k
Internet is out --- video gets out via starlink.
Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know

Let them win their own freedom. They will value it more than if it is "gifted" at others expense.
Posted by: Joe Mama

I suggest if there are agents on the ground that they merely point out mullah safehouse and (hopefully) prepositioned weapons caches to the locals.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 08, 2026 03:07 PM (/lPRQ)

309 >>> 294

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They should have no voting rights and no ability to even run for office. We can ship them to California to work on the train tracks for high speed rail.
Forever.
Posted by: Jay in PA at January 08, 2026 03:05 PM (9mw3J)

Silly Jay in PA, the correct public works project is the Dignity Canal.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 03:07 PM (ULPxl)

310 Now I wonder if I have to re-read a bunch of (First) Civil War history. Were people this deluded in the 1860s?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 08, 2026 03:04 PM (Uo+RY)
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"One Southern soldier can defeat ten Yankees!"

On the Union side: "Two weeks!"

Posted by: mrp at January 08, 2026 03:08 PM (rj6Yv)

311 144 Plus, unlike with Saint George of the Holy Overdose, our side is pushing back with positive reporting on the ICE cop. This story won't get traction in the mainstream, and will die

I love that name! lol

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 08, 2026 03:08 PM (WONhk)

312 Once I put in for a job with your former employer for Anchorage. They called me and "Congrats - you got the job for (hush) Fairbanks..." Ummm.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 08, 2026 03:03 PM (/lPRQ)

Fairbanks. Come for the hot, dry, dusty summers full of wildfire smoke, stay for minus 60 degree Februarys. Greenland might be nicer.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 08, 2026 03:08 PM (6Bc88)

313 I have noticed that the mfm is going with younger pictures of the dead woman. She has plumped up quite a bit recently.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 08, 2026 03:08 PM (jc0TO)

314 I worked in Manhattan for more than 15 years, first as a driver for construction materials, then as a union carpenter. Worked all over the island, traveled on subway, etc.

The only outright violence I ever saw was some 200 lb. cow repeatedly punching in the face a 105 lb. very pretty blonde as they walked down the street. I stopped my truck, ran over and got in the face of Lardo. Having stopped the assault, I asked the victim if she needed help. She wouldn't even make eye contact and shook her head meekly saying no. I wonder how long she lived. This was around 1975.

Posted by: Old And In The Way at January 08, 2026 03:08 PM (oftw2)

315 221
Anything that happens while committing a crime is the fault of the person committing that crime. If someone robs a bank, and someone in the bank has a heart attack during the crime they get charged with their death.

This stupid idiot was blocking ICE with her car, anything happening after that is on HER.
Posted by: Frank Barone

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What are the chances they charge the "partner" with murder for being involved in felony that resulted in a death

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 08, 2026 03:08 PM (bIWgk)

316 OrangeManBad has been hitting them in the checkbook and they don't like, not one bit.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

And threatening their voting fraud, access to foreign money to stir up trouble, beginning investigations on Soros and Hoffman along with Neville Singh (Codepink billionaire living in Shanghai), etc. Their blue reinforcements and thugs are being deported.

The left is losing hope that the Revolution will occur in their lifetime and that terrifies them. It is akin to them that their G_d is dead.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 03:08 PM (WDjG6)

317 I kind of think that Trump should have invoked the Insurrection Act last night after Walz's speech.

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Nearly six years too late.

He should have invoked it on Night One after Minneapolis in 2020 -- which would have prevented all the subsequent "mostly peaceful" riots, burnings, lootings, and murders.

"Nip it in the bud." -- Barney Fife

[Of course -- perhaps part of God's plan? -- that might have led to a Trump victory in 2020 and we might be worse off as a result today.]

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 03:08 PM (IpnJw)

318 I don't think that woman is unattractive, just heavy.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 03:07 PM (8Xy/A)
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I do, but anger does make people ugly. I can't say how much of my repulsion was due to her anger.

Posted by: 496 at January 08, 2026 03:09 PM (ncfGW)

319 Possibly, but I think it tends to distract from the much bigger issue of Somali fraud and vermish scumbaggery.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade a

Fraud Pandora's Box has already been opened. The Somalis are just the tip of the iceberg, albeit a shit covered tip.
Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 03:02 PM (WDjG6)
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True, but the Somalis are the perfect storm of fraud, illegal immigration, welfare, and the ugly face (literally) of all things rotten in the country. I think that resonates with the public more than, say, a similar daycare fraud perpetrated by Joe Smith.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 03:09 PM (iFTx/)

320 >>> 306 Here’s my prediction. At some point the Skinnies are going to join the AWFL’s and go kinetic in Minnesota. That’s when the real
Pig roast begins.
Posted by: Marcus T at January 08, 2026 03:07 PM (gnUjt)

I hope our MN Horde members have lots of ammo.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 03:09 PM (ULPxl)

321 A Carl Gustav in the hand is worth two in the bush, I always say.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 08, 2026 03:09 PM (gnUjt)

322 What are the chances they charge the "partner" with murder for being involved in felony that resulted in a death
Posted by: bob
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Very possible, federal law has the felony murder rule regardless who dies.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 03:09 PM (WDjG6)

323 Renee Good is from Colorado. Her husband died in 2023. Less than three years later, the widow is living in Minneapolis with a lesbian “wife” and participating in radical protests? How does this happen?

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The ex husband was a mentally ill comedian who committed suicide. She had 2 additional children in another relationship. She lost custody for abuse and neglect. The brother of the dead comedian said Renee Good was not the greatest human, my words not his. She won an award for a poem that is both disturbing and not very coherent, but it uses big words. She has been a radical for awhile.

Posted by: Piper at January 08, 2026 03:09 PM (OoFl2)

324 Special Counsel was mentioned by Vance. I am agin it. Best way ever to bury crime is the special counsel. "Can't talk, open case".

Posted by: connected and litigious at January 08, 2026 03:09 PM (cS1cw)

325 Women supporting child sex slavery.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 08, 2026 03:09 PM (EyfuW)

326 319 True, but the Somalis are the perfect storm of fraud, illegal immigration, welfare, and the ugly face (literally) of all things rotten in the country. I think that resonates with the public more than, say, a similar daycare fraud perpetrated by Joe Smith.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 03:09 PM (iFTx/)

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Bessent just did a press conference where he said the Department of Treasury was going to try and claw back as much of the fraudulent money as possible.

The money in cash flown to Somalia is gone, but anything in the worldwide banking system? Treasury is gonna be able to reach it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 03:10 PM (GBKbO)

327 Color revolutions suck. I dont want to have to go through this shit just because the dems miscalculated and put the money raising scam in the hands of a fucking idiot, and now the only way to cover their own asses is to push the idiot out in front of a civil war. To kill for something so ridiculous, venal, and selfish. To ruin your country for money. Ugh. It is hard to pray for such people. I pray their eyes be opened and they confess, or that God grant that they be shut forever before they do the terrible harm they plan to do.

Posted by: I am not in favor of at January 08, 2026 03:10 PM (1M7sl)

328 321 A Carl Gustav in the hand is worth two in the bush, I always say.
Posted by: Marcus T
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I prefer the Husqvarna receivers if you are discussing Swedish Mausers.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 03:10 PM (WDjG6)

329 Posted by: Doof at January 08, 2026 03:05 PM (NFdz3)

That's wonderful!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 03:10 PM (8Xy/A)

330 >>That is my estimation. I think the left though is getting desperate enough to try a premature putsch. All their foreign friends are being clipped and neutered and they have made their domestic enemies resolute. They got nowhere else to go except take the L for a generation to regroup or roll the dice.

Obviously, the globalist movement is global. I really hope the various investigations into all this fraud and illegal immigration start to identify the sources of foreign money and other resources that are being used to drive this country toward a communist state.

This is not something that is confined to our borders. This is worldwide.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 08, 2026 03:10 PM (viF8m)

331 Drama Queens really like drama. Stuff you lear.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 08, 2026 03:11 PM (pLaQB)

332 Idiots in Minnesota are still out protesting ICE , standing out in front of ICE cars. Peaceful protesting they are not doing. Have not learned a damn thing. I guess these stupid people want to get on the news stations.

Posted by: Case at January 08, 2026 03:11 PM (4rWc3)

333 327 Color revolutions suck. I dont want to have to go through this shit just because the dems miscalculated and put the money raising scam in the hands of a fucking idiot, and now the only way to cover their own asses is to push the idiot out in front of a civil war. To kill for something so ridiculous, venal, and selfish. To ruin your country for money. Ugh. It is hard to pray for such people. I pray their eyes be opened and they confess, or that God grant that they be shut forever before they do the terrible harm they plan to do.
Posted by: I am not in favor
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The Color Revolution started in the US with Obama and a feckless POS GWB letting it happen.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 03:11 PM (WDjG6)

334 I prefer the Husqvarna receivers if you are discussing Swedish Mausers.
Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 03:10 PM (WDjG6)

wait i thought chainsaw attachments were just a joke!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 03:11 PM (06Hmj)

335 A Carl Gustav in the hand is worth two in the bush, I always say.
Posted by: Marcus T at January 08, 2026 03:09 PM (gnUjt)
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"One in the hand and two in the trunk"?

Posted by: mrp at January 08, 2026 03:11 PM (rj6Yv)

336 If* there is a CWII Retarded Boogaloo, there will be no Reconstruction. If the Retards win, it's automatic death camps. If we win, we need to think long and hard about how we're going to keep any of the retards from ever holding any kind of power ever again.


If we win, death camps for them. I don't want to have to do it again.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 03:11 PM (6mogZ)

337 "legal observer?"

Tell me you're Antifa without telling me your Antifa.

Related:
You know all those "First Amendment Auditors" who go out filming banks and government properties to antagonize the police?

Every single one of them, even 100% confident the officer is issuing an illegal order ... still complies when Mr. Law says "put your hands behind your back."

Because the time to fight an illegal order is downtown at the courthouse with your fancy lawyer.

Not one-on-one, mano-y-gun-o at the scene.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 08, 2026 03:11 PM (HXT0k)

338 170 I severely doubt it's going to be a conflict of any kind. If it does turn violent, the Fed can turn it into a territory and appoint a governor. SCOTUS would undoubtedly force Congress to allow it statehood after some time, of course.

i'm right here, you know

Posted by: hawaiian judge at January 08, 2026 03:12 PM (oY6Yp)

339 banking system? Treasury is gonna be able to reach it.
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Reporting indicated that most of it, first stop was in Dubai. Not sure about swiss banks or caymans or a cave in the desert after that.

Posted by: I am not in favor of at January 08, 2026 03:12 PM (1M7sl)

340 >>Obviously, the globalist movement is global. I really hope the various investigations into all this fraud and illegal immigration start to identify the sources of foreign money and other resources that are being used to drive this country toward a communist state.


There's only one way to deal with Commies.

Posted by: garrett at January 08, 2026 03:12 PM (ZcsJV)

341 332 Idiots in Minnesota are still out protesting ICE , standing out in front of ICE cars. Peaceful protesting they are not doing. Have not learned a damn thing. I guess these stupid people want to get on the news stations.

Posted by: Case at January 08, 2026 03:11 PM (4rWc3)

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I've seen video of federal law enforcement grabbing anyone who touches them and arresting them.

This isn't giving them space to riot. Plus, it's about to get real cold.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 03:12 PM (GBKbO)

342 Obviously, the globalist movement is global. I really hope the various investigations into all this fraud and illegal immigration start to identify the sources of foreign money and other resources that are being used to drive this country toward a communist state.

This is not something that is confined to our borders. This is worldwide.
Posted by: JackStraw
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ActBlue smurfing (and it appears some from WinRed for particular assholes like Lindsay Graham and John Thune).

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 03:12 PM (WDjG6)

343 This stupid idiot was blocking ICE with her car, anything happening after that is on HER.
Posted by: Frank Barone


Scrunt was blocking the street with her car.
I don't care if was inconvenient to ice or Joe-Sixpack trying to go to 7-11 for some beer. She earned it.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 08, 2026 03:13 PM (/lPRQ)

344 >>> 342

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ActBlue smurfing (and it appears some from WinRed for particular assholes like Lindsay Graham and John Thune).
Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 03:12 PM (WDjG6)

"Republicans will be caught too!"

"Good."

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 03:13 PM (ULPxl)

345 Now they know what it's like to be a married man. Yay for them I guess.
Posted by: Careful what you wish for

not tonight i have a headache/it's that time of the month/you don't love me anymore
Posted by: Rick in SK at January 08, 2026 03:05 PM (FZYNt)

I repeat myself here, but why get married if you don't know the roles? Catholics have to have sex unless there is a good reason not to. Goes for men and women. Otherwise why bother marrying?

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 08, 2026 03:13 PM (6Bc88)

346 This isn't giving them space to riot. Plus, it's about to get real cold.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 03:12 PM

Firehose time.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 08, 2026 03:13 PM (jc0TO)

347 >> I prefer the Husqvarna receivers if you are discussing Swedish Mausers.
Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 03:10 PM (WDjG6)

No brother, I’m walking about the MAAWS.

With HEDP rounds.

It’s a thing of beauty.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 08, 2026 03:13 PM (gnUjt)

348 Make a difference!
Make your voice heard!
Make animal noises!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 08, 2026 03:13 PM (Kt19C)

349 things must be getting critical... Waltz has incorporated a sign-languager prop while reading his script to generate empathy . i thought all the deaf ppl died of covid since i havent seen a sign-er at a press conference in years.

Posted by: never stop learing!! at January 08, 2026 03:13 PM (5LiC7)

350 I would like to apply for the job as a legal observer, but from my home. Do you think Soros will check my voting record?

Do I have to be a lesbian? I am sure that helps. I could lie to get into the inner circle of hell. I won't cut my hair, however, into a butch.

Meanwhile, because it is not June the Rioting month, whatever!

I see that AOC is once again worried about rape, this time with Jesse Watters vs J6 rioters. She really thinks she's hot stuff, eh? A lot of near misses for her! *harfing into harf bag *

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 08, 2026 03:13 PM (WONhk)

351 >>There's only one way to deal with Commies.

No argument from me.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 08, 2026 03:13 PM (viF8m)

352 Great article on: The Illusion of Progress
Once upon a time, progress meant a tangible conquest of necessity -- something that could be seen, held, and mended. Things have changed.
Anthony Deden Thu 13 Nov 2025

" .... In the early industrial order, money and goods moved together. The banker was the steward of accumulated savings, and the stock exchange was a meeting place between the thrifty and the enterprising. Investment was a form of partnership between labor, invention, and capital. But as the century advanced, finance detached itself from its material foundations. Paper claims multiplied far beyond the stock of tangible goods. The abstraction that had once facilitated trade began to define it.

Two revolutions hastened this separation. The first was monetary: the gradual abandonment of money’s anchor in real value. ..."

https://tinyurl.com/2n6a58vp

Posted by: illiniwek at January 08, 2026 03:13 PM (vbXSk)

353 True, but the Somalis are the perfect storm of fraud, illegal immigration, welfare, and the ugly face (literally) of all things rotten in the country. I think that resonates with the public more than, say, a similar daycare fraud perpetrated by Joe Smith.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 03:09 PM (iFTx/)

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Bessent just did a press conference where he said the Department of Treasury was going to try and claw back as much of the fraudulent money as possible.

The money in cash flown to Somalia is gone, but anything in the worldwide banking system? Treasury is gonna be able to reach it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 03:10 PM (GBKbO)
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The Left: "Omg that poor woman was murdered by ICE! I'm shocked and appalled! ICE should leave MN and let these poor Somalis live in peace."

Trump: "Go fuck yourself. ICE is gonna hammer these smelly little shits even harder. Oh and btw, my man Bessent is gonna claw back the fraudulent money. How ya like them apples?"

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 03:15 PM (iFTx/)

354 Lesbian households have appalling levels of domestic violence. Often because the adults have been abused themselves and thus replicate the behavior. They also have the highest divorce rate by far when compared with heteros and gay men.
Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 02:48 PM (WDjG6)

Lesbians have the highest divorce rate, lowest is gay men with hetero's in the middle.

https://tinyurl.com/lickitysplits

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at January 08, 2026 03:15 PM (k1E2D)

355 wait i thought chainsaw attachments were just a joke!
Posted by: Warai-otoko
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Heh. Husqvarna made quite a few firearms, starting with Swedish defense contracts in WWII I think. Husqvarna receivers were made for the Swedish Governments for their (unofficially designated 193 series of short rifles instead of the Swedish Mauser carbines (1894) and long rifles (1896). They have better metallurgy and many were turned into superb sniper rifles.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 03:15 PM (WDjG6)

356 The only outright violence I ever saw was some 200 lb. cow repeatedly punching in the face a 105 lb. very pretty blonde as they walked down the street. I stopped my truck, ran over and got in the face of Lardo. Having stopped the assault, I asked the victim if she needed help. She wouldn't even make eye contact and shook her head meekly saying no. I wonder how long she lived. This was around 1975.

Posted by: Old And In The Way at January 08, 2026 03:08 PM (oftw2)

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Brings back a wild memory. I was attending Stanford University in the mid-80s (poor white kid, riding my bike all over camps and too and from work).

One day, while bicycling near the football stadium on the way to work, I approach a car that's pulled over off the road and a large black dude is outside of the car slapping around a blonde white girl.

I stop, intervene, get between them and stop the assault, and protect her. Then, stunningly, she STARTS YELLING AT AND CURSING ME, telling me to mind my own business. So, off I go on my way shaking my damn head -- while she continues to get bitch-slapped.

Damn, to be so innocent again ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 03:15 PM (IpnJw)

357 If you run over a homeless maniac blocking your way with your car, you're going to prison.
Why?
Because your car is inherently dangerous.

Posted by: torabora at January 08, 2026 03:15 PM (MkFn4)

358 There is a crazy show on netflix about a LDS infuencer and child and husband abuse. I was yelling at the tv. Thankfully it did not yell back.

Posted by: connected and litigious at January 08, 2026 03:16 PM (cS1cw)

359
Benjamin Netanyahu lobbied Trump to send Ice to Minneapolis to Kill Renee Good because Good was a former friend of a wittiness to the flight that took off from Utah to Las Vegas right after the Charlie Kirk assassination.

Posted by: Candace Owens at January 08, 2026 03:16 PM (IifOV)

360 Posted by: 496 at January 08, 2026 03:05 PM (ncfGW)

I apologize. I didn't look at the last video. I was looking at the one above that who was a witness to things. The one is the last video is not attractive and also very angry.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 03:16 PM (8Xy/A)

361 > Walz may be looking to launch a civil war just to stay out of jail.

It's already been noted that trading a fraud rap for a treason rap is a poor idea.

But then, this is Timmeh!!!! (Gargles) Ballz we're taking about here.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 08, 2026 03:16 PM (IG3/x)

362 Lesbians have the highest divorce rate, lowest is gay men with hetero's in the middle.

https://tinyurl.com/lickitysplits
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper
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Yep. Infidelity is not an issue in gay men's marriages for the most part is why. Pretty big reason why hetero or even lesbian relationships break up.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 03:16 PM (WDjG6)

363 If anything coming out about her and her "wife" is true, this story is gonna die fast.. Not the angelic innocent murdered mother they started out with...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2026 03:16 PM (VE6XX)

364 If the state does not give up the data, give guns to the somolies in that state and see how the new immigrants fare.

Seal state border.

Shake, let cool for a minute.

serve chilled in a revengee maner.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 08, 2026 03:17 PM (EyfuW)

365 The old Confederacy had Robert E. Lee

The New Confederacy has Tampon Tim Walz

With a femmie yell, he whines more, more more!

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 08, 2026 03:17 PM (HXT0k)

366 319 True, but the Somalis are the perfect storm of fraud, illegal immigration, welfare, and the ugly face (literally) of all things rotten in the country. I think that resonates with the public more than, say, a similar daycare fraud perpetrated by Joe Smith.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 03:09 PM (iFTx/)


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Look at the geography of Somalia. They have the best of both regions.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 08, 2026 03:17 PM (bIWgk)

367 Was at the gas station last night and saw a guy buying a carton of Lucky Strikes.

Just seemed noteworthy. And LSMFT.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 08, 2026 02:46 PM (zZu0s)

Loose Straps Mean Flabby Tits??

Posted by: 5th grade me at January 08, 2026 03:17 PM (5xuJ/)

368 And will be out in 6 months on good behavior

I was under the impression that the federal system didn't do that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 03:17 PM (ExV1e)

369 Turning an Antifa car on an ICE agent...seems like protected free speech, don't you think?

Posted by: AG Keith Barack Ellison at January 08, 2026 03:17 PM (2EBjl)

370 332 Idiots in Minnesota are still out protesting ICE , standing out in front of ICE cars. Peaceful protesting they are not doing. Have not learned a damn thing.

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Liberals never lear.

Posted by: Josephistan at January 08, 2026 03:18 PM (lGHBv)

371 I stop, intervene, get between them and stop the assault, and protect her. Then, stunningly, she STARTS YELLING AT AND CURSING ME, telling me to mind my own business. So, off I go on my way shaking my damn head -- while she continues to get bitch-slapped.

Damn, to be so innocent again ...
Posted by: ShainS

Reason why cops HATE domestic violence calls. Often it is the woman that turns around and attacks when their assaulting partner is going to be arrested and sent to jail.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 03:18 PM (WDjG6)

372 353 The Left: "Omg that poor woman was murdered by ICE! I'm shocked and appalled! ICE should leave MN and let these poor Somalis live in peace."

Trump: "Go fuck yourself. ICE is gonna hammer these smelly little shits even harder. Oh and btw, my man Bessent is gonna claw back the fraudulent money. How ya like them apples?"

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 03:15 PM (iFTx/)

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This is all because Nancy Pelosi wouldn't agree to a real infrastructure bill in 2017.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 03:18 PM (GBKbO)

373 If they couldn't marry they couldn't divorce!
So that Court decision didn't help them.

Posted by: torabora at January 08, 2026 03:18 PM (MkFn4)

374 >> This stupid idiot was blocking ICE with her car, anything happening after that is on HER

I’m wondering what ever happened to showing your boobies as a diversion? I’m pretty sure that would work better than weaponizing a car.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 08, 2026 03:18 PM (DZ6nv)

375 I stop, intervene, get between them and stop the assault, and protect her. Then, stunningly, she STARTS YELLING AT AND CURSING ME, telling me to mind my own business. So, off I go on my way shaking my damn head -- while she continues to get bitch-slapped.

Damn, to be so innocent again ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 03:15 PM (IpnJw)

But what she really wants is a nice, sensitive gentlemanly guy who'll treat her like a queen.

Posted by: Scratching my head in puzzlement at January 08, 2026 03:18 PM (TbWk/)

376 “Legal observer “ is a made up thing?
Only other time I’ve seen this term is with antifa. They have members who are lawyers calling themselves “observers “ but are obviously participating.

Sorry, not accepting your new BS titles. You’re a protester.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 08, 2026 03:18 PM (Hkcdp)

377 I bet David Hogg is feeling much better about the commies firing him.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 03:18 PM (ULPxl)

378 Tim Miller and the pathetic staff of writers for the NRO over the last few years have made me start to believe that O'Keefe is right; everyone in DC (with a few exceptions) really IS gay, and corrupted beyond all belief.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2026 03:18 PM (uWKK8)

379 *facepalm*

Someone approved a funeral service at a LDS chapel in the SLC Rose Park neighborhood. What's the problem? The deceased was a Tongan Crip gang member and there was a shooting outside.

http://tiny.cc/4tdx001

Posted by: bonhomme at January 08, 2026 03:18 PM (Yp6az)

380 Croud sizes in Iran reported to be in millions.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at January 08, 2026 03:19 PM (kvcnI)

381 Miss Babitt had no car, and a Bird got her head.

Posted by: JUNO at January 08, 2026 03:19 PM (LcRVs)

382 Yudhishthira's Dice at January 08, 2026 03:00 PM

Newsletter?

Posted by: Joe Mama at January 08, 2026 03:19 PM (TezPK)

383 > The money in cash flown to Somalia is gone

Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Somali land has to be worth something. Not much, but SOMETHING.

Especially if it doesn't have Somalis in it anymore.

Just wanted to point that out. Not advocating, just observing.



Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 08, 2026 03:19 PM (IG3/x)

384 355 Husqvarna and the Swedes in general turn out some fine firearms, but dropped the ball when they made L35 Lahti pistols. A bit of a metallurgy flub occurred with those, sometimes serious, when compared to the original Finn made versions. Frame cracks, not on all, but a lot.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 08, 2026 03:19 PM (gm9Sb)

385 Was at the gas station last night and saw a guy buying a carton of Lucky Strikes.

Just seemed noteworthy. And LSMFT.
Posted by: Aetius451AD


He's going to take them home and put them with his C Rats.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 03:20 PM (6mogZ)

386 The iranians have always had the numbers...hopefully, this time they have the resolve to finish.

Posted by: garrett at January 08, 2026 03:20 PM (ZcsJV)

387 The ex husband was a mentally ill comedian who committed suicide. She had 2 additional children in another relationship. She lost custody for abuse and neglect. The brother of the dead comedian said Renee Good was not the greatest human, my words not his. She won an award for a poem that is both disturbing and not very coherent, but it uses big words. She has been a radical for awhile.
Posted by: Piper at January 08, 2026 03:09 PM (OoFl2)
.....................................
Her latest 3 addresses were Virginia. She and dyke handywomanman recently arrived from Missouri.

Thanks for the information about his suicide. She has another ex who fathered the two older kids, and apparently they are with him. The 6yo was from the dead ex.

IF this child was abused, as I saw a comment about cig burns, I do hope this child is given custody to the parental grandfather. He was said to be driving/flying to MN for him.

I also hope the goFundme dollars go to this child vs the dyke on the sidewalk filming (I want to see that film, now). Odd that we haven't. Maybe she/he will sell to UK DM? I'll bet it shows what happened if inside the car, with both of them yelling and cussing ladylike.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 08, 2026 03:20 PM (WONhk)

388 383 Somali land has to be worth something. Not much, but SOMETHING.

Especially if it doesn't have Somalis in it anymore.

Just wanted to point that out. Not advocating, just observing.



Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 08, 2026 03:19 PM (IG3/x)

=======

First or second largest gold reserves in the world are in Somalia.

They are almost completely untapped.

The last time someone built a mine to exploit it, Al Qaeda waltzed in and murdered everyone, destroyed all the equipment, and walked out.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 03:20 PM (GBKbO)

389
I prefer the Husqvarna receivers if you are discussing Swedish Mausers.
Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 03:10 PM (WDjG6)

No brother, I’m walking about the MAAWS.

With HEDP rounds.

It’s a thing of beauty.
Posted by: Marcus T at January 08, 2026 03:13 PM (gnUjt)



M67 90mm Recoilless Rifle flechette rounds are the schiznit. Great fun to shoot. Even more fun than HEAT or HE rounds.

Carrying that fucking sewer pipe strapped to your ruck on forced marches, not so much.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 08, 2026 03:20 PM (y9nCu)

390 Fucker really wants to keep the "Stonewall" in Stonewall Jackson, huh?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 03:21 PM (06Hmj)

391 I stop, intervene, get between them and stop the assault, and protect her. Then, stunningly, she STARTS YELLING AT AND CURSING ME, telling me to mind my own business. So, off I go on my way shaking my damn head -- while she continues to get bitch-slapped.

Damn, to be so innocent again ...
Posted by: ShainS

Reason why cops HATE domestic violence calls. Often it is the woman that turns around and attacks when their assaulting partner is going to be arrested and sent to jail.
Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 03:18 PM (WDjG6)
_______

This. I've seen it many times myself. At some point, the cops just don't go to that house any more, and it ultimately ends up with the woman dead or permanently injured. Some people you just can't help.

This is also why I never get involved in any disturbance or dispute I might see. I'll intervene to protect one of my own. But some rando? Hard pass. I have nothing to gain and much to lose.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 03:21 PM (iFTx/)

392 Fox Live now, free on the youtube, has a live feed of the MN protests

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 08, 2026 03:21 PM (HXT0k)

393 I like Luckys. They're Toasted.

Posted by: garrett at January 08, 2026 03:21 PM (ZcsJV)

394
Yep. Infidelity is not an issue in gay men's marriages for the most part is why.

________

They're what heteros would call "open marriages". One of those little details they didn't mention when plumping for gay marriage.

At the time we were also shamed for denying gays the right to get married. And how many are married now? About 10%.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 03:21 PM (tgvbd)

395 Was at the gas station last night and saw a guy buying a carton of Lucky Strikes.

Squares or kings?

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 08, 2026 03:21 PM (jc0TO)

396 The internet has made people stupid.

People accept that which corresponds to their preconceptions. We see it in the comments here. Someone will say something... something incorrect... and inflammatory. And several other people will be all hair on fire before someone can post the truth.

Other people will come in, read the original post, go hair on fire before they get to the correction and others will view that as corroboration.

That's what the internet does. That's what social media is. For all that it allows the truth to get out, it also amplifies the lies.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 03:21 PM (ExV1e)

397 Read Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s book “Infidel.”
Somalis are crazy, violent, and create nothing.
What is their culture? What have they contributed to the world, when you have one of their own telling you they haven’t.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 08, 2026 03:21 PM (Hkcdp)

398 Ace...I could not watch the video of the open-mouthed tranny on the tik tok video. I just can't due to my pure heart and eyeballs.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 08, 2026 03:21 PM (WONhk)

399 26 -26 this morning. You'd think this was Fairbanks. You can bet nobody here will be protesting anything outside on the street.
Posted by: tcn in AK at January 08, 2026 02:32 PM (6Bc8

-26 temperature and you managed to hit post # 26.

Nice work even if unintentional.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 08, 2026 03:21 PM (QGaXH)

400 > The old Confederacy had Robert E. Lee

Robert E. Lee was a man of honor.

On the wrong side, but a man of honor.

Tampon TIMMMEEHHHH!!!! shouldn't even be mentioned in the same sentence.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 08, 2026 03:21 PM (IG3/x)

401 387 The ex husband was a mentally ill comedian"

that's not very funny.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2026 03:22 PM (uWKK8)

402 >>> 388 383 Somali land has to be worth something. Not much, but SOMETHING.

Especially if it doesn't have Somalis in it anymore.

Just wanted to point that out. Not advocating, just observing.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 08, 2026 03:19 PM (IG3/x)

=======

First or second largest gold reserves in the world are in Somalia.

They are almost completely untapped.

The last time someone built a mine to exploit it, Al Qaeda waltzed in and murdered everyone, destroyed all the equipment, and walked out.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 03:20 PM (GBKbO)

We never did get that audit of Fort Knox...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 03:22 PM (ULPxl)

403
OUT: "She was turning her life around".
IN: "She was turning her car around".

Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 08, 2026 03:22 PM (wtvvX)

404 So Good was acting as a self-appointed "Legal Observer"

--

She must not have been wearing her official "Legal Observer" lanyard. How was he supposed to know she had a legal right to run him down?!

/s

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 08, 2026 03:22 PM (qBdHI)

405 National Lawyers' Guild member?

Good shoot.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 08, 2026 03:22 PM (Wnv9h)

406 At least she died doing what she loved.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 08, 2026 03:23 PM (AgieO)

407 Did you notice the Somali flag behind Walz? I guess it's the Minnesota flag now, but it doesn't look anything like the flag any Minnosotan carried at Gettysburg

Posted by: Dave at January 08, 2026 03:23 PM (sbsMc)

408 368 And will be out in 6 months on good behavior

I was under the impression that the federal system didn't do that.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

They can try but sentencing guidelines make that very difficult in practice. DoJ gets to appeal any stupid short sentence outside teh guidelines, like in the Kavanaugh assassination case. Judges have to give a legal opinion why the particular sentence departed from the guidelines under specific sections of the Sentencing guidelines.

Back when I did work on it, you would get things like an Orthodox father arguing for a low sentence because he had to supervise his daughters getting married and making a proper match. Overturned on appeal. Another was over the fact that the Mafia don had not had kids yet and deserved time to make a family.

BTW, I checked the AI answer summary and it was fake bullshit on this topic. Sentence outside the guidelines are presumptively a matter for appeal whether upwards or downwards by either side.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 03:23 PM (WDjG6)

409 I like Luckys. They're Toasted.
Posted by: garrett at January 08, 2026 03:21 PM (ZcsJV)
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Lucky Strike Green has gone to war!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 08, 2026 03:23 PM (X4XpB)

410 National Lawyers' Guild member?

Good shoot.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 08, 2026 03:22 PM

I would say the same if they were first hunted down with dogs.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 08, 2026 03:24 PM (jc0TO)

411 National Lawyers' Guild member?

Good shoot.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 08, 2026 03:22 PM (Wnv9h)

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"A Good Start." -- Just the punchline, and with apologies to our wonderful Esquires of The Horde

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 03:24 PM (IpnJw)

412 Somali land has to be worth something. Not much, but SOMETHING.

Especially if it doesn't have Somalis in it anymore.

Just wanted to point that out. Not advocating, just observing.



Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 08, 2026 03:19 PM (IG3/x)

=======

First or second largest gold reserves in the world are in Somalia.

They are almost completely untapped.

The last time someone built a mine to exploit it, Al Qaeda waltzed in and murdered everyone, destroyed all the equipment, and walked out.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 03:20 PM (GBKbO)
_____

That and gorgeous beaches and natural beauty. I think Somali has one of the longest shorelines in all Africa. The country should be a major tourist destination.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 03:24 PM (iFTx/)

413 Read Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s book “Infidel.”
Somalis are crazy, violent, and create nothing.
What is their culture? What have they contributed to the world, when you have one of their own telling you they haven’t.

--

I'm reading it right now, about 100 pages in. You are 100% correct.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 08, 2026 03:24 PM (qBdHI)

414 409 L.S.M.F.T.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 08, 2026 03:24 PM (gm9Sb)

415
All the Fires and looting in Minneapolis this weekend will at least put out some heat. However the carbon footprint is going to be though to swallow

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 08, 2026 03:24 PM (IifOV)

416 >> M67 90mm Recoilless Rifle flechette rounds are the schiznit. Great fun to shoot. Even more fun than HEAT or HE rounds.

Carrying that fucking sewer pipe strapped to your ruck on forced marches, not so much.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 08, 2026 03:20 PM (y9nCu)

My dad used to talk about the m67. When we first went into Afghanistan in the early days, someone pulled a few out of the CONEX and was like WTF is this?

Posted by: Marcus T at January 08, 2026 03:25 PM (DZ6nv)

417 Anybody worth shooting is worth shooting 2-3 times. Mozambique them just to be sure.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 08, 2026 03:07 PM (xvV+O)

Changing their heart and mind.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 08, 2026 03:25 PM (N39Ws)

418 The problem with Somali is that it's full of Somalis.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 08, 2026 03:25 PM (jc0TO)

419 That and gorgeous beaches and natural beauty.
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Also home to one of the few documented species of man-eating sharks.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 08, 2026 03:25 PM (X4XpB)

420 Iranian TV buildings in Isfahan have been razed.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at January 08, 2026 03:25 PM (kvcnI)

421 56m
JD Vance is the most appealing person in public life since segregation

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at January 08, 2026 03:26 PM (wGerL)

422 I also hope the goFundme dollars go to this child vs the dyke on the sidewalk filming (I want to see that film, now). Odd that we haven't. Maybe she/he will sell to UK DM? I'll bet it shows what happened if inside the car, with both of them yelling and cussing ladylike.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
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Seized as evidence by ICE is my guess. All officer involved shootings are internally investigated first and that is material evidence in that matter.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 03:26 PM (WDjG6)

423
The ex husband was a mentally ill comedian"



You could have just said "comedian". Ironically, comedians are some of the most miserable people in show business.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 08, 2026 03:26 PM (y9nCu)

424 421 56m
JD Vance is the most appealing person in public life since segregation

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at January 08, 2026 03:26 PM (wGerL)

======

"We would be so much better with Pence who runs away from Broadway actors insulting him and then praises them for it."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 03:26 PM (GBKbO)

425 It’s well established UOF that using a vehicle as a deadly weapon is defensible with lethal force.

But please don’t tell them.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 08, 2026 03:26 PM (DZ6nv)

426 Read Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s book “Infidel.”
Somalis are crazy, violent, and create nothing.
What is their culture? What have they contributed to the world, when you have one of their own telling you they haven’t.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 08, 2026 03:21 PM (Hkcdp)
_____

Their culture is Thunderdome. Literally.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 03:27 PM (iFTx/)

427 Another was over the fact that the Mafia don had not had kids yet and deserved time to make a family.

-----------

Hilarious.

And here all along I thought that committing & being convicted of crime(s) was a forfeiture of your "rights."

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 03:27 PM (IpnJw)

428 96 So being a "legal observer" means you're immune from any kind of legal command from LEOs or even private property owners.

"Officer, I wasn't peeping into that women's changing room, I was legally observing them to make sure they're following the laws as they change clothing."
----------------------------------------


Yes.

Posted by: JugdeMostHonerableAndKeeperOfDemocracyBoasenberg at January 08, 2026 03:27 PM (5LiC7)

429 Nine out of ten Legal Observers have a support animal with fake documents and smoke Virginia Slims. And yep, drive Subarus.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 08, 2026 03:27 PM (gm9Sb)

430 You could have just said "comedian". Ironically, comedians are some of the most miserable people in show business.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 08, 2026 03:26 PM (y9nCu)

Comedy = Tragedy + Time

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 03:27 PM (06Hmj)

431 I wonder if the lesbian domestic terrorist will have her insurance company reject her claim (she smashed two other vehicles) ... on grounds it is terrorist related.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 08, 2026 03:27 PM (vbXSk)

432 It shouldn't be easier to vote than it is to buy a gun.

It shouldn't be easier to defraud the government of tens of millions of dollars than it is to buy a gun.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 03:27 PM (ExV1e)

433 Bessent just did a press conference where he said the Department of Treasury was going to try and claw back as much of the fraudulent money as possible.

The money in cash flown to Somalia is gone, but anything in the worldwide banking system? Treasury is gonna be able to reach it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 03:10 PM (GBKbO)
______

Great news!!! Now find the banking records of Walz and Gang along with the $$$!!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 08, 2026 03:28 PM (WONhk)

434 Iranian TV buildings in Isfahan have been razed.
==
Omg..the journalists!!! Please tell me they got the journalists too

Posted by: Sarcasm or not at January 08, 2026 03:28 PM (1M7sl)

435 Squares or kings?
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 08, 2026 03:21 PM (jc0TO)

Dunno. It was a smallish looking carton. Older guy but not too old. Had on a high vis vest. He got as and opened the carton before getting back in his car.

I dreamed about cigarettes last night. Camel Wides.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 08, 2026 03:28 PM (zZu0s)

436 That and gorgeous beaches and natural beauty. I think Somali has one of the longest shorelines in all Africa. The country should be a major tourist destination.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

Somaliland has declared independence from the rest of the trash and Israel has already recognized it to the dismay of the world community. Trump is considering it. From all accounts, more peaceable there (former British Somaliland--the violent clan shitheads are in Italian Somaliland primarily).

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 03:28 PM (WDjG6)

437 I can get a job with ice. I could drive a paddy wagon. Way to jail i can say weird shit to the immigrants.


White man voodoo talk and i will study the greats.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 08, 2026 03:28 PM (EyfuW)

438 Glad you are OK, but no snowboarding or parkour for two weeks!
Posted by: Safety Patrol at January 08, 2026 02:37 PM (oftw2)

Ha! Yes, I’ve struck those off the calendar. Looks like lots of quality recliner time with occasional walks…

Posted by: Henry at January 08, 2026 03:28 PM (tWkg3)

439 433 Great news!!! Now find the banking records of Walz and Gang along with the $$$!!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 08, 2026 03:28 PM (WONhk)

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Vance just announced a new Assistant AG position dedicated to fraud whose primary focus will start in MN and then move nationwide.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 03:28 PM (GBKbO)

440 431 I wonder if the lesbian domestic terrorist will have her insurance company reject her claim (she smashed two other vehicles) ... on grounds it is terrorist related.
Posted by: illiniwek
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Criminal behavior is generally not protected by insurance companies.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 03:29 PM (WDjG6)

441 Beau Biden died at Antietam.

Shielding Somali orphans from MAGA.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 03:29 PM (ExV1e)

442 426 Read Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s book “Infidel.”
Somalis are crazy, violent, and create nothing.
What is their culture? What have they contributed to the world, when you have one of their own telling you they haven’t.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 08, 2026 03:21 PM (Hkcdp)
_____

Their culture is Thunderdome. Literally.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 03:27 PM (iFTx/)

I have that book and read it a long time ago.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 08, 2026 03:29 PM (WONhk)

443 Bessent is going to claw it back from every state. The state has to collect it from the fraudsters.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 08, 2026 03:29 PM (DZ6nv)

444 Luckys are okay but, when I'm in the mood for filterless, I look for "Pell Mells" first.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 08, 2026 03:29 PM (jc0TO)

445 Vance just announced a new Assistant AG position dedicated to fraud whose primary focus will start in MN and then move nationwide.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
======
Good. No more lame ass special prosecutors who end up covering up shit for their Dem friends.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 03:30 PM (WDjG6)

446 @420 Well that's just great. Now how do I watch Everybody Loves Mohammed???

Posted by: PA Dutchman at January 08, 2026 03:30 PM (9YzYI)

447 The left has been sitting on the response to this for a year, waiting for a death. They have all the protests prepped all the signs printed, all the slogans ready, all the bots lined up.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2026 03:30 PM (3Amc7)

448 The Feds need to look at past videos to see if this woman was a front protester in past

Posted by: Skip at January 08, 2026 03:30 PM (Ia/+0)

449 Don't ever forget the MN flag change. It makes me want to puke. (calming breaths)

Posted by: connected and litigious at January 08, 2026 03:30 PM (cS1cw)

450 435 Camel and Lucky old school non filters are over $90 a carton at the PX.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 08, 2026 03:30 PM (gm9Sb)

451 Marcus @ 443...he is brilliant and I really like him. A great pick for Sec of Treasury!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 08, 2026 03:30 PM (WONhk)

452 Reason why cops HATE domestic violence calls. Often it is the woman that turns around and attacks when their assaulting partner is going to be arrested and sent to jail.
Posted by: whig

Because you get beat later for not defending your abuser and not loving him enough. You want to risk this whole family? Are you dumb? Wash, rinse, repeat. It’s very, very hard to get out. And many of us understood it was safer to stay - we were allowed to live. There is still truth in that for me.

Posted by: Piper at January 08, 2026 03:30 PM (Q9G/L)

453 445 Vance just announced a new Assistant AG position dedicated to fraud whose primary focus will start in MN and then move nationwide.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
======
Good. No more lame ass special prosecutors who end up covering up shit for their Dem friends.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 03:30 PM (WDjG6)

=====

Trump 2.0 is playing hardball.

Nancy Pelosi really should have passed a real infrastructure bill in 2017 and refused to pursue Russian collusion. Also Paul Ryan.

This Trump would have never come about.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 03:31 PM (GBKbO)

454 Sad fact is that she will be much more effective in her cause dead then she ever was alive.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 08, 2026 03:31 PM (n5tGW)

455 It’s very, very hard to get out. And many of us understood it was safer to stay - we were allowed to live. There is still truth in that for me.
Posted by: Piper at January 08, 2026 03:30 PM (Q9G/L)

Oh, I am so sorry.

You did and won!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 08, 2026 03:31 PM (WONhk)

456 Trump 2.0 is playing hardball.

Nancy Pelosi really should have passed a real infrastructure bill in 2017 and refused to pursue Russian collusion. Also Paul Ryan.

This Trump would have never come about.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 03:31 PM

They shoulda built the fence.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 08, 2026 03:32 PM (jc0TO)

457 >> Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 08, 2026 03:30 PM (WONhk)

He has a Street reputation as a brilliant guy, who is relentless. There is no way any of these idiots will get one over on him.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 08, 2026 03:32 PM (DZ6nv)

458 444 "In hoc signo Vinces.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 08, 2026 03:32 PM (gm9Sb)

459 "We would be so much better with Pence who runs away from Broadway actors insulting him and then praises them for it."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

"Servility is Civility". The Bumperstickers on GOPe cars.

Another is "Democrats are Party of Peace"

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 03:32 PM (WDjG6)

460 And I did leave, but I was not unscathed and still am not unscathed for doing it.

Posted by: Piper at January 08, 2026 03:32 PM (Q9G/L)

461 By Monday, the Outrage Media will have moved on to another Outrage. That's my prediction, at least.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 02:41 PM (iFTx/)

Have you heard that Trump kidnapped a sitting President? And hijacked a Russian tanker? And said 'pussy'?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 03:32 PM (ExV1e)

462 That stupid mayor and the Fraudfather Walz are no doubt internally giddy this woman died.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 08, 2026 03:32 PM (n5tGW)

463 "We would be so much better with Pence who runs away from Broadway actors insulting him and then praises them for it."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 03:26 PM (GBKbO)

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Race Bannon was a Deep State GloboHomo PsyOp before they were cool.

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 03:32 PM (IpnJw)

464 {{{Piper}}}

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 03:33 PM (ULPxl)

465 deficit nood

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 08, 2026 03:33 PM (bIWgk)

466 Camel and Lucky old school non filters are over $90 a carton at the PX.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 08, 2026 03:30 PM (gm9Sb)

When I last glanced at the display in shell, they were like 7.50 a pack here in kentucky (Camels.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 08, 2026 03:33 PM (zZu0s)

467 456 Trump 2.0 is playing hardball.

Nancy Pelosi really should have passed a real infrastructure bill in 2017 and refused to pursue Russian collusion. Also Paul Ryan.

This Trump would have never come about.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 03:31 PM

They shoulda built the fence.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 08, 2026 03:32 PM (jc0TO)

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Essentially, they should have treated Trump like a boring Republican instead of a pustule to be lanced with a nuclear bomb.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 03:33 PM (GBKbO)

468 As I've said before, my working theory about Democrat politicians is that they run for office to steal, and then to avoid prosecution, or the other way around. Walz and company may have introduced a third alternative- start a civil war to avoid prosecution. Often used in other parts of the world, but not here, up until now, anyway.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at January 08, 2026 03:33 PM (MZ+PY)

469 >>> 461
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Have you heard that Trump kidnapped a sitting President? And hijacked a Russian tanker? And said 'pussy'?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 03:32 PM (ExV1e)

Is worst ever puppet.

Posted by: Vlad P. at January 08, 2026 03:34 PM (ULPxl)

470 Vance just announced a new Assistant AG position dedicated to fraud whose primary focus will start in MN and then move nationwide.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 03:28 PM (GBKbO)

I LOVE THIS GROUP OF TRUMP's ARMY!

President Trump will add all this to his SOTU speech!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 08, 2026 03:35 PM (WONhk)

471 NOOD

trade deficit

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 03:35 PM (ULPxl)

472 Cook County did the same thing with its new flag. Looks like a combination of the Chicago flag and the trans rights flag with colors from the Somalia flag.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at January 08, 2026 03:35 PM (wGerL)

473 So Vance is not just "worse than Trump", he's "as bad as segregation".

I'll tell you this, they do love their script and punishing Republicans by hanging shitty Democrats of all stripes on them.

Posted by: ... at January 08, 2026 03:35 PM (0Sg1Q)

474 Nood trade deficit.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 03:35 PM (6mogZ)

475 Unhinged: highly disturbed, unstable, or distraught

The unhinged leftard in the Clown World video is why I updated my EDC from 1 spare mag to 2.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 08, 2026 03:36 PM (vzcgi)

476 Because you get beat later for not defending your abuser and not loving him enough. You want to risk this whole family? Are you dumb? Wash, rinse, repeat. It’s very, very hard to get out. And many of us understood it was safer to stay - we were allowed to live. There is still truth in that for me.
Posted by: Piper
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Sorry that you had to go through with the abuse and I hope you heal.

But, you just explained why Cops hate domestic violence calls. They cannot win and often it results in injured or dead cops because the cops are at close range instead of a distance from the violence.

Same with arresting protesters when the courts, prosecutors, and pols don't want it. So they sit on the ass and watch people on the right get assaulted in blue areas.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 03:36 PM (WDjG6)

477 "Servility is Civility". The Bumperstickers on GOPe cars.

Another is "Democrats are Party of Peace"

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 03:32 PM (WDjG6)

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"Slaves are made in such ways!"

/obligatory William Wallace "Braveheart" quote

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 03:36 PM (IpnJw)

478 Essentially, they should have treated Trump like a boring Republican instead of a pustule to be lanced with a nuclear bomb
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The fact that they did what they did to trump and did not to prior gop presidents tells you something.

Posted by: Uniparty at January 08, 2026 03:38 PM (1M7sl)

479 454 Sad fact is that she will be much more effective in her cause dead then she ever was alive.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk

I doubt it. Same with the violent thugs that Kyle Rittenhouse ventilated. That led a drawback of Antifa from red or even purple areas for fear of being shot. Same with this case. Now every asshole trying to assault an ICE officer knows they can be shot for doing so.

Not the typical game leftists like to play because they have been pampered in their misbehavior by blue states and localities.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 03:38 PM (WDjG6)

480 The best video I've seen of this is the zoomed-in and slowed-down video taken from the rear of the woman's SUV. I had to watch it several times before I realized that the ICE officer that ended up firing his sidearm was NOT standing in front of her car. He was initially standing off at the passenger side front corner of her SUV.

The front tires are turned hard to the left while the 2nd ICE officer was at the driver's door trying to open it. The driver puts the SUV in reverse and executes a clockwise J-turn. She then turns the front tires to the front. Now her car is pointed directly at the first ICE officer.

He had been in a fairly relaxed ready position with his hands up to his chest. He goes to Condition Red and draws his sidearm.

The driver starts to accelerate forward, spinning the 2nd ICE officer off balance, and drives directly toward the 1st officer. He then fires: once into the windshield and then into the open driver's window AFTER he's been struck by the SUV.

The driver made all the decisions that got her killed: she progressed from Obstructing Law Enforcement to Resisting Arrest to Vehicular Assault/Attempted Vehicular Homicide.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 08, 2026 03:39 PM (pJWtt)

481 460 And I did leave, but I was not unscathed and still am not unscathed for doing it.
Posted by: Piper at January 08, 2026 03:32 PM (Q9G/L)

I did not know this about you til today. It does not define you. You rose high above this chapter in your life.

I knew you were a strong woman over a year ago, and I am pretty much a dingbat.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 08, 2026 03:39 PM (WONhk)

482
There were reports of Iranian demonstrators looting government buildings, including police stations and even Republican Guard facilities. Is it possible that they've already acquired weapons?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 08, 2026 03:40 PM (XeO61)

483
Read Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s book “Infidel.”
Somalis are crazy, violent, and create nothing.
What is their culture? What have they contributed to the world, when you have one of their own telling you they haven’t

Consider the horror of a Palistinian - Somali alliance.

They'd either be rampaging fiends or stumblebum numbskulls.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at January 08, 2026 03:42 PM (xG4kz)

484 Prayers up for Mom and Doof.

Posted by: creeper at January 08, 2026 03:43 PM (80oeU)

485 LSMFT = Liposclerosing Myxofibrous Tumor

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 08, 2026 03:44 PM (XMwZJ)

486 Walz pretty much said today that any Fed investigation into yesterday's shoting will be a whitewash to exonerate the officer who fired. Only some highly respected non-biased Minn State criminal investigation agency should do an investigation so Minnesotans can truly learn the facts.

Yeah, he's not sowing division or distrust of the Federal Government, nope not at all. Now the Left has laid down he marker that only states can validly investigate incidents involving Federal LEO. While Blue States and Cities continue to incite violence against Fed LEO, hoping for more incidents only they can supposedly impartially investigate.

types/deletes

Posted by: Gref at January 08, 2026 03:47 PM (5rh/l)

487 Bone. To. Pick.

Posted by: wth at January 08, 2026 03:48 PM (v0R5T)

488 it hardly needs saying, but there is no such thing as a "legal observer". The words have no meaning.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2026 02:33 PM (uWKK

Perhaps they should adopt some armbands with an interlinked hockey stick device so the "fascists" won't fuck with them.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 08, 2026 03:50 PM (8zz6B)

489 God speed, good sir.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 02:37 PM (GBKbO)

Likewise from me.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 08, 2026 03:55 PM (8zz6B)

490 Heard an AWFL on NPR saying they cannot guarantee the safety of protestors. Lol.
No shit bitch. FAFO.

Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 04:00 PM (/HZvU)

491 I think they'll settle down now a stop this silliness. Very stable people.

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at January 08, 2026 04:03 PM (czyDT)

492 NOTAMS have just been issued across Iran. Something big might be about to happen.

Notice to Aviation
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 08, 2026 02:47 PM (mlg/3)

Issued by who?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 08, 2026 04:05 PM (8zz6B)

493 Doof, Prayers sent for your Mother.

Posted by: Mrs JTB at January 08, 2026 04:06 PM (yTvNw)

494 Services for the legal observer will be held at the Find Out Funeral Home in Minneapolis.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 08, 2026 04:12 PM (ewjUl)

495 Resident lefty ragey pants was told to go home today.

He's not taking the L very well

Posted by: melodicmetal at January 08, 2026 04:12 PM (/y7Ay)

496 Anyone else notice the ABSOLUTELY ABSURD sign-language interpreters working for Walz and Frey? They are unbelievably ridiculous! The mugging, the body contortions, the dramatic interpretation. It's fucking comedy gold!

Posted by: red speck at January 08, 2026 04:13 PM (Ve/HL)

497 Bed death aka no sex is common in lesbian relationships.
Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 02:55 PM (WDjG6)

They just don't give a lick anymore.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 08, 2026 04:17 PM (8zz6B)

498 Sealed indictment. Midnight apprehension. Federal jail until trial.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at January 08, 2026 04:18 PM (FIXtj)

499 Prayers for Doof's mother's recovery from pneumonia.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 08, 2026 04:19 PM (WONhk)

500 496 Anyone else notice the ABSOLUTELY ABSURD sign-language interpreters working for Walz and Frey? They are unbelievably ridiculous! The mugging, the body contortions, the dramatic interpretation. It's fucking comedy gold!
Posted by: red speck at January 08, 2026 04:13 PM (Ve/HL)

Yes! I don't think it is ASL vs acting like loons! Deaf people have heard of closed captioning and use it!

Read that the two dyke observers, before moving to MN (unsure of the Missouri tags and the VA addresses for Renee...the SUV was registered to butch Rebecca), initially left for Canada in a huff after Trump won in 2024.

They did get around. Van life for child abusers? I want to know more about that rumor of the 6yr old.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 08, 2026 04:23 PM (WONhk)

501 Trans women are just so angry

Posted by: yawrate at January 08, 2026 04:30 PM (M62Dh)

502 Liberals are going to the mat with their lying about this one. They're honestly denying their lying eyes, and pretending it was the guy on the driver's side door who people are saying she tried to hit, as opposed to the officer in front of her car. Most media outlets are only using the video from half a block away, on the 2nd floor of a building, where the car is completely blocked by trees, as evidence she was just an innocent woman, refusing to show the video filmed like 5 feet away and on the driver's side where you see everything.

They so want more riots and violence, and if they do I hope Trump doesn't act like a pussy like last time, and instead just squished it immediately and starts rounding up all the funders.

Posted by: Rbastid at January 08, 2026 06:00 PM (HkgQu)

CBS "News:" The Totally-Legitimate Non-Fraudulent Day Care "Targeted" by Nick Shirley Has Now Closed, For Unkown Reasons We Couldn't Possibly Speculate About

The motive may never be known, they swore.


A Minneapolis day care featured in a right-wing YouTuber's video about alleged fraud in Minnesota is now closed, according to state records.

Quality Learing Center [spelling corrected to the proper "Learing"] closed on Tuesday, according to the Minnesota Department of Human Services' licensing records. The Minnesota Department of Children, Youth, and Families said that the center requested closure of its license effective Tuesday.

"The provider is unable to reopen without reapplying for a license," the agency reported.

The center's last licensing review, in June, found several operational violations but noted no evidence of fraud.

...

CBS News conducted its own analysis of several of the day centers Shirley mentioned; all but two had active licenses, according to state records, and all active locations had been visited by state regulators within the last six months.

But we know that "regulators" were purposely not doing any regulating at all. They were not verifying enrollment records.

The Minnesota Department of Children, Youth and Families visited nine of the day cares from the video, finding children present at eight of them.

Oh, after the video they rustled up some of their cousins' kids for a bit of matinee theater?

The ninth had not yet opened for the day when inspectors visited.

Quality Learning Center received $1.9 million from Minnesota's Child Care Assistance Program in fiscal year 2025, according to the department. DCYF said it was made aware on Dec. 19 that the center intended to voluntarily close, but during a visit 10 days later, it learned it had chosen to remain open.

Shirley's video reignited furor over fraud in Minnesota.

But not in the media.

Posted by: Ace at 01:27 PM




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1 Sad that an underserved community has to suffer so.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 01:28 PM (ExV1e)

2 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2026 01:28 PM (PQb8B)

3 But is it copper infused?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 08, 2026 01:28 PM (Kt19C)

4 I nooded.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 01:28 PM (ExV1e)

5 NOODed

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 01:28 PM (IpnJw)

6 Truly nothing nood under the sun.

Posted by: Ecclesiastical you know at January 08, 2026 01:29 PM (TbWk/)

7 CBS "News:" The Totally-Legitimate Non-Fraudulent Day Care "Targeted" by Nick Shirley Has Now Closed, For Unkown Reasons We Couldn't Possibly Speculate About

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They were doing such a good job taking care of kids that it was making all the other day cares feel bad.

So they transferred the Learing Center to Sanford.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 01:29 PM (GBKbO)

8 The VIDEO ignited furor.

Posted by: ... at January 08, 2026 01:29 PM (0Sg1Q)

9 Quality Learing Center [spelling corrected to the proper "Learing"] closed on Tuesday, according to the Minnesota Department of Human Services' licensing records.


Proofreading is no longer a thing, is it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2026 01:29 PM (PQb8B)

10 So much White Supremacy.

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 01:29 PM (IpnJw)

11
"CLOSED FOR THE SAFETY OF THE CHILDREN"

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 08, 2026 01:30 PM (IifOV)

12 Hi ace!

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at January 08, 2026 01:30 PM (2J/Lj)

13 The VIDEO ignited furor.

Posted by: ... at January 08, 2026 01:29 PM (0Sg1Q)

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You know who else ignited a furor?

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 01:30 PM (IpnJw)

14 13 The VIDEO ignited furor.

Posted by: ... at January 08, 2026 01:29 PM (0Sg1Q)

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You know who else ignited a furor?

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 01:30 PM (IpnJw)

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I didn't start the fire.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 01:30 PM (GBKbO)

15 We should have a Quality Ace Learing Center.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 08, 2026 01:30 PM (pLaQB)

16 hahahahha

I love this guy!

"Targeted? You're goddamn right I targeted them!"

Never equivocate. Never retreat. Never surrender.

Attack, attack, attack.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 01:31 PM (06Hmj)

17 As my dad used to call them:

Compressed
Bat
Shit

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2026 01:31 PM (PQb8B)

18 "CLOSED FOR THE SAFETY OF THE CHILDREN"

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 08, 2026 01:30 PM (IifOV)

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Trump was sending ICE Agents there to shoot all of the children, but not the British children.

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 01:31 PM (IpnJw)

19 Without Quality Learing Center how will our childrens learn to red?

I mean besides the billions spent on "legitimate" education

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 01:31 PM (sKqQm)

20 Weird!

Thought I saw some lefty on X claiming they got a tour, and it was fully functional. Even had pictures of the inside where the newly painted walls were glowing.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 08, 2026 01:31 PM (Hkcdp)

21 8 The VIDEO ignited furor.
____

Just like the video caused outraged Libyans to kill our ambassador.

When I'm in office, I will impose common sense video controls.

Posted by: Hillary! at January 08, 2026 01:32 PM (Dv3i1)

22 Ghost kids need a safe place to haunt.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 08, 2026 01:32 PM (jc0TO)

23 You know who else ignited a furor?


The illegal that started the big Californian wildfire a few years ago?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 01:32 PM (sKqQm)

24 You know who else ignited a furor?

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 01:30 PM (IpnJw)

You owe me about a teaspoon and a half of pesto

Posted by: ... at January 08, 2026 01:32 PM (0Sg1Q)

25 Ghost kids need a safe place to haunt.

Casper > Muhammed Muhammed Muhammed

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 01:32 PM (sKqQm)

26 20 Weird!

Thought I saw some lefty on X claiming they got a tour, and it was fully functional. Even had pictures of the inside where the newly painted walls were glowing.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 08, 2026 01:31 PM (Hkcdp)

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The video that showed a child enrollment of 4 when the center tells the state it takes care of 40?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 01:32 PM (GBKbO)

27
Whomever owns he buildings these fictional daycares/healthcare/Transportation needs to be looked into. I imagine they were more than happy to rent empty retail spaces to/from their comrades.

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 08, 2026 01:32 PM (IifOV)

28 Oh, after the video they rustled up some of their cousins' kids for a bit of matinee theater?
_____________

The inspections are supposed to be unannounced. So somebody on the inside has to be tipping them off on when to have kids there.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 08, 2026 01:32 PM (XvL8K)

29 I never did find out if it was actually spelled "Learing" on their incorporation paperwork or not....

That would be too hilarious.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 01:33 PM (06Hmj)

30 The hearings yesterday, Gill from Texas questioned whomever asking about the Somali households.

After 10 years, 78% were still on welfare.

Yeah, they're stealing from us. Robbing us blind. And Democrats across the board are culpable.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2026 01:33 PM (PQb8B)

31 Trump was sending ICE Agents there to shoot all of the children, but not the British children.

Do I have to do everything?

Posted by: George Washington at January 08, 2026 01:33 PM (sKqQm)

32 All the paperwork records for all the daycare centers were stolen, or eaten by their dogs, . . . goats. I’m sure there should be utility and phone records to show that there were clients being served in those facilities.

Posted by: Unkaren at January 08, 2026 01:33 PM (BrLWF)

33 Even had pictures of the inside where the newly painted walls were glowing.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 08, 2026 01:31 PM (Hkcdp)

The walls had khakis on?

Posted by: ... at January 08, 2026 01:34 PM (0Sg1Q)

34 this is my shocked face...

-_-

i wonder how long until the owner opens in the
same place with a 'new' name

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at January 08, 2026 01:34 PM (v6XNT)

35 Yeah, they're stealing from us. Robbing us blind. And Democrats across the board are culpable.

From their perspective it is jizya

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 01:34 PM (sKqQm)

36 Proofreading is no longer a thing, is it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2026 01:29 PM (PQb8B)

If memory serves, Ace has previously denounced proofreading as gay. Then he cuddled with garrett.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 01:34 PM (ExV1e)

37 The problem isn't the fraud, no, the problem is those meddling kids exposing the fraud. They're the ones causing all this trouble! The people who caught the wrongdoers doing wrong are the real assholes! Hell, it's their fault the fraudsters were committing fraud in the first place!

Posted by: Very ex-wife reasoning at January 08, 2026 01:34 PM (TbWk/)

38 Diversity is our strength!

Retard level strength.

Posted by: Joe Mama at January 08, 2026 01:34 PM (TezPK)

39 The amount of anti depressant, anti anxiety drugs these liberals must be on is epic. They can be quite disinhibiting, such that anger boils over and things are said and done which would normally be inhibited. Half the country is out of control. Bet you the autopsy of the minn driver is positive for psych meds.

Posted by: Why so crazy? at January 08, 2026 01:34 PM (1M7sl)

40 hahahahha

I love this guy!

"Targeted? You're goddamn right I targeted them!"

Never equivocate. Never retreat. Never surrender.

Attack, attack, attack.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 01:31 PM (06Hmj)

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"You're Goddamn right I ordered the Code Rid!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 01:34 PM (IpnJw)

41 Aww. And after all that money they spent fixing the sign.

Posted by: fd at January 08, 2026 01:35 PM (lNdi2)

42 It can be said that Nick Shirley 'pounced,' I guess.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 08, 2026 01:35 PM (Y1sOo)

43
I doubt any of the phony daycares had garbage service, or produced any byproduct that would prove they actually functioned.

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 08, 2026 01:35 PM (IifOV)

44 Ghost Chilren hardest hit.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 08, 2026 01:35 PM (vbXSk)

45
If memory serves, Ace has previously denounced proofreading as gay. Then he cuddled with garrett.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 01:34 PM (ExV1e)


Well, I figured CBS News would've been loaded with homos, but if they're not proofreading their published work, I guess I was incorrect.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2026 01:35 PM (PQb8B)

46
Vance doing a White House press briefing now on this topic. Good for him, he opens by talking about how much money non-criminal Americans are spending on child care and child-raising.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 08, 2026 01:35 PM (Uo+RY)

47 An over-looked component of this daycare scam is just looking at the "daycares" themselves. They're all dingy, abandoned warehouses in industrial areas.

Hell, in that vid the day after, when all the fake parents were dropping off fake children for PR, it literally looks like they're in a filthy alleyway outside of some rando delipidated building.

No legitimate business catering to children and their parents would operate out of these locations. They were obviously set up on the cheap, in areas not likely to call attention, without any regard to actually catering to children because they never intended to.

I'll bet you any amount of money that multiple "daycares" were operating out of the same space.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 01:35 PM (iFTx/)

48 The VIDEO ignited furor.

Posted by: ... at January 08, 2026 01:29 PM (0Sg1Q)

--------------

You know who else ignited a furor?
Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 01:30 PM (IpnJw)

The Reischstag?

Posted by: Putsch your money where your mouth is at January 08, 2026 01:35 PM (TbWk/)

49 But we know that "regulators" were purposely not doing any regulating at all. They were not verifying enrollment records.

I wonder if there are criminal penalties for "regulators" deliberately and fraudulently overlooking regulatory requirements.

That is, if the regulations require a attendance certification, and that regulation was not followed nor was even a part of an investigation or certification verification, that would make the inspection fraudulent.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 08, 2026 01:35 PM (c3sdc)

50 Quality Learing Center
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O, reason not the need

Posted by: ... at January 08, 2026 01:36 PM (0Sg1Q)

51 CLOSED?

This is Trump's fault!

Thank you, Mr.President!

Posted by: Case at January 08, 2026 01:36 PM (4rWc3)

52 I always thought it was odd that people from such a hot climate would choose to locate themselves in the exact opposite climate. It all makes sense now and similar circumstances should be investigated across the board.

Posted by: DJ at January 08, 2026 01:36 PM (uosPt)

53 Diversity is our strength!

Retard level strength.
Posted by: Joe Mama at January 08, 2026 01:34 PM (TezPK)


Retard strength > Smart power

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2026 01:36 PM (PQb8B)

54 And I thought Gov. DeWine was embarrassing.

Posted by: Silver lining in fraud cloud at January 08, 2026 01:36 PM (1M7sl)

55 So we've moved on from all the seizing and pouncing to targeting, got it.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 08, 2026 01:37 PM (ClDUJ)

56 "CBS News conducted its own analysis of several of the day centers Shirley mentioned; all but two had active licenses, according to state records, and all active locations had been visited by state regulators within the last six months."

Tony Dukopil:

"The press has missed the story because we've taken into account the perspective of advocates and not the average American, or we've put too much weight in the analysis of academics and elites, and not enough on you. I know this because, at certain points, I have been you. I have felt this way too. I have felt like what I was seeing and hearing on the news didn't reflect what I was seeing and hearing in my own life."

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 08, 2026 01:37 PM (0CU3H)

57 Almost $2 million for never providing daycare. Man, I could use that kind of support.

The center's last licensing review, in June, found several operational violations but noted no evidence of fraud.

And fire the person that did this review. Incompetent and or kickbacks.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 08, 2026 01:37 PM (n5tGW)

58 Subpoena their records. Get a list of every parent of every child enrolled. Go interview them.

This is Investigating Things 101 for crying out loud.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 01:37 PM (06Hmj)

59 The amount of anti depressant, anti anxiety drugs these liberals must be on is epic. They can be quite disinhibiting, such that anger boils over and things are said and done which would normally be inhibited. Half the country is out of control. Bet you the autopsy of the minn driver is positive for psych meds.

Posted by: Why so crazy? at January 08, 2026 01:34 PM (1M7sl)

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Do we still have "Truth in Advertising" laws?

If so, Trump's DOJ should mandate that the Democrat-Communist Party be renamed and rebranded as the Psycopathy Death Cult Party.

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 01:37 PM (IpnJw)

60 The rage--it only grows and grows. As my old sports-ball buddy would say, WAKE UP!

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 08, 2026 01:37 PM (/jglT)

61 Do the Somalis have a Midvale School For the Gifted for their high-achievers?

Posted by: Non Compos Mentis at January 08, 2026 01:37 PM (oftw2)

62 Well, I figured CBS News would've been loaded with homos, but if they're not proofreading their published work, I guess I was incorrect.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2026 01:35 PM (PQb8B)

Isn't their HQ in NYC? Probably moved all the homos out for fear that the mayor would have them all thrown off buildings.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 01:38 PM (ExV1e)

63 58 Subpoena their records. Get a list of every parent of every child enrolled. Go interview them.

This is Investigating Things 101 for crying out loud.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 01:37 PM (06Hmj)

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@InsiderWire
#BREAKING: DHS, FBI, and IRS agents now going door-to-door ‘raiding Somali businesses in Minneapolis.’

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 01:38 PM (GBKbO)

64 I'm not sure how you put the toothpaste back in the tube now? There's just way, way too much outright *theft* going on for the left to just hope 30 days from now they can go on the campaign trail with stupid slogans like "Americans are struggling with an affordability crisis." That's just not gonna play, no matter what miracle candidate they dredge up to utter the slogans. Its just going to be one day after another after another of people who borrow Nick's techniques and find their new instances of fraud right there in their own back yards!

Posted by: Crusader at January 08, 2026 01:38 PM (TN0g+)

65
This is the same news mainstream media that asked local government officials in Springfield Ohio if there was a Haitian problem. The same government officials who created the Haitian problem and were profiting from it.

It's like asking Al Capone if there's a bootlegging problem in Chicago.

How many people still get their news from places like CBS, and how many of them are under 65?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 08, 2026 01:38 PM (biznJ)

66 Republicans should be ashamed of the Senators that just voted with Democrats in attempting to take away our Powers to fight and defend the United States of America. Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Rand Paul, Josh Hawley, and Todd Young should never be elected to office again. This Vote greatly hampers American Self Defense and National Security, impeding the President’s Authority as Commander in Chief. In any event, and despite their “stupidity,” the War Powers Act is Unconstitutional, totally violating Article II of the Constitution, as all Presidents, and their Departments of Justice, have determined before me. Nevertheless, a more important Senate Vote will be taking place next week on this very subject.


Rand Paul is guilty as hell of something. His name keeps popping up on the wrong side of issues.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 01:38 PM (6mogZ)

67 The problem isn't the fraud, no, the problem is those meddling kids exposing the fraud. ...
Posted by: Very ex-wife reasoning at January 08, 2026 01:34 PM (TbWk/)

(Fred pulls the Gollywog mask off the villain, and it's Nancy Pelosi underneath...)

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 08, 2026 01:39 PM (cEHXL)

68 Maybe we could hire some retired Russian mobsters to move in there to clean it up. Hell, they'd be used to the weather too.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 08, 2026 01:39 PM (2WIwB)

69 CBS has been morally bankrupt since 1950.

Posted by: Walter Krankheit at January 08, 2026 01:39 PM (oftw2)

70 Serious question: if it’s closed does the money stop flowing to the owners?

Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 01:39 PM (/HZvU)

71 I'll bet you any amount of money that multiple "daycares" were operating out of the same space.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 01:35 PM (iFTx/)

That's how nearly all these types of fraud operations, uh, operate. In South Florida you'd frequently find 15-20 bogus home health agencies or DME companies listing the same tiny 8x10 piece of office space as their business address. Send in fake claims, get a couple million bucks, pack up and open somewhere else.

Posted by: Easy money if you're a crook at January 08, 2026 01:39 PM (TbWk/)

72 The Minnesota Department of Children, Youth and Families visited nine of the day cares from the video, finding children present at eight of them.
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After calling them a week in advance to let them know when the state would be dropping by

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 08, 2026 01:39 PM (8uuET)

73 My prediction?

They'll find out that there are only a few "master enrollment lists" that exist, cobbled together by some dipshit AWFL intern from UMinn, of children who may or may not exist, and thousands of these places all share that list because that's how these preternaturally lazy subhuman pinko bastards operate.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 01:40 PM (06Hmj)

74 The problem isn't the fraud, no, the problem is those meddling kids exposing the fraud. They're the ones causing all this trouble! The people who caught the wrongdoers doing wrong are the real assholes
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The Scooby Doo media. Unmasked. Darn these meddling kids.

Posted by: Silver lining in fraud cloud at January 08, 2026 01:40 PM (1M7sl)

75 But we know that "regulators" were purposely not doing any regulating at all. They were not verifying enrollment records.

I wonder if there are criminal penalties for "regulators" deliberately and fraudulently overlooking regulatory requirements.

That is, if the regulations require a attendance certification, and that regulation was not followed nor was even a part of an investigation or certification verification, that would make the inspection fraudulent.
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Yep, in spades. I did a three-part post here yesterday on how effective audit systems work but I think I bored everyone with it--I never saw a response or a question. The "attendance certification" you speak of is a "internal control". Effective audit/examination work includes a review of internal controls and whether they are both in place and adequate for what they were designed to accomplish.

Posted by: Crusader, former Federal Bank Examiner at January 08, 2026 01:41 PM (TN0g+)

76 73 My prediction?

They'll find out that there are only a few "master enrollment lists" that exist, cobbled together by some dipshit AWFL intern from UMinn, of children who may or may not exist, and thousands of these places all share that list because that's how these preternaturally lazy subhuman pinko bastards operate.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 01:40 PM (06Hmj)

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"Really...are we supposed to believe that there are 47 Billy Bob Tacos born on April 1, 2023 in the Minneapolis area alone?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 01:41 PM (GBKbO)

77 Do the Somalis have a Midvale School For the Gifted for their high-achievers?
Posted by: Non Compos Mentis at January 08, 2026 01:37 PM

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Of course. It's the Midvale Scool for the Gfted.

Posted by: Bigsmith at January 08, 2026 01:42 PM (1Au9i)

78 I'll bet you any amount of money that multiple "daycares" were operating out of the same space.
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And I will bet someone connected to state Government was leasing out the space.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 08, 2026 01:42 PM (8uuET)

79 So they were packed with kids and got 2 million from the state to boot, but then had to close? Yet they were legit? Sure Jan.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 08, 2026 01:42 PM (ewjUl)

80 Considering what happened last time (comet pizza) it's pretty reasonable for parents to pull their kids out. Glad it closed down before some armed nutcase showed up. WHERE ARE THE CHILDREN! SHOW ME THE CHILDREN!!!

Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if the owners recognized the danger of staying open and closed shop before the craziness escalated.

Yet another small businesses closing under Republican leadership. There's a reason red states are last in education, opportunity, health, employment, pay, life expectancy etc.

It's obviously because they have minorities. If those states were allowed to enslave their minorities, their politicians would let government do good things for the people again. Once ICE deports them all, then we'll be a freakin utopia

Can we talk about how creepy it is this person got near daycares? I wouldn’t want this asshole anywhere NEAR my children.

They should have exerted their 2nd Amd rights the minute little Nick tried to break into the business under false pretenses! The only way these toxic evil bullies learn is by a show of force! 🤷‍♂️

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 08, 2026 01:42 PM (JCZqz)

81 Our Refuge of the Year gets to meet a retarded guy

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 08, 2026 01:43 PM (ScJGb)

82 Isn't their HQ in NYC? Probably moved all the homos out for fear that the mayor would have them all thrown off buildings.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 01:38 PM (ExV1e)

nah, they still believe in their heart of hearts that they are the good guys and favored by that islamic commie

so they'll be utterly shocked when the first ones go off the roof...

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at January 08, 2026 01:43 PM (v6XNT)

83 80 Yet another small businesses closing under Republican leadership. There's a reason red states are last in education, opportunity, health, employment, pay, life expectancy etc.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 08, 2026 01:42 PM (JCZqz)

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No one tell them where California is on all of those metrics!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 01:43 PM (GBKbO)

84 Is it too late to get in on this Fraudconomy?

Posted by: Cray Cray at January 08, 2026 01:43 PM (NBe7y)

85 So GoFundMe has raised over 600 thousand dollars so far for the "wife" and son of the attempted murderess in MN ... Idiots

Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2026 01:43 PM (VE6XX)

86 I wonder if there are criminal penalties for "regulators" deliberately and fraudulently overlooking regulatory requirements.

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18 U.S.C. § 1031, known as the Major Fraud Act of 1988, which criminalizes schemes or artifices to defraud the United States or any department or agency, particularly when the fraud involves $1 million or more in federal assistance, grants, contracts, or loans.

18 U.S.C. § 371, which prohibits conspiracy to defraud the United States. This statute can be used when public officials conspire to commit fraudulent acts, including those that undermine government functions or involve bribery, kickbacks, or contractual fraud.

18 U.S.C. § 1001, which makes it a crime to knowingly make false, fictitious, or fraudulent statements or representations to any federal agency.

18 U.S.C. § 666, which addresses theft or embezzlement of property from a federally funded program or entity, including when a government employee or official misappropriates funds.

The False Claims Act (FCA), 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729–3733, which allows for civil liability against individuals or entities that knowingly submit false claims to the government.

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 01:43 PM (IpnJw)

87 The Outstanding Refugee Award.

For Outstanding Excellence in the Field of Refugeeism?

Posted by: Delurker at January 08, 2026 01:43 PM (gtcuf)

88 There's a reason red states are last in education, opportunity, health, employment, pay, life expectancy etc.


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Show your work.

Posted by: BruceWayne at January 08, 2026 01:43 PM (MGB5H)

89 OT seeing video from Goldie of huge crowds thousands in the street tonight in Mashhad Iran's #2 city.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 08, 2026 01:44 PM (RIvkX)

90
Outstanding Refugee Award?

For what? Skeedaddling faster than the runners-up?

Who is in the queue for Outstanding Shiiter in Our Streets?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 08, 2026 01:44 PM (xG4kz)

91 It occurs to me that if there were no federal funding for any of this, schools wouldn't need attendance records.

After all, if there's no money you don't need to account for where it's going.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 08, 2026 01:44 PM (a+4eV)

92 I looked up the owner of the building Quality Learing Center was in:

Owner Waldon Properties L L P
Taxpayer GLOBAL PRIME PROPERTY
9469 OLMPIA DR
EDEN PRAIRIE MN 55347
Sale Date 08/2015

Not sure why the owner and taxpayer are separate but...that's what the MN documents say

The address of the taxpayer is a large house owned by one Farsowsa Sheik Abdullahi ALI

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 01:44 PM (sKqQm)

93 Deport all of them.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 08, 2026 01:44 PM (W2Pud)

94 Time to re-open the insurrectionists wing at Lorton.

Do ex-Governors get single occupancy?

Posted by: DaveA at January 08, 2026 01:45 PM (FhXTo)

95 Is it too late to get in on this Fraudconomy?

Posted by: Cray Cray at January 08, 2026 01:43 PM (NBe7y)

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Only if you're a straight white male.

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 01:45 PM (IpnJw)

96 "Unexpectedly"

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 08, 2026 01:45 PM (xcxpd)

97 I wonder if CBS will do a follow up to check if there are children in say a week, or a month or 3 months.

Of course, supposedly the funds have been cut off to MN so technically these businesses should all close.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 08, 2026 01:45 PM (n5tGW)

98 WHY DON'T YOU PEOPLE LISTEN TO ME ANYMORE?!?!?!

*sobs*

Posted by: Operation Mockingbird at January 08, 2026 01:45 PM (ULPxl)

99 Yeah, they're stealing from us. Robbing us blind. And Democrats across the board are culpable.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2026 01:33 PM (PQb8B)

AND benefitting from the fraud.

Posted by: night lifted at January 08, 2026 01:45 PM (kJmLc)

100 99 Yeah, they're stealing from us. Robbing us blind. And Democrats across the board are culpable.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2026 01:33 PM (PQb8B)

AND benefitting from the fraud.
Posted by: night lifted at January 08, 2026 01:45 PM (kJmLc)

Trump's Hitler ! Or something

Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2026 01:46 PM (VE6XX)

101 I suppose the Demonrats are 100% involved in all these different fraud schemes. It seems they are in many states and threaten that Demonrats cover for them or they will be voted out of office. I suspect the threats could included their lives and families also, noting Somalis history.

Posted by: Kafiroon at January 08, 2026 01:47 PM (72iBN)

102
They should have exerted their 2nd Amd rights the minute little Nick tried to break into the business under false pretenses! The only way these toxic evil bullies learn is by a show of force!

Go ahead. Make my day.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 08, 2026 01:47 PM (pkeXY)

103 Deport all of them.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 08, 2026 01:44 PM (W2Pud)

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And exile the rest -- starting with Tampon Tim and Faggot Frey -- to CECOT.

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 01:47 PM (IpnJw)

104 So, who thinks that the vast majority of the various care industries are completely illegitimate?

*raises hand*

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 01:47 PM (XuXeR)

105 Rand Paul is guilty as hell of something. His name keeps popping up on the wrong side of issues.
Posted by: rickb223
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He got a lot of campaign money from 'hemp' manufacturers, mostly Chicoms manufacturing and local gas stations that sold it, that were actually synthetic THC products. Now it is illegal again by federal law.

Rand took the ticket is my guess.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 01:47 PM (WDjG6)

106
"Really...are we supposed to believe that there are 47 Billy Bob Tacos born on April 1, 2023 in the Minneapolis area alone
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They are all named mohammed. Womp womp.

Posted by: No joke at January 08, 2026 01:47 PM (1M7sl)

107 Vance ripping the press. Yaaas.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 08, 2026 01:47 PM (RIvkX)

108 I've been harboring this dark little wish that all the Somalis start to hear reports of the astronomical numbers involved in all this fraud and get absolutely, tribally, war-paint on faces levels of pissed off that they were screwed out of all that money by their own filthy dhimmis.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 01:47 PM (06Hmj)

109 Hahaha Vance! I SAID NEXT QUESTION!

Posted by: BruceWayne at January 08, 2026 01:48 PM (MGB5H)

110 "But we know that "regulators" were purposely not doing any regulating at all. They were not verifying enrollment records."

I'm sure that on the face of it each center had lists of names of enrollees. Lists of endless Somali names like Mohamed Mohamed. Amadou Mohamed. Mohamed Amadou. No Name Given. Names that would be unintelligible to anyone outside the community.

Plus, I'm sure there really were kid enrollees. The kids just never showed up and weren't expected to. It was a classic no-show job where the no-showers got a cut of the action. I'm sure the parents of all these enrollees did too.

Mohamed Mohamed and his wife Noclitus Bacabou had their son Mohamed Mohamed enrolled in probably a dozen daycares. They got a payoff from each of them.

If there ever were actual physical inspections, it was most likely Somalis doing the inspections, who were paid off to say "looks good to me." If it was a white inspector, how much incentive would they have to head-count a bunch of smellies all with the same names?

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 01:48 PM (iFTx/)

111 An over-looked component of this daycare scam is just looking at the "daycares" themselves. They're all dingy, abandoned warehouses in industrial areas.
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Under MN law, they are all required to have 75 square feet of outdoor play space per total capacity children.

So, 100 kid capacity means 7500 sqft of outdoor space.

None. Not one had that.

Yet, ever single one passed state initial approval and annual inspections.

But if a native citizen was 5 sqft feet too small? You better bet your last dollar they'd be shut down.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 08, 2026 01:48 PM (HXT0k)

112 Not sure why the owner and taxpayer are separate but...that's what the MN documents say

The address of the taxpayer is a large house owned by one Farsowsa Sheik Abdullahi ALI
Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 01:44 PM (sKqQm)

That's probably the "partnership representative" f/k/a the tax matters partner.

Posted by: Partnerships can be odd ducks at January 08, 2026 01:49 PM (TbWk/)

113 They would have gotten away with it(more) if it wasn't for that meddling kid!

Posted by: steevy at January 08, 2026 01:49 PM (YwEeS)

114 The address of the taxpayer is a large house owned by one Farsowsa Sheik Abdullahi ALI

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 01:44 PM (sKqQm)

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You can't get Heritage American than that!

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 01:49 PM (IpnJw)

115 Entrepreneurship is a funny way to spell STEALING TAXPAYER MONEY.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 08, 2026 01:49 PM (xvV+O)

116 Do you people have any idea of the hardships we face living in a lutefisk desert?

Posted by: Mohammad Somali Mohammad at January 08, 2026 01:49 PM (0sNs1)

117 I'd like to see Shirley appointed to a position that allows for Secret Service protection somehow. They will activate every pinko tranny assassin they have to go after him.

I'm worried about him.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 08, 2026 01:49 PM (0lMeh)

118 Looks like Tim Walz is going to be putting on question mark suit for the commercials when Matthew Lesko retires.

https://youtu.be/HPC3mLNL3B0?si=ZgkiB0__TTaZk4Gf

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at January 08, 2026 01:49 PM (k1E2D)

119 They should have exerted their 2nd Amd rights the minute little Nick tried to break into the business under false pretenses! The only way these toxic evil bullies learn is by a show of force!

Go ahead. Make my day.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
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I keep seeing these violent fantasies of Democrats. None of them should able to own firearms using their own standards.

Yet, violent nutbags whether leftists, criminals, or Islamists seem to be quite able to acquire firearms to kill normies without any hindrance from officialdom.

Meanwhile the Democrats try to criminalize normies and the Right from having firearms.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 01:50 PM (WDjG6)

120 Walz has been referred to the DoJ for possible criminal charges. Even if none is forthcoming, Walz will need more fiber in his diet

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 08, 2026 01:50 PM (ScJGb)

121 "But we know that "regulators" were purposely not doing any regulating at all. They were not verifying enrollment records.

I wonder if there are criminal penalties for "regulators" deliberately and fraudulently overlooking regulatory requirements."

Or maybe the regulators don't even exist, and some state employee is padding the payroll with ghost employees while pencil-whipping the inspection reports.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 08, 2026 01:50 PM (cEHXL)

122 Deport all of them.
Posted by: nurse ratched
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Simple and elegant solution.
So forget it.

Posted by: wth at January 08, 2026 01:50 PM (v0R5T)

123 99 Yeah, they're stealing from us. Robbing us blind. And Democrats across the board are culpable.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2026 01:33 PM (PQb8B)

AND benefitting from the fraud.
Posted by: night lifted at January 08, 2026 01:45 PM (kJmLc)

I saw an interview that Kim Strassel from WSJ had with Tim Pawlenty - probably the last R governor of MN. They talked about Walz. They talked about the Somalians. They talked about the government officials that refused to cooperate with law enforcement.

The one thing they didn't talk about was how the DFL benefitted from the fraud, both financially and electorally. It's like they want to studiously avoid how entrenched the Dems benefit from the corruption.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 08, 2026 01:50 PM (0CU3H)

124
My prediction?

They'll find out that there are only a few "master enrollment lists" that exist, cobbled together by some dipshit AWFL intern from UMinn, of children who may or may not exist, and thousands of these places all share that list because that's how these preternaturally lazy subhuman pinko bastards operate.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

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So, the Charlie Javice strategy, and it will work because no one will lear from it.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 08, 2026 01:51 PM (Uo+RY)

125 When a child gets in trouble because they were caught being naughty, they aren't in trouble because they were naughty. It's because they were caught. And if they were caught because someone told on them, then it's the tattletale's fault.

Posted by: davidt at January 08, 2026 01:51 PM (Q+gd/)

126
The address of the taxpayer is a large house owned by one Farsowsa Sheik Abdullahi ALI

Some people seem to be claiming that this is the woman that threatened to kill Elon Musk, then apologized, on Tik Tok recently.

TBH I can't tell, Somalis are very, uh, fluid, in their names

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 01:51 PM (sKqQm)

127 Pirates are predisposed to piracy.

Posted by: Eromero at January 08, 2026 01:51 PM (o2ZRX)

128 Yet, every single one passed state initial approval and annual inspections.

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Over/Under on how many "public servants" were on the take? The betting line opens at 1,000.

FOLLOW THE MONEY, Blondi ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 01:51 PM (IpnJw)

129 They will activate every pinko tranny assassin they have to go after him.

I'm worried about him.
Posted by: sifty boones at January 08, 2026 01:49 PM (0lMeh)

Want to protect him?

Pray the rosary.

Not kidding. That thing has sunk armadas and toppled armies. A couple shitbird commies ain't nothing.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 01:51 PM (06Hmj)

130 When a child gets in trouble because they were caught being naughty, they aren't in trouble because they were naughty. It's because they were caught. And if they were caught because someone told on them, then it's the tattletale's fault.
Posted by: davidt at January

Snitches get stitches.

Posted by: BruceWayne at January 08, 2026 01:52 PM (MGB5H)

131 120 Walz has been referred to the DoJ for possible criminal charges. Even if none is forthcoming, Walz will need more fiber in his diet

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 08, 2026 01:50 PM (ScJGb)

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Referrals to the DOJ for criminal prosecution are not news. They are press releases from Congress that they did some theater.

News is the DHS and FBI going door to door in Minneapolis, raiding Somali run businesses all over the place. Which they are doing.

And I seriously doubt Walz gave up his bid to re-election because Kloubacher said mean things to him. He probably got a targeting letter from the DOJ.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 01:52 PM (GBKbO)

132 And you have to carefully read the full statement of the MN department.

Quick through, it seems to say they inspected and verified compliance of those 8.

Closer reading, deciphering the precisely worded and parsed statement, what is really says is:
We checked the records in our file and nothing is out of order.
They never actually, when you read the statement, investigated any of those 8 beyond a cursory glance.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 08, 2026 01:53 PM (HXT0k)

133 ... and it will work because no one will lear from it.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 08, 2026 01:51 PM (Uo+RY)

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* snort *

ISWYDT

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 01:53 PM (IpnJw)

134 For the 250th anniversary for America, I'm beginning to think our tax refunds should be in the amount of every fcking dollar we've ever paid in any kind of tax.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 01:53 PM (ULPxl)

135 Pirates are predisposed to piracy.
Posted by: Eromero
......

and they raise a bunch of little pirates.

Posted by: wth at January 08, 2026 01:53 PM (v0R5T)

136
The address of the taxpayer is a large house owned by one Farsowsa Sheik Abdullahi ALI
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She owns two homes and a florida condo. One of the homes is over 1 million dollars.

Posted by: No joke at January 08, 2026 01:53 PM (1M7sl)

137 If there ever were actual physical inspections, it was most likely Somalis doing the inspections, who were paid off to say "looks good to me." If it was a white inspector, how much incentive would they have to head-count a bunch of smellies all with the same names?
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade
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Back in the days of AFDC and the size of the welfare check was directly related to family size, all the welfare cheaters used to pass their kids around when the inspectors came calling to maximize numbers. Back in that day, SSNs for kids was fairly rare.

I am to the point of agreeing with a negative income tax (Friedman's proposal) but eliminating all other welfare and housing programs. Thus, eliminating most of the middle class gubmint workers that suck up a lot of that welfare.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 01:53 PM (WDjG6)

138
Over/Under on how many "public servants" were on the take? The betting line opens at 1,000.

FOLLOW THE MONEY, Blondi ...
Posted by: ShainS

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If it gets that big, the state should be put into receivership or whatever it is you do when an organization can't be trusted to keep its own books.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 08, 2026 01:53 PM (Uo+RY)

139 I checked zillow for the address in comment 92. Million dollar house, 5 beds, 5 baths, 3 car garage and a swimming pool. In MN.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 08, 2026 01:54 PM (n5tGW)

140 18 U.S.C. § 1031, known as the Major Fraud Act of 1988, which criminalizes schemes or artifices to defraud the United States or any department or agency, particularly when the fraud involves $1 million or more in federal assistance, grants, contracts, or loans.

18 U.S.C. § 371, which prohibits conspiracy to defraud the United States. This statute can be used when public officials conspire to commit fraudulent acts, including those that undermine government functions or involve bribery, kickbacks, or contractual fraud.

18 U.S.C. § 1001, which makes it a crime to knowingly make false, fictitious, or fraudulent statements or representations to any federal agency.

18 U.S.C. § 666, which addresses theft or embezzlement of property from a federally funded program or entity, including when a government employee or official misappropriates funds.

The False Claims Act (FCA), 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729–3733, which allows for civil liability against individuals or entities that knowingly submit false claims to the government.

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability
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You see there was none of that going on because it is against the law.

Case. Closed.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 08, 2026 01:54 PM (xvV+O)

141 He got a lot of campaign money from 'hemp' manufacturers, mostly Chicoms manufacturing and local gas stations that sold it, that were actually synthetic THC products. Now it is illegal again by federal law.

Rand took the ticket is my guess.
Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 01:47 PM (WDjG6)

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I'm sure others got $$$ from Big Alcohol to make it illegal again.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 08, 2026 01:54 PM (Vh9CX)

142 129.
I'm a Country Baptist. I pray over fried chicken and potato salad on a picnic table in the back yard.

Me and Jesus got our own thing goin'. - Tom T. Hall

But I pray.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 08, 2026 01:55 PM (aBI9s)

143 Yet, every single one passed state initial approval and annual inspections.


The point of government is to take as much money from taxpayers as possible - so here the regulator's jobs were to keep these places open.

Now, this would be an interesting area for the DOJ to focus on. Bring in these low level schmucks and get them under oath to say what exactly they did before signing off on these places. Then if you catch them in a lie throw them in prison...and they'll talk.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 01:55 PM (sKqQm)

144 >>> 140

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You see there was none of that going on because it is against the law.

Case. Closed.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 08, 2026 01:54 PM (xvV+O)

Minnesota state officials TOLD us there was no fraud!!!

Posted by: Margaret Brennan at January 08, 2026 01:55 PM (ULPxl)

145 Referrals to the DOJ for criminal prosecution are not news. They are press releases from Congress that they did some theater.

Exactly. Anybody can make a criminal referral to the DOJ. They have no legally binding effect whatsoever. I think a lot of people are under the misapprehension that a "criminal referral" is something like an indictment, which it isn't. DOJ doesn't have to do a fucking thing with a criminal referral. It can go right in the trash and there's nothing anyone can do about it.

Posted by: They're the angry letter from Hans Brix at January 08, 2026 01:55 PM (TbWk/)

146 I want to dress up a whoooooooollleeee bunch of politicians as chickens. IYKYK

Posted by: Cray Cray at January 08, 2026 01:56 PM (NBe7y)

147
Vance saying "this is the lowest-IQ possible fraud." I think there's an IQ even lower, and that's Tim Walz's.

Controversial take, but I honestly think Walz is so stupid he wasn't on the take. It may be hard to pin an actual crime on him. Guilty of incompetence.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 08, 2026 01:56 PM (Uo+RY)

148 Plus, I'm sure there really were kid enrollees. The kids just never showed up and weren't expected to. It was a classic no-show job where the no-showers got a cut of the action. I'm sure the parents of all these enrollees did too.

Mohamed Mohamed and his wife Noclitus Bacabou had their son Mohamed Mohamed enrolled in probably a dozen daycares. They got a payoff from each of them.

If there ever were actual physical inspections, it was most likely Somalis doing the inspections, who were paid off to say "looks good to me." If it was a white inspector, how much incentive would they have to head-count a bunch of smellies all with the same names?
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 01:48 PM

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Yep. The only thing the parents had to do to get their cut was to agree to bring the kids to the site when the daycare was advised of an impending fake inspection. The inside moles probably let the daycares schedule the inspections.

Posted by: Bigsmith at January 08, 2026 01:56 PM (1Au9i)

149 Retard strength > Smart power
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2026 01:36 PM (PQb8B)

Sounds like something a moron might say.
Or have as a nic...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 08, 2026 01:56 PM (xcxpd)

150 134.en to that. I want a reset.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 08, 2026 01:56 PM (aBI9s)

151 138
Over/Under on how many "public servants" were on the take? The betting line opens at 1,000.---

You forgot a couple or three 0's.

Posted by: clarence at January 08, 2026 01:56 PM (heQMu)

152 why do they need so much daycare if they're all on welfare?

Posted by: barbarausa at January 08, 2026 01:56 PM (enw9G)

153 If you Democrats don't get this under control, we're going to have to reevaluate the Somali community's support of your party.

Posted by: Mohammad Amadou Mohammad at January 08, 2026 01:56 PM (0sNs1)

154 114 The address of the taxpayer is a large house owned by one Farsowsa Sheik Abdullahi ALI

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 01:44 PM

Obviously kin to the Farsowsa Sheik Abdullahi Ali's on the Mayflower who landed on Plymouth Rock.

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 08, 2026 01:57 PM (IifOV)

155 152 why do they need so much daycare if they're all on welfare?

Yep, that's what I keep askin'.

Posted by: Delurker at January 08, 2026 01:57 PM (gtcuf)

156 >>> 147
Vance saying "this is the lowest-IQ possible fraud." I think there's an IQ even lower, and that's Tim Walz's.

Controversial take, but I honestly think Walz is so stupid he wasn't on the take. It may be hard to pin an actual crime on him. Guilty of incompetence.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 08, 2026 01:56 PM (Uo+RY)

Timmy "I went to CHYna 3 dozen times" Walz sure isn't acting like he's innocent.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 01:57 PM (ULPxl)

157 149 Retard strength > Smart power
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2026 01:36 PM (PQb8B)

Sounds like something a moron might say.
Or have as a nic...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 08, 2026 01:56 PM (xcxpd)

It actually was a nic around here for a few years.

"retard strength trumps smart power", i think.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 01:57 PM (06Hmj)

158 145 Exactly. Anybody can make a criminal referral to the DOJ. They have no legally binding effect whatsoever. I think a lot of people are under the misapprehension that a "criminal referral" is something like an indictment, which it isn't. DOJ doesn't have to do a fucking thing with a criminal referral. It can go right in the trash and there's nothing anyone can do about it.

Posted by: They're the angry letter from Hans Brix at January 08, 2026 01:55 PM (TbWk/)

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In a world where the DOJ doesn't say anything until they file an indictment and start presenting evidence at trial, people want any sign that the executive is exercising its law enforcement arm.

Plus, Congress has a bigger mouthpiece than some rando USA in MN who's actually filing indictments and presenting evidence or the DHS in the middle of some raids of Somali businesses in Minneapolis today.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 01:57 PM (GBKbO)

159 Remember how, just 18 months ago, the biggest federal fraud case was against Trump for the felony crime of "defrauding the government and people of the United States" with his "false claims" of election fraud?

And all the Democrats were pissed at Jack Smith for not moving fast enough to get a quick conviction before the election?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 08, 2026 01:57 PM (HXT0k)

160 For the 250th anniversary for America, I'm beginning to think our tax refunds should be in the amount of every fcking dollar we've ever paid in any kind of tax.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 01:53 PM (ULPxl)

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"Since it was American genius and industriousness that first discovered and drilled oil wells -- 1859 was a great American year! -- I am instructing my national security team to seize & take control of all oil across the globe, the proceeds of which will go to pay off the U.S. National Debt as well as YUGE tax refunds to all long-suffering and -abused American CITIZENS.

Thank you for your attention to this matter! -- DJT"

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 01:58 PM (IpnJw)

161 For the last couple weeks, Western shitlib media has been bending over backward to say as little as possible about this Iran thing. Basically a media blackout.

But today, it's all over my hatefeed.

If they're suddenly getting talkative, I assume the cover-up is being abandoned, and the foreign service flying monkeys have told the media flying monkeys "one way or another, something big is about to go down, and you need to get in front of it."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 08, 2026 01:58 PM (BI5O2)

162
Somali female: Hag in a bag.

Posted by: The More You Know at January 08, 2026 01:58 PM (H8Ose)

163 I keep seeing these violent fantasies of Democrats. None of them should able to own firearms using their own standards.

I'm pretty sure the prohibitions on owning a firearm when "adjudicated as a mental defective" or "committed to a mental institution" should be of greater concern for most of them.

I have seen a LOT more rhetoric from these lunatics about the need to exercise their 2nd Amendment rights, becoming the next John Brown, etc.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 08, 2026 01:58 PM (JCZqz)

164
Want to protect him?

Pray the rosary.

Not kidding. That thing has sunk armadas and toppled armies. A couple shitbird commies ain't nothing.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 01:51 PM (06Hmj)

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I am convinced that the vast majority of Xanax-gobbling, wine-swilling AWFLs will cure their anxieties by saying the Rosary every day. Takes only 20 minutes, but the return on time spent is amazing.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 01:58 PM (tgvbd)

165 147
Controversial take, but I honestly think Walz is so stupid he wasn't on the take. It may be hard to pin an actual crime on him. Guilty of incompetence.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 08, 2026 01:56 PM (Uo+RY)

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Underlings have testified to Congress that Walz not only knew he directly threatened whistleblowers and their families.

He fully knew.

He was a co-conspirator in the fraud.

Now, I suspect that Walz didn't take any money outside of political donations because he's simply a true believer and thought he was doing good.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 01:59 PM (GBKbO)

166

A jackass just doxxed the agent, I think. I hope he and his family are protected.

Bastards who dox others should be arrested.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 08, 2026 01:59 PM (WONhk)

167 152.
They need the kids out of the house a few hours a day so they can make their 12th kid without listening to cartoons from the other room.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 08, 2026 01:59 PM (aBI9s)

168 Speaking of kids . . .

https://is.gd/MrSGup

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 08, 2026 01:59 PM (L/fGl)

169 why do they need so much daycare if they're all on welfare?

One of the scams that has been mentioned a few times...

Somali Guy Muhammed has one legal wife and 3 religious wives each with a gaggle of kids.

Wife A claims to run a day care with the kids from Wife B, then Wife B with Wife C and so on.

The kids are all ultimately at home with their mothers, but now Uncle Sugar is paying them to do so

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 02:00 PM (sKqQm)

170 If it wasn't for the red states the country would now be dealing with four more years of President AutoPen or Kamala.

Posted by: Case at January 08, 2026 02:00 PM (4rWc3)

171 168 Speaking of kids . . .

https://is.gd/MrSGup
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 08, 2026 01:59 PM (L/fGl)

Oh brother....

Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2026 02:01 PM (VE6XX)

172 Making kids isn't as exciting if you been clipped.

Posted by: Mrs. Mohammad Amadou Mohammad at January 08, 2026 02:01 PM (0sNs1)

173 >>> 168 Speaking of kids . . .

https://is.gd/MrSGup
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 08, 2026 01:59 PM (L/fGl)

Looks like another timwalz who needs a link to 'how not to get shot by the police'.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 02:01 PM (ULPxl)

174 am convinced that the vast majority of Xanax-gobbling, wine-swilling AWFLs will cure their anxieties by saying the Rosary every day. Takes only 20 minutes, but the return on time spent is amazing.
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Daily since 2012. Changed my life.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Posted by: No joke at January 08, 2026 02:01 PM (1M7sl)

175 They should have exerted their 2nd Amd rights the minute little Nick tried to break into the business under false pretenses! The only way these toxic evil bullies learn is by a show of force! 🤷‍♂️
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 08, 2026 01:42 PM

In a way, I have to admire the strength of their conviction to do absolutely nothing.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 08, 2026 02:01 PM (jc0TO)

176 Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 01:51 PM (06Hm

I'm not much for saying the rosary, but I know dear people that do regularly, and I appreciate that they do. I do say the Saint Michael's prayer.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 02:01 PM (8Xy/A)

177 New York State should be next, being so full of bullshit "green energy" companies, "homeless services" 501c3s and bullshit "arts" programs (with a DEI twist) all getting "State grants" without oversight. Or should I say, under the benign gaze of totally corrupt Democrats.

Except of course for our feckless, reach-around-to-get-along, chicken-dinner-Chamber of Commerce statewide GOP...

Posted by: Zek at January 08, 2026 02:02 PM (5FPX4)

178 In the recent Nick Shirley video was pointed out that the Somalis have taken over sections of Minneapolis by harassing those who where living on stolen land until they just gave up and left. One incident involved Palmer's Bar which had been in the Cedars area for decades. The Somalis kept complaining to the cops and city about the business until it was shut down. Today, it is being converted or is already a mosque. This is happening all over the city and in other cities such as St. Cloud. It is not accident Tim Walz signaled capitulation by getting the Minnesota state flag to resemble the Somali national flag.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at January 08, 2026 02:02 PM (HTCU3)

179 Remember how, just 18 months ago, the biggest federal fraud case was against Trump for the felony crime of "defrauding the government and people of the United States" with his "false claims" of election fraud?

The left: Anyone that claims that there was any fraud whatsoever in the 2020 election is a fascist NAZI racist and has committed treason!

Also the left: The elections of 2000, 2004, 2016, and 2024 were all stolen

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 02:02 PM (sKqQm)

180 Any doubt Walz bought his VP candidacy with fraud money and the promise of more of it?

Posted by: davidt at January 08, 2026 02:02 PM (Q+gd/)

181 Remember how, just 18 months ago, the biggest federal fraud case was against Trump for the felony crime of "defrauding the government and people of the United States" with his "false claims" of election fraud?

And all the Democrats were pissed at Jack Smith for not moving fast enough to get a quick conviction before the election?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 08, 2026 01:57 PM (HXT0k)

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"Ayo, lesson here, Bey. You come at The King, you best not miss."

-- Omar Little, "The Wire"

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 02:02 PM (IpnJw)

182 Please to be leaving your whore face covered, Fatima. Or little Mohammed won't be up for waging the jihad on your mish.

Posted by: Mohammed Mohamed Muhammed at January 08, 2026 02:02 PM (gtcuf)

183 137 If there ever were actual physical inspections, it was most likely Somalis doing the inspections, who were paid off to say "looks good to me." If it was a white inspector, how much incentive would they have to head-count a bunch of smellies all with the same names?
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade
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Back in the days of AFDC and the size of the welfare check was directly related to family size, all the welfare cheaters used to pass their kids around when the inspectors came calling to maximize numbers. Back in that day, SSNs for kids was fairly rare.

I am to the point of agreeing with a negative income tax (Friedman's proposal) but eliminating all other welfare and housing programs. Thus, eliminating most of the middle class gubmint workers that suck up a lot of that welfare.
Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 01:53 PM (WDjG6)

I could get behind the UBI IF all other welfare programs are done away with. The welfare programs are just jobs programs that fund corruption.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at January 08, 2026 02:02 PM (k1E2D)

184 Say to the Minn Somalis , "keep the money never come back to the USA all bs citizenships are revoked. Just testify as to which DFL pols were involved"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 08, 2026 02:02 PM (ScJGb)

185 Adding to my comment above, this "inspection" process is probably very much like CPS does its "inspections." The inspectors are almost always lazy, leftwing DEI hires who want to do the absolute minimum work possible.

Going out everyday to physically inspect homes and at-risk children? That's a lot of work and potentially very icky. So the CPS "inspectors" sit on their asses and do nothing. It's much easier to just check off "inspection was satisfactory" than actually doing any inspection.

So you end up with malnourished kids living in squalor in dangerous, violent homes getting beaten and sometimes killed. But the home has a clean record of inspections at CPS.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 02:03 PM (iFTx/)

186 180 Any doubt Walz bought his VP candidacy with fraud money and the promise of more of it?

Posted by: davidt at January 08, 2026 02:02 PM (Q+gd/)

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Eric Holder was in charge of VP selection.

He hates Jews (no Shapiro) and just likes weakling white men who allow institutional theft by minorities (Walz).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 02:03 PM (GBKbO)

187 Rand Paul and the Paul-Bearers are tedious and stupid.

Ray Charles could see he was going to be a boat anchor.

He's a gd treygowdian.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 08, 2026 02:03 PM (aBI9s)

188 A jackass just doxxed the agent, I think. I hope he and his family are protected.

Bastards who dox others should be arrested
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and 100% chance they named the wrong guy, to boot.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 08, 2026 02:03 PM (HXT0k)

189 In a way, I have to admire the strength of their conviction to do absolutely nothing.
Posted by: toby928(c)

The strength of their conviction for someone else to make the ultimate sacrifice for the cause.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 08, 2026 02:03 PM (JCZqz)

190 "Like probably many of you, I am having trouble containing my anger.

I've been out most of the day, and now I am watching TV about the events in Minneapolis.

As I type this, I'm hearing on the TV that Trump is calling the deceased woman something like a "professional agitator".

I think this is a tipping point.

I knew this would happen, but I can't wrap my head around it.

Fighting mad here, literally.

I don't know what else to say."

-- DU Thread Starter

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 08, 2026 02:03 PM (0sNs1)

191 157 149 Retard strength > Smart power
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2026 01:36 PM (PQb8B)

Sounds like something a moron might say.
Or have as a nic...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 08, 2026 01:56 PM (xcxpd)

It actually was a nic around here for a few years.

"retard strength trumps smart power", i think.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 01:57 PM (06Hmj)

Yep, was trying to lure him out of hiding.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 08, 2026 02:04 PM (xcxpd)

192 190
As I type this, I'm hearing on the TV that Trump is calling the deceased woman something like a "professional agitator".

I think this is a tipping point.

I knew this would happen, but I can't wrap my head around it.

Fighting mad here, literally.

I don't know what else to say."

-- DU Thread Starter

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 08, 2026 02:03 PM (0sNs1)

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Was she not? Was she not being paid to chase ICE around Minneapolis?

Was she just on her way to work or something? Has that even been asserted by anyone?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 02:04 PM (GBKbO)

193 15 We should have a Quality Ace Learing Center.

well, we occasionally have art threads that are quality leering centers.

Posted by: anachronda at January 08, 2026 02:04 PM (oY6Yp)

194 so maybe if they (and their 5 wives) are all on welfare, they don't get to double dip daycare?
And maybe if you're on welfare, you don't get paid more welfare to run a business?

Posted by: barbarausa at January 08, 2026 02:05 PM (enw9G)

195
Eric Holder was in charge of VP selection.

He hates Jews (no Shapiro) and just likes weakling white men who allow institutional theft by minorities (Walz).

Eric: Alright Tim, your answers all sound great, but before I can recommend you to Kamala for the VP slot I'm gonna need you to do one more thing

[zipper sound]

Tim: Gee Eric, I mean I really want the job and all but you are a lot older then my normal type. But...if its for the good of the country I guess so...

Posted by: Tim Walz getting selected at January 08, 2026 02:05 PM (sKqQm)

196 Man, that is a seriously depressing looking building for a children's facility of any type

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 08, 2026 02:05 PM (03EaY)

197 Still don't check regular "media", but indeed things are as spicy as they've ever been in Iran since the "revolution". By my memory.

Suppose it's possible for a regime to hang on in these circumstances, but it is already greatly weakened.

Protests are explicitly political, not just economic, not about "reform" - but regime change.

Trump repeating his warning, this time saying we'll hit them "hard" if they .... well, if they do what they're already doing (shooting people).

Seems the al-Saud has already banked regime change in Tehran. They're reverting to lots of stupid old-school anti-Israel and even anti-US rhetoric in official media, and turning against the most anit-islamist faction in Yemen, and cozying up to Turkey. Rash moves absent a change of management in Tehran.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 08, 2026 02:05 PM (U/Byj)

198 "Hey, you know that guy who waxed that dumb bitch in the SUV the other day?"

"Yeah? The guy who's heavily armed and well trained in violence, and has clearly demonstrated his willingness to use lethal force to defend himself?"

"Yeah! That guy! I know where he lives now! Let's go fuck with him!"

".... buddy, if you're having problems at home or something, you know you can talk to me, right? You don't have to end it all this way. There are options. Just don't do anything crazy, OK?"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 02:06 PM (06Hmj)

199 The Minnesota Department of Children, Youth and Families visited nine of the day cares from the video, finding children present at eight of them.


This is the equivalent of "The Department of Agriculture visited a several of the farms receiving billions of dollars in grain subsidies and confirmed their were a couple of plants there."

This is not a matter of whether or not you have a toddler or two, that are likely your own children or your sister in laws kids, it's a matter of the scope of the funding based on the operational realities of these scams.

I baked a load of bread last Saturday, but I'm not running a f*cking bakery.

Posted by: Jack of All Tirades at January 08, 2026 02:06 PM (qXm8/)

200 As I type this, I'm hearing on the TV that Trump is calling the deceased woman something like a "professional agitator".


She was part of an org that was specifically trying to cause confrontations with ICE. You can quibble about "professional" I guess but...seems accurate

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 02:06 PM (sKqQm)

201 Yes, this fraud is in every city.
And crosses all racial lines.

In Houston, they just raided an illegal adult care home. 5 patients.
Seems she'd been shut down once, opened up in another house.

One of the elderly, a 68 year old man, had multiple bruises from being whipped with a belt.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 08, 2026 02:06 PM (HXT0k)

202 As I type this, I'm hearing on the TV that Trump is calling the deceased woman something like a "professional agitator".

I think this is a tipping point.

I knew this would happen, but I can't wrap my head around it.

Fighting mad here, literally.

I don't know what else to say."

-- DU Thread Starter

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 08, 2026 02:03 PM (0sNs1)

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Was she not? Was she not being paid to chase ICE around Minneapolis?

Was she just on her way to work or something? Has that even been asserted by anyone?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 02:04 PM (GBKbO)
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The "wife" was in the car with her. I'm sure she was videoing everything. Odd that we haven't seen her vid yet. I'm sure it shows how badly she hit the cop. And who knows what they were saying to each other at the time. "Hit the fucking pig"? Odds are at least 50%.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 02:06 PM (iFTx/)

203 Probably many comments earlier on this but it does seem that the ICE vs car shooting in MN is going to have legs, and will be the Hail Mary the Dems will try to use to change the subject from Somali fraud/widespread state fraud.

I sense Ace may be scribbling on this very topic as we speak.

Posted by: Zek at January 08, 2026 02:06 PM (5FPX4)

204 So, which statues can be torn down this time? And do we get a federal holiday to honor lesbians?

Posted by: NCKate at January 08, 2026 02:07 PM (uQzkA)

205 200 As I type this, I'm hearing on the TV that Trump is calling the deceased woman something like a "professional agitator".


She was part of an org that was specifically trying to cause confrontations with ICE. You can quibble about "professional" I guess but...seems accurate

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 02:06 PM (sKqQm)

=====

In advancement of an investigation, the DOJ is going to get her bank statements and find that she was getting paid directly to do this shit.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 02:07 PM (GBKbO)

206
Was she not? Was she not being paid to chase ICE around Minneapolis?

Was she just on her way to work or something? Has that even been asserted by anyone?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 02:04 PM (GBKbO)

Yesterday one of her fellow "protestors" said she was the "leader" having run ins all day with ICE so yes I would call her an agitator or I should say former agitator

Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2026 02:07 PM (VE6XX)

207 "Yeah? The guy who's heavily armed and well trained in violence, and has clearly demonstrated his willingness to use lethal force to defend himself?"

"Yeah! That guy! I know where he lives now! Let's go fuck with him!"

...and your plan is to blackmail this person? Good luck.

Posted by: Lucius Fox, Wayne Enterprises R&D at January 08, 2026 02:07 PM (TbWk/)

208 Was she just on her way to work or something?
==
She was on her way to do volunteer work at the Quality Learing Center. Obvs.

Posted by: No joke at January 08, 2026 02:07 PM (1M7sl)

209 So, which statues can be torn down this time? And do we get a federal holiday to honor lesbians?

Woohoo Pornhub day!

Posted by: Obligatory at January 08, 2026 02:07 PM (sKqQm)

210 Many of the NYC area trade unions were taken over by the Feds in the 80s because of rampant corruption/thievery. In 1984, I was transferring in to the Carpenter's East Side Manhattan Local from NJ Local. Had an appointment with the Business Agent. He acted very nervous and he said to come back next week. I thought it weird and had wasted a trip into Manhattan. On the early news was the story that John O'Connor had been shot 5 times in the ass in the lobby of the building I went to meet him in. He had union goons bust up the new kitchen of a restaurant that used some non-union workers to install the kitchen. He didn't know the restaurant was owned by John Gotti.

Posted by: None Of This Is New at January 08, 2026 02:07 PM (oftw2)

211 [snip]

Fighting mad here, literally.

I don't know what else to say."

-- DU Thread Starter

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 08, 2026 02:03 PM (0sNs1)

--------------

[I know that was parody, but:]

In a Civil War II, their Neo-Confederate side loses bigly.

Be careful what you wish for ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 02:08 PM (IpnJw)

212 202 The "wife" was in the car with her. I'm sure she was videoing everything. Odd that we haven't seen her vid yet. I'm sure it shows how badly she hit the cop. And who knows what they were saying to each other at the time. "Hit the fucking pig"? Odds are at least 50%.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 02:06 PM (iFTx/)

=======

"We take out this one cop, and the proletariat will rise up in revolution against the bourgeoisie! The communist revolution will be at hand at last!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 02:08 PM (GBKbO)

213 Hmmmm, I wonder at the venn diagrams for immigrant fraud coincides with election shenanigans in 2020?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 08, 2026 02:08 PM (zZu0s)

214 >>> 199 The Minnesota Department of Children, Youth and Families visited nine of the day cares from the video, finding children present at eight of them.
==
This is the equivalent of "The Department of Agriculture visited a several of the farms receiving billions of dollars in grain subsidies and confirmed their were a couple of plants there."

This is not a matter of whether or not you have a toddler or two, that are likely your own children or your sister in laws kids, it's a matter of the scope of the funding based on the operational realities of these scams.

I baked a load of bread last Saturday, but I'm not running a f*cking bakery.
Posted by: Jack of All Tirades at January 08, 2026 02:06 PM (qXm8/)

Shit, if that were all it took, then I should have been getting billion dollar checks from the USDA for every batch of brownies I took to a MoMee.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 02:08 PM (ULPxl)

215 I baked a load of bread last Saturday, but I'm not running a f*cking bakery.
Posted by: Jack of All Tirades at January 08, 2026 02:06 PM (qXm8/)

Very clever nic.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 02:08 PM (8Xy/A)

216 The "wife" was in the car with her. I'm sure she was videoing everything. Odd that we haven't seen her vid yet. I'm sure it shows how badly she hit the cop. And who knows what they were saying to each other at the time. "Hit the fucking pig"? Odds are at least 50%.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 02:06 PM (iFTx/)

Wasn't in the car, was filming the encounter from outside of the car. That was the first video released on social media

Posted by: Kindltot at January 08, 2026 02:08 PM (rbvCR)

217 Underlings have testified to Congress that Walz not only knew he directly threatened whistleblowers and their families.
___

Time for a second look at the crazy(?) accusation by Vance Boelter that he ordered a hit on Klobuchar?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 08, 2026 02:08 PM (Dv3i1)

218 Going out everyday to physically inspect homes and at-risk children? That's a lot of work and potentially very icky. So the CPS "inspectors" sit on their asses and do nothing. It's much easier to just check off "inspection was satisfactory" than actually doing any inspection.
----

But again, it still takes wrecking an entire *system* to pull off that level of fraud. Because filling out bogus "inspection reports" of places you've never been is just the start. Those bogus "reports" are supposed to be sent to a supervisor or supervisors who then review and respond. There's supposed to be some give and take. Further, there's usually specific "forms" (hand-written or digital) that are used to review specific functions and those forms are supposed to be sent as evidence that the reviews took place.

INSTEAD, the entire audit system was junked. Its not just the Somalis. There are a whole bunch of white and brown people who participated in gutting the entire audit system.

Posted by: Crusader, former Federal Bank Examiner at January 08, 2026 02:08 PM (TN0g+)

219 The "wife" was in the car with her. I'm sure she was videoing everything. Odd that we haven't seen her vid yet. I'm sure it shows how badly she hit the cop. And who knows what they were saying to each other at the time. "Hit the fucking pig"? Odds are at least 50%.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

It's reported the wife broke down in tears at the scene and said, “I made her come down here, it’s my fault”

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 08, 2026 02:08 PM (JCZqz)

220 "Yeah? The guy who's heavily armed and well trained in violence, and has clearly demonstrated his willingness to use lethal force to defend himself?"

"Yeah! That guy! I know where he lives now! Let's go fuck with him!"

...and your plan is to blackmail this person? Good luck.
Posted by: Lucius Fox, Wayne Enterprises R&D at January 08, 2026 02:07 PM (TbWk/)
---
I've had similar thoughts. Not a wise plan.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 08, 2026 02:09 PM (ESVrU)

221 204 So, which statues can be torn down this time? And do we get a federal holiday to honor lesbians?
Posted by: NCKate at January 08, 2026 02:07 PM (uQzkA)

We can dual-purpose Boxing Day

Posted by: Because you know...box at January 08, 2026 02:09 PM (TbWk/)

222
The "wife" was in the car with her. I'm sure she was videoing everything. Odd that we haven't seen her vid yet. I'm sure it shows how badly she hit the cop. And who knows what they were saying to each other at the time. "Hit the fucking pig"? Odds are at least 50%.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 02:06 PM (iFTx/)

There's a GoFundMe right now for the "wife" and son and it's over 600 thousand already

Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2026 02:09 PM (VE6XX)

223 211 [I know that was parody, but:]

In a Civil War II, their Neo-Confederate side loses bigly.

Be careful what you wish for ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 02:08 PM (IpnJw)

======

In the American Spanish Civil War, antifa will burn down the leftist enclaves while the right sits outside and watches it go down.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 02:09 PM (GBKbO)

224 202. I'm still waiting for the Mandalay Shooter's homemade video we were told he made when the news broke.

I'd kinda also like to see Dead bin Laden.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 08, 2026 02:09 PM (aBI9s)

225
I do say the Saint Michael's prayer.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 02:01 PM (8Xy/A)

________

Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the Devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray, and do thou, o Prince of the Heavenly Host, thrust into Hell Satan and all the evil spirits who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 02:10 PM (tgvbd)

226 215 I baked a load of bread last Saturday, but I'm not running a f*cking bakery.
Posted by: Jack of All Tirades at January 08, 2026 02:06 PM (qXm8/)

Very clever nic.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

But apparently, master of bun.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 08, 2026 02:10 PM (JCZqz)

227 Yesterday one of her fellow "protestors" said she was the "leader" having run ins all day with ICE so yes I would call her an agitator or I should say former agitator

Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2026 02:07 PM (VE6XX)

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The worst crime of all is that that ICE Agent dead-named her.

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 02:10 PM (IpnJw)

228 Now, I suspect that Walz didn't take any money outside of political donations because he's simply a true believer and thought he was doing good.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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He did have a quid pro quo--vote for me and I will ignore your fraud. That happens to violate the federal honest services provision for public officials aka the Enron law. It's fine to say you support Somalis but when you thwart investigations into Somali stealing, threaten whistleblowers reporting such, etc. then your quid pro quo is obstruction of these investigations then you are in fact guilty guilty guilty.

House hearing yesterday demonstrated Timmy's guilt of knowing about Somail corruption and having those investigations shut down too. Same with Ellison who was stupid enough to make remarks on tape agreeing with Somali leaders about the relationship between political support and thwarting investigations into Somali wrongdoing.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 02:10 PM (WDjG6)

229 Fighting mad here, literally.

I don't know what else to say."

-- DU Thread Starter
--
Give in to your anger.
Pull your North Face parka out of the closet, hop in your Lesbaru and roll into the Twin Cities.
Make a difference!
Make your voice heard!

LOL, fag.
Bleed out in a snow drift, cold, unwanted, and alone.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 08, 2026 02:10 PM (HXT0k)

230 217 Underlings have testified to Congress that Walz not only knew he directly threatened whistleblowers and their families.
___

Time for a second look at the crazy(?) accusation by Vance Boelter that he ordered a hit on Klobuchar?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 08, 2026 02:08 PM (Dv3i1)

=======

Oh, that thing that came up because the one Democrat in the Minnesota state senate who voted against welfare for illegals got shot?

Yeah...why don't we revisit that?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 02:10 PM (GBKbO)

231 I guess I could see how "No! No! No!" could sound a lot like "Go! Go! Go!"....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 02:10 PM (06Hmj)

232 Time for a second look at the crazy(?) accusation by Vance Boelter that he ordered a hit on Klobuchar?
Posted by: Chuck Martel

Yeah! Even I wouldn't hit that.

Posted by: Hillary! at January 08, 2026 02:11 PM (JCZqz)

233 There's a GoFundMe right now for the "wife" and son and it's over 600 thousand already
Posted by: It's me donna
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New version of the ghetto lottery. ICE agent should sue her and the estate of the deaded one for damages.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 02:11 PM (WDjG6)

234 >>> 226 215 I baked a load of bread last Saturday, but I'm not running a f*cking bakery.
Posted by: Jack of All Tirades at January 08, 2026 02:06 PM (qXm8/)

Very clever nic.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

But apparently, master of bun.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 08, 2026 02:10 PM (JCZqz)

We're rolling out the bread puns now?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 02:11 PM (ULPxl)

235 Reading about the "wife" of ex-protester in MN reminds me of that old, now-forbidden prison joke: "So you wanna be the husband or you wanna be the wife?"

Posted by: Zek at January 08, 2026 02:11 PM (5FPX4)

236 As I type this, I'm hearing on the TV that Trump is calling the deceased woman something like a "professional agitator".


She was part of an org that was specifically trying to cause confrontations with ICE. You can quibble about "professional" I guess but...seems accurate

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 02:06 PM (sKqQm)

=====

In advancement of an investigation, the DOJ is going to get her bank statements and find that she was getting paid directly to do this shit.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 02:07 PM (GBKbO)
________

Possibly. But she seems like a True Believer who would be doing this just to get her rocks off. Bored, bitter, entitled, sexually frustrated dyke (she was once married to a man), looking for something--anything--to make her feel powerful and important.

I think probably 75% of these "protestors" are being paid directly or provided something beneficial that buys their participation. But there are some True Believers. This scumt seems like one of them.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 02:11 PM (iFTx/)

237 I baked a load of bread last Saturday, but I'm not running a f*cking bakery.
Posted by: Jack of All Tirades at January 08, 2026 02:06 PM (qXm8/)

Very clever nic.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

But apparently, master of bun.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 08, 2026 02:10 PM (JCZqz)

-------------

* golf clap *

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 02:12 PM (IpnJw)

238 One of the elderly, a 68 year old man, had multiple bruises from being whipped with a belt.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

68? Elderly? Why you young whippersnapper!

Posted by: Belted Kingfisher at January 08, 2026 02:12 PM (oftw2)

239 Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 08, 2026 02:10 PM (JCZqz)

That was good as well.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 02:12 PM (8Xy/A)

240
We're rolling out the bread puns now?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 02:11 PM (ULPxl)

__________

That's the yeast of our problems.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 02:12 PM (tgvbd)

241 One of the stupidest things about this Daycare fraud is that daycare for Somalians is not needed. Somali women don't go to work. Based on the percentages of Somali's on welfare that Rep Brandon Gill (R-TX) disclosed in the hearings, most Somali men don't go to work either. And no one who is not Somali and cared about their child would send her to a Somali run daycare.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 08, 2026 02:12 PM (Dv3i1)

242 In the American Spanish Civil War, antifa will burn down the leftist enclaves while the right sits outside and watches it go down.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 02:09 PM (GBKbO)

It would be something. Three or four cities raze themselves to the ground, while the rest of America hardly notices except for that TV and movies gradually start getting better and everything starts getting a lot cheaper.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 02:13 PM (06Hmj)

243 >>...I don't know what else to say."
-- DU Thread Starter
---------

I'll tell ya:

Shut up, Karen.

Just like you all told "us" time & time again.

Posted by: JQ at January 08, 2026 02:13 PM (rdVOm)

244 We're rolling out the bread puns now?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 02:11 PM (ULPxl)

Let him go. He's on a roll.

Posted by: Zek at January 08, 2026 02:13 PM (5FPX4)

245 [I know that was parody, but:]

In a Civil War II, their Neo-Confederate side loses bigly.

Be careful what you wish for ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 02:08 PM (IpnJw)

After studying the American Civil War for years, and others, I've come to realize the futility and tragedy of almost all civil wars. Unless the original, central government has already mostly collapsed because of its own decay and corruption, the separatists always lose. A separatist movement can never marshal the men and resources that a unified central government can.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2026 02:13 PM (uWKK8)

246 Was she not? Was she not being paid to chase ICE around Minneapolis? Was she just on her way to work or something? Has that even been asserted by anyone?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

The answer here is a bit murky. Yesterday, shorty after the shooting, MSNOW reporter on the scene stated he was told by an a self-identified ICE Informer who knew Good, is she was also there in an ICE Informer role. This term was not defined by it does have minty overtones of her being a part of an organized left wing resistance group. Today I read Good had been harassing Federal law enforcement through out the morning. So yeah, there is a non trivial chance she was a paid agitator.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at January 08, 2026 02:13 PM (HTCU3)

247 It's the wild, wild west out here in the Colorado GOP gubernatorial primary. A convicted murderer serving a 48 year sentence has filed from prison to run.

Gregory A. Thomas is serving a 48-year sentence for murdering a 21-year-old woman, yes from his prison cell he has filed his candidacy affidavit to run for governor of Colorado.

https://is.gd/Hsujqp

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 08, 2026 02:13 PM (L/fGl)

248 231-Thats why you dont name your dog anything that sounds like no. It's just mean.

Current rescue dog named...BoBo. Not my fault.

Posted by: connected and litigious at January 08, 2026 02:13 PM (cS1cw)

249 The "wife" was in the car with her. I'm sure she was videoing everything. Odd that we haven't seen her vid yet. I'm sure it shows how badly she hit the cop. And who knows what they were saying to each other at the time. "Hit the fucking pig"? Odds are at least 50%.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 02:06 PM (iFTx/)

Wasn't in the car, was filming the encounter from outside of the car. That was the first video released on social media
Posted by: Kindltot at January 08, 2026 02:08 PM (rbvCR)
____

I think that reporting's been superceded. The wife was reportedly in the car and ended up covered in blood from the shooting. Or at least that's the current reporting I've seen. I don't know the truth one way or the other.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 02:13 PM (iFTx/)

250 Oh, that thing that came up because the one Democrat in the Minnesota state senate who voted against welfare for illegals got shot?

Yeah...why don't we revisit that?

That's a fascinating one. On lefty boards Boelter shot a moderate Dem who just had a high profile vote on immigration crap over...abortion. And they include him in those infographics you've seen where they claim all political violence is by the right.

As noted Boelter said Walz told him to do it, and while that is a wild accusation, the timing checks out since she just voted against Walz on what we see is one of his biggest issues.

But the oddest part is the left quickly yanked this story out of the media which tells you they really don't want normies hearing "One of Gov Walz's flunkies killed an opposing politician and he says he was ordered to do it"

Posted by: Obligatory at January 08, 2026 02:14 PM (sKqQm)

251 >>> 242 In the American Spanish Civil War, antifa will burn down the leftist enclaves while the right sits outside and watches it go down.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 02:09 PM (GBKbO)

It would be something. Three or four cities raze themselves to the ground, while the rest of America hardly notices except for that TV and movies gradually start getting better and everything starts getting a lot cheaper.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 02:13 PM (06Hmj)

Once it's safe for nurse ratched to take off the face-colander mask we can invest in her Seattle real estate fund.

Profit!!!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 02:14 PM (ULPxl)

252
We're rolling out the bread puns now?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 02:11 PM (ULPxl)

Let him go. He's on a roll.

Posted by: Zek at January 08, 2026 02:13 PM (5FPX4)

__________

Crusty people like me object.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 02:14 PM (tgvbd)

253 There's a GoFundMe right now for the "wife" and son and it's over 600 thousand already

I approve. Fools, money, some disassembly required.

Posted by: Oddbob at January 08, 2026 02:14 PM (Fs0KI)

254 home. 5 patients.
Seems she'd been shut down once, opened up in another house.

One of the elderly, a 68 year old man, had multiple bruises from being whipped with a belt.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 08, 2026 02:06 PM (HXT0k)

That's just good godly discipline. How else do you expect him to learn his lesson?

Posted by: Beat the helpless. It's a virtue. at January 08, 2026 02:14 PM (TbWk/)

255 Time for a second look at the crazy(?) accusation by Vance Boelter that he ordered a hit on Klobuchar?
==
Oh with this much money at stake, the people.at risk and an election coming??? Oh course he ordered a hit.

Posted by: Hillary! at January 08, 2026 02:14 PM (1M7sl)

256 Give in to your anger.
Pull your North Face parka out of the closet, hop in your Lesbaru and roll into the Twin Cities.
Make a difference!
Make your voice heard!

LOL, fag.
Bleed out in a snow drift, cold, unwanted, and alone.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

Lol. Poetry.

Ever angry dyke
You died in vain like a chump
Muzzies still hate you

Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 08, 2026 02:14 PM (JCZqz)

257 Oh, that thing that came up because the one Democrat in the Minnesota state senate who voted against welfare for illegals got shot?

Yeah...why don't we revisit that?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 02:10 PM (GBKbO)

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That whole thing got memory-holed faster than Hillary being tossed into a van.

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 02:15 PM (IpnJw)

258 INSTEAD, the entire audit system was junked. "

Audit systems, by and large, are junk. Useless.

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 02:15 PM (XuXeR)

259 "Crusty people like me object."
Nothing like a rye sense of humor.

Posted by: Zek at January 08, 2026 02:15 PM (5FPX4)

260 If the "wife" was in the car why wasn't she arrested ?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2026 02:15 PM (VE6XX)

261 Once it's safe for nurse ratched to take off the face-colander mask we can invest in her Seattle real estate fund.

Profit!!!
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
========
I could see Nurse Ratched becoming warlord of Seattle in such a situation.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 02:15 PM (WDjG6)

262 National Divorce is going to be amazing. Any alimony we have to pay to the waterheads across the Retard Line would be cheaper than we pay now.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 08, 2026 02:15 PM (aBI9s)

263 We're rolling out the bread puns now?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 02:11 PM (ULPxl)

I find the puns a welcome occasional relief from the heavy stories. I mean Rye do we have to be so serious all the time?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 02:15 PM (8Xy/A)

264 And no one who is not Somali and cared about their child would send her to a Somali run daycare.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 08, 2026 02:12 PM (Dv3i1)

Yeah, let's assume (lol) it was a completely legitimate daycare. If I went to enroll my daughter and saw a bunch of Somali faces, I'd burst out laughing before telling them "I need you all to stand at least 20 feet back from us and the door until we can leave. Stay the fuck away from my baby."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 08, 2026 02:15 PM (BI5O2)

265 So, which statues can be torn down this time? And do we get a federal holiday to honor lesbians?
Posted by: NCKate at January 08, 2026 02:07 PM (uQzkA)

We can dual-purpose Boxing Day
Posted by: Because you know...box at January 08, 2026 02:09 PM (TbWk/)

think we can get Scissor Sisters to write the hymn?

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at January 08, 2026 02:16 PM (v6XNT)

266 Once it's safe for nurse ratched to take off the face-colander mask we can invest in her Seattle real estate fund.

Profit!!!
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 02:14 PM (ULPxl)

Queen Ratched of New Pacifica.

I like the sounds of that.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 02:16 PM (06Hmj)

267 We're rolling out the bread puns now?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 02:11 PM (ULPxl)

Let him go. He's on a roll.

Posted by: Zek at January 08, 2026 02:13 PM (5FPX4)

__________

Crusty people like me object.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 02:14 PM (tgvbd)

Challah all you want, nobody's listening.

Posted by: Just loafing around at January 08, 2026 02:16 PM (TbWk/)

268 Shooting Haikus are the best haikus.

Posted by: connected and litigious at January 08, 2026 02:16 PM (cS1cw)

269 Oh with this much money at stake, the people.at risk and an election coming??? Oh course he ordered a hit.

Honestly I suspect Boelter is unstable and while Walz did a bit of "who will rid me of this troublesome priest" with his flunkies he didn't expect anyone to actually do it

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 02:19 PM (sKqQm)

270 The initial shot went through the windshield, or does he belong to the Fraternity in Wanted who can curve bullets.

Posted by: Unkaren at January 08, 2026 02:19 PM (BrLWF)

271 It closed because all their records were stolen and can't contact parents about their new hours ??

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 08, 2026 02:19 PM (FxH7T)

272 "Crusty people like me object."
Nothing like a rye sense of humor.
Posted by: Zek at January 08, 2026 02:15 PM (5FPX4)

i was going to jump in, but seems like there's no kneed to do so...

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at January 08, 2026 02:19 PM (v6XNT)

273 After studying the American Civil War for years, and others, I've come to realize the futility and tragedy of almost all civil wars. Unless the original, central government has already mostly collapsed because of its own decay and corruption, the separatists always lose. A separatist movement can never marshal the men and resources that a unified central government can.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2026 02:13 PM (uWKK

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Thanks Tom, appreciate your insight here.

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 02:19 PM (IpnJw)

274 I smell an opportunity for White Lives Matter.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 08, 2026 02:19 PM (n5tGW)

275 studying the American Civil War for years"

Purely my $.02, but more Spanish Civil War than CW II...

And then someone will cross the Rubi...er, Potomac.

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 02:19 PM (XuXeR)

276 There's a GoFundMe right now for the "wife" and son and it's over 600 thousand already
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The left financing its suicide bombers just like arafat....

Posted by: No joke at January 08, 2026 02:19 PM (1M7sl)

277 That lady with Waltz, you can see the intelligence just oozzing out of her.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 08, 2026 02:19 PM (EyfuW)

278 The cold blued steel of the 1911
The warm yellow of brass
The cold red of dead communists.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 08, 2026 02:20 PM (zZu0s)

279 Low IQ bulb heads
Get mad stacks of tax dollars
If they vote for Dems

Posted by: Quid pro haiku at January 08, 2026 02:20 PM (TbWk/)

280 INSTEAD, the entire audit system was junked. "

Audit systems, by and large, are junk. Useless.
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No, well designed audit systems are a thing of beauty. But the moment corrupt people are placed in charge of them AND honest auditors do nothing in response, they become an expense without a return. A whole bunch of white and brown men and women with titles that included words/phrases like "review", "internal review", "internal audit", etc ABSOLUTELY KNEW the (audit) systems were no longer running AT ALL...and they each remained silent and thus complicit.

Posted by: Crusader, former Federal Bank Examiner at January 08, 2026 02:20 PM (TN0g+)

281 222
The "wife" was in the car with her. I'm sure she was videoing everything. Odd that we haven't seen her vid yet. I'm sure it shows how badly she hit the cop. And who knows what they were saying to each other at the time. "Hit the fucking pig"? Odds are at least 50%.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 02:06 PM (iFTx/)

There's a GoFundMe right now for the "wife" and son and it's over 600 thousand already
Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2026 02:09 PM (VE6XX)
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Exactly!!! The video, if it supported the dyke "wife" it would be shown over and over if it did not show the officer being hit...and what the driver was saying. I have no doubt. The dyke filming is supposedly a well known agitator. That comment was made early after the shooting. I think on the UK DM of the "wife" wailing in the snow.

That dyke "wife" should not be able to touch a dollar of the half million goFundme pity money. Especially IF the child abuse claim of her burning that child with a cig is true.

Hoping the paternal grandfather has a lawyer today to get custody of this child.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 08, 2026 02:20 PM (WONhk)

282 Current rescue dog named...BoBo. Not my fault.
Posted by: connected and litigious at January

Awwwww, BoBo. Please tell me BoBo weighs 85 pounds.

Posted by: Piper at January 08, 2026 02:20 PM (Wmg4n)

283 280 No, well designed audit systems are a thing of beauty. But the moment corrupt people are placed in charge of them AND honest auditors do nothing in response, they become an expense without a return. A whole bunch of white and brown men and women with titles that included words/phrases like "review", "internal review", "internal audit", etc ABSOLUTELY KNEW the (audit) systems were no longer running AT ALL...and they each remained silent and thus complicit.

Posted by: Crusader, former Federal Bank Examiner at January 08, 2026 02:20 PM (TN0g+)

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I blame fractional reserve banking.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 02:20 PM (GBKbO)

284 I think that reporting's been superceded. The wife was reportedly in the car and ended up covered in blood from the shooting. Or at least that's the current reporting I've seen. I don't know the truth one way or the other.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

From what I saw and read this morning, the wife was out of the car and using her phone to video the incident. The reporting is she was dressed in a black/grey flannel jacket and was located at the back passenger side corner of SUV. Just prior to the shooting the ICE agent and her were interacting with each and when other agents started to remove Good from the SUV the agent moved to the front of the car. After the shooting the wife then ran to where Good crashed into a parked car.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at January 08, 2026 02:20 PM (HTCU3)

285 262 National Divorce is going to be amazing. Any alimony we have to pay to the waterheads across the Retard Line would be cheaper than we pay now.
Posted by: sifty boones
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I'm afraid it will be more like Reconstruction. Blue states need to be reduced to territories again under military government until readmitted to the Union.

Abraham Lincoln was right, you cannot be a country divided--half leftist and half right. Leave them alone and they will eventually try to invade, infiltrate, and otherwise attack the Red states probably with the assistance of Chicoms or worse.

The Democrat party has to be destroyed in toto for America to live.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 02:21 PM (WDjG6)

286 It's the wild, wild west out here in the Colorado GOP gubernatorial primary. A convicted murderer serving a 48 year sentence has filed from prison to run.

Gregory A. Thomas is serving a 48-year sentence for murdering a 21-year-old woman, yes from his prison cell he has filed his candidacy affidavit to run for governor of Colorado.

https://is.gd/Hsujqp
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 08, 2026 02:13 PM (L/fGl)
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I'd vote for him before that fat faggot poofter Jared Polis

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 02:21 PM (iFTx/)

287 One of the elderly, a 68 year old man, had multiple bruises from being whipped with a belt.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 08, 2026 02:06 PM (HXT0k)

Is 68 really considered elderly?

Posted by: Doof at January 08, 2026 02:21 PM (NFdz3)

288 think we can get Scissor Sisters to write the hymn"

4 non blondes?

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 02:22 PM (XuXeR)

289 287 One of the elderly, a 68 year old man, had multiple bruises from being whipped with a belt.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 08, 2026 02:06 PM (HXT0k)

Is 68 really considered elderly?

Posted by: Doof at January 08, 2026 02:21 PM (NFdz3)

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68 is almost 30 years away.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 02:22 PM (GBKbO)

290 Honestly I suspect Boelter is unstable and while Walz did a bit of "who will rid me of this troublesome priest" with his flunkies he didn't expect anyone to actually do it
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Nope. Fat stupid and anxious on baseline. Now looking at real problems as his neck was out and the party demanded he fix it or wear it... He put out a hit.

Posted by: No joke at January 08, 2026 02:22 PM (1M7sl)

291 That dyke "wife" should not be able to touch a dollar of the half million goFundme pity money. Especially IF the child abuse claim of her burning that child with a cig is true.

———

It was her other 2 children she put her cigarettes out on- the ones that she lost custody of.

Posted by: Piper at January 08, 2026 02:22 PM (Wmg4n)

292 Are we sure "learing" was a typo. I can see these bastards standing around learing at children like they do in London and Paris.

I guess its spelled leering so maybe that was the typo.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 08, 2026 02:22 PM (n5tGW)

293 I blame fractional reserve banking.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 02:20 PM (GBKbO)

And you know (((who))) runs all the banks, of course.

Posted by: Cucker Tarlson at January 08, 2026 02:22 PM (TbWk/)

294 Who shuts down a $1.9 million income business that has no customer expenses?

Posted by: Quality Lerning Center at January 08, 2026 02:22 PM (MkFn4)

295
Awwwww, BoBo. Please tell me BoBo weighs 85 pounds.

Posted by: Piper at January 08, 2026 02:20 PM (Wmg4n)

_________

The Big Dummy clocked in at 117 at his visit to the doggie chiropractor this week.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 02:22 PM (tgvbd)

296 287 One of the elderly, a 68 year old man, had multiple bruises from being whipped with a belt.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 08, 2026 02:06 PM (HXT0k)

Is 68 really considered elderly?
Posted by: Doof

Uh....as a 29 year old, 68 definitely seems ancient. Right fellas?!?!

Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 08, 2026 02:23 PM (JCZqz)

297 293 I blame fractional reserve banking.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 02:20 PM (GBKbO)

And you know (((who))) runs all the banks, of course.

Posted by: Cucker Tarlson at January 08, 2026 02:22 PM (TbWk/)

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*nods sagaciously*

Liechtenstein.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 02:23 PM (GBKbO)

298 Yeah, let's assume (lol) it was a completely legitimate daycare. If I went to enroll my daughter and saw a bunch of Somali faces, I'd burst out laughing before telling them "I need you all to stand at least 20 feet back from us and the door until we can leave. Stay the fuck away from my baby."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 08, 2026 02:15 PM (BI5O2)

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lol

The judges would have also accepted "a bunch of inbred Somali faces" ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 02:23 PM (IpnJw)

299 No, well designed audit systems are a thing of beauty. But the moment corrupt people are placed in charge of them AND honest auditors do nothing in response, they become an expense without a return. A whole bunch of white and brown men and women with titles that included words/phrases like "review", "internal review", "internal audit", etc ABSOLUTELY KNEW the (audit) systems were no longer running AT ALL...and they each remained silent and thus complicit.

Posted by: Crusader, former Federal Bank Examiner at January 08, 2026 02:20 PM (TN0g+)

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I blame fractional reserve banking.
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I don't get it.

Posted by: Crusader, former Federal Bank Examiner at January 08, 2026 02:23 PM (TN0g+)

300 68 is not as old as it used to be.
The years pass like grains of sand.
Youth is always retarded.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 08, 2026 02:23 PM (zZu0s)

301 That dyke "wife" should not be able to touch a dollar of the half million goFundme pity money. Especially IF the child abuse claim of her burning that child with a cig is true.

If the DOJ really wanted to go all out they could use her admission that she forced her "wife" to attack ICE to arrest her as well

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 02:23 PM (sKqQm)

302 Honestly I suspect Boelter is unstable and while Walz did a bit of "who will rid me of this troublesome priest" with his flunkies he didn't expect anyone to actually do it
Posted by: 18-1

Groomers like Walz along with being an asset of the Chicoms don't have morality. The stupid ass packaging of this clown is something similar to John Wayne Gacy, another Democrat clown serial killer, literally.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 02:23 PM (WDjG6)

303 The Democrat party has to be destroyed in toto for America to live.
==
Uniparty.

Posted by: No joke at January 08, 2026 02:23 PM (1M7sl)

304 299 I blame fractional reserve banking.
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I don't get it.

Posted by: Crusader, former Federal Bank Examiner at January 08, 2026 02:23 PM (TN0g+)

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hey

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 02:23 PM (GBKbO)

305 you cannot be a country divided--half leftist and half right. Leave them alone and they will eventually try to invade, infiltrate, and otherwise attack"

A house divided cannot stand, indeed.

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 02:24 PM (XuXeR)

306 288 think we can get Scissor Sisters to write the hymn"

4 non blondes?
Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 02:22 PM (XuXeR)

Dykes on mics?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 08, 2026 02:24 PM (N39Ws)

307 291 That dyke "wife" should not be able to touch a dollar of the half million goFundme pity money. Especially IF the child abuse claim of her burning that child with a cig is true.

———

It was her other 2 children she put her cigarettes out on- the ones that she lost custody of.
Posted by: Piper at January 08, 2026 02:22 PM (Wmg4n)

If the kids learned their lesson it's not abuse, it's discipline. Children who don't get disciplined become rotten brats and go to hell.

Posted by: The form isn't important it's the result at January 08, 2026 02:24 PM (TbWk/)

308 294 Who shuts down a $1.9 million income business that has no customer expenses?
Posted by: Quality Lerning Center
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Those on a flight to Somalia with a suitcase full of fraud bucks.

Part of the con is knowing when it is over and time to skeedadle.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 02:25 PM (WDjG6)

309 The Big Dummy clocked in at 117 "

So, a lap dog, then....

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 02:25 PM (XuXeR)

310 Nood

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 08, 2026 02:25 PM (nO8M5)

311 NYP: "Aimee Bock, the 44-year-old mastermind behind the Feeding Our Future scandal," has been ordered to surrender all her luxury swag, which includes "60 laptops, iPads and iPhones,"

Forensically examine every one of those sixty suckers.

Posted by: gp at January 08, 2026 02:25 PM (GHIyr)

312 Whig, got through my lumbar fusion surgery well yesterday. Robot assisted, minimally, sort of, invasive.

I can walk steps, but sore.

The doc made me wake up at 3:30am and power down 24 oz of Gatorade. Stops the nausea associated with the anesthesia.

Good luck on your surgery! And recovery. I can’t go to work for about a month.

Posted by: Henry at January 08, 2026 02:26 PM (tWkg3)

313 288 think we can get Scissor Sisters to write the hymn"

4 non blondes?
Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 02:22 PM (XuXeR)

Dykes on mics?
-----

Indigo Girls.

Posted by: Crusader, former Federal Bank Examiner at January 08, 2026 02:26 PM (TN0g+)

314 309 The Big Dummy clocked in at 117 "

So, a lap dog, then....
Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 02:25 PM (XuXeR)

We've got a hundred pound golden Doodle who thinks she's a lap dog...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2026 02:26 PM (VE6XX)

315 60 laptops, iPads and iPhones"

"Best Buy hardest hit"

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 02:26 PM (XuXeR)

316
The Democrat party has to be destroyed in toto for America to live.
==
Uniparty.

Posted by: No joke at January 08, 2026 02:23 PM (1M7sl)

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In the 90s Italy had a judicial investigation of political corruption that led to the extinction of several parties. We need that here and Trump, who is not beholden to the machine, is the guy to do it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 02:27 PM (tgvbd)

317 Are we sure "learing" was a typo. I can see these bastards standing around learing at children like they do in London and Paris.

It's a "learing" center because they were saving to buy a Lear jet.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 08, 2026 02:27 PM (OUMaO)

318 The Big Dummy clocked in at 117 at his visit to the doggie chiropractor this week.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 02:22 PM (tgvbd)

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I had a great chiropractor a few decades ago (healed my two-year bout with plantar fasciitis (after only two weeks of adjusting my locked-up high-arched feet).

Anywho, he had a coffee table book in the waiting room with pictures of veterinarian chiropractors adjusting animals like horses and such.

I made a remark about it, and he jokingly said: "I once adjusted the spine of a goldfish who kept swimming in circles."

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 02:27 PM (IpnJw)

319 300 68 is not as old as it used to be.
The years pass like grains of sand.
Youth is always retarded.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 08, 2026 02:23 PM (zZu0s)

Not really a haiku, more like vers libre. Which is a legitimate art form, even if a tad post-modernist.

Posted by: Feel the vibes man at January 08, 2026 02:27 PM (TbWk/)

320 Uniparty.
Posted by: No joke

Don't fight a two front war right now. The Democrats are a mortal threat because if they win office again, there will be no more free and fair elections at all.

The GOPe is a bunch of corrupt cowards that will knuckle down, flee, or otherwise backbite and stab like Rand, but they all have small penises and the effeminancy of a drag queen.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 02:27 PM (WDjG6)

321 >>The Big Dummy clocked in at 117 at his visit to the doggie chiropractor this week.

Tell him my 154-lb Bullmastiff said to eat a sandwich or two.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 08, 2026 02:27 PM (Y1sOo)

322 think we can get Scissor Sisters to write the hymn"

4 non blondes?
Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 02:22 PM (XuXeR)

Dykes on mics?
-----

Indigo Girls.
Posted by: Crusader, former Federal Bank Examiner at January 08, 2026 02:26 PM (TN0g+)

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Melissa Etheridge FTW!

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 02:29 PM (IpnJw)

323 312 Whig, got through my lumbar fusion surgery well yesterday. Robot assisted, minimally, sort of, invasive.

I can walk steps, but sore.

The doc made me wake up at 3:30am and power down 24 oz of Gatorade. Stops the nausea associated with the anesthesia.

Good luck on your surgery! And recovery. I can’t go to work for about a month.
Posted by: Henry

Thanks. Cheers on teh report. Great news. Mine is locked and loaded for about one month from now but I can't say that I am not worried about the surgery. Trying to clear the decks before I go under the knife.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 02:29 PM (WDjG6)

324 Current rescue dog named...BoBo. Not my fault.
Posted by: connected and litigious at January

Last name Brazil?

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 08, 2026 02:30 PM (FxH7T)

325 One of the elderly, a 68 year old man, had multiple bruises from being whipped with a belt.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 08, 2026 02:06 PM (HXT0k)

Is 68 really considered elderly?
Posted by: Doof

Uh....as a 29 year old, 68 definitely seems ancient. Right fellas?!?!
Posted by: Moron Analyst


Every time I stand up!

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 02:33 PM (6mogZ)

326 [I know that was parody, but:]

In a Civil War II, their Neo-Confederate side loses bigly.
Be careful what you wish for ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 02:08 PM

That is a real Thread on DU. If it's a parody, it's done well. It takes HOF Professional Thanksgivingmanship to survive as a Thanksgivingman over there.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 08, 2026 02:34 PM (0sNs1)

327 My dog Bruno knows the difference between Bruno and no. He's not dumb.

Posted by: fd at January 08, 2026 02:42 PM (vFG9F)

328 >>>237 I baked a load of bread last Saturday, but I'm not running a f*cking bakery.
Posted by: Jack of All Tirades

>You’re a loafer. Strive to be better.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 08, 2026 02:46 PM (1HW+a)

329 I suppose it's not a great idea to be snarky in a phone message your pre-op nurse, but I kind of resent that they didn't keep their scheduled phone call yesterday, and then today sent me a text saying that they've been trying to reach me and couldn't leave a voicemail.

No, you damn well haven't, I can see the incoming call record on my phone, and there's been nothing.

At least I have an alleged direct phone line to them now. Which they didn't answer.

Doesn't really fill me with confidence about the competence of their operation.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 08, 2026 03:03 PM (a+4eV)

330 Where the fuck is Straw?!

Posted by: melodicmetal at January 08, 2026 03:06 PM (61TgR)

331 330 Where the fuck is Straw?!
Posted by: melodicmetal at January 08, 2026 03:06 PM (61TgR)
- - - - - - - - - - - -
Does make it a little more difficult to grasp at when you can't find them.

Posted by: Another Anon at January 08, 2026 03:44 PM (4h45B)

Nick Shirley's New Scoop: There Are 1000s of Fraudulent Minnesota (Somali) "Transport Companies" Taking Federal Money to Drive Around Patients, But the Patients are Phantoms

I'm beginning to see a pattern.


YouTuber Nick Shirley says Minnesota's non-emergency medical transportation system has become a sprawling fraud operation hiding in plain sight, alleging that more than 1,000 transport companies are billing taxpayers for services that appear not to exist.

In a video posted Monday, Shirley said his yearlong review of state records, site visits, and documentation -- conducted with a researcher he identified only as David -- points to a network of shell transportation outfits clustered around adult daycare centers, charter schools, and Medicaid-funded programs, particularly in the Twin Cities.

"To have that many non-emergency medical transportation companies, it's not possible that they can transport that many people," David said, describing repeated visits to a Minneapolis facility where vans "have not moved one inch in an entire year," despite ongoing billing.

...

Similar whistleblower complaints have surfaced in Maine and Ohio involving Somali-led health providers, and on Monday HHS disclosed new scrutiny tied to foreign officials.

"I can confirm public speculation that Ambassador Abukar Dahir Osman, Permanent Representative of Somalia to the UN and President of the Security Council, is in fact associated with Progressive Health Care Services, a home health agency in Cincinnati," Deputy HHS Secretary Jim O'Neill wrote, adding that HHS "has previously taken action against Progressive in response to a conviction for Medicaid fraud."

More:

Shirley's new video dials things up to 11.

David Hoch, co-founder of Minnesotans for Responsible Government, joined him on the ground in Minneapolis, revealing an insane truth: this fraud hits hundreds of billions nationwide. Minnesota's slice? At least $80 billion. Layers of shell companies obscure the cash trail, including 1,200 medical transport outfits in the area that do nothing while collecting taxpayer dollars.

Hoch swears by his evidence. "I have been to many of these transportation companies, and I've been time-stamping my photographs for a whole year at one facility in Minneapolis, and those vans in that parking lot had not moved one inch in an entire year. They're all still sitting there."

Hoch also revealed a widespread ballot-harvesting operation tied to Somali communities in Minnesota, claiming the scale of the activity is "way beyond anybody's imagination," adding that "the state doesn't even know" and "the feds don't even know."

Shirley asked Hoch why a judge would allegedly defer to what he described as the "head of the Somali mafia." Hoch responded that the influence stems from raw political power. He described the Somali community as a unified voting bloc that has effectively held Minnesota Democrats hostage. "What they say is if you do something to go against our community, we're gonna vote for, and they all vote together, and there's ballot harvesting, I've seen them do it, that, "We're gonna vote for your opponent, unless you do what we tell you to do.


Nick shirley
@nickshirleyy

🚨 We Exposed Tim Walz Billion Dollar Fraud Scheme:
In this sit-down interview I interview "David" a man who helped expose Minnesotas billion dollar fraud scheme in our viral video that led to Tim Walz dropping out of re-election and federal investigations launching inside Minnesota to stop the fraud

In this interview David reveals:
- His estimate of $100 Billion dollars in fraud
- Minnesotas corrupt voting system
- Walz & Omar's alleged involvement with the fraud
- How Somalians have defrauded the system
- How political correctness let the fraud happen

As this source said: The Somali Pirates are now instructing the Democrats as to Who Runs Bartertown.


Wall Street Apes
@WallStreetApes

A Somalian man named Mohammed took the podium in Maine to deliver a warning to Democrats

If you keep talking about the fraud taking place, the entire voting community will abandon Democrats

He actually says this, DEPORT THEM ALL

'Somalians came out in droves, demanding the city NOT investigate one of their own, Iman Osman'

"My name is Mohamed. I'm speaking today on behalf of the Somali community in Lewiston. Some of you sitting here today, we voted for you. We elected you to protect our community interests, not creating division or go after one elected member from our community. This narrative, if this narrative continues, our community will be forced to re-examine our relationship or political relationship, including our relationship with the Democratic Party and who will be voting in the future."

The Somalian man they are demanding they stop investigating is the Somalian refugee named Iman Osman who will be sworn into the Lewiston Maine City Council even though he's under investigation for fraud and lied about his address to run for the seat

He's

- Charged will stealing firearm
- Provided a false address to run for seat
- Lied about the address and reasoning
- Address given was condemned and raided for drugs
- He also currently sits on Lewiston School Board

So much Cultural Enrichment.

Happy Thursday! How is the weather where you are? I'm still enjoying a winter swoon.

Posted by: Ace at 12:27 PM




Comments

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1 Slick Nick

Posted by: ... at January 08, 2026 12:27 PM (0Sg1Q)

2 And don't call him Shirley.

Posted by: ... at January 08, 2026 12:27 PM (0Sg1Q)

3 And the genius Somalis came up with this on their own.

INCLUDING the donating of half the stolen proceeds to Democrats.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 08, 2026 12:28 PM (zjgNU)

4 Prison for Tampon Tim!!

Posted by: Jmel at January 08, 2026 12:28 PM (RWHIh)

5 The weather calls for 100% of don't hit law enforcement with your car.

Posted by: ... at January 08, 2026 12:28 PM (0Sg1Q)

6 Also, this:

@InsiderWire
#BREAKING: DHS, FBI, and IRS agents now going door-to-door ‘raiding Somali businesses in Minneapolis.’

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The feds are going all out in Minneapolis by this point.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 12:28 PM (GBKbO)

7 Good afternoon Ace and horde
I'm here!

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2026 12:29 PM (t/2Uw)

8 Geez, they don't miss a trick do they?

Posted by: Case at January 08, 2026 12:29 PM (4rWc3)

9 Taking Federal Money to Drive Around Patients, But the Patients are Phantoms

ghost riders on the storm minnesota taxpayer's dime

Posted by: anachronda at January 08, 2026 12:29 PM (oY6Yp)

10 Nooded, y'all.

Posted by: Nazdar at January 08, 2026 12:29 PM (NcvvS)

11 50 in the nyc area

Posted by: gnats local 678 at January 08, 2026 12:29 PM (CWTWj)

12 Oh man.

This kid definitely knows the value of timing.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 12:30 PM (06Hmj)

13 BTW, islamists are using the commies to globalize the world and then 75% of their job is done.

Posted by: ... at January 08, 2026 12:30 PM (0Sg1Q)

14 Nick is kicking ass and taking names.

Posted by: Big Balls On That Kid at January 08, 2026 12:30 PM (GlDYx)

15 Fake News. CBS and CNN called the "phantom" transport companies. The first 38 numbers were disconnected, but on the 39th call someone named Mohammed assured them that the business was completely legit.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 08, 2026 12:30 PM (SPRxV)

16 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2026 12:31 PM (PQb8B)

17
15 Fake News. CBS and CNN called the "phantom" transport companies. The first 38 numbers were disconnected, but on the 39th call someone named Mohammed assured them that the business was completely legit.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 08, 2026 12:30 PM (SPRxV)

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"Sorry...we slipped a bit. We were just so eager to hand out our top prize for this reporting."
-The Pulitzer Committee

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 12:31 PM (GBKbO)

18


What is the carbon footprint of this Demorat scam?

Posted by: Rev DR E Buzz at January 08, 2026 12:31 PM (et1vG)

19 The "litmus test" for the insurrection act in MN is probably in effect now.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 08, 2026 12:31 PM (NwnyJ)

20 Round 'em up.

Ship 'em out.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 08, 2026 12:31 PM (ESVrU)

21 Dems: What are you going to do? Star your own party?

Islamo-Thieves: Already have.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 08, 2026 12:31 PM (mlg/3)

22 Deport.
Denature and deport if need be.
But deport.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 08, 2026 12:32 PM (xcxpd)

23 Why would the Somalian man want Somalians deported? Is he one of the ones that actually has a real job?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 12:32 PM (8Xy/A)

24 20 Round 'em up.

Ship 'em out.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 08, 2026 12:31 PM (ESVrU)

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Rawhide.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 12:32 PM (GBKbO)

25 This is about when something was supposed to be happening in Iran, but who knows. We'll find out soon enough if it is real or just internet fluff.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2026 12:32 PM (uWKK8)

26 12 Oh man.

This kid definitely knows the value of timing.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 12:30 PM (06Hmj)

(Shirley, that is. Not the World's Fattest Somalian.)

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 12:32 PM (06Hmj)

27 18 What is the carbon footprint of this Demorat scam?


forty-two!

Posted by: deep thought at January 08, 2026 12:32 PM (oY6Yp)

28 We have been forcibly funding terrorism for decades. It's SOOOOO much worse than any of us ever imagined, especially during and after the Owebama administration.

We've been sold out, sold up the river, sold as slaves. Some pretty significant heads need to roll........literally.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2026 12:32 PM (PQb8B)

29 wow that guy

the BALLS on that skinny!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 08, 2026 12:33 PM (emBoF)

30 In the 50s and raining here.

If the Somalis are not going to vote D, then who? I guess the threat is to stay at their subsidized homes on election day.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at January 08, 2026 12:33 PM (bNf8H)

31 Have said since day one the fraud, corruption, and rot run far deeper than most Americans realize. Billion$.
Ripping it out is necessary and will shake the foundation of our Republic. It is that huge.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 08, 2026 12:33 PM (2WIwB)

32 Well, they ain't gonna be voting Republican, that's for sure.

Get ready for an al-Shabaab legislator from Lewiston.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 08, 2026 12:33 PM (BI5O2)

33 28 We have been forcibly funding terrorism for decades. It's SOOOOO much worse than any of us ever imagined, especially during and after the Owebama administration.

We've been sold out, sold up the river, sold as slaves. Some pretty significant heads need to roll........literally.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2026 12:32 PM (PQb8B)

====

"Yeah, but we felt good while we did it."
-Democrat partisans

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 12:33 PM (GBKbO)

34 Seriously, that dude don't look somalian at all, he looks Ghanaian or Ivorian.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 12:33 PM (06Hmj)

35 That boy needs armed guards at this point.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 08, 2026 12:33 PM (jjoN6)

36 Seems like there's a lot more than just USAID that needs to be shut down if there's this level of fraud going on.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 08, 2026 12:33 PM (O7YUW)

37 I'm looking forward to hearing about Somali bus companies being paid to take non-existent kids to phony day care centers.

Or is that covered under this scheme?

Posted by: Ripley at January 08, 2026 12:33 PM (GUOwU)

38 >>What is the carbon footprint of this Demorat scam?

Posted by: Rev DR E Buzz at January 08, 2026 12:31 PM

Less than if they actually had to drive someone somewhere. So, it's a big savings for the taxpayer.

Posted by: huerfano at January 08, 2026 12:34 PM (98kQX)

39 You can always count on Democrats to sell the country's silver.

Posted by: ... at January 08, 2026 12:34 PM (0Sg1Q)

40 Native Minnesotans are pretty honest Midwestern types. So...marks basically for any hustler.
Most of them would probably rather literally die rather than be rude, too.

I have around 50 relatives in the area and none of them are planning on moving out of the state OR fighting this kind of thing. They just shake their heads and sigh and say 'what a shame'.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 08, 2026 12:34 PM (xcxpd)

41 Does that mean they will vote for Republicans instead?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 08, 2026 12:34 PM (pkeXY)

42 In Gulag Archipelago, Solzhenitsyn describes the Soviet economy. He was at prison felling trees, they shipped empty train cars to the lumber mill to process. The lumber mills sent empty cars of lumber to the furniture factory,.....

You see, everyone had to meet quotas, and quotas went up every year regardless. So in the end the customer would show up at store and there was nothing to buy.

This feels like that -- we have transportation companies delivering non-people to care facilities, etc. It is all fraud.

We have reached peak Soviet, only just as the commies always said, based on cash and theft instead of deprivation and cruelty as in USSR.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 08, 2026 12:34 PM (bIWgk)

43 How many morons know or are vets who take multiple buses to get to the VA?

Posted by: DaveA at January 08, 2026 12:34 PM (FhXTo)

44 conducted with a researcher he identified only as David
_______
I'm guessing his last name isn't "French".

Posted by: Eeyore at January 08, 2026 12:34 PM (s0JqF)

45 22 Deport.
Denature and deport if need be.
But deport.

hmm.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denaturation

Posted by: anachronda at January 08, 2026 12:34 PM (oY6Yp)

46 We've been sold out, sold up the river, sold as slaves. Some pretty significant heads need to roll........literally.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2026 12:32 PM (PQb8B)

Old news. Already covered. Move on.

Posted by: ... at January 08, 2026 12:34 PM (0Sg1Q)

47 One quibble I have with Nick and everyone talking about the fraud.

We keep hearing the Somalis are stealing billions from Minnesota. No they’re not. They’re stealing it from the federal government. Minnesota is just a middle man. All the fraud is federal money given to states.

Every tax payer in all 57 states is being robbed by these criminals.

Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 12:34 PM (/HZvU)

48 Carl Sagan, "billions and billions."

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 08, 2026 12:34 PM (45BvE)

49 40 Native Minnesotans are pretty honest Midwestern types. So...marks basically for any hustler.
Most of them would probably rather literally die rather than be rude, too.

I have around 50 relatives in the area and none of them are planning on moving out of the state OR fighting this kind of thing. They just shake their heads and sigh and say 'what a shame'.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 08, 2026 12:34 PM (xcxpd)

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"Well, the Somalis deserve the money for all the slavery in America 160 years ago."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 12:34 PM (GBKbO)

50 Hmmm.... I'm getting the impression that the Somali population in this country is not exactly honest. Perhaps we should send them home.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at January 08, 2026 12:35 PM (2J/Lj)

51 The numbers involved in all this are staggering. Never a site visit? Never a yearly audit? contracts automatically renewed? Never a bank reporting unusual activity? Never the IRS auditing tax returns?
It is like they had total immunity from any kind of oversight. Why them?

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2026 12:35 PM (t/2Uw)

52 Nick Shirley has uncovered what appears to be massive fraud. I'm thinking it pales in comparison to what's still uncovered.

Posted by: Doof at January 08, 2026 12:35 PM (NFdz3)

53 > Seriously, that dude don't look somalian at all, he looks Ghanaian or Ivorian.
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Ivorian? Like the Ivory Soap girl?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 08, 2026 12:36 PM (NwnyJ)

54 40 Native Minnesotans are pretty honest Midwestern types. So...marks basically for any hustler.
Most of them would probably rather literally die rather than be rude, too.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo

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They sound like good people -- how do they feel about murdering unborn children?

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 08, 2026 12:36 PM (bIWgk)

55 38 >>What is the carbon footprint of this Demorat scam?

Posted by: Rev DR E Buzz at January 08, 2026 12:31 PM

Less than if they actually had to drive someone somewhere. So, it's a big savings for the taxpayer.

plus, they can sell their lack of driving people as a carbon offset!

Posted by: anachronda at January 08, 2026 12:36 PM (oY6Yp)

56 39 You can always count on Democrats to sell the country's silver.
Posted by: ...
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How ya doing Ellipsis. Hope all is well at home.

But on thread, once you pay the Somalian geld, you never get rid of the Somalians.

Democrats thought they could use these immigrants to power and control just like the ancient kings of Britain made deals with outside thugs to win internal battles with their internal enemies.

Harald might well have won his battle at Hastings had he not just fought a major battle (and won) against the Danes in the North of England.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 12:36 PM (WDjG6)

57 51 The numbers involved in all this are staggering. Never a site visit? Never a yearly audit? contracts automatically renewed? Never a bank reporting unusual activity? Never the IRS auditing tax returns?
It is like they had total immunity from any kind of oversight. Why them?

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2026 12:35 PM (t/2Uw)

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There are records of them. I know that.

So, the state was in on it. They falsified the reports in one way or another.

I still firmly believe that Walz has gone nuttier than normal over the last week or so because he received a targeting letter from the DOJ that he was the subject of a criminal investigation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 12:36 PM (GBKbO)

58 There needs to be prosecution, life sentences, denaturalization of remaining family members.


They are not compatible with American life.
It’s that simple.
We’re closed, moose out front should have told you.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 08, 2026 12:36 PM (Hkcdp)

59 Because everything is about me, I would once again like you to imagine moving from this shithole 2 years ago and still having to hear about it every frickin' day.

Legit thought "well I'll never have to hear about Walz ever again"

Posted by: jhawk90 at January 08, 2026 12:37 PM (ggOdn)

60 The smart and responsible way to handle non-emergency medical transport for ambulatory patients is to contract with outfits like Uber and Lyft. It works well for me.

Posted by: mrp at January 08, 2026 12:37 PM (rj6Yv)

61 51 The numbers involved in all this are staggering. Never a site visit? Never a yearly audit? contracts automatically renewed? Never a bank reporting unusual activity? Never the IRS auditing tax returns?
It is like they had total immunity from any kind of oversight. Why them?
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2026 12:35 PM (t/2Uw)

B/c Minnesota is a one party state and they were paying that party. And Biden, being of the same party, wasn't gonna have his people look into a friendly state and see what might have been up (and heck, they were probably paying Joe his 10%, too)...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 08, 2026 12:37 PM (tOcjL)

62 the best way to eliminate to pervasive waste/fraud is to turn off the credit card and force everyone to reapply

or even better, eliminate the government's ability to print money. When there is only a finite supply of money to go around, fraudsters are quickly exposed. There is a way to do this....

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at January 08, 2026 12:37 PM (V6W16)

63 The fake transport scam is not limited to Somalis. It's a huge racket nationwide. Ever notice why all of a sudden those small "Ambulette" vans are everywhere? It's like printing money.

In NYC at least, the ambulette scam is cornered by mostly Russian and Hassidic Jews. Indeed, there are more Hassidic ambulettes in the city then there are Hassidics. You see them everywhere with Hebrew lettering on the side.

As I said yesterday, all of us are suckers for not gaming the system like everyone else did. Trillions of covid dollars were there for the taking. I wish I could do it over again.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 12:38 PM (iFTx/)

64 Westernized immigrants: How can I ply my skills to earn a living?

Third-world immigrants: How can I manipulate charitable systems so I don't have to work for anything?

Mindset is everything. And had the democrats worked at flooding the country with westernized immigrants, A) No one would have cared, and B) They wouldn't have received a single new vote.

Posted by: red speck at January 08, 2026 12:38 PM (Ve/HL)

65 Who's holding who hostage, again?

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at January 08, 2026 12:38 PM (MZ+PY)

66 >>Happy Thursday! How is the weather where you are? I'm still enjoying a winter swoon.

Posted by: Ace at 12:27 PM

Possible record highs in Kentuckiana today. Hope you're in fine fettle.

Posted by: Nazdar at January 08, 2026 12:38 PM (NcvvS)

67 "We're gonna vote for your opponent, unless you do what we tell you to do.

--

Isn't there a video clip of BroFo Fraudster Omar Nur saying exactly this? That these people (Democrats and she intimated the rest of the US) will do what they're told to do by the Somalis.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 08, 2026 12:38 PM (qBdHI)

68 Of course government and politicians were in on it.
With that kind of money, there were bribes, and a wild azz guess: threat of harm if uncooperative. You don’t just stop an $80 billion organized crime ring.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 08, 2026 12:38 PM (Hkcdp)

69 The numbers involved in all this are staggering. Never a site visit? Never a yearly audit? contracts automatically renewed? Never a bank reporting unusual activity? Never the IRS auditing tax returns?
It is like they had total immunity from any kind of oversight. Why them?
Posted by: Sharon


Walz owns ALL OF THIS.
Sorry Harry Truman. The buck does stop with you.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 12:38 PM (6mogZ)

70 New food pyramid
Vastly reduced Vaccine schedule
Widespread daycare/medical fraud uncovered
ICE rounding up the leeches
Overwhelming evidence 2020 elections were rigged
Valenzuela – Maduro thrown out
US Armed forces back in shape – increased recruitment numbers
Illegals getting thrown out
Melania
Inflation getting under control
Manufacturing being brought back into the States
Trade deficit shrinking
Space exploration reaching new heights
America first
War on drugs intensified
Traditional Catholicism rising among the young
DEI being pushed out
Traditional middle class beginning to reclaim it’s power
Regime change in Iran
Traditional media self-destructing
Elon – need I say more?
US Government cutting out anti-US orgs from their funding


Are you not entertained?

Posted by: Tonypete at January 08, 2026 12:38 PM (cYBz/)

71 I had my team meeting this morning. I'm told it's showing and cold and has been a pretty severe winter in Denmark.

I WANTED to say, "I guess global warming is fixed!" But, thought better of it........damn.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2026 12:39 PM (PQb8B)

72 >>"Well, the Somalis deserve the money for all the slavery in America 160 years ago."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 12:34 PM

Is it quibbling if I point out that most slaves came from West Africa?

Posted by: huerfano at January 08, 2026 12:39 PM (98kQX)

73 Ripping off taxpayers is no way to go through life. I don't care if they are from here or some asshole that came here. Taxpayers are already mad,this just makes it worse.

Posted by: Case at January 08, 2026 12:39 PM (4rWc3)

74 The scale of the fraud?

MN is but one of 50 states where fraud is taking place. It's probably dwarfed by other states, like CA, NY an IL.

We're talking trillions of dollars. A year.

If you pay taxes, you've been robbed blind for decades.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 08, 2026 12:39 PM (NwnyJ)

75 As this source said: The Somali Pirates are now instructing the Democrats as to Who Runs Bartertown.
_____

There's video of Mayor Frey dancing waving the Somali flag while hijab (niqab? Whatever) wearing women are laughing at the antics of their danc8ng fool Somalians seem to especially enjoy seeing his humiliation.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 08, 2026 12:39 PM (fcxGJ)

76 Deport them all to the Marianas Trench.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 08, 2026 12:39 PM (OUMaO)

77 Without reading the full story re: Maine, there's also a brewing controversy over funds raised for victims of a mass shooting in Lewiston in 2023 being diverted to Somali community organizations.

I guess that clip squares the circle as to why that might happen.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at January 08, 2026 12:39 PM (4DY5T)

78 72 >>"Well, the Somalis deserve the money for all the slavery in America 160 years ago."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 12:34 PM

Is it quibbling if I point out that most slaves came from West Africa?

Posted by: huerfano at January 08, 2026 12:39 PM (98kQX)

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Or that the Somalis arrived in America in the last decade?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 12:39 PM (GBKbO)

79

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2026 12:35 PM (t/2Uw)

Go look at their rationalization for creating 80,000 new agents and watch your blood come to a delicious simmer.

They insisted there was uncollected tax dollars being hoarded by whites... I'm sorry "the rich"... and corporations. Remember?

Posted by: ... at January 08, 2026 12:40 PM (0Sg1Q)

80 31 and light snow along the Front Range

Posted by: Old Blue at January 08, 2026 12:40 PM (up14Y)

81 It shows you how liberalism is a death cult (or the politicians are that dumb, which I didn't believe)

Minnesota is going to be a liberal state even without the invading somalis. If liberal leaders secretly helped Trump weed out the somalis fraud, and deport all of them, they'll still stay in power but without having to bow down to this 3rd world trash.

But liberals have so much self hatred that they'll give themselves over to somalis and bow down to their demands, all because they hate their own white heritage.

Posted by: Rbastid at January 08, 2026 12:40 PM (GVpNh)

82 "This is not a threat"

Yeah, that's exactly what it is.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 08, 2026 12:40 PM (1Nv0l)

83 My MIL called asking for money. I was like, why doesn't she just open a Somalian Daycare?

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 08, 2026 12:40 PM (+nJgG)

84 You need ghost transport to get those ghost voters to the polls.

Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at January 08, 2026 12:40 PM (x82Hg)

85
CBS and CNN called the "phantom" transport companies. The first 38 numbers were disconnected

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo

===============

Are you saying they actually did some investigating and faithfully reported that they went through 38 fakes before they found someone who even claimed to be legit?

Is this scandal so big that the MSM can't deny it?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 08, 2026 12:40 PM (Uo+RY)

86 Nothing will happen.

Posted by: That Guy who always says "Nothing will happen." at January 08, 2026 12:40 PM (0sNs1)

87 75 As this source said: The Somali Pirates are now instructing the Democrats as to Who Runs Bartertown.
_____

There's video of Mayor Frey dancing waving the Somali flag while hijab (niqab? Whatever) wearing women are laughing at the antics of their danc8ng fool Somalians seem to especially enjoy seeing his humiliation.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 08, 2026 12:39 PM (fcxGJ)

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"Please, God Emperor Trump...please deport them all...I can't put on a hijab again..."
-the secret thoughts of that MN female politician

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 12:40 PM (GBKbO)

88 What did the Marianas Trench do to you?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 08, 2026 12:40 PM (45BvE)

89 Native Minnesotans are pretty honest Midwestern types. So...marks basically for any hustler.
Most of them would probably rather literally die rather than be rude, too.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo
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They sound like good people -- how do they feel about murdering unborn children?
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 08, 2026 12:36 PM (bIWgk)

A lot of them are quietly opposed to it. It's a fairly religious state, but the urbanites will bow to the Democrat mandates. It would be rude to be opposed to legal abortion, after all.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 08, 2026 12:40 PM (xcxpd)

90 Nick Shirley is a better James O'Keefe.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 08, 2026 12:40 PM (1Nv0l)

91
Senate passes bill to block any further military action in Venezuela.

Posted by: four seasons at January 08, 2026 12:41 PM (3ek7K)

92 We've been sold out, sold up the river, sold as slaves. Some pretty significant heads need to roll........literally.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

But governor Walz had been investigating some of these places for the last 10 years, and was just about to get them, before the Feds swooped in and ruined everything based on fake Shirley videos creating the appearance of fraud where none existed, or something...

Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 08, 2026 12:41 PM (JCZqz)

93 Are you saying they actually did some investigating and faithfully reported that they went through 38 fakes before they found someone who even claimed to be legit?

Is this scandal so big that the MSM can't deny it?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 08, 2026 12:40 PM (Uo+RY)

Pretty sure it was a joke.

Posted by: Nova Local at January 08, 2026 12:41 PM (tOcjL)

94 91
Senate passes bill to block any further military action in Venezuela.

Posted by: four seasons at January 08, 2026 12:41 PM (3ek7K)

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The bill didn't pass. It passed a procedural hurdle. It still has to beat cloture and a final floor vote.

Plus the House would have to pass it.

Plus Trump would have to sign it.

It's stupid theater. Ignore.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 12:42 PM (GBKbO)

95 Is it quibbling if I point out that most slaves came from West Africa?
Posted by: huerfano
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Somalis WERE the slavers and pirates in Eastern Africa raiding places like Kenya and Christian Ethiopia to get them to sell on to the Arabs.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 12:42 PM (WDjG6)

96 It's supposed to be 80 here today, but hasn't got above 70 yet.

Tonight is 46.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2026 12:42 PM (PQb8B)

97 Thing is, it isn't just Minnesota. Maine, Ohio, California and probably many more less visible places. It is hard to believe that State employees who granted are probably decently paid watch grifters make millions of dollars and buy porches and expensive homes and sat back and said "This is fine".

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2026 12:42 PM (t/2Uw)

98 Does everyone now understand how we have a $38t debt?

Hint to Candace and Tucker: it’s not $3B a year aid to Israel.

Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 12:42 PM (/HZvU)

99 >>>40 Native Minnesotans are pretty honest Midwestern types. So...marks basically for any hustler.
Most of them would probably rather literally die rather than be rude, too.

It's called "suicidal empathy" for a reason.

Posted by: red speck at January 08, 2026 12:42 PM (Ve/HL)

100 Saw on X that whistle blowers were threatened - not just job, but families. Like, don’t bother moving to another state, because Democrats there will make sure you can’t get a job.


In light of Shirley’s work, there were bribes murders of MN Democrat and spouse need to be revisited. She was so distraught after her vote, it appears she knew this put her life in danger.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 08, 2026 12:42 PM (Hkcdp)

101 Some points

- It is not just Somalians, only they are too stupid to have any shame

- It is the entire third world (and Chinese) This is how the world works. That video of they guy explaining Bartertown is just how elections are in all of Africa and M. E. -- You vote for your tribe.

- This can not be fixed by "magic soil." These people will never change. Sure, some will; more if they are isolated and immersed in Western Christian attitudes, but only after a couple generations.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 08, 2026 12:42 PM (bIWgk)

102 "I can confirm public speculation that Ambassador Abukar Dahir Osman, Permanent Representative of Somalia to the UN and President of the Security Council, is in fact associated with Progressive Health Care Services, a home health agency in Cincinnati," Deputy HHS Secretary Jim O'Neill wrote, adding that HHS "has previously taken action against Progressive in response to a conviction for Medicaid fraud."

All the proof you need that there is no such thing as an honest Scumalian. Here's a guy, supposedly his country's rep at the U.N., which should be a prestigious, well-paid position, and what does he also do? Runs a scam business

Deport them all.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 08, 2026 12:42 PM (8zz6B)

103
Some people may have done some things.
Mistakes may have been made in the enthusiasm of the moment.
Old news.
What difference, at this point, does it make?
Time to move on.
OrangeMan Bad!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: (D)emocrats & the MSM at January 08, 2026 12:42 PM (0sNs1)

104 There's video of Mayor Frey dancing waving the Somali flag while hijab (niqab? Whatever) wearing women are laughing at the antics of their danc8ng fool Somalians seem to especially enjoy seeing his humiliation.

--

If you squint, you can see the marionette strings above his head and arms. That guy is a particularly embarrassing fool.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 08, 2026 12:42 PM (qBdHI)

105 Senate passes bill to block any further military action in Venezuela.
Posted by: four seasons at January 08, 2026 12:41 PM (3ek7K)

Way to slam the barn door closed two weeks after the last horse is already in a French Royale with Cheese, you gormless fucking twats.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 12:43 PM (06Hmj)

106 It's pretty nice in Cleveland today. 46 degrees and partly sunny. The city leaf collection truck went through the neighborhood this morning, picking up the leaves from where the snow plows had thrown them. Just wondering if the government might consider an innovative approach where they monitor spending under each of their little billion dollar projects and require a discussion before the budget can be exceeded.

Posted by: Oglebay at January 08, 2026 12:43 PM (2ap+5)

107 As this source said: The Somali Pirates are now instructing the Democrats as to Who Runs Bartertown.
_____

There's video of Mayor Frey dancing waving the Somali flag while hijab (niqab? Whatever) wearing women are laughing at the antics of their danc8ng fool Somalians seem to especially enjoy seeing his humiliation.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 08, 2026 12:39 PM (fcxGJ)

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"Please, God Emperor Trump...please deport them all...I can't put on a hijab again..."
-the secret thoughts of that MN female politician
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 12:40 PM (GBKbO)
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Yea, and Frey too. He knows he must kowtow and prostrate himself before these mangy savages. But you know in his head he's thinking "god I hate these filthy Muslim rats." You could see it in that video where he's looking at Somali food like it's shit on a shingle -- literally.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 12:44 PM (iFTx/)

108 I hate my fucking state.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 08, 2026 12:44 PM (ewjUl)

109 Embargo on!

Posted by: Somali at January 08, 2026 12:44 PM (TbWk/)

110 And, how much of this money is getting kicked back to dems?

I'd say as high or higher than 50%.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 08, 2026 12:44 PM (bss/y)

111 Westernized immigrants: How can I ply my skills to earn a living?

Third-world immigrants: How can I manipulate charitable systems so I don't have to work for anything?

Mindset is everything.

And I gotta ask: which one's the sucker?

Posted by: Oddbob at January 08, 2026 12:44 PM (Fs0KI)

112 So you're gonna vote Republican if the Democrats don't give you what you want?

No, you're not. Not even room-temperature-IQ Somalians are that dumb.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 08, 2026 12:44 PM (1Nv0l)

113 Are you saying they actually did some investigating and faithfully reported that they went through 38 fakes before they found someone who even claimed to be legit?

Is this scandal so big that the MSM can't deny it?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 08, 2026 12:40 PM (Uo+RY)
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An important question with national importance! Who to ask?

I know! Let's ask Margaret Brennan!

Posted by: mrp at January 08, 2026 12:44 PM (rj6Yv)

114 107 Yea, and Frey too. He knows he must kowtow and prostrate himself before these mangy savages. But you know in his head he's thinking "god I hate these filthy Muslim rats." You could see it in that video where he's looking at Somali food like it's shit on a shingle -- literally.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 12:44 PM (iFTx/)

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They cannot wait to champion the Somalis who've been deported.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 12:45 PM (GBKbO)

115 Oh, my mistake. Ace, you were saying, "Deport them all" not the guy in the video.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 12:45 PM (8Xy/A)

116 You would think any MN resident who is not completely timwalzed would begin asking why the fck they should pay *any* taxes in state.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 12:45 PM (ULPxl)

117 It isn't just Minnesota and it isn't just somalis. This kind of fraud is happening in every blue state and city across the country.

Posted by: Josephistan at January 08, 2026 12:45 PM (lGHBv)

118 James O’Keefe has been effective.
Nick Shirley has been effective, too. He’s the next generation. Also, Nick Sortor. Our Army of Nicks!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 08, 2026 12:45 PM (Hkcdp)

119 112 So you're gonna vote Republican if the Democrats don't give you what you want?

No, you're not. Not even room-temperature-IQ Somalians are that dumb.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 08, 2026 12:44 PM (1Nv0l)

They're not going to vote R. They're going to vote for a different D.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 12:45 PM (06Hmj)

120 Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 12:36 PM (WDjG6)

True re the geld.

And we are good here in Maison De Ellipsis, thanks. Do hope you are hanging in with pain etc. I have been reading various travails.

I self treated a few weeks ago for my Crohns symptoms which are thankfully mostly comparatively mild and so far so good.

Posted by: ... at January 08, 2026 12:45 PM (0Sg1Q)

121 It's pretty nice in Cleveland today.
Posted by: Oglebay at January 08, 2026 12:43 PM

Did you know there's no surf in Cleveland, U.S.A.?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4diS3khW-5k

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 08, 2026 12:46 PM (0sNs1)

122 116 You would think any MN resident who is not completely timwalzed would begin asking why the fck they should pay *any* taxes in state.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 12:45 PM (ULPxl)

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"There is no fraud. In fact the only fraud in the state is how we have a rapist in the White House. How can you care about anything else while we have a rapist in the White House?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 12:46 PM (GBKbO)

123 I drive around the highways & freeways of Northern AZ as an independent contractor courier for The VA.

The VA Medical Center and Clinics here have & utilize legit transport vans (I know some of the drivers): DAV for ambulatory veterans (including wheelchair-accessible transport); and Veterans Transportation Service (VTS) to assist qualifying Veterans who lack access to transportation due to financial, medical, or other reasons.

However, I also see various Native American and other Assisted Living Vans on the road and always assumed they were legit ... but now? Does my cynicism know no bounds?

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 12:46 PM (IpnJw)

124
I'm now at the $20-30mil/year for a school with 150 _reported_ (probably ghost) students.

How do we get this money back? It's known that Somali baggage handlers have been loading suitcases full of cash onto planes at Minnesota's airport. Seems like a lot of this money is gone forever. Can we bill Minnesota?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 08, 2026 12:46 PM (Uo+RY)

125 Walder Frey > Jacob Frey

Posted by: He was evil but had balls at January 08, 2026 12:46 PM (TbWk/)

126 Watched the video of the violent rioter being shot by Minnesota Man.

Posted by: ... at January 08, 2026 12:46 PM (0Sg1Q)

127 Minnesota is going to be a liberal state even without the invading somalis. If liberal leaders secretly helped Trump weed out the somalis fraud, and deport all of them, they'll still stay in power but without having to bow down to this 3rd world trash.

Posted by: Rbastid

Tim Pawlenty (R) was governor until 2011. Norm Coleman was GOP senator up to 2009 until Al Franken cheated him out with the notorious ballots in the back of a car trick.

It is the typical metro versus the countryside dynamic. Minneapolis and St. Paul are concentrations of the AWFLS, gubmint workers, and mega corp types versus the farmers, business types, etc. in the rest of the state.

Every city is a Democrat concentration of scum and villainy.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 12:46 PM (WDjG6)

128 James O’Keefe has been effective.
Nick Shirley has been effective, too. He’s the next generation. Also, Nick Sortor. Our Army of Nicks!
Posted by: Lizzy at January 08, 2026 12:45 PM (Hkcdp)

O'Keefe has just reported that everyone in DC is a homosexual. Everyone.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2026 12:46 PM (PQb8B)

129 >>> 3 And the genius Somalis came up with this on their own.

INCLUDING the donating of half the stolen proceeds to Democrats.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 08, 2026 12:28 PM (zjgNU)

Yes, that's right.

Hey, maybe the Russians helped them!!!

Posted by: totes not the see eye ay at January 08, 2026 12:47 PM (ULPxl)

130 You would think any MN resident who is not completely timwalzed would begin asking why the fck they should pay *any* taxes in state.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 12:45 PM

I'm right here you know.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 08, 2026 12:47 PM (ewjUl)

131 Senate passes bill to block any further military action in Venezuela.
Posted by: four seasons at January 08, 2026 12:41 PM (3ek7K)
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Even if it gets past the Senate and House, Trump will Gerard Finneran it. Pure failure theater.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 12:47 PM (iFTx/)

132
Did you know there's no surf in Cleveland, U.S.A.?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4diS3khW-5k
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 08, 2026 12:46 PM (0sNs1)


Charlie don't surf.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2026 12:47 PM (PQb8B)

133 An important question with national importance! Who to ask?

I know! Let's ask Margaret Brennan!
Posted by: mrp at January 08, 2026 12:44 PM

Dude.

Posted by: Jim Acosta and Brian "Sex Machine" Stelter at January 08, 2026 12:47 PM (0sNs1)

134 A lot of them are quietly opposed to it. It's a fairly religious state, but the urbanites will bow to the Democrat mandates. It would be rude to be opposed to legal abortion, after all.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo

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I was just making a point, not really asking.
The point being that these people say they are "empathetic" and that is why they get frauded, but where is their empathy toward unborn?

Humans can be so cruel and selfish for personal gain and then justify it as having higher morals than others (ie, defending women.)

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 08, 2026 12:47 PM (bIWgk)

135 90 Nick Shirley is a better James O'Keefe.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 08, 2026 12:40 PM (1Nv0l)

Less drama so far at least.
I hope he has a security detail.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 08, 2026 12:48 PM (xcxpd)

136 “When the Executive branch of government skirts restraints put in place by Congress and then uses that power to subject political adversaries to criminal investigations... it acts without lawful authority," Schofield wrote.

Posted by: SMOD at January 08, 2026 12:48 PM (RHGPo)

137 90 Nick Shirley is a better James O'Keefe.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators

Really? O'Keefe had Hannah Giles: https://tinyurl.com/kjtkbfuz

Plus, he is a better showman, and more dedicated. He poses as a gay dude and goes on dates with dudes for the story!

Shirley and O'Keefe don't need to be weighed against each other...they approach the same issue (exposing lefty corruption) from different angles.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at January 08, 2026 12:48 PM (JCZqz)

138 ghost riders on the storm minnesota taxpayer's dime
Posted by: anachronda at January 08, 2026 12:29 PM (oY6Yp)

That money comes from DC. We all pay for it.

The states should fund DC, not the other way round.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 12:48 PM (ExV1e)

139 127 Minnesota is going to be a liberal state even without the invading somalis. If liberal leaders secretly helped Trump weed out the somalis fraud, and deport all of them, they'll still stay in power but without having to bow down to this 3rd world trash.

Posted by: Rbastid

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MN is on the verge of turning Republican. It's trending that direction, and Kamala only won the state by 4.

But it's just deeply progressive and there's no point in trying to fight any potential fraud.

Meanwhile, TX went to Trump by 14 points and Democrats are going to send $100 million to Jasmine Crockett in the hope that she wins against Ken Paxton...which she won't.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 12:48 PM (GBKbO)

140 And we are good here in Maison De Ellipsis, thanks. Do hope you are hanging in with pain etc. I have been reading various travails.

I self treated a few weeks ago for my Crohns symptoms which are thankfully mostly comparatively mild and so far so good.
Posted by: ...

Crohns is a nasty disease and I am glad that your symptoms for now are minor. In my case, surgery looms next month so trying to get ducks in a row for all other tasks/appointments/etc that need to be completed before recovery.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 12:48 PM (WDjG6)

141 In this interview David reveals:
- His estimate of $100 Billion dollars in fraud
- Minnesotas corrupt voting system
- Walz & Omar's alleged involvement with the fraud
- How Somalians have defrauded the system
- How political correctness let the fraud happen

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"Pikers! Here, hold my Chardonnay."

/Califzuela Governor Gruesome "Trillions In Fraud Or Bust" Newscum 2028!

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 12:48 PM (IpnJw)

142 It is the typical metro versus the countryside dynamic. Minneapolis and St. Paul are concentrations of the AWFLS, gubmint workers, and mega corp types versus the farmers, business types, etc. in the rest of the state.

Every city is a Democrat concentration of scum and villainy.
Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 12:46 PM

There's a reason we call them the Twin Shitties.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 08, 2026 12:48 PM (ewjUl)

143 Possible record highs in Kentuckiana today. Hope you're in fine fettle.
Posted by: Nazdar at January 08, 2026 12:38 PM (NcvvS)

My part of Indiana is 60 degrees right now.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at January 08, 2026 12:48 PM (2J/Lj)

144 It's not North vs South. It's city vs the countryside. Suburbia is caught in between.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 08, 2026 12:48 PM (Dpscb)

145 117 It isn't just Minnesota and it isn't just somalis. This kind of fraud is happening in every blue state and city across the country.
Posted by: Josephistan at January 08, 2026 12:45 PM (lGHBv)

"It", meaning fraud and incompetence and soaking up trillions of dollars in exchange for existing, is more or less how entire sectors of our economy now function. Healthcare. Education, K-12 *and* universities. Huge swathes of the engineering world, especially Civil and Environmental.

Corruption Is The System, and has been for a while.

But now we're at the point where Corruption Is The Culture.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 12:49 PM (06Hmj)

146 Remember when Journalists used to do work like this? That’s hard work man. Easier to tweet all day and then ask chat to summarize those tweets into an article saying orange man bad.

Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 12:49 PM (/HZvU)

147 I'm writing a book.

Waltz, needs more hate.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 08, 2026 12:49 PM (EyfuW)

148 O'Keefe has just reported that everyone in DC is a homosexual. Everyone.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2026 12:46 PM (PQb8B)

BRB

Posted by: Jonah G at January 08, 2026 12:49 PM (0Sg1Q)

149
You would think any MN resident who is not completely timwalzed would begin asking why the fck they should pay *any* taxes in state.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 12:45 PM (ULPxl)

___________

Between this and DOGE, it's a question I frequently ask myself. The state holds a gun to your head (literally true, ultimately) to profit themselves and their crew.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 12:49 PM (tgvbd)

150 What's an honest person to do

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 08, 2026 12:49 PM (Vh9CX)

151 Walder Frey > Jacob Frey

--

James Frey* > Jacob Frey

*the fraudster who wrote A Million Little Pieces and lied about his drug addiction

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 08, 2026 12:50 PM (qBdHI)

152 Wonder how "straight down the middle" cbs news reported on the attempted murder of a federal agent last night.

Posted by: BruceWayne at January 08, 2026 12:50 PM (MGB5H)

153
Pretty sure it was a joke.
Posted by: Nova Local

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Oops, duh.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 08, 2026 12:50 PM (Uo+RY)

154 O'Keefe has just reported that everyone in DC is a homosexual. Everyone.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2026 12:46 PM (PQb8B)

I hope he wasn't wiping his mouth before saying that.
j/k

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 08, 2026 12:50 PM (xcxpd)

155 I like how Shirley does his reporting and doesn't hype it to hell. Just lets it speak for itself. Unlike others who hype extra and fizzle report. I hope he doesn't change.

Posted by: NCKate at January 08, 2026 12:50 PM (uQzkA)

156 Seems the Somalis have stolen the last aid they are ever going to get.

(I did not keep a striaght face while typing that)

Posted by: connected and litigious at January 08, 2026 12:50 PM (cS1cw)

157 Have said since day one the fraud, corruption, and rot run far deeper than most Americans realize. Billion$.
Ripping it out is necessary and will shake the foundation of our Republic. It is that huge.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 08, 2026 12:33 PM (2WIwB)

I would guess that annual fraud, waste, and abuse run to over $2T. Minimum.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 12:50 PM (ExV1e)

158 Don’t expect many MN leftists to wake up.
They are programmed, just like the people who still reflexively scream “antifa is just an idea!” despite oodles of evidence to the contrary. Yes, I work with people like this, they will reflexively say “That’s just a Fox News lie!” to all sorts of things, such as the TdA gangs in Aurora.
Sad!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 08, 2026 12:50 PM (Hkcdp)

159 Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 12:48 PM (WDjG6)

Ask them what meds etc will be needed in post, including OTC so you have them around when you are released. Will be praying.

Posted by: ... at January 08, 2026 12:51 PM (0Sg1Q)

160 Is it quibbling if I point out that most slaves came from West Africa?
Posted by: huerfano


How dare you quibble in public!


What's quibble?


Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 12:51 PM (6mogZ)

161 Good afternoon Ace and everyone
Go Nick Go

And the Cultural Marxists found a new St Floyd, Lesbian this time

Posted by: Skip at January 08, 2026 12:51 PM (E0tL2)

162 A Somalian man named Mohammed ...

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What is the sound of 10 million Islamist men and potential fathers in Western Europe & Blue Shithole American Cities begin cheering and high-fiving?

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 12:51 PM (IpnJw)

163 We keep hearing the Somalis are stealing billions from Minnesota. No they’re not. They’re stealing it from the federal government. Minnesota is just a middle man. All the fraud is federal money given to states.

Every tax payer in all 57 states is being robbed by these criminals.

Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 12:34 PM (/HZvU)

I don't know Nick's motive for lying about that is - he certainly knows better. Perhaps he wants to keep the focus on the vulnerable MN Dems for political reasons.

But in general, the media does this because I needed to explain that to my wife, which is the point... she was pissed about it when she thought it was just MN, but she was *furious* when she found out it was *our* money being stolen.

Most people don't understand this or even know someone who does and can explain it to them. It's very important to deceive people about the source of these funds, so they don't come saying for Dem blood in all 50 states.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 08, 2026 12:51 PM (BI5O2)

164 Corruption is an important part of Somali culture. Like Indians smoking peyote. To ask them to assimilate and adopt American values is probably racist and neo-collonialist or something.

Posted by: 29Victor at January 08, 2026 12:51 PM (0MjtC)

165 I'm beginning to see a pattern.

It's the no-work thing, isn't it?

Posted by: Michelle Obama at January 08, 2026 12:51 PM (uTrw+)

166 Seems the Somalis have stolen the last aid they are ever going to get.

(I did not keep a striaght face while typing that)
Posted by: connected and litigious at January 08, 2026 12:50 PM

No, but it does bring up an interesting point. With their graft getting cut. 80% are on Welfare already! What are they going to do now?

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 08, 2026 12:52 PM (ewjUl)

167 I want to believe MN will turn red but there is so much fraud in MSP, Ds will never relinquish control.

Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 12:52 PM (/HZvU)

168 Leave our fraud alone. Our brilliant state investigators couldn’t uncover fraud, but can handle a federal jurisdiction death. Didn’t you see what we did during St. George of Floyd’s incident?

Posted by: Timmeh Retard Walz at January 08, 2026 12:52 PM (BrLWF)

169 Humans can be so cruel and selfish for personal gain and then justify it as having higher morals than others (ie, defending women.)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)

And love is love is how they justify lopping off body parts and creating delusional eunuchs. Often when people are cowards (whether from public opprobrium (De Tocqueville's observation), or corrupt leadership in organizations by preachers, etc, they stay schtum because the left are a bunch of angry bullying assholes. Most people in any society just want to live their lives--they are not up for challenging what they see as leaders in society.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 12:52 PM (WDjG6)

170
If microcephalic Somalis are stealing to this extent, imagine what sophisticated operators are doing.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 12:52 PM (tgvbd)

171 Every tax payer in all 57 states is being robbed by these criminals.

Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 12:34 PM (/HZvU)

50 states.

Posted by: ... at January 08, 2026 12:52 PM (0Sg1Q)

172 There is a nice shame vid of the mayor and his people. They force him away from the gathering, yelling shame. It was straight out of Game of Thrones.

Posted by: connected and litigious at January 08, 2026 12:52 PM (cS1cw)

173 There is a non trivial chance of these assholes taking things to a point where it will not be survivable for them. They seem to be pirates. The term was basically, enemies of the human race. You sink a pirate ship, no need to fish survivors out of the water, unless you wanted to hang them. We have imported a stupider and greedier mafia.

Posted by: Oops at January 08, 2026 12:52 PM (1M7sl)

174 100 Saw on X that whistle blowers were threatened - not just job, but families. Like, don’t bother moving to another state, because Democrats there will make sure you can’t get a job.
Posted by: Lizzy

This is exactly how it works in NJ. Democrats are controlled top-to-bottom with sinecures. It's because none of them are capable of earning a living without government largesse.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 08, 2026 12:52 PM (1Nv0l)

175
Really? O'Keefe had Hannah Giles: https://tinyurl.com/kjtkbfuz
...
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at January 08, 2026 12:48 PM (JCZqz)

I'm not clicking on that

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 08, 2026 12:52 PM (xcxpd)

176 I have around 50 relatives in the area and none of them are planning on moving out of the state OR fighting this kind of thing. They just shake their heads and sigh and say 'what a shame'.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 08, 2026 12:34 PM (xcxpd)

Not saying anything about your relatives in particular but if they were on the hook for the entire mess, rather than stealing from the other 49 states, they'd likely be more interested in fighting it.

Of course, the same applies to the fraud happening in all the other 49 states as well.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 12:53 PM (ExV1e)

177 Oh, Shirley hypes his work on X.
He has been trolling Walz.
Selling hoodies with the Learing Center logo, but an 800 number to report fraud.
I like it.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 08, 2026 12:53 PM (Hkcdp)

178 >>> 130
==
I'm right here you know.
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 08, 2026 12:47 PM (ewjUl)

You're a Moron, not a timwalz!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 12:53 PM (ULPxl)

179 Morning.

Posted by: Robert at January 08, 2026 12:54 PM (WEgf2)

180 167 I want to believe MN will turn red but there is so much fraud in MSP, Ds will never relinquish control.
Posted by: Really??

All of those illegal registrants, etc are getting ready to be purged. DoJ and even private groups have never lost a lawsuit requiring a state to purge its voting rolls of dead, moved, illegal, or non existent registrants. Now the DoJ is suing 23 states in plenty of time to get ruling requiring purges before the Nov. 26 election.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 12:54 PM (WDjG6)

181
Them: SAY HER NAME!!

Me: Okay. Ashli Babbitt

Posted by: ... at January 08, 2026 12:54 PM (0Sg1Q)

182 This feels like that -- we have transportation companies delivering non-people to care facilities, etc.

How many of these "care facilities" are Somali run and take Medicaid?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 12:54 PM (ExV1e)

183 Happy Thursday! How is the weather where you are? I'm still enjoying a winter swoon.

Posted by: Ace at 12:27 PM

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We've been at a mile high in Northern AZ for 13 years now and this is the first time we haven't had snow by New Year's Day.

Currently getting some sleet, but still a bit too warm for snow.

We usually get a "Snowmageddon" of around three feet at least once sometime in February ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 12:54 PM (IpnJw)

184 Liberals never lear.

Posted by: Josephistan at January 08, 2026 12:54 PM (lGHBv)

185 Crohns is a nasty disease and I am glad that your symptoms for now are minor. In my case, surgery looms next month so trying to get ducks in a row for all other tasks/appointments/etc that need to be completed before recovery.
Posted by: whig

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A couple days ago it was arthritis. Now Crohns.
Gosh whig, I hope your health improves and things work out for you.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 08, 2026 12:55 PM (bIWgk)

186 >>> 137
==
Shirley and O'Keefe don't need to be weighed against each other...they approach the same issue (exposing lefty corruption) from different angles.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at January 08, 2026 12:48 PM (JCZqz)

NOW you tell us.

Posted by: Maryann and Ginger at January 08, 2026 12:55 PM (ULPxl)

187 180 All of those illegal registrants, etc are getting ready to be purged. DoJ and even private groups have never lost a lawsuit requiring a state to purge its voting rolls of dead, moved, illegal, or non existent registrants. Now the DoJ is suing 23 states in plenty of time to get ruling requiring purges before the Nov. 26 election.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 12:54 PM (WDjG6)

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And DHS and FBI are just raiding Somali businesses today.

They can't do that just because.

They do that because they have warrants signed off by federal judges in advancement of a criminal investigation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 12:55 PM (GBKbO)

188 https://tinyurl.com/56x5yydh

@marcorubio

I do not normally respond to online rumors but feel the need to do so at this moment

I will not be a candidate for the currently vacant HC and GM positions with the Miami Dolphins.

While you never know what the future may bring right now my focus must remain on global events and also the precious archives of the United States of America.

Thank you

Posted by: Robert at January 08, 2026 12:55 PM (WEgf2)

189 177 Oh, Shirley hypes his work on X.
He has been trolling Walz.
Selling hoodies with the Learing Center logo, but an 800 number to report fraud.
I like it.
Posted by: Lizzy

Good for him and good for X and Musk. It makes smothering the stories much harder for anyone that does not only watch the evening news for bullshit Democrat propaganda (including Faux btw for their straight news reporting).

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 12:55 PM (WDjG6)

190 RIP GLENN HALL
Glenn Hall was the Blues first pick in the 1967 NHL Expansion Draft and helped guide the expansion franchise to the Stanley Cup Final in each of our first three seasons.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 12:55 PM (6mogZ)

191 Afternoon Ace.
I said a couple of days ago that Walz was going to crack . Frey is looking a mess. The stress is starting to eat at these aholes. Good

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 08, 2026 12:55 PM (ScJGb)

192 I'm not clicking on that
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo
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Wise.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 08, 2026 12:56 PM (1Nv0l)

193
Don’t expect many MN leftists to wake up.
They are programmed, just like the people who still reflexively scream “antifa is just an idea!” despite oodles of evidence to the contrary. Yes, I work with people like this, they will reflexively say “That’s just a Fox News lie!” to all sorts of things, such as the TdA gangs in Aurora.
Sad!
Posted by: Lizzy

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I've seen a few of them looking a tad stunned on social media, but the "upgrade" will always be to Democrats who promise to clean up the prior Democrats' unfortunate encounter with a few bad apples from our migrant community who are bringing on a flood of hard-right maximal racism.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 08, 2026 12:56 PM (Uo+RY)

194 couple days ago it was arthritis. Now Crohns.
Gosh whig, I hope your health improves and things work out for you.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 08, 2026 12:55 PM (bIWgk)

No no - the Crohns is me but it's mostly under control. It is related to arthritis though.

Posted by: ... at January 08, 2026 12:56 PM (0Sg1Q)

195 I had to use one of those transport services several times for my daughter. It was called "Caring Hands," but when my wife told me about it, it came out as "Caring Hams." For some reason, I still laugh about it years later.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 08, 2026 12:56 PM (BI5O2)

196 What's quibble?
Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 12:51 PM

Quibble is an intransitive verb. It's definitions are:

1. To argue or find fault over trivial matters or minor concerns; cavil.

2. To evade the point in question by artifice, play upon words, caviling, or by raising any insignificant or impertinent question or point; to trifle in argument or discourse; to equivocate.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at January 08, 2026 12:56 PM (0sNs1)

197 What’s he talking about regarding schools?

Posted by: Unkaren at January 08, 2026 12:56 PM (BrLWF)

198 @marcorubio

I do not normally respond to online rumors but feel the need to do so at this moment

I will not be a candidate for the currently vacant HC and GM positions with the Miami Dolphins.

While you never know what the future may bring right now my focus must remain on global events and also the precious archives of the United States of America.

Thank you
Posted by: Robert



Marvo Rubio to replace Jerry Jones as Gm of the Cowboys.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 12:57 PM (6mogZ)

199 Remember, this fraud is in every state. Only the degree changes. Even red states like FL and TX are awash in fraud. The enraging part of it? It's Republicans in red states leading the fraud.

Don't fixate on the MN skinnies, Walz and Frey. They're so stupid, and their "patsies," the Somalis so stupid that they've been wholly and completely exposed. And none of them has a clue how to deflect it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 08, 2026 12:57 PM (NwnyJ)

200 192 I'm not clicking on that
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo
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Wise.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators

Wiser still would be searching for her yourself. She was quite the cutie.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at January 08, 2026 12:57 PM (JCZqz)

201 "...we will be forced to re-examine our relationship with the Democratic party..."
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When you arrive back in Africa you will be forced to re-examine your ass.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 08, 2026 12:57 PM (gIcAo)

202 193 I've seen a few of them looking a tad stunned on social media, but the "upgrade" will always be to Democrats who promise to clean up the prior Democrats' unfortunate encounter with a few bad apples from our migrant community who are bringing on a flood of hard-right maximal racism.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 08, 2026 12:56 PM (Uo+RY)

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Democrats are institutionally beyond using that kind of rhetoric.

A Democrat running for city council is more likely to give a speech about jailing Donald Trump than pursuing fraud in the city they wish to govern.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 12:57 PM (GBKbO)

203 I still firmly believe that Walz has gone nuttier than normal over the last week or so because he received a targeting letter from the DOJ that he was the subject of a criminal investigation.

I'd say some kind of concrete threat from DOJ plus the DNC telling him he's on his own.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 08, 2026 12:57 PM (2ocoG)

204 Just have a cup of cocoa, go ice fishing, and do my faggy Snoopy dance. Everything will be OK as long as those forensic accountant Nazis don't get a hold of my offshores.

Coach Walz, shower life guard

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 08, 2026 12:57 PM (gm9Sb)

205
Frey is looking a mess. The stress is starting to eat at these aholes. Good
Posted by: Smell the Glove

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Frey always appears to be 3 days behind on his grooming. Honestly, Mamdani has more self-respect.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 08, 2026 12:58 PM (Uo+RY)

206 Currently getting some sleet, but still a bit too warm for snow.

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Check that ... it just turned into the first (still light) snowfall of the winter.

The first heavy snowfall is always "Snowglobe" beautiful with all the pines covered in it -- so still awaiting that (but they're probably getting that a couple thousand feet higher (over 7000 ft) in Flagstaff; will have to check the online webcams.

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 12:58 PM (IpnJw)

207 As I said yesterday, all of us are suckers for not gaming the system like everyone else did. Trillions of covid dollars were there for the taking. I wish I could do it over again.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 12:38 PM (iFTx/)

We shall all eventually die. I'm probably doomed anyway but at least God doesn't have to be pissed at me for that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 12:58 PM (ExV1e)

208 In the Nick Shirley video was highlighted a K-12 charter school in North Minneapolis with 136 students that receives at least $20 million. That works out to about $147,000 per student. And you thought Harvard was expensive.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at January 08, 2026 12:58 PM (HTCU3)

209 May God bless and keep Nick Shirley.

Posted by: bluebell at January 08, 2026 12:58 PM (79pEw)

210 This tiny state has less than 6 million out of our 340 million in the US. Less than 2%

What staggering amounts of fraud will cease to be covered up?

Posted by: t-bird at January 08, 2026 12:58 PM (AnlBQ)

211 I self treated a few weeks ago for my Crohns symptoms which are thankfully mostly comparatively mild and so far so good.
Posted by: ...

Crohns is a nasty disease and I am glad that your symptoms for now are minor. In my case, surgery looms next month so trying to get ducks in a row for all other tasks/appointments/etc that need to be completed before recovery.
Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 12:48 PM (WDjG6)

Ulcerative colitis here. I'll lift a glass to y'all's health next time I'm on the shitter.

Posted by: Robert at January 08, 2026 12:58 PM (WEgf2)

212 Posted by: Robert at January 08, 2026 12:55 PM (WEgf2)

Did Rubio really write that? If so, he has a good sense of humor.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 12:58 PM (8Xy/A)

213 And DHS and FBI are just raiding Somali businesses today.

They can't do that just because.

They do that because they have warrants signed off by federal judges in advancement of a criminal investigation.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Probable cause. I am thinking now that Elon is correct, the fraud is on the level of at least a trillion bucks maybe up to 1.5 trillion of fraud, waste, and abuse. Get rid of that, we have no income tax.

These grifting sobs are literally taking chunks of people's lives where they work, not for pleasure, but for money to pay their bills.

Tax on labor is the most recessive of all because it punishes people for working to keep the lights on, their children fed, and to pay the necessary bills to survive.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 12:58 PM (WDjG6)

214 203 I still firmly believe that Walz has gone nuttier than normal over the last week or so because he received a targeting letter from the DOJ that he was the subject of a criminal investigation.

I'd say some kind of concrete threat from DOJ plus the DNC telling him he's on his own.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 08, 2026 12:57 PM (2ocoG)

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And his underlings are testifying to Congress that Walz knew and advanced the fraud.

He has a better shot staying out of prison leading the charge into the Second Civil War than in a courtroom facing co-conspirator charges.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 12:59 PM (GBKbO)

215 Ulcerative colitis here. I'll lift a glass to y'all's health next time I'm on the shitter.
Posted by: Robert
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Yowch!. Hope you have remission very soon.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 12:59 PM (WDjG6)

216 Are you not entertained?
Posted by: Tonypete at January 08, 2026 12:38 PM (cYBz/)

Not quite one full year yet.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 12:59 PM (ExV1e)

217 I hope he has a security detail.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards,

He put out a line for security help a couple of days ago.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 08, 2026 12:59 PM (mlg/3)

218 The bottom line is that all of these grifters are leeches living off the hard work of others. They create nothing of value. They only take what others make, grow, create. Sooner or later, they run out of OPM. Maybe that time has come. Covid and Biden's 10 per cent inflation has exposed this.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2026 12:59 PM (t/2Uw)

219 Yea, and Frey too. He knows he must kowtow and prostrate himself before these mangy savages. But you know in his head he's thinking "god I hate these filthy Muslim rats." You could see it in that video where he's looking at Somali food like it's shit on a shingle -- literally.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 12:44 PM (iFTx/)

I'm sure the contempt is mutual and they probably all pissed in that plate before putting it down in front of the imbecile...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 08, 2026 01:00 PM (nbLIj)

220 Lot's of commentators say that people should be outraged by all the fraud, but I don't hear many of the actual people saying they're outraged. I fear that government money has become so prevalent that I don't think billions of supposed "taxpayer" dollars being stolen really impacts the average person in a way that moves them to action.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at January 08, 2026 01:00 PM (MZ+PY)

221 >>> 199 Remember, this fraud is in every state. Only the degree changes. Even red states like FL and TX are awash in fraud. The enraging part of it? It's Republicans in red states leading the fraud.

Don't fixate on the MN skinnies, Walz and Frey. They're so stupid, and their "patsies," the Somalis so stupid that they've been wholly and completely exposed. And none of them has a clue how to deflect it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 08, 2026 12:57 PM (NwnyJ)

Where's that meme, you know the one...

"Republicans will be exposed too!!!"

"Good."

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 01:00 PM (ULPxl)

222 I am starting to think these Somali people are up to no good. Also, I am shocked there was gambling going on. Shocked!

Posted by: turambar at January 08, 2026 01:00 PM (Q0yOR)

223 >>However, I also see various Native American and other Assisted Living Vans on the road and always assumed they were legit ... but now? Does my cynicism know no bounds?

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 12:46 PM

Probably not any more honest than anyone else on the government teat, but it's probably going to Americans.

Posted by: huerfano at January 08, 2026 01:00 PM (98kQX)

224 How much of the massive increase in Medicare and Medicaid costs, as well as other services, is simply due to fraud?

How much of that fraud is recycled into the D party coffers?

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 08, 2026 01:00 PM (s/0Zp)

225 @124. Can we bill Minnesota?

Damn right we can. This is what the DOJ is for. And some other states need to be shaking in their boots.

Posted by: Case at January 08, 2026 01:01 PM (4rWc3)

226 Frey is looking a mess. The stress is starting to eat at these aholes. Good
Posted by: Smell the Glove

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He's a criminal too and facing reckoning just like Walz. He allowed looting of teh taxpayer by criminals so that he could play king.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 01:01 PM (WDjG6)

227 As I said yesterday, all of us are suckers for not gaming the system like everyone else did. Trillions of covid dollars were there for the taking. I wish I could do it over again.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 12:38 PM (iFTx/)

We shall all eventually die. I'm probably doomed anyway but at least God doesn't have to be pissed at me for that.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 12:58 PM (ExV1e)

We're all going to end up in hell anyway. It's a shame only the worst of the worst people get to enjoy wealth and pleasure before they get there.

Posted by: Some life sentences are easier than others at January 08, 2026 01:01 PM (TbWk/)

228 224 How much of the massive increase in Medicare and Medicaid costs, as well as other services, is simply due to fraud?

How much of that fraud is recycled into the D party coffers?

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 08, 2026 01:00 PM (s/0Zp)

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How much antagonistic oversight has Medicaid ever gotten in its entire existence?

What practical incentives are there for Medicaid to run things well and only for those who need it?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 01:01 PM (GBKbO)

229 This is how they thank us for saving them from Famine.

Skoriot ñuhyz zaldrīzesse ilzi?

Posted by: Fen at January 08, 2026 01:01 PM (ciYHQ)

230 Really? O'Keefe had Hannah Giles:
https://tinyurl.com/kjtkbfuz
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at January 08, 2026 12:48 PM

Whoooo! Thank you!!!

Posted by: Sam Otis Brinton, former American nuclear waste disposal expert at January 08, 2026 01:02 PM (0sNs1)

231 67 IQ yo!

Posted by: Quality Lerning Center at January 08, 2026 01:02 PM (MkFn4)

232 Some interesting stories out about that Tanker that was trying to run to Russia and was boarded near England. Question was, why so diligently pursue an empty tanker that was a piece of junk? But Russia is demanding that we return some of their personnel that were on board, which is fascinating, since no one knew there were any actual Russians on board.

Who was that ship secretly carrying to Russia?

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2026 01:02 PM (uWKK8)

233 How much of the massive increase in Medicare and Medicaid costs, as well as other services, is simply due to fraud?

How much of that fraud is recycled into the D party coffers?

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How much of the over $300 trillion (it's not a mere $37 or $38 trillion -- they're lying to you) in National Debt is due to fraud and the "War on Poverty" (But I Repeat Myself)?

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 01:02 PM (IpnJw)

234 Wiser still would be searching for her yourself. She was quite the cutie.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at January 08, 2026 12:57 PM (JCZqz)

That I will do. I recall her being cute.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 08, 2026 01:03 PM (xcxpd)

235 Blonde Mortician, the worst part of the denial is that in the same breath they will complain about crime, tax increases, etc.

Yes, it does stink that cars are stolen from our airport every day, loaded up on a car transport truck in the airport parking lot, and immediately driven down to Mexico. Please tell me how we don’t have foreign criminal cartels operating in our city again!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 08, 2026 01:03 PM (Hkcdp)

236 220 Lot's of commentators say that people should be outraged by all the fraud, but I don't hear many of the actual people saying they're outraged. I fear that government money has become so prevalent that I don't think billions of supposed "taxpayer" dollars being stolen really impacts the average person in a way that moves them to action.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder
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Like most stories, it is a wait and see. It takes time for public judgment to occur when presented with new information.

That being said, this is going to hurt the Dems as more and more fraud in blue states and cities are going to be turned up like maggots in a rotting corpse.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 01:03 PM (WDjG6)

237 Yowch!. Hope you have remission very soon.
Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 12:59 PM (WDjG6)

Cheers! 🍻

Posted by: Robert at January 08, 2026 01:03 PM (WEgf2)

238
Glenn Hall was the Blues first pick in the 1967 NHL Expansion Draft and helped guide the expansion franchise to the Stanley Cup Final in each of our first three seasons.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 12:55 PM (6mogZ)

_________

The Iron Man. Played in 502 consecutive games, without a mask. Threw up before each one, then had an orange juice.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 01:03 PM (tgvbd)

239 The Daily Beast: Trump, 79, Demands Mass Arrests in Morning Rage Post
TINY-HANDED TIRADE

Donald Trump has called for mass arrests among Minnesota’s Somali community as the state reels from the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old U.S. citizen by a federal immigration agent.

“Arrest them all. They are criminals!!!” the president wrote on Truth Social early Thursday, linking to a story by right-wing outlet Just the News about cash transfers to Somalia from the Minneapolis airport.

Fuck every ICE agent because at this point, they’re all guilty.Even the ones who haven’t committed any crimes *yet.* Also, is it possible to revoke a presidential pardon made by a previous president? Because I feel like we should be throwing people back in jail

I remember when Republicans were outraged by an idea Biden was colluding with the justice department, without evidence. Trump is now openly and unabashedly colluding with the justice to attack his perceived enemies...and Republicans are completely on board. It's wild to watch.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 08, 2026 01:03 PM (JCZqz)

240 The whole "How did the Country run without the Income tax?" takes on new depth.

No fucking fraud, that's how. Turns out you need less cash when it's not being stolen.

Posted by: connected and litigious at January 08, 2026 01:03 PM (cS1cw)

241 Why did I look at that Ackbar link? Why? I should know better.

Posted by: turambar at January 08, 2026 01:04 PM (Q0yOR)

242 Questions: We made significant cuts to USAID. I was assured, promised, by the media this was horrible, and millions would die of starvation and disease. Did that ever happen? Or was it just...lies?

With the Somali fraud, I'm told that cutting theses programs and prosecuting the perpetrators will result in significant problem. Any chance any of that is true?

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 08, 2026 01:04 PM (s/0Zp)

243 Some interesting stories out about that Tanker that was trying to run to Russia and was boarded near England. Question was, why so diligently pursue an empty tanker that was a piece of junk? But Russia is demanding that we return some of their personnel that were on board, which is fascinating, since no one knew there were any actual Russians on board.

Who was that ship secretly carrying to Russia?

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2026 01:02 PM (uWKK

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Tucker Qatarlson?

/Just defect already ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 01:04 PM (IpnJw)

244 215 Ulcerative colitis here. I'll lift a glass to y'all's health next time I'm on the shitter.
Posted by: Robert

Have you looked into methylmethionine (Vitamin U) and zinc carnosine?

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 08, 2026 01:04 PM (t+TFX)

245 O'Keefe has just reported that everyone in DC is a homosexual. Everyone.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2026 12:46 PM (PQb8B)

There is such a thing as the gay mafia.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at January 08, 2026 01:04 PM (MZ+PY)

246 If half the country doesn't pay federal income tax, do they care if it's stolen?

Posted by: NCKate at January 08, 2026 01:04 PM (uQzkA)

247 A couple of days ago, I took a walk all around downtown Bethesda for the first time in a while. I was amazed at how many businesses were gone. Restaurants, retail, lots of empty store fronts. This is a pretty wealthy area and yet a lot of the upper class type boutiques are gone. A lot of buildings torn down and being replaced with high rise apartments and condos. Where are the tenants going to come from? Last I heard there was a 30% vacancy rate for retail. Can't imagine what residential is like.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2026 01:04 PM (t/2Uw)

248 224 How much of the massive increase in Medicare and Medicaid costs, as well as other services, is simply due to fraud?

How much of that fraud is recycled into the D party coffers?
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 08, 2026 01:00 PM (s/0Zp)

However much you think it is, I bet it's much much more.

Posted by: It's how they keep power at January 08, 2026 01:05 PM (TbWk/)

249 No no - the Crohns is me but it's mostly under control. It is related to arthritis though.
Posted by: ...

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OK, I misread that.
Well, I hope your health improves too.
Robert too.

Heck, same sentiments to all morons (and Ace) even if in perfect health. May 2026 be a good year for all.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 08, 2026 01:05 PM (bIWgk)

250 Ulcerative colitis here. I'll lift a glass to y'all's health next time I'm on the shitter.

Posted by: Robert at January 08, 2026 12:58 PM (WEgf2)

Back at you. Hope you are doing ok with it, or will be soon!

Posted by: ... at January 08, 2026 01:05 PM (0Sg1Q)

251 How much of the massive increase in Medicare and Medicaid costs, as well as other services, is simply due to fraud?

How much of that fraud is recycled into the D party coffers?
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 08, 2026 01:00 PM (s/0Zp)
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Well, I got an A in statistics in college in the last century so I will definitively state that the answers to your questions are 98.6% and 105.9%. The latter figure includes interest.

Posted by: bluebell at January 08, 2026 01:05 PM (79pEw)

252 We don't pay any income tax because no Somali gets a 1099 for work at Quality Learing Center.
You Amerlikans are someone dumb.

Posted by: Quality Lerning Center at January 08, 2026 01:05 PM (MkFn4)

253 Ivorian? Like the Ivory Soap girl?
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Marilyn Chambers?

Posted by: Stu Podaso at January 08, 2026 01:06 PM (znJ3m)

254
Get rid of that, we have no income tax.

__________

The purpose of the income tax is not to collect revenue. The purpose of the income tax is to tell you who's boss.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 01:06 PM (tgvbd)

255 I sincerely hope they round up a couple "Republicans" involved in all this fraud.

We don't call it The Uniparty for nothing. And you can't call it cleaning house when you leave your favorite stinky bag of trash in the corner and just mop around it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 01:06 PM (06Hmj)

256 Thanks bob!! Appreciate it. I have been in remission for a long time now but it rarely lets me forget I have it.

Posted by: ... at January 08, 2026 01:06 PM (0Sg1Q)

257 239 Fuck every ICE agent because at this point, they’re all guilty.Even the ones who haven’t committed any crimes *yet.* Also, is it possible to revoke a presidential pardon made by a previous president? Because I feel like we should be throwing people back in jail

I remember when Republicans were outraged by an idea Biden was colluding with the justice department, without evidence. Trump is now openly and unabashedly colluding with the justice to attack his perceived enemies...and Republicans are completely on board. It's wild to watch.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 08, 2026 01:03 PM (JCZqz)

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1. Deporting people here illegally is a crime?

2. Republicans objected to the idea that Democrats could have wingmen at AG but Republicans had to have antagonistic lawyers who worked against the Republican president's policies.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 01:06 PM (GBKbO)

258 Any Somali convicted of fraud gets denaturalized. Their wife and kids - ditto.

They serve their time in prison, then it is off to Somalia to rejoin their family.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 08, 2026 01:07 PM (s/0Zp)

259 207 As I said yesterday, all of us are suckers for not gaming the system like everyone else did. Trillions of covid dollars were there for the taking. I wish I could do it over again.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 12:38 PM (iFTx/)

We shall all eventually die. I'm probably doomed anyway but at least God doesn't have to be pissed at me for that.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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Because everyone else is doing it is not a builder of character. MTV and Nickelodeon were big motivators of 'everybody's doing it'.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 08, 2026 01:07 PM (gIcAo)

260 Tim Pawlenty (R) was governor until 2011. Norm Coleman was GOP senator up to 2009 until Al Franken cheated him out with the notorious ballots in the back of a car trick.

It is the typical metro versus the countryside dynamic. Minneapolis and St. Paul are concentrations of the AWFLS, gubmint workers, and mega corp types versus the farmers, business types, etc. in the rest of the state.

Every city is a Democrat concentration of scum and villainy.
Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 12:46 PM (WDjG6)

It's not just the Democrats. Republican officeholders have no interest in pursuing this. Only Trump. Quite possibly the cleanest guy to ever hold any office, anywhere, ever.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 01:07 PM (ExV1e)

261 Schools are closed out there, so the retards are not getting any smarter any time soon.

Posted by: Huked on Foniks Werked Four Mi! at January 08, 2026 01:07 PM (oftw2)

262 Where are the tenants going to come from? Last I heard there was a 30% vacancy rate for retail. Can't imagine what residential is like.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)

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Bethesda will do fine if Trump gets his $1.5 trillion Defense War budget.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 08, 2026 01:08 PM (bIWgk)

263 "We elected you to protect our community interests, "

Ha ha ha. That's not the way it works.

Posted by: fd at January 08, 2026 01:08 PM (lNdi2)

264 For being such ow IQ people they sure know how to play the system.... which implies inside help.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 08, 2026 01:08 PM (xvV+O)

265 Senate passes bill to block any further military action in Venezuela.
_____

I don't understand the thinking of the Senate here - the possibility that there could be further military action is what will make this venture work.

Ohhhh....

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 08, 2026 01:08 PM (Dv3i1)

266 261 I cannot imagine any of the Somali kids going to any school at any rate. Unless it's some Muslim brainwashing school.

Posted by: turambar at January 08, 2026 01:08 PM (Q0yOR)

267 258 Any Somali convicted of fraud gets denaturalized. Their wife and kids - ditto.

They serve their time in prison, then it is off to Somalia to rejoin their family.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 08, 2026 01:07 PM (s/0Zp)
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Why spend our money imprisoning them?

Throw them out.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 08, 2026 01:09 PM (gIcAo)

268 261, -5 for not working phonic spelling into comment. Be better.

Posted by: connected and litigious at January 08, 2026 01:09 PM (cS1cw)

269 But with 67 IQ we're too dumb to cheat you.

Posted by: Quality Lerning Center at January 08, 2026 01:09 PM (MkFn4)

270 That Ice Agent should have just laid on the ground and let himself be run down. He had no right to his own life as he was trying to deport the true constituents and donors to the democratic party! Not all lives matter, just democrat lives.

Posted by: Chuck Todd at January 08, 2026 01:09 PM (1M7sl)

271 Trump should say "I'm the captain now" next time a reporter asks him a question about Somali fraud. Would be funny as fuck.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 08, 2026 01:09 PM (1Nv0l)

272 "We elected you to protect our community interests, "

Ha ha ha. That's not the way it works.

Posted by: fd
==

SNORT

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 08, 2026 01:09 PM (xvV+O)

273 234 Wiser still would be searching for her yourself. She was quite the cutie.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at January 08, 2026 12:57 PM (JCZqz)

That I will do. I recall her being cute.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
======
She helped get rid of James at Project Veritas as a figleaf. She was the replacement for O'Keefe at Project Veritas at the behest of the board of directors members that led the coup against him.

She got paid to do that and I have very little respect for her because of it. Those board of directors that led the downfall were doing so at the behest of globo homo because James was so effective. Happened about the time James went after Big Pharma for the vaxx and the Dems on voter fraud/election stealing.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 01:09 PM (WDjG6)

274 TINY-HANDED TIRADE

This is the dumbest thing. I met Trump in 1989 and shook his hand. It was normal-sized.

Posted by: Delurker at January 08, 2026 01:09 PM (gtcuf)

275 Because everyone else is doing it is not a builder of character. MTV and Nickelodeon were big motivators of 'everybody's doing it'.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 08, 2026 01:07 PM (gIcAo)

If my enemy is attacking my civilians, I will attack his civilians too, and I'd be derelict in my duty to my own civilians not to.

If my enemy attacks his own civilians, I'm not going to attack my own civilians too, because that would be fucking timwalzed.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 01:09 PM (06Hmj)

276 Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 08, 2026 01:03 PM (JCZqz)

These people are insane. Not just misguided or wrongheaded but completely utterly totally no-idea-what-color-the-sky-is-on-their-planet batshit insane.

Posted by: It's fascinating and horrifying at January 08, 2026 01:10 PM (TbWk/)

277 267 258 Any Somali convicted of fraud gets denaturalized. Their wife and kids - ditto.

is that like how you denaturalize alcohol?

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2026 01:10 PM (uWKK8)

278 265 Senate passes bill to block any further military action in Venezuela.
_____

I don't understand the thinking of the Senate here - the possibility that there could be further military action is what will make this venture work.

Ohhhh....

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 08, 2026 01:08 PM (Dv3i1) '

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Also, Trump has to sign the bill.

It's theater. Congress doesn't have anything else to do now that they've tied up several hundred DOJ lawyers to look through millions of pages of Epstein documents to redact them in accordance with law.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 01:10 PM (GBKbO)

279 266 261 I cannot imagine any of the Somali kids going to any school at any rate. Unless it's some Muslim brainwashing school.
Posted by: turambar
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Which is why sending money to such creatures for home or private schooling is always going to bite the public in the ass. They will use it to further try conquest of the US.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 01:10 PM (WDjG6)

280 > Marilyn Chambers?
Posted by: Stu Podaso at January 08, 2026 01:06 PM (znJ3m)

She was the box model for Ivory Snow (a former laundry detergent marketed as suitable for washing baby clothes), not regular Ivory soap.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 08, 2026 01:10 PM (IG3/x)

281 243 Some interesting stories out about that Tanker that was trying to run to Russia and was boarded near England. Question was, why so diligently pursue an empty tanker that was a piece of junk? But Russia is demanding that we return some of their personnel that were on board, which is fascinating, since no one knew there were any actual Russians on board. Who was that ship secretly carrying to Russia? Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2026 01:02 PM (uWKK

They were Russian security experts sent to help Maduro. But I think there is MORE on the ship than we think. I think it is likely payment for the Russians "help" Likely gold in a hidden compartment. Or maybe drugs. Russia is desperate for cash right now.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 08, 2026 01:11 PM (s/0Zp)

282 We're all going to end up in hell anyway. It's a shame only the worst of the worst people get to enjoy wealth and pleasure before they get there.
Posted by: Some life sentences are easier than others at January 08, 2026 01:01 PM (TbWk/)

Well that's your choice.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 08, 2026 01:11 PM (xcxpd)

283 Absolutely massive crowd marching through Shiraz. Iran. Videos are getting out, probably thanks to Starlink.

Posted by: PA Dutchman at January 08, 2026 01:11 PM (h/O4U)

284 Bethesda will do fine if Trump gets his $1.5 trillion Defense War budget.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)

Starfield 2 anyone?

Anyone?

Posted by: Bethesda Softworks at January 08, 2026 01:11 PM (znJ3m)

285 255 I sincerely hope they round up a couple "Republicans" involved in all this fraud.
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I don't think DeWine should sleep peacefully.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 08, 2026 01:11 PM (Dv3i1)

286 Oh look! Squirrel!

Posted by: Quality Lerning Center at January 08, 2026 01:11 PM (MkFn4)

287 __________

The purpose of the income tax is not to collect revenue. The purpose of the income tax is to tell you who's boss.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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They can get their hand out of my pocket and do it just as well.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 08, 2026 01:12 PM (gIcAo)

288 274 TINY-HANDED TIRADE

This is the dumbest thing. I met Trump in 1989 and shook his hand. It was normal-sized.
Posted by: Delurker
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Democrats lie when their lips move. GOPe types only lie when they feel like it. Read my lips indeed.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 01:12 PM (WDjG6)

289 285 255 I sincerely hope they round up a couple "Republicans" involved in all this fraud.
____

I don't think DeWine should sleep peacefully.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 08, 2026 01:11 PM (Dv3i1)

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A very public takedown of Walz, former VP candidate for the opposition party, is going to be edifying for a lot of people.

I expect state-level enforcement of existing law to tick up in response.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 01:12 PM (GBKbO)

290 For being such ow IQ people they sure know how to play the system.... which implies inside help.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious
_________

Hard to believe the mob doesn't know about this. Bet their getting a taste and helping out with the fraud logistics.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 08, 2026 01:12 PM (XvL8K)

291 The more I learn about these Somalis, the less I like them.

Posted by: Zombie Norm MacDonald at January 08, 2026 01:12 PM (TN0g+)

292 283 Absolutely massive crowd marching through Shiraz. Iran. Videos are getting out, probably thanks to Starlink.
Posted by: PA Dutchman

Good. Mullahs deserve a Romanian Christmas in the New Year.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 01:13 PM (WDjG6)

293 @213
whig. You are exactly right. This is why "Oh, well we just have to take it, move on.." is not going to work. This is big time crime and has to be delt with. Scratch every dime back and throw criminals in jail.

Posted by: Case at January 08, 2026 01:13 PM (4rWc3)

294
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2026 01:04 PM (t/2Uw)

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Sounds like either someone is making a very bad investment or it's a scheme.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 08, 2026 01:13 PM (Uo+RY)

295 The senate passed a resolution. This is different than passing a law, no?

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2026 01:13 PM (t/2Uw)

296 I think it's time to stop calling him "Little Marco" and start going with "Big Marco."

His cajones certainly are.

Posted by: Delurker at January 08, 2026 01:14 PM (gtcuf)

297 You have to live with yourself. If you can be a fraud and do that, well ok.

Posted by: fd at January 08, 2026 01:14 PM (lNdi2)

298 O'Keefe has just reported that everyone in DC is a homosexual. Everyone.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2026 12:46 PM (PQb8B)

There is such a thing as the gay mafia.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at January 08, 2026 01:04 PM (MZ+PY)

Yep. See also Catholic seminaries.

Posted by: Putting the semen in seminary at January 08, 2026 01:14 PM (TbWk/)

299 Starlink is flying above Iran. I wonder if there are enough units in the hands of the opposition.

@Osint613 - 3hr

Cloudflare Radar reports that Iran’s IPv6 networks have been fully disconnected from the global internet, a move that has effectively cut off Iranian mobile users from external online access.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 08, 2026 01:14 PM (mlg/3)

300 We are only 8 days into 2026 and it's already been entertaining and maddening in equal shares.

Posted by: turambar at January 08, 2026 01:14 PM (Q0yOR)

301 They can get their hand out of my pocket and do it just as well.
Posted by: Braenyard

Or, they could at least give me a little rub and tug on the way out!

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at January 08, 2026 01:14 PM (JCZqz)

302 The worst part about the theft of billions of dollars is the hypocrisy.

Posted by: ... at January 08, 2026 01:14 PM (0Sg1Q)

303 243 Some interesting stories out about that Tanker that was trying to run to Russia and was boarded near England. Question was, why so diligently pursue an empty tanker that was a piece of junk? But Russia is demanding that we return some of their personnel that were on board, which is fascinating, since no one knew there were any actual Russians on board. Who was that ship secretly carrying to Russia? Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2026 01:02 PM (uWKK
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I've read speculation that there were/are nuclear components on the tanker. When you think about Venezuela would make a great staging area for that as it is big, jungle, and provides plausible deniability.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 08, 2026 01:15 PM (xvV+O)

304 The senate passed a resolution. This is different than passing a law, no?

That what the UN passes, and you see how effective that body is?

Posted by: Unkaren at January 08, 2026 01:15 PM (BrLWF)

305
White House briefing coming up with Vance.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 08, 2026 01:15 PM (Uo+RY)

306 In 2023, the IRS collected a net of $2.1 trillion in income taxes from individuals.

It is beyond clear now that 100% of that was wasted on fraud and abuse.
1/3 of the $6.1 trillion annual budget is fraud, waste and abuse.

The only purpose of the individual income tax is to punish the industrious.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 08, 2026 01:15 PM (HXT0k)

307 Also, Trump has to sign the bill.

It's theater. Congress doesn't have anything else to do now that they've tied up several hundred DOJ lawyers to look through millions of pages of Epstein documents to redact them in accordance with law.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 01:10 PM (GBKbO)

I hope he does sign it, just as a hearty Fuck You to Congress.

A) We likely have no plans on instigating any further conflict there anyway, based on how events have already played out
B) The President can send the Marines in anywhere he likes, any time he likes, and if *that* precipitates further conflict, then this little bill means sweet F.A.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 01:15 PM (06Hmj)

308 May a thousand Nick Shirleys bloom.

Posted by: Watching from the cheap seats at January 08, 2026 01:15 PM (nSdex)

309 Well that's your choice.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 08, 2026 01:11 PM (xcxpd)

*scratches chin*

If I could just learn how to eliminate my conscience and adopt dark triad traits I'd be golden.

Posted by: The psychopaths shall inherit the earth at January 08, 2026 01:16 PM (TbWk/)

310 306 And every year the IRS puts out a statement they received a record amount of taxes. It pisses me off to no end. Abolish the IRS!

Posted by: turambar at January 08, 2026 01:17 PM (Q0yOR)

311 Democrats insist Obamacare subsidies extend for three more years.

Or more chaos.
More dead lesbian wives.

Posted by: Quality Lerning Center at January 08, 2026 01:17 PM (MkFn4)

312 I'm beginning to develop a strong dislike of these corrupt inbred Somalian hobgoblins.

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at January 08, 2026 01:17 PM (V362x)

313 302 The worst part about the theft of billions of dollars is the hypocrisy.
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The worst part is the rape!

Posted by: Obligatory Norm McDonald Reference at January 08, 2026 01:17 PM (Dv3i1)

314 May a thousand Nick Shirleys bloom.
Posted by: Watching from the cheap seats at January 08, 2026 01:15 PM (nSdex)

So Walz can send goons to mow them down!

Posted by: That was the point of Mao's announcement at January 08, 2026 01:17 PM (TbWk/)

315 Did Rubio really write that? If so, he has a good sense of humor.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 12:58 PM (8Xy/A)

Humor? That's exactly the sort of thing someone puts out while their agent is negotiating the contract to become the GM/Coach of the Dolphins.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 01:17 PM (ExV1e)

316 *scratches chin*

If I could just learn how to eliminate my conscience and adopt dark triad traits I'd be golden.
Posted by: The psychopaths shall inherit the earth at January 08, 2026 01:16 PM (TbWk/)

I have heard that siren call too.

If I get to redo my life, maybe I'll do a few runs as a black hat and see how it compares.

I suspect it wouldn't be satisfying.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 08, 2026 01:18 PM (xcxpd)

317 Idaho is falling too. Cocksuckers from CA, WA, and OR all moving here and re-assembling their ghettos around us again. Fuckers are a plague of retarded locusts.

Boise elected a commie AWFL mayor and the Mormons are still bringing in their slave labor from every rat rodeo country on earth by the planeload. Good money in it for them. Lots of hijab zombies wandering around in the stores downtown with 5 kids under 10 who can't speak a word of English (kids or Mom).

I'd bet my best nut that the fraud is here in Idaho big time.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 08, 2026 01:18 PM (Twsa5)

318 Marilyn Chambers?

Posted by: Stu Podaso at January 08, 2026 01:06 PM (znJ3m)

-----------

I remember returning back from college and working summers in my hometown of Las Vegas in the early 80s.

Couldn't afford a car, so I rode my 10-speed bike everywhere, including 20 miles back and forth to work. I have this vivid memory of riding over the I-15 freeway on Charleston Blvd to work each morning ... and below me to the north seeing some small-time strip club with a big billboard advertising "Marilyn Chambers" -- whom I had no idea at the time who she was.

Creepily, when I "discovered" her years later, she looked quite a bit like my girlfriend from that earlier time ... oh, to be so innocent again.

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 01:18 PM (IpnJw)

319 "O'Keefe has just reported that everyone in DC is a homosexual. Everyone.
Posted by: Sponge"

Some of them just don't know it yet.

Posted by: fd at January 08, 2026 01:18 PM (lNdi2)

320 I think a lot of buildings were approved during the height of Biden hubris when the Left thought they were going to be in charge forever. The idea of a 15 minute city is a past wish that will never happen. It is a Utopian scheme that requires people to live by rules that the Left refuses to follow. Defund the police, homeless defecating on the street, rampant drug use, mentally ill stabbing people for no reason. What normal person wants to live with that.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2026 01:18 PM (t/2Uw)

321 "I've read speculation that there were/are nuclear components on the tanker."


Link?

Posted by: Stop speculation. Find some facts. at January 08, 2026 01:18 PM (nSdex)

322 Lot's of commentators say that people should be outraged by all the fraud, but I don't hear many of the actual people saying they're outraged. I fear that government money has become so prevalent that I don't think billions of supposed "taxpayer" dollars being stolen really impacts the average person in a way that moves them to action.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder


End EITC and tell everyone that they owe $6000 in Fed Taxes by April 15th for a fraud tax.

That'll get their attention.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 01:18 PM (6mogZ)

323 274 TINY-HANDED TIRADE

This is the dumbest thing. I met Trump in 1989 and shook his hand. It was normal-sized.
Posted by: Delurker

Yeah, the Left's insistence on repeating retarded lies to slander their opponents is strange. Calling Vance a "couch fucker"? Patently retarded. Calling all Republicans pedos for hiding the Epstein files? Marginally effective. Calling all Republicans "weird?" Pure projection. Tiny hands? Who cares (maybe it bugs Trump? He seems a bit thin-skinned on these kinds of things)?

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 08, 2026 01:18 PM (JCZqz)

324 let me make it even worse:

If you say $100 billion per year, per state, that's $5 trillion.

Between state, local and federal waste, fraud and abuse, $5 trillion is probably the low end.

Who the fuck wasn't and isn't stealing from the government (besides conservatives)?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 08, 2026 01:18 PM (HXT0k)

325 312 I'm beginning to develop a strong dislike of these corrupt inbred Somalian hobgoblins.
Posted by: Blast Hardcheese

The dislike lessens when the checks start rolling in. Then you start dancing for them and eating their swill. It's ok.

Posted by: Mayor Frey at January 08, 2026 01:19 PM (Dv3i1)

326 CBD's art selection today was bewb-o-licious. Thanks CBD. Can't keep those kittens out of my mind.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 08, 2026 01:19 PM (pLaQB)

327 The worst part about the theft of billions of dollars is the hypocrisy.
Posted by: ... at January 08, 2026 01:14 PM (0Sg1Q)

Pretty sure the worst part about the theft of billions of dollars is the theft of billions of dollars. The hypocrisy just adds extra flavor.

Posted by: Greenbacks and ham hock for prosperity at January 08, 2026 01:19 PM (TbWk/)

328 El Marco Grande

Posted by: Delurker at January 08, 2026 01:19 PM (gtcuf)

329
If the ICE agent hadn't shot the lady who hit him with her car, we never would have heard about him getting hit by a car. Media stories only go one way.

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 08, 2026 01:19 PM (IifOV)

330
It keeps growing and growing.

I'm thinking, mere law enforcement is not sufficient to deal with this. It's going to take something more.

And let's quit pretending. A Somalian born here is still a Somalian, not one of us. And not just Somalians.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 08, 2026 01:19 PM (biznJ)

331 "I'm owed something in life because I was born American" is the most grotesque thing you could utter in modern polite society.

"I'm owed something in life because I wasn't born American" is a sacred, self evident monad of truth, which to deny is a sign of mental illness and a black, crooked soul.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 01:20 PM (06Hmj)

332 F chuck never earned a degree fom GW. Used to work for dem senator tom harkin. Got into journalism after harkin bombed on presidential run. He is a partisan, and not a very accomplished on at that. Somehow he is an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins. Not sure how that works without a even an undergrad degree

Posted by: Chuck Todd at January 08, 2026 01:20 PM (1M7sl)

333 > Some interesting stories out about that Tanker that was trying to run to Russia and was boarded near England.
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Best conspiracy theory I've heard is that it was taking nukes back to Russia. Nukes Putin was going to use as leverage on the US... not "use, use."

But you know.... "leverage."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 08, 2026 01:20 PM (NwnyJ)

334 Democrats insist Obamacare subsidies extend for three more years.

Or more chaos.
More dead lesbian wives.
Posted by: Quality Lerning Center



Your terms are acceptable.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 01:20 PM (6mogZ)

335
The only purpose of the individual income tax is to punish the industrious.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

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Your math doesn't add up.
You forgot the money being spent - that rewards the indolent, criminal, commie scum.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 08, 2026 01:20 PM (bIWgk)

336 Trump II is turning into Leftard Gangbang VII and on the real I'm kind of here for it rn

Posted by: ... at January 08, 2026 01:20 PM (0Sg1Q)

337 Did you know there's no surf in Cleveland, U.S.A.?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4diS3khW-5k
Posted by: Duncanthrax
......

Try Sheboygan, Wisconsin.

Posted by: wth at January 08, 2026 01:20 PM (UjdFS)

338 Half of the country doesn't even pay taxes.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 08, 2026 01:21 PM (t+TFX)

339 "Get rid of that, we have no income tax."

I'm already there. I'm not paying another dime in taxes.

Posted by: Fen at January 08, 2026 01:21 PM (ciYHQ)

340 Lots of hijab zombies wandering around in the stores downtown with 5 kids under 10 who can't speak a word of English (kids or Mom).

------------

"Please to meet my nine children: Muhammad, Mohammad, Muhammed, Mohamed, Mohamad, Muhamed, Mahamed, Mahammed, and Mohmmed".

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 01:21 PM (IpnJw)

341 A resolution allows you to virtue signal without any real world repercussions.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2026 01:21 PM (t/2Uw)

342 "I'd bet my best nut that the fraud is here in Idaho big time.
Posted by: sifty boones"

*shifts uncomfortably in seat*


So, ummm... just how do you determine which one that is?

Posted by: Asking for a friend at January 08, 2026 01:21 PM (nSdex)

343 If the ICE agent hadn't shot the lady who hit him with her car, we never would have heard about him getting hit by a car. Media stories only go one way.
Posted by: Frank Barone at January 08, 2026 01:19 PM (IifOV)

"lady" is a strange way of spelling "deranged c***"

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 08, 2026 01:21 PM (8zz6B)

344 312 I'm beginning to develop a strong dislike of these corrupt inbred Somalian hobgoblins.
Posted by: Blast Hardcheese

How dare you, sir! I demand an apology for your grossly offense slander, or else we meet on the morrow with swords!

Posted by: CR 3 Hobgoblin random encounter at January 08, 2026 01:22 PM (JCZqz)

345 332 F chuck never earned a degree fom GW. Used to work for dem senator tom harkin. Got into journalism after harkin bombed on presidential run. He is a partisan, and not a very accomplished on at that. Somehow he is an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins. Not sure how that works without a even an undergrad degree

Posted by: Chuck Todd at January 08, 2026 01:20 PM

Chuck's wife is a dem/lib political consultant and think tank member.

The incenstuousness of the dem party and the media is crazy.

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 08, 2026 01:22 PM (IifOV)

346 You would think any MN resident who is not completely timwalzed would begin asking why the fck they should pay *any* taxes in state.
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A more basic question might be why any of us should be required to pay any Federal income tax since virtually none of it is going for the things we were once told they were being used for.

Posted by: Zombie Norm MacDonald at January 08, 2026 01:22 PM (TN0g+)

347 Please to meet my nine children: Muhammad, Mohammad, Muhammed, Mohamed, Mohamad, Muhamed, Mahamed, Mahammed, and Mohmmed".
Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 01:21 PM (IpnJw)

Wait, where did Mahmoud go? Mahmoud?! MAHMOUD!!!!

Posted by: They blow up so fast at January 08, 2026 01:22 PM (TbWk/)

348 How are out 300,000 boys in Iran doing?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 01:22 PM (GBKbO)

349 And I keep saying, all of this fraud supports thousands and thousands of government jobs.

It's the AWFL full-employment act.

All of these awful women, with no marketable skills, and a degree in nothing?

They are the middle managers of all this fraud.
The ones who clear the audits, verify the reports, accept the invoices and send it all up the chain.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 08, 2026 01:23 PM (HXT0k)

350 336 Trump II is turning into Leftard Gangbang VII and on the real I'm kind of here for it rn
Posted by: ...

As I observed yesterday, there's 12 days until he completes his first year this term. With all he's accomplished in 1 year, I can't imagine the progress he'll make in the next 3.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 08, 2026 01:24 PM (JCZqz)

351 Off to an appointment.
BBL
Have a great afternoon.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2026 01:24 PM (t/2Uw)

352 I'd bet my best nut that the fraud is here in Idaho big time.
Posted by: sifty boones at January 08, 2026 01:18 PM (Twsa5)

Seeing how Idaho is a single-party state, controlled by Big Potato, that's probably right.

Seriously, most of the ag labor is done by Spanish-speakers, so cracking down on illegals is going to disrupt things.

As for the other diversities, I wondered why they were here. Now I know.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 08, 2026 01:24 PM (cEHXL)

353 Chuck's wife is a dem/lib political consultant and think tank member.

The incenstuousness of the dem party and the media is crazy.
Posted by: Frank Barone

The silver lining to this incest is that it breeds retards.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 08, 2026 01:24 PM (Dv3i1)

354 323 274 TINY-HANDED TIRADE

This is the dumbest thing. I met Trump in 1989 and shook his hand. It was normal-sized.
Posted by: Delurker

Yeah, the Left's insistence on repeating retarded lies to slander their opponents is strange. Calling Vance a "couch fucker"? Patently retarded. Calling all Republicans pedos for hiding the Epstein files? Marginally effective. Calling all Republicans "weird?" Pure projection. Tiny hands? Who cares (maybe it bugs Trump? He seems a bit thin-skinned on these kinds of things)?
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 08, 2026 01:18 PM (JCZqz)

This goes back to the great, and dearly departed, 80's SPY Magazine. They took to calling Trump (who was just a real estate mogul back then) a 'short-fingered vulgarian'. It was a dig that still resonates 40 years later for some reason. Most of the 27-year-olds that talk about the size of Trump's hands weren't even around when SPY was being published.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 08, 2026 01:24 PM (0CU3H)

355 Tribalist and muslim all the way down.

Antithetical and fatal to a republic. Arrest and deport all of them. Remove the cancer.

Posted by: Joe Mama at January 08, 2026 01:24 PM (TezPK)

356 Apparently, every nook and cranny of government welfare, of every type imaginable--Medicaid, Medicare, child-care, education, hospice, nursing, health care of any sort, medical transport, ad infinitum--has been scammed and defrauded by these people for years. And, of course, it's not just these guys, but every D-aligned constituency in the whole country (and, no doubt, a few R-aligned ones as well). And all with the complete knowledge of government officials and politicians. How many trillions (yes, with a T) have these crooks scammed from the American taxpayers? Boggles the mind.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 08, 2026 01:25 PM (/jglT)

357 I'm thinking, mere law enforcement is not sufficient to deal with this. It's going to take something more.

And let's quit pretending. A Somalian born here is still a Somalian, not one of us. And not just Somalians.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug
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To do that, you have to build support to show in fact these are awful people doing awful things. The AWFLs won't ever agree but 70 percent will.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 01:25 PM (WDjG6)

358 I'm beginning to develop a strong dislike of these corrupt inbred Somalian hobgoblins.
Posted by: Blast Hardcheese

How dare you, sir! I demand an apology for your grossly offense slander, or else we meet on the morrow with swords!
Posted by: CR 3 Hobgoblin random encounter at January 08, 2026 01:22 PM (JCZqz)
________

Hobgoblins in D&D are intelligent, organized, and very effective militarily. Plus, as goblinoids go, they are better looking. Hobgoblins would indeed be livid at being compared to Somalis.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 01:25 PM (iFTx/)

359 I think we can safely blame that guy with the question marks all over his suit. He started this.

And Sally Struthers must pay. In this life or the next.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 08, 2026 01:25 PM (30jLx)

360 As for the other diversities, I wondered why they were here. Now I know.
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They are here to insure the ruling class remains the ruling class. See France, Germany, England.....time for lots of haircuts.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 08, 2026 01:25 PM (pLaQB)

361 Chuck's wife is a dem/lib political consultant and think tank member.

The incenstuousness of the dem party and the media is crazy.
Posted by: Frank Barone

The silver lining to this incest is that it breeds retards.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 08, 2026 01:24 PM (Dv3i1)

Retards with money, power and status. That never ends well.

Posted by: Habsburgs, WWI aristocrats etc at January 08, 2026 01:26 PM (TbWk/)

362 Senate passes bill to block any further military action in Venezuela.

How many Senators that voted for it are also on that Venezuelan Drug Cartel Money Recipient list?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 08, 2026 01:26 PM (+4Cf6)

363 All eyes are on MN, now with a microscope. Good. The more they riot and burn, the more the underbelly will be watched, so not a distraction.

Walz's litte pedo kingdom is falling down, falling down (sing this to the nursery rhyme).

Thank you, Ace, for shining a light.

I also come here more than anywhere else as y'all make me laugh vs doom/gloom and agony repeat diarrhea... of the world as we know it ending, blah, blah, boring. Sometimes I want to slap people through my laptop.

Nick Shirley should be hired by Trump! As well as the guy who had all the paperwork in the first video.

Someone who knew these Somolian illegal barbarians was smart enough to get grant money by plucking heartstrings. Daycares for the little waifs, home health care for the ill and elderly,bless their hearts, and transportation for the same.

A smart and evil stroke to bilk bazillions from the evil white people who pay taxes, right into the pockets of the bug-eyed Somolians and politicians who welcomed them to MN.

Covid/plandemic was their champion to do this in plain sight.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 08, 2026 01:26 PM (WONhk)

364 Don’t expect many MN leftists to wake up.
They are programmed, just like the people who still reflexively scream “antifa is just an idea!” despite oodles of evidence to the contrary. Yes, I work with people like this, they will reflexively say “That’s just a Fox News lie!” to all sorts of things, such as the TdA gangs in Aurora.
Sad!
Posted by: Lizzy

All the media they consume tells them there’s nothing here. Reinforced by social media bubbles. They are incurious people who never step out any of it.

Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 01:26 PM (/HZvU)

365 Retards with money, power and status. That never ends well.
Posted by: Habsburgs, WWI aristocrats etc at January 08, 2026 01:26 PM (TbWk/)

Feh. It's a living.

Posted by: 5,000 years of Chinese history at January 08, 2026 01:26 PM (06Hmj)

366 Hobgoblins in D&D are intelligent, organized, and very effective militarily. Plus, as goblinoids go, they are better looking. Hobgoblins would indeed be livid at being compared to Somalis.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 01:25 PM (iFTx/)

They're great as a playable race too, if you can find a generous DM.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 08, 2026 01:27 PM (xcxpd)

367 Half of the country doesn't even pay taxes.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 08, 2026 01:21 PM (t+TFX)

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Even better: many parasites actually get "Earned Income" (Orwell Orgasms) Tax Credits (EITC), the Additional Child Tax Credit (ACTC), the American Opportunity Tax Credit, the Premium Tax Credit -- refunds effectively providing extra income to those who pay no taxes (AKA just another basket of commie wealth transfer schemes).

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 01:27 PM (IpnJw)

368 And Sally Struthers must pay. In this life or the next.
Posted by: sifty boones at January 08, 2026 01:25 PM (30jLx)

More or less than the price of a cup of coffee per day?

Posted by: Golden age of late night begging at January 08, 2026 01:27 PM (TbWk/)

369 A Somalian man named Mohammed took the podium in Maine to deliver a warning to Democrats

If you keep talking about the fraud taking place, the entire voting community will abandon Democrats

This is the deal the Dems struck with them.

Pay to bring them here, give them welfare/jizya, and share the graft and then the Somalis will let the Ds harvest their ballots.

So what do the Dems do now? They can get the fake votes elsewhere, maybe, but not only were these great grafting opportunities they were also mirrors of ones the Ds have with other illegals so those are presumably about to get exposed too...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 01:27 PM (sKqQm)

370 358 And would go on the offensive for that kind of insult. Hobgoblins rock in DnD.

Posted by: turambar at January 08, 2026 01:27 PM (Q0yOR)

371 And let's quit pretending. A Somalian born here is still a Somalian, not one of us. And not just Somalians.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug

Stealing a gazillion simoleons from the Toon Town Bank > importing a million Somalians.

Posted by: Movie Moron at January 08, 2026 01:27 PM (JCZqz)

372 NOOD daycare fraud (or another day that ends in "Y")

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 01:28 PM (IpnJw)

373 Nood. Pretty much more of the same.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 01:28 PM (ExV1e)

374 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2026 01:28 PM (PQb8B)

375 Minnesota is going to be a liberal state even without the invading somalis. If liberal leaders secretly helped Trump weed out the somalis fraud, and deport all of them, they'll still stay in power but without having to bow down to this 3rd world trash.
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I don't think so.
Walz lost some 90k votes from his 1st to his second election.
I don't think the libs in MN--or anywhere--can afford to lose the money and vote fraud machine.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 08, 2026 01:28 PM (HXT0k)

376 Tiny hands?
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison

To be vulgarian, the old saw is that the size of the hands relates to the size of a man's wedding tackle. Snarky way of saying small penis.

If I recall right though, it is the difference in length between the index and ring finger that matters which has something to do with estrogen versus testerone levels in an embryo while developing.

Can't offhand remember which way it goes on that finger length.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 01:28 PM (WDjG6)

377 How many trillions (yes, with a T) have these crooks scammed from the American taxpayers? Boggles the mind.

That is where you "Affordability" went.

Sorry, no home, food or affluent life for you - you have to pay for some savage retard's Lambo.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 08, 2026 01:28 PM (+4Cf6)

378 I'm beginning to develop a strong dislike of these corrupt inbred Somalian hobgoblins.
Posted by: Blast Hardcheese

How dare you, sir! I demand an apology for your grossly offense slander, or else we meet on the morrow with swords!
Posted by: CR 3 Hobgoblin random encounter at January 08, 2026 01:22 PM (JCZqz)
________

Hobgoblins in D&D are intelligent, organized, and very effective militarily. Plus, as goblinoids go, they are better looking. Hobgoblins would indeed be livid at being compared to Somalis.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 01:25 PM (iFTx/)
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Indeed. Somalis have more in common with gully dwarves from the Dragonlance campaign setting--slovenly, stupid, and cowardly.

Though even gully dwarves aren't completely worthless, unlike these Somali grifters.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 08, 2026 01:29 PM (ESVrU)

379 So I know some money has been withheld for the daycare now from the feds. Do we know if this transport scam is still being funded?

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 08, 2026 01:29 PM (n5tGW)

380 O/t Rebecca Good, partner of the woman shot yesterday, says she made her participate. Keep that in mind when we hear about the three orphaned kids. Their mom’s partner got her killed.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 08, 2026 01:29 PM (Hkcdp)

381 All the media they consume tells them there’s nothing here. Reinforced by social media bubbles. They are incurious people who never step out any of it.

AND the left makes sure that everyone knows the punishment that awaits if they catch you consuming non approved media let alone repeating it.

You see this every so often when a former NPC celebs tries thinking for themselves and suddenly find they've actually thought through some issue and come to the same conclusion as the right. They'll say "but I'm not a NAZI!" as the left cancels them anyway...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 01:30 PM (sKqQm)

382 "I'd bet my best nut that the fraud is here in Idaho big time.
Posted by: sifty boones"


I agree. Twin Falls, Boise area especially.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at January 08, 2026 01:30 PM (PSEDc)

383 Hobgoblins in D&D are intelligent, organized, and very effective militarily. Plus, as goblinoids go, they are better looking.

I've seen some disturbing thicc goblin fan art out there. May have to search some Rule 34 hobgoblins...

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at January 08, 2026 01:31 PM (JCZqz)

384 Sometimes I wake up and feel ashamed that I didn’t defraud my neighbors out of millions of dollars to live in luxury, and that I still live as a middle class nobody in fly-over country. I guess I’m not as smart as I think.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 08, 2026 01:32 PM (1HW+a)

385 More or less than the price of a cup of coffee per day?
Posted by: Golden age of late night begging

We offer you both the warm embrace you feel when helping others and this adow-able Love To The Rescue Bwanket!

Posted by: Caleb and Alec For Shriners at January 08, 2026 01:34 PM (oftw2)

386 Republicans should be ashamed of the Senators that just voted with Democrats in attempting to take away our Powers to fight and defend the United States of America. Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Rand Paul, Josh Hawley, and Todd Young should never be elected to office again. This Vote greatly hampers American Self Defense and National Security, impeding the President’s Authority as Commander in Chief. In any event, and despite their “stupidity,” the War Powers Act is Unconstitutional, totally violating Article II of the Constitution, as all Presidents, and their Departments of Justice, have determined before me. Nevertheless, a more important Senate Vote will be taking place next week on this very subject.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 01:36 PM (6mogZ)

387 Rand Paul is guilty as hell of something. His name keeps popping up on the wrong side of stuff.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 01:37 PM (6mogZ)

388 We are finally getting a bit of snow. A bit. Which is better than the nothing so far. We need a lot but will hopefully catch up by spring snows. I love to watch it and pray for much more!

The "speaker" of the Somolians in Maine needs his adenoids removed. And maybe a clearing of his sinuses at the same time. I volunteer to do it! Without anesthesia nor sterile instruments. I am sure I can find some rusty tongs somewhere and will heat them red before the removal (while still hot). I think this should cure this Somolian of his woes, as well as a lot of things.

DEPORT THEM ALL!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 08, 2026 01:40 PM (WONhk)

389 387 Rand Paul is guilty as hell of something. His name keeps popping up on the wrong side of stuff.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 01:37 PM (6mogZ)

I wonder, now, about the neighbor beating him up while he was mowing the lawn. The neighbor might know something!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 08, 2026 01:41 PM (WONhk)

390 The "voting block" is why Obama concentrated them in Minneapolis

Posted by: night lifted at January 08, 2026 01:47 PM (kJmLc)

391 380 O/t Rebecca Good, partner of the woman shot yesterday, says she made her participate. Keep that in mind when we hear about the three orphaned kids. Their mom’s partner got her killed.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 08, 2026 01:29 PM (Hkcdp)
........................................
Read a comment today, unsure if true, that the butch dyke "wife" of the poet had a DV issue of burning the 6yo child with a cig. Again, unsure if this is true.

I did read that the paternal grandfather of this child is seeking custody. The father is supposedly a dead comic from CO.

The most recent addresses of the ghey poet are from VA. Driving a SUV with Missouri tags...and many national park stickers on the SUV. I wonder if they were doing the "van life" to not have an address to avoid CPS? Paid agitators? Visiting family in MN over the holidays and getting some pay at the same time?

Early on there was a comment that the butch "wife" was a well known "protest agitator." Whatever!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 08, 2026 01:48 PM (WONhk)

392 387 Rand Paul is guilty as hell of something. His name keeps popping up on the wrong side of stuff.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 01:37 PM (6mogZ)

Think Venezuela

Posted by: night lifted at January 08, 2026 01:48 PM (kJmLc)

393 They are not compatible with American life.
It’s that simple.
We’re closed, moose out front should have told you.
Posted by: Lizzy
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It is indeed that simple. Their culture is incompatible[\i] with traditional American culture.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 08, 2026 02:10 PM (XeU6L)

394 Oops. Brush with the barrel

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 08, 2026 02:12 PM (XeU6L)

395 I submit that because of the close relationship and involvement of the CCP in Somalia and Somali communities that the CCP is an integral part of the management and control of the various forms of fraud in multiple states.

Posted by: Lotta Nerve at January 08, 2026 02:42 PM (JdcHc)

396 I guess the Time Magazine Person of the Year will be The Somali Fraudster.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at January 08, 2026 04:27 PM (w6EFb)

397 Before a absentee ballot envelope can be opened the signature on the OUTSIDE of the envelope must be verified by 2 people 1 from each party to match the original signature on the voters registration application

How do those fraudsters get them to match ?

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at January 08, 2026 05:14 PM (pFZgT)

The Morning Rant: Our Goal In Venezuela Should Not Be The Creation Of a Jeffersonian Democracy

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The Trump administration and the United States military has begun the process of freeing Venezuela from the self-imposed grip of communist dictators. But the goal for us should not be to release Venezuelans from their bondage, but to stop the flow of drugs into America, end Venezuela's interference in our domestic affairs, and stop the illegal movement of petroleum.

That our activity is finally allowing some semblance of a resistance in Venezuela to coalesce around American military power is very nice, but it is a bonus. And our activities should be focused on what is best for America, not necessarily what is best for Venezuela.

It is the people of Venezuela who must continue the fight against their totalitarian masters, and if that means taking to the streets in mass protest, with the very real risk of a violent response from the ruling junta, then so be it. American blood and treasure has been spent too profligately in the last 20+ years for us to do more than support Venezuelan freedom fighters as a consequence of our efforts to further American interests.

Nobel Peace Prize Recipient Maria Corina Machado Vows Return to Venezuela, Warns of Escalating Crackdown

She also issued sharp criticism of Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez, who was sworn in as interim president on Monday. Rodríguez has served as vice president under Maduro since 2018.

"Delcy Rodriguez, as you know, is one of the main architects of torture, persecution, corruption, narco trafficking," Machado said.

"She's the main ally and liaison with Russia, China, Iran, certainly not an individual that could be trusted by international investors. And she's really rejected, repudiated by the Venezuelan people."


Machado's presence in Venezuela will be a perfect focus for the people's efforts to overthrow the communist structures of government and the military. She is far too public and well known a figure for the current dictator to arrest and kill her, and she can be a continual reminder of their manipulation of the 2024 presidential election.

The Trump administration's assumption that Delcy Rodríguez is the correct choice to maintain some semblance of continuity in government is an odd one, since she is simply a reflection of Maduro's fanatical anti-Americanism, and a willing participant in the evil perpetrated by the communist government. Hopefully she will be kept on a very short leash as the Venezuelan people do the work to dismantle communism. But even if Rodríguez remains in power, as long as our national security interests proceed, that is up to the people of Venezuela to remedy.

The real question is whether a communist dictatorship is structurally capable of functioning as an honest player on the world stage. The historical record suggests that the answer is a resounding "NO!" So communism in Venezuela will probably end if our goals are to be achieved. But that is a delightful bonus...not the end game.

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter]. If you folks who are on X/Twitter would follow us it would be much appreciated!

Posted by: CBD at 11:00 AM




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1 Sponge!

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 11:00 AM (6mogZ)

2 a delightful bonus

A beejer?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 08, 2026 11:02 AM (Kt19C)

3
ESPONJA!!1!1!11!!

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 08, 2026 11:02 AM (tljrc)

4 Corgis called

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 11:02 AM (6mogZ)

5 Bad news for Maduro as blackface photos surface:

https://x.com/Dannyjokes/status/2008633485771059564?s=20

Posted by: scottst at January 08, 2026 11:03 AM (EIDnU)

6
MUNKEY

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 08, 2026 11:03 AM (y9nCu)

7 Maybe should have gone with actual regime change since the accusations of it were going to be the default from the left anyway.

Posted by: rechill at January 08, 2026 11:04 AM (K1zyu)

8 Send them our Constitution and Bill of Rights, since we’re not using it

Posted by: Common Tater at January 08, 2026 11:04 AM (5Td2u)

9 MONKEY!

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 08, 2026 11:05 AM (zjgNU)

10 You can't vote your way out of Communism.

It remains to be seen if you can yoink your way out.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 11:05 AM (06Hmj)

11 7 Maybe should have gone with actual regime change since the accusations of it were going to be the default from the left anyway.

Posted by: rechill at January 08, 2026 11:04 AM (K1zyu)

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Or...not doing that.

Leaving a relatively stable but amenable tyranny > erupting chaos across the entire nation.

Just toppling a regime is what led to open air slave markets in Libya.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 11:06 AM (GBKbO)

12 10 You can't vote your way out of Communism.

It remains to be seen if you can yoink your way out.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 11:05 AM (06Hmj)

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Argentina seems to have done it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 11:06 AM (GBKbO)

13 4 Corgis called
Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 11:02 AM (6mogZ)
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Were-corgis?

Posted by: Zombie Queen Elizabeth at January 08, 2026 11:07 AM (36PRH)

14 Argentina seems to have done it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 11:06 AM (GBKbO)

"Afuera" is Spanish for "yoink", isn't it?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 11:07 AM (06Hmj)

15
It's your country, you figure it out, but don't make us come back unless you like being curb-stomped, bitch.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 08, 2026 11:07 AM (y9nCu)

16 I think there's "wheels within wheels" in regard to Venezuela. What we see 30 days from now isn't necessarily what we're going to see 180 days from now.

Posted by: Crusader at January 08, 2026 11:07 AM (TN0g+)

17 I listened to Machado's praising of Trump when taking about her Nobel prize win on legacy media. The woke reporter interviewing her looked like she'd just eaten a lemon. It was brilliant.

Lots of days left to see how this goes.

Praying Iran is next!

Posted by: LizLem at January 08, 2026 11:08 AM (gWBY1)

18 Exactly. Thank you.

Posted by: MCPR at January 08, 2026 11:08 AM (vgS+E)

19 >>> Argentina seems to have done it

With the power of "Afuera!"

Posted by: LizLem at January 08, 2026 11:09 AM (gWBY1)

20 Our goal EVERWHERE ought not to be a democracy or a republic, but stability, rule of law, and justice.


There is absolutely nothing laudable about Democracy. It is a form of government that can work, but the ought never to be the goal, as democracy can be a terrible form of government. (Two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.)

Good government is the goal, no matter the form.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 08, 2026 11:09 AM (zjgNU)

21 There corgis!

Posted by: Bulg at January 08, 2026 11:09 AM (77rzZ)

22 Just toppling a regime is what led to open air slave markets in Libya.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen

How much for the leetle girl?

Posted by: Sheik Yerbouti at January 08, 2026 11:09 AM (oftw2)

23 It should be remembered that the Venezuelan people voted overwhelmingly for the communists with the hope that the communists would rob the rich and give them the spoils.

Posted by: Speller at January 08, 2026 11:09 AM (pSotA)

24 What kind of a name is Delcy anyway? If she has two brain cells to rub together she’ll probably do generally what we want (having witnessed what happened to Maduro)… don’t care what she says; her actions matter

Stop the drugs; take the oil

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 08, 2026 11:10 AM (xT8gx)

25 Were-corgis?

Posted by: Zombie Queen Elizabeth at January 08, 2026 11:07 AM (36PRH)
No.

There corgis.

There castle!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 08, 2026 11:10 AM (/F96d)

26 It would seem Venezuela has a good crop of hawt chicks. Let's hold on to this for a while.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 08, 2026 11:10 AM (pLaQB)

27 Willard, but reposting because .45 ACP is important:

Posted by: RI Red at January 08, 2026 10:52 AM (7PD8l)

.45ACP FMJ!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 08, 2026 10:59 AM (n9ltV)

Remarkably, that is what I have on my hip right now breaking in a new holster.
And I’m headed to the range momentarily to see how the new tritium sights work.

All because “someone” caliber-shamed me recently!

Posted by: RI Red at January 08, 2026 11:11 AM (tez/p)

28 with the hope that the communists would rob the rich and give them the spoils.
Posted by: Speller

They didn't realize that they were the rich until it was too late.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 08, 2026 11:11 AM (jjoN6)

29 I have to say that leaving the next-in-line in charge is a good move.

It makes it clear that THIS ISN'T OUR PROBLEM. You want a better government, Venezuelans? You need to deal with it. We took out the guy giving us problems, with a warning for who comes next.

You need to work out your own problems.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 08, 2026 11:11 AM (zjgNU)

30 The decision is because we do not want to send a bunch of troops to Caracas to maintain order in a total regime change.

The stupidity of trying to run a country inevitably turns the locals against the occupying power. Better to simply require what we need, no terrorist support, no narco trafficking, no bothering neighbors by threats of invasion and the critical oil money is used to benefit Venezuelans directly rather than stashed in Swiss bank accounts of fat generals, or to benefit China, Cuba, Iran, or Russia.

Machado has to win the support of Venezuelans, you can't just give it to her in order to govern without American troops on the ground.

Like Iraq would have been far better off and a lot of US troops alive and unmaimed if we simply knocked of Saddam (popular among the Iraquis) rather than try to fashion Iraq into a democracy. That fantasy directly costs blood, lives, and treasure of the US to no avail.

The only difference is Meet the New Boss, Just the Same as the Old Boss running Iraq.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 11:11 AM (WDjG6)

31 The Trump administration's assumption that Delcy Rodríguez is the correct choice to maintain some semblance of continuity in government is an odd one, since she is simply a reflection of Maduro's fanatical anti-Americanism, and a willing participant in the evil perpetrated by the communist government. Hopefully she will be kept on a very short leash as the Venezuelan people do the work to dismantle communism. But even if Rodríguez remains in power, as long as our national security interests proceed, that is up to the people of Venezuela to remedy.

The real question is whether a communist dictatorship is structurally capable of functioning as an honest player on the world stage.

The key is to take away the power of other countries (Iran, Cuba, China, Russia) to prop up the Venezuelan thugs. Trump is working on all of these, as opposed to his predecessor's attempts to conduct regime change in a vacuum.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 08, 2026 11:12 AM (Riz8t)

32 I'm not sure it matters, now, who's in charge in VZ. We've achieved the goals stated by the administration. We're going to leverage the oil fields to our advantage.

Not China's, not Russia's and not Iran's.

And will continue to interdict drugs.

And sent a "sternly worded message" to Mexico.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 08, 2026 11:12 AM (NwnyJ)

33 Agree with the post. Keep blowing up the drug boats and intercepting the oil tankers. Leave the Venezuelans to their own affairs. Encourage democratic elections but let them choose (and fight for) their own destiny.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 08, 2026 11:12 AM (g8Ew8)

34 I wondered about them putting Delcy Rodriguez in charge also...I haven't liked what she has been saying.. I imagine we have "watchers" on her and she knows she will suffer the same fate as Maduro if she doesn't play ball...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2026 11:13 AM (VE6XX)

35
You can't vote your way out of Communism.

It remains to be seen if you can yoink your way out.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Yoinky Go Home

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 08, 2026 11:13 AM (pkeXY)

36 The official US government definition of Democracy 100 years ago was “Rule by the masses. Results in license, agitation, discontent. Mobocracy. Attitude towards property communistic”

After World War II it was all benign, Aunt Bee euphemistic bullshit. An official change of the Narrative. The AFRTS equivalent of Ad Council would have these glowing pronouncements “In a Democracy, a Dictator can’t take over. The people won’t allow it.” Sure, Jan

Posted by: Common Tater at January 08, 2026 11:14 AM (SSuxC)

37 And sent a "sternly worded message" to Mexico.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 08, 2026 11:12 AM (NwnyJ)

Who must have been listening since I see they have refused to send more oil to Cuba...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2026 11:14 AM (VE6XX)

38 I imagine we have "watchers" on her and she knows she will suffer the same fate as Maduro if she doesn't play ball...
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Don't make Marco Rubio put on his zipper boots. Just don't do that.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 08, 2026 11:14 AM (pLaQB)

39 Machado's presence in Venezuela will be a perfect focus for the people's efforts to overthrow the communist structures of government and the military. She is far too public and well known a figure for the current dictator to arrest and kill her, and she can be a continual reminder of their manipulation of the 2024 presidential election."

If she goes back, she needs to be extremely cautious. She may too big to be arrested, but she's not too big to be assassinated by a government sniper - remember Benigno Aquino, Philippines, 1983? And there are many other examples. We need her to stay alive until a transition can be accomplished.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2026 11:14 AM (uWKK8)

40 People won’t give a shit whether we try to implement a Jeffersonian democracy.

They’ll care how much time, lives and money we spend jacking with Venezuela and whether Venezuela ends up more screwed up.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 08, 2026 11:14 AM (jbnUc)

41 All because “someone” caliber-shamed me recently!
Posted by: RI Red

So when are you going to do something about it?

Posted by: 500 S&W at January 08, 2026 11:14 AM (36bTp)

42 >>>yum yum shit
yummy shit pebbles
in my mouth

I think Venezuela is more cocaine.

Allowing? Yes, Hegseth blowing up drug boats and getting calls for his arrest over it tells me that he and Trump are so, so pro fentanyl. My take on it there's so much flowing in, and it takes a long time to find and shut down all the pipelines. Especially when the previous admin did nothing.

Posted by: LizLem at January 08, 2026 11:14 AM (gWBY1)

43 I think unfortunately Trump is going to back whoever promises the best oil deal.

Which means we’ll probably be back at square one as soon as Trump leaves office.

Maduro was Chavez guy and the current bitch in charge is Maduro hand picked VP. She should not even be considered.

Real problem is Venezuela loves communism

Posted by: Maroon at January 08, 2026 11:15 AM (JPwyH)

44 I'm shocked!

NYC's Mamdani Says Something Completely Reckless About the Minneapolis ICE Shooting

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani
@NYCMayor
his morning, an ICE agent murdered a woman in Minneapolis—only the latest horror in a year full of cruelty.
As ICE attacks our neighbors across America, it is an attack on us all. New York stands with immigrants today, and every day that follows.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 08, 2026 11:16 AM (L/fGl)

45 25 What kind of a name is Delcy anyway? If she has two brain cells to rub together she’ll probably do generally what we want (having witnessed what happened to Maduro)… don’t care what she says; her actions matter

Stop the drugs; take the oil
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

Realism is accepting that the VP and her brother (head of the legislature) has some power in Venezuela. Her swearing in was based on the Venezuelan Supreme Court. Neither Gonzalez, oppo leader on the ticket cheated out of victory nor Machado, who did not even appear on the ballot, have any levers of power unless US troops are on the ground to protect them.

That starts the same mess that the US have done time and again. What the US is best at is preventing outsiders like Russia, China, etc. from exerting much influence to keep rotten leaders in power and a narrow focus on controlling oil revenues means that it relies on the US Navy for enforcement, not the men in camo. That oil money is how the rotten POS leaders in Venezuela kept power and if that money is no longer controlled by them, automatically less power to pay their thuggish underlings.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 11:16 AM (WDjG6)

46 Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani
@NYCMayor
his morning, an ICE agent murdered a woman in Minneapolis—only the latest horror in a year full of cruelty.
As ICE attacks our neighbors across America, it is an attack on us all. New York stands with immigrants today, and every day that follows.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 08, 2026 11:16 AM (L/fGl)

Sue his ass off for libel.

He hasn't been convicted of murder.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 11:16 AM (06Hmj)

47 Like Iraq would have been far better off and a lot of US troops alive and unmaimed if we simply knocked of Saddam
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It’s not a matter of electing the right people. Just make damn sure even the wrong people do the right thing.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 08, 2026 11:17 AM (SSuxC)

48 You can't vote your way out of Communism.

It remains to be seen if you can yoink your way out.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Yoinky Go Home
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 08, 2026 11:13 AM (pkeXY)

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Didn't JJ used to live in Yoinkers?

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 11:17 AM (IpnJw)

49 You can't vote your way out of Communism.

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NYC?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 08, 2026 11:17 AM (L/fGl)

50 That oil money is how the rotten POS leaders in Venezuela kept power and if that money is no longer controlled by them, automatically less power to pay their thuggish underlings.
Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 11:16 AM (WDjG6)

If they're going to have a rotten, crooked hegemon who's a thorn in the world's backside, it had damn well better be us.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 11:18 AM (06Hmj)

51 47 Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani
@NYCMayor
his morning, an ICE agent murdered a woman in Minneapolis—only the latest horror in a year full of cruelty.
As ICE attacks our neighbors across America, it is an attack on us all. New York stands with immigrants today, and every day that follows.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 08, 2026 11:16 AM (L/fGl)

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You know...interfering with federal law enforcement while doing their lawful duty to execute the laws of the nation that were passed by Congress and signed into law by the president and affirmed by the judiciary seems like some kind of lawlessness that shouldn't be encouraged.

But that's just me.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 11:18 AM (GBKbO)

52 yum yum shit
yummy shit pebbles
in my mouth

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at January 08, 2026 11:09 AM (yMxXU)
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First of all, you're either a liar or a sucker - or both.

Second, tell us how you don't understand the basic economic laws of supply and demand without telling us.

https://tinyurl.com/559mpdkc

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 08, 2026 11:18 AM (/F96d)

53 Sue his ass off for libel.

He hasn't been convicted of murder.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 11:16 AM (06Hmj)

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Beat me to it.

And throw in Tampon Tim and Faggot Frey.

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 11:18 AM (IpnJw)

54 >>> Don't make Marco Rubio put on his zipper boots. Just don't do that.

I can't wait to see what cute new outfit the memers put on Rubio today. It's like playing with a paper doll.

Also can't wait to see what fresh hell we get from mamdami's brilliant new staffers. The rental czar lady running away crying from a camera yesterday, being called out on the hypocrisy of wanting collective houses when her fam owns a million dollar house, was chef's kiss.

Mamdami knows how to pick them!

Posted by: LizLem at January 08, 2026 11:19 AM (gWBY1)

55 Don't quote A.S.S. in your comments!

Posted by: IrishEi at January 08, 2026 11:19 AM (3ImbR)

56 >>I imagine we have "watchers" on her and she knows she will suffer the same fate as Maduro if she doesn't play ball...

I agree with you. Trump's comment in his first presser following the extraction of Maduro saying there was a second wave that wasn't required and "probably won't be required."

That "probably" was a message to Delcy.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 08, 2026 11:19 AM (Y1sOo)

57 Thx CBD, good post.
The Columbian president is now talking about coming to the White House to discuss issues. Speak hugely and carry a big stick

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 08, 2026 11:19 AM (ScJGb)

58 It’s not a matter of electing the right people. Just make damn sure even the wrong people do the right thing.
Posted by: Common Tater at January 08, 2026 11:17 AM (SSuxC)

Precisely.

Which is why the Libya thing still makes me angry.

Kadaffi was a bad guy, no argument.

But he was a bad guy who listened to our warnings and gave up his nuclear ambitions.

And then we killed him for it.

Brilliant move, Killary and Obama. That really taught him a lesson never to trust the US! (And every other dictator.)

(This is, of course, leaving out the fact that Libya is MUCH worse off now and a center for global terror and oppression. Just an absolute foreign policy win, there.)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 08, 2026 11:20 AM (zjgNU)

59 Goldie Ghamari is live on YouTube with the Iranian Revolution.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 11:20 AM (6mogZ)

60 You know...interfering with federal law enforcement while doing their lawful duty to execute the laws of the nation that were passed by Congress and signed into law by the president and affirmed by the judiciary seems like some kind of lawlessness that shouldn't be encouraged.

But that's just me.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 11:18 AM (GBKbO)

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"We don't recognize The White Supremacy Clause, h8r! And we likely have five femmes on the SCOTUS who agree with us ..."

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 11:20 AM (IpnJw)

61 Trump hasn't been free of Maduro two weeks. There are many loose ends will either unravel or be tied up. Both of these things must happen before stability can begin.

Let them work it out. Trump is instituting order in a more organic fashion. Work. Eleven ships carrying VZ tar are on their way to the US. Venezuelans were busy working (making money) doing all the things necessary to load those ships and put them out to sea.
Foundational respect is where it begins.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 08, 2026 11:21 AM (gIcAo)

62 Sue his ass off for libel.

He hasn't been convicted of murder.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 11:16 AM (06Hmj)

Oh they're gonna try.. Minneapolis has closed the schools for the rest of the week.. They are trying to make this St. George Floyd 2...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2026 11:21 AM (VE6XX)

63 57 I agree with you. Trump's comment in his first presser following the extraction of Maduro saying there was a second wave that wasn't required and "probably won't be required."

That "probably" was a message to Delcy.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 08, 2026 11:19 AM (Y1sOo)

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She's also been grovelling in negotiations, agreeing with everything our negotiators have demanded.

Latest I heard was an agreement to only buy US goods with oil money.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 11:21 AM (GBKbO)

64 Spot on, CBD. They can kill Machado though.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 08, 2026 11:21 AM (sDNVV)

65 Didn't JJ used to live in Yoinkers?
Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 11:17 AM
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Manhattan. But raised in Flushing I think.

Posted by: IrishEi at January 08, 2026 11:21 AM (3ImbR)

66 Real problem is Venezuela loves communism
Posted by: Maroon
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We cannot fix other countries. Wilson was a stupid idiot for even suggesting it with his War to End All Wars.

So like back in teh Cold War, we reward countries that toe the line (don't bother the neighbors or US citizens, don't support terrorists, don't screw with int'l trade, etc. and we won't decapitate teh regime.

Nation building was off teh table in places like Chile, Grenada, Lebanon, or Argentina.

Pointy heads think they can fix the world but only if they have the blood and treasure from teh US. We don't have the money, nor should be willing to spend the blood of troops to provide what will be ungrateful Venezuelans a government.

We can, however, with credible authority, tell Venezuelan leaders that if they make a nuisance of themselves, we won't invade but will instead personalize the accountability for those leaders and they will end up like Maduro.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 11:21 AM (WDjG6)

67 Don't quote A.S.S. in your comments!

Posted by: IrishEi at January 08, 2026 11:19 AM (3ImbR)
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I'll put a hole on further response to him.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 08, 2026 11:21 AM (/F96d)

68 61 "We don't recognize The White Supremacy Clause, h8r! And we likely have five femmes on the SCOTUS who agree with us ..."

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 11:20 AM (IpnJw)

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More accurate:

"Did you read Jackson's fire dissent? You guys are so wrong!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 11:22 AM (GBKbO)

69 >>> 56 Don't quote A.S.S. in your comments!
Posted by: IrishEi at January 08, 2026 11:19 AM (3ImbR)

Worth repeating.

Stop quoting the timwalzes, you bunch of Morons!!!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 11:22 AM (ULPxl)

70 She is far too public and well known a figure for the current dictator to arrest and kill her
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That's optimistic.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 08, 2026 11:22 AM (s0JqF)

71 Warner Bros. Discovery Has Rejected Paramount Skydance’s Latest Takeover Bid

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I saw a YT yesterday that said WB cancelled a hyped Hogwart's Legacy DLC because they don't want works in progress to complicate their buyout negotiations. It's always the innocent who suffer.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 08, 2026 11:22 AM (L/fGl)

72 68 I'll put a hole on further response to him.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 08, 2026 11:21 AM (/F96d)

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Just wait until his real comments materialize.

Go back and see now what he really meant to say.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 11:23 AM (GBKbO)

73 12 10 You can't vote your way out of Communism.

It remains to be seen if you can yoink your way out.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 11:05 AM (06Hmj)

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Argentina seems to have done it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 11:06 AM (GBKbO)
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Peronism isn't Communism. Not every bad government is.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 08, 2026 11:23 AM (s0JqF)

74 The problem Trump and Rubio face in Venezuela is that it there are 3 centers of power that run the country in a loose triumvirate. They all supported Maduro (for their own reasons) but none of them support each other so much.
Delcy Rodriguez runs the Executive and Legislative branches, and most of the official economy.

Vladimir Padrino Lopez runs the Army, and the Generals who make up the Cartel de los Soles. He tolerates Rodriguez, but does not take orders from her, and since he controls most of the guns she doesn't dare challenge him. (but he took a big fall in status when his military got their butts kicked)

Most dangerous man in Venezuela is the Interior Minister Diosdado Caballo. He runs the secret police and all the paramilitary police who control the people on a street by street level. He is seldom seen in public, since the US has already placed a $25 million bounty on his head. But he could bring the entire country into absolute chaos if he chose. Delcy has probably been chosen in the belief that she is the only one that can keep him in check.

Machado is a wonderful person, but she does not have a hope of controlling any of these three.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2026 11:23 AM (uWKK8)

75 >>> New York stands with immigrants today, and every day that follows.

Mamdami stands with the foreign immigrants that were the bulk of his votes. Apparently native born New Yorkers don't vote for him.

Michael rappaport announced he'll run for NYC mayor in the next cycle, he's a born and bred New Yorker and he's fed up with all this. He's Hollywood nuts, but a better nuts than Mamdami. And is willing to be vocally, unapologetically pro Israel at a time when that gets you canceled in Hollywood. So maybe he's the type of nut NYC needs?

Posted by: LizLem at January 08, 2026 11:23 AM (gWBY1)

76 How do we maintain control of oil distribution and finances without getting pulled in?

Posted by: Kratwurst at January 08, 2026 11:23 AM (tmARj)

77 72 Warner Bros. Discovery Has Rejected Paramount Skydance’s Latest Takeover Bid

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I saw a YT yesterday that said WB cancelled a hyped Hogwart's Legacy DLC because they don't want works in progress to complicate their buyout negotiations. It's always the innocent who suffer.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 08, 2026 11:22 AM (L/fGl)

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Netflix's pricing of WB didn't include WB Gaming at all, for some reason.

The whole situation is stupid and probably all about favoritism, which isn't supposed to be allowed in these kinds of things.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 11:24 AM (GBKbO)

78 Wow.

Translating from the original Timwalzese into Human, even where quoted?

That's dedication.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 11:24 AM (06Hmj)

79 Mamdani's going to have an opinion on every little thing that goes down. Inside and out of NYC.

Everything. He'll let you know how he feels. And what he'd do if he had any gumption whatsoever.

Then do nothing. Because he's impotent.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 08, 2026 11:24 AM (NwnyJ)

80 ‘ NYC's Mamdani Says Something’

Let me take this moment to thank everyone for their tireless efforts in making sure I always know what this little brown cock gobbler is saying.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 08, 2026 11:25 AM (jbnUc)

81 Oh they're gonna try.. Minneapolis has closed the schools for the rest of the week.. They are trying to make this St. George Floyd 2...
Posted by: It's me donna


But a rich, white lesbo isnt going to generate nearly as much fake outrage as a male black druggie thug.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 08, 2026 11:25 AM (W2Pud)

82 80 Mamdani's going to have an opinion on every little thing that goes down. Inside and out of NYC.

Everything. He'll let you know how he feels. And what he'd do if he had any gumption whatsoever.

Then do nothing. Because he's impotent.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 08, 2026 11:24 AM (NwnyJ)

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I'm still waiting for him to make World Cup tickets equitable.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 11:25 AM (GBKbO)

83 82 Oh they're gonna try.. Minneapolis has closed the schools for the rest of the week.. They are trying to make this St. George Floyd 2...
Posted by: It's me donna


But a rich, white lesbo isnt going to generate nearly as much fake outrage as a male black druggie thug.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 08, 2026 11:25 AM (W2Pud)

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Especially once people read her poetry.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 11:25 AM (GBKbO)

84 Reposting some happy news from earlier, in case people didn't see it...

Via WSJ

U.S. Trade Deficit Unexpectedly Falls to Lowest Level Since 2009

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 08, 2026 11:26 AM (gDbHk)

85 >>> 83 80 Mamdani's going to have an opinion on every little thing that goes down. Inside and out of NYC.

Everything. He'll let you know how he feels. And what he'd do if he had any gumption whatsoever.

Then do nothing. Because he's impotent.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 08, 2026 11:24 AM (NwnyJ)

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I'm still waiting for him to make World Cup tickets equitable.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 11:25 AM (GBKbO)

Whatever for? So you can go throw green dildos at the soccer players???

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 11:26 AM (ULPxl)

86 I'm still waiting for him to make World Cup tickets equitable.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Any word on tax payer subsidized Super Bowl tickets?

Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 11:26 AM (/HZvU)

87 Peronism isn't Communism. Not every bad government is.
Posted by: Eeyore at January 08, 2026 11:23 AM (s0JqF)

True. Many are nothing but tinpot dictatorships. I.E. - Africa.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 08, 2026 11:26 AM (g8Ew8)

88 Do as we suggest or we come back again.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 08, 2026 11:27 AM (xvV+O)

89 Especially once people read her poetry.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 11:25 AM (GBKbO)
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*** Vogons have entered the chat... ***

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 08, 2026 11:27 AM (ESVrU)

90 86
I'm still waiting for him to make World Cup tickets equitable.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 11:25 AM (GBKbO)

Whatever for? So you can go throw green dildos at the soccer players???

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 11:26 AM (ULPxl)

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I just want the homeless of NYC to have the same opportunity to spend $30 on a beer as anyone else.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 11:27 AM (GBKbO)

91 >>>But he was a bad guy who listened to our warnings and gave up his nuclear ambitions.

And then we killed him for it.
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Murdered along with how many Americans?
Americans fighting and waiting for help from seamen, airmen, and soldiers that were ordered to stand down.
The head of AfricaCorp was transferred never to be heard again.
The Admiral in the Indian Ocean? who was readying planes was moved and either retired or demoted.
The General in Germany who was readying rescue was moved or demoted.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 08, 2026 11:27 AM (gIcAo)

92 88 Peronism isn't Communism. Not every bad government is.
Posted by: Eeyore at January 08, 2026 11:23 AM (s0JqF)

True. Many are nothing but tinpot dictatorships. I.E. - Africa.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 08, 2026 11:26 AM (g8Ew

They got a pill for that now.

Posted by: Bill from chappaqua at January 08, 2026 11:27 AM (i0Hi3)

93 Sue his ass off for libel.

He hasn't been convicted of murder.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

"But he's sooooo dreamy!" -The left's response.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 08, 2026 11:28 AM (jjoN6)

94 Kamala, 2028: "We must return Maduro to power so that the Venezuelans who self-deported after his fall come back and we can pay for their trans-surgeries."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 11:28 AM (GBKbO)

95 "The Trump administration's assumption that Delcy Rodríguez is the correct choice to maintain some semblance of continuity in government is an odd one, since she is simply a reflection of Maduro's fanatical anti-Americanism, and a willing participant in the evil perpetrated by the communist government."
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Not odd to me at all. It was a good move. Machado has to earn her way to a leadership position - assembling leaders ready to lead an entire country. The last thing the US wants is a full-scale civil war in Venezuela. Meanwhile, Rodriguez owns the misery index - none of the sanctions imposed on the Maduro government have been lifted. Venezuela is even now cutting back on oil exports. Constant, even increasing pressure on Rodriguez will make political change even more attractive in the country.

From what I've read, none of the sanctions imposed on Maduro have been lifted. The Venezuela misery index is all on Rodriguez. Marchado

Posted by: mrp at January 08, 2026 11:28 AM (rj6Yv)

96 It’s a step in the right direction. Let’s keep moving in that direction for the next 7 years and see what we can do.

Posted by: High tech at January 08, 2026 11:28 AM (37cEZ)

97 The lesbian domestic terrorist drove an evil gas guzzling SUV. Which I find hilarious.

Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 11:28 AM (/HZvU)

98 >>> 91

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I just want the homeless of NYC to have the same opportunity to spend $30 on a beer as anyone else.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 11:27 AM (GBKbO)

Silly TJM, Ace has his own marinade for hobo meat.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 11:28 AM (ULPxl)

99 Don't make Marco Rubio put on his zipper boots. Just don't do that.
Posted by: Pudinhead

We don't even make size 5 men's boots.

Posted by: Thom McCan.. at January 08, 2026 11:29 AM (oftw2)

100 But a rich, white lesbo isnt going to generate nearly as much fake outrage as a male black druggie thug.

Walz and Frey are total badasses, so we'll have to be super cautious about a possible counterattack from all their troops. They make the SS look like pussies.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 08, 2026 11:29 AM (Riz8t)

101 Oh, the World Cup thing reminds me. I kept hearing good things about Ted Lasso so I gave it a whirl.

First episode is great, and the characters were sharply hilarious. First season was ok.

Second season they've sharpened all the edges off the characters and everyone is precious and talks like Ted now. It's so twee and woke. Don't think I'm going to bother finishing the series.

Posted by: LizLem at January 08, 2026 11:29 AM (gWBY1)

102 Argentina seems to have done it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 11:06 AM (GBKbO)
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Peronism isn't Communism. Not every bad government is.
Posted by: Eeyore at January 08, 2026 11:23 AM (s0JqF)

Not to mention that the previous government had put yearly inflation up to 180%, and was promising that with work they thought they could get it down to 120% per year.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2026 11:29 AM (uWKK8)

103 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. I picked a hell of a day to sleep in and miss the art thread.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 08, 2026 11:29 AM (2WIwB)

104 I wondered about them putting Delcy Rodriguez in charge also...I haven't liked what she has been saying.. I imagine we have "watchers" on her and she knows she will suffer the same fate as Maduro if she doesn't play ball...
Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2026 11:13 AM (VE6XX)

Delcy needs to be convinced that her only way forward is to ally with the regular military, exterminate the remainder of the Chavista thugs, hold a free and fair election, and then beat feet with her ill-gotten millions.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 08, 2026 11:29 AM (8zz6B)

105 Tom Selleck Plots TV Comeback at 80 After “Blue Bloods” Cancellation

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Old Man and the Sea?
Methuselah?
Bubba Hotep?


Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 08, 2026 11:29 AM (L/fGl)

106 Brilliant move, Killary and Obama. That really taught him a lesson never to trust the US! (And every other dictator.)
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What if they accomplished something … completely different than what you’re supposing? Check your premise. You are belaboring under the notion they were trying to do something good.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 08, 2026 11:30 AM (SSuxC)

107 Posted by: Martini Farmer
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J.J. missed some credits this morning.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 08, 2026 11:30 AM (gIcAo)

108 I agree with the post, but everyone should chilla outta. We dragged Maduro and his wife outta their bed like 15 minutes ago. The piss stains are still on his legs.

Of course there are gonna be big open questions as to what happens next, and almost certainly some chaos in the weeks and months that follow. I suspect that one of the Big Three currently running the country will get stabbed in the back by the other two.

I don't think Trump will made the same nation-building mistake as every other president has made in the last 100 years.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 11:30 AM (iFTx/)

109 OrangeManBad kills off another 100 million:

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Withdraws the United States from International Organizations that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States
https://shorturl.at/gem6m
White House dot gov

"The Memorandum orders all Executive Departments and Agencies to cease participating in and funding 35 non-United Nations (UN) organizations and 31 UN entities that operate contrary to U.S. national interests, security, economic prosperity, or sovereignty."

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 11:30 AM (ULPxl)

110 The lesbian domestic terrorist drove an evil gas guzzling SUV. Which I find hilarious.
Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 11:28 AM

It wasn't even a Subaru. Talk about letting the side down.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 08, 2026 11:30 AM (kgE5c)

111 The real problem with "nation building" is the same as the problem with rehabilitating perverts and criminals. We don't know how. So until someone can clearly demonstrate that, it's pointless.

Unfortunately, the post WWII history of Japan and Germany made people more optimistic than it should have.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 08, 2026 11:31 AM (s0JqF)

112 Goldie Ghamari is live on YouTube with the Iranian Revolution.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 11:20 AM (6mogZ)

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Am I the only one who heard that in the high-pitched voice of Ruby Rhod (comedic actor Chris Tucker) from The Fifth Element?

/Yeah, my mind works in mysterious ways ... it's all right, it's all right, right now.

[BTW, and I've mentioned this before here: my freshman year of college ('79-'80) at a small private liberal arts college in SoCal, my best friend was an Armenian Christian classmate and fellow athlete whose parents had escaped Iran and loved America. Following the Revolution there and the taking of American Embassy hostages, I was flabbergasted that throughout that year he was taunted and threatened by other students -- most of whom were trust fund whitebread babies simply talking tough.

It all ended when a mostly drunken literal mob confronted us on campus one evening (I took it upon myself to be his protector and bodyguard) and they were sceaming "USA! USA! USA!"

And we both joined in ...]

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 11:31 AM (IpnJw)

113 More good news from the Venezuela Operation

Cuba’s Long-Suffering Economy Is Now in ‘Free Fall’
With widespread power outages, medicine shortages and rising food prices, experts say Cuba’s economy has never been worse, with the crisis coming just as the supply of Venezuelan oil is threatened.

https://archive.is/ranNf

Posted by: Oglebay at January 08, 2026 11:31 AM (2ap+5)

114 102 Oh, the World Cup thing reminds me. I kept hearing good things about Ted Lasso so I gave it a whirl.

First episode is great, and the characters were sharply hilarious. First season was ok.

Second season they've sharpened all the edges off the characters and everyone is precious and talks like Ted now. It's so twee and woke. Don't think I'm going to bother finishing the series.

Posted by: LizLem at January 08, 2026 11:29 AM (gWBY1)

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Third season gets worse. The first season is the only good one.

I'm not that looking forward to the fourth, but I'll probably end up watching it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 11:31 AM (GBKbO)

115 I have to say that leaving the next-in-line in charge is a good move.

It makes it clear that THIS ISN'T OUR PROBLEM. You want a better government, Venezuelans? You need to deal with it. We took out the guy giving us problems, with a warning for who comes next.

You need to work out your own problems.

100%. Delcy isn't who we want long term but she understands now that if she does anything stupid she'll get yoinked too.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 08, 2026 11:31 AM (2ocoG)

116 I read somewhere this morning that without the graft, taxpayer-paid social programs, election cheating, and illegal immigration, the Dems would be a 20% party. I concur.

Posted by: mrp at January 08, 2026 11:31 AM (rj6Yv)

117 Where did all these rich white liberal women get their money from?

Posted by: pawn at January 08, 2026 11:31 AM (Rmqfl)

118 If they're going to have a rotten, crooked hegemon who's a thorn in the world's backside, it had damn well better be us.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Making Venezuela safe for Democracy is how you get a nasty guerilla war from the losing side and the US gets blame for doing what has to be done for their installed leaders to win. Iraq and Afghanistan told us that. Most people in any society across the world and history will always sit on their ass and cheer the winners--that is simply the way that it is.

And in a genetic sense, that is the usual smart play. Better a live coward than a dead hero.

But the US does not have to play that game here and now. Only provide clear red lines for any regime that threatens or harms us and what will happen specifically to the leaders of such government.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 11:31 AM (WDjG6)

119 Venezuelans have a history of choosing poorly so I don't expect it will be the shining city on the hill anytime soon.

Posted by: mr tmz at January 08, 2026 11:31 AM (rJ48h)

120 75
‘ Machado is a wonderful person, but she does not have a hope of controlling any of these three.’

I sure hope nothing bad happens to them.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 08, 2026 11:32 AM (jbnUc)

121 I went to a minor hockey league game a couple of years ago. Tickets were practically free, this is nice. Then I saw the beer prices. $12 for a tall boy Miler Light. Lol. And I was like OK I understand the business model now.

Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 11:32 AM (/HZvU)

122 We're upset over the lousy press we've gotten over the last 100 years. Who do we need to bribe?

Posted by: Tinpot Manufacturing Co. at January 08, 2026 11:32 AM (oftw2)

123 109 I don't think Trump will made the same nation-building mistake as every other president has made in the last 100 years.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 11:30 AM (iFTx/)

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Ignore all of the other foreign policy things Trump has done.

Concentrate only on what W did.

It's the only way to interpret what Trump is doing now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 11:32 AM (GBKbO)

124 Yah, good analysis CBD

Not only all that, but Americans don't have the attention span for anything outside of 4 years.
We wouldn't get the chance to do it right even if we
wanted to.

And I kinda want to take down Canada instead, getting sick of their bs.

Posted by: Fen at January 08, 2026 11:32 AM (ciYHQ)

125 Argentina was the 3rd wealthiest country on the planet at one time.

If the Peron regime wasn’t communist, that must be a distinction without a difference; it was “close enough for government work”.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 08, 2026 11:32 AM (SSuxC)

126 "I thought she was a healthcare executive. I swear!"

-That ICE Agent

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 11:33 AM (06Hmj)

127 117 I read somewhere this morning that without the graft, taxpayer-paid social programs, election cheating, and illegal immigration, the Dems would be a 20% party. I concur.
Posted by: mrp
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They have 22-25 percent of the population as true believers. The other half of the Democrat crime syndicate are the pay me transactional types. No money to pay them, they sit on their asses.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 11:33 AM (WDjG6)

128 Nobel Peace Prize Recipient Maria Corina Machado...

At least Obama had won an election and given a speech. Why are they pushing her upon us so hard, he asks rhetorically.

Posted by: t-bird at January 08, 2026 11:33 AM (uTrw+)

129 118 Where did all these rich white liberal women get their money from?

Posted by: pawn at January 08, 2026 11:31 AM (Rmqfl)

Their husbands who work 70 hour weeks.

Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 11:33 AM (/HZvU)

130 BTW, does anyone know who is the hot brunette sitting next to Nick Shirley in a pic I see a lot of. Sure beats Cea.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 08, 2026 11:33 AM (s0JqF)

131 129 Nobel Peace Prize Recipient Maria Corina Machado...

At least Obama had won an election and given a speech. Why are they pushing her upon us so hard, he asks rhetorically.

Posted by: t-bird at January 08, 2026 11:33 AM (uTrw+)

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Because she did win the last Venezuela election. Maduro ignored the results and kept power.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 11:33 AM (GBKbO)

132 If the Peron regime wasn’t communist, that must be a distinction without a difference; it was “close enough for government work”.
Posted by: Common Tater at January 08, 2026 11:32 AM (SSuxC)

The Peron regime was classic Fascism. Modelled on Mussolini's government, even.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2026 11:33 AM (uWKK8)

133 The extrication of Maduro just happened, Delcy Rodriguez was next in line. Everything is up in the air right now. Let things shake out for a while.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 08, 2026 11:34 AM (gIcAo)

134 129 Nobel Peace Prize Recipient Maria Corina Machado...

At least Obama had won an election and given a speech. Why are they pushing her upon us so hard, he asks rhetorically.
Posted by: t-bird at January 08, 2026 11:33 AM (uTrw+)

So they didn't have to give it to Trump ?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2026 11:34 AM (VE6XX)

135 Rubio has just been named as the manager of the Miami Dolphins.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 08, 2026 11:34 AM (viF8m)

136 122 I went to a minor hockey league game a couple of years ago. Tickets were practically free, this is nice. Then I saw the beer prices. $12 for a tall boy Miler Light. Lol. And I was like OK I understand the business model now.
Posted by: Really??

We're fully on board.

Posted by: Nine Dollar Pretzel Co. at January 08, 2026 11:34 AM (oftw2)

137 @InsiderWire
#BREAKING: DHS, FBI, and IRS agents now going door-to-door ‘raiding Somali businesses in Minneapolis.’

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"But you have to stop because one of our dummies got themselves killed!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 11:35 AM (GBKbO)

138 Cheap Venezuelan oil should be used to replenish the Strategic Petroleum Reserve Biden's handlers depleted to try to save their worthless asses. Although since Venezuelans petroleum is low quality so maybe it can't be used?

Posted by: Ripley at January 08, 2026 11:35 AM (GUOwU)

139 The extrication of Maduro just happened, Delcy Rodriguez was next in line. Everything is up in the air right now. Let things shake out for a while.


Nope. Not gonna do it. Wouldn't be prudent. Imma move directly to hysterical despair.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 08, 2026 11:35 AM (Riz8t)

140 the CIA pushed for Delcy.

I do not trust the CIA.

it was a mistake; it's still early enough to rectify. I think smart people on our side have noticed she SUCKS

she's also an evil bitch

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 08, 2026 11:35 AM (emBoF)

141 OrangeManBad kills off another 100 million:

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Withdraws the United States from International Organizations that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States
https://shorturl.at/gem6m
White House dot gov

"The Memorandum orders all Executive Departments and Agencies to cease participating in and funding 35 non-United Nations (UN) organizations and 31 UN entities that operate contrary to U.S. national interests, security, economic prosperity, or sovereignty."

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 11:30 AM (ULPxl)

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Saw that last night [h/t Wifey] and when you read the list of grifter "organizations" listed in that EO to which we were tied and undoubtedly funded -- I mean it's like at least a hundred random-generated leftist-drivel names out of a Monty Python script -- it's jaw-dropping and disgusting ... but mostly disgusting.

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 11:35 AM (IpnJw)

142 Where did all these rich white liberal women get their money from?

Posted by: pawn at January 08, 2026 11:31 AM (Rmqfl)

Their husbands who work 70 hour weeks.
Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 11:33 AM (/HZvU)
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They probably make a lot of $$ on their own. Even mid-level HR jobs in big cities are making 150-200k a year, probably more with bonus and options. Plus, everyone is a VP of something or other now, and that usually adds more salary.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 11:35 AM (iFTx/)

143 138 @InsiderWire
#BREAKING: DHS, FBI, and IRS agents now going door-to-door ‘raiding Somali businesses in Minneapolis.’

I was afraid they would back off for a while.. Glad to hear this..

Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2026 11:36 AM (VE6XX)

144 Unfortunately, the post WWII history of Japan and Germany made people more optimistic than it should have.
Posted by: Eeyore

Germany and Japan were both countries with a highly intelligent, highly educated, and highly disciplined populace, which made them easy to rebuild. Every advocate of nation-building in other countries forgets that.

Posted by: Bulg at January 08, 2026 11:36 AM (77rzZ)

145 Then I saw the beer prices. $12 for a tall boy Miller
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They used to sell binoculars that weren’t really binoculars, but a Bond style flask, for storing a 5th of booze.

Is it allowed to bring a big ass bag of your own Popcorn to a movie Theater? Probably not. F ‘em.

“Private Property” died a long, long time ago. Public Place of Accommodation, bitches

Posted by: Common Tater at January 08, 2026 11:36 AM (SSuxC)

146 ‘ Machado is a wonderful person, but she does not have a hope of controlling any of these three.’

I sure hope nothing bad happens to them.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 08, 2026 11:32 AM (jbnUc)

We've had a $25 million bounty on Caballo for years and haven't been able to touch him. Maduro was stupidly overconfident and didn't try to hide his location much.
Caballo doesn't make those mistakes, and may be the most dangerous man in South America these days.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2026 11:37 AM (uWKK8)

147 What would be the difference between a Bolivarian government and a Peronist government?

It's all just swapping the vel-cro name tags out on the uniforms.

"Set up something that looks like a liberal republic and then oppress the shit out of everyone for their own good" goes by so many names across every continent on earth, that it really doesn't matter what the various geographical and biographical distinctions are, does it?

There is Liberalism, and there is Not-Liberalism.

If we use Communist as a euphemism for Not-Liberalism, then who cares.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 11:37 AM (06Hmj)

148 It wasn't even a Subaru. Talk about letting the side down.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

As a Subaru owner, I am glad that the stereotype was not met this time around.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 08, 2026 11:37 AM (jjoN6)

149 >>> I'm not that looking forward to the fourth, but I'll probably end up watching it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 11:31 AM (GBKbO

Whoops I meant to say sanded the edges off.

Yeah, that happens with shows. I liked the first season of sandman, and am slogging through the final one. Lots of sad gods whining about their problems in boring liminal rooms. I never read the comics so I can't compare. But my word, it's so dreary now. I'm hate watching the last two episodes. I just want everyone on the show to die.

Except I do like the Joanna Constantine character. Jenna Coleman adds some needed sparkle to an otherwise dreary show.

Posted by: LizLem at January 08, 2026 11:37 AM (gWBY1)

150 I just got here, but I have to compliment CBD on today's art.

Bravo sir.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 08, 2026 11:37 AM (bIWgk)

151 inquizeX on YouTube - live feeds from Iran. Helps if you speak & understand Kurdish.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 11:37 AM (6mogZ)

152 Oh, the World Cup thing reminds me. I kept hearing good things about Ted Lasso so I gave it a whirl.

First episode is great, and the characters were sharply hilarious. First season was ok.

Second season they've sharpened all the edges off the characters and everyone is precious and talks like Ted now. It's so twee and woke. Don't think I'm going to bother finishing the series.

Posted by: LizLem at January 08, 2026 11:29 AM (gWBY1)

Third season gets worse. The first season is the only good one.

I'm not that looking forward to the fourth, but I'll probably end up watching it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 11:31 AM (GBKbO)

Ugh.

We just finished the first season. It was great. Very enjoyable.

Sorry to hear it proceeds to suck, but we'll probably keep watching anyway.

Watched all of "Pluribus". I liked it. Didn't love it.

I like the low key reveals and "cute" horror.

I hope that they end it next season or the one after. I think I know where they're going now and the story, assuming I'm correct doesn't justify ten seasons or whatever they think they can squeak out of it.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 08, 2026 11:38 AM (iJfKG)

153 149 It wasn't even a Subaru. Talk about letting the side down.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

As a Subaru owner, I am glad that the stereotype was not met this time around.
Posted by: NR Pax at January 08, 2026 11:37 AM (jjoN6)


Agreed.. My Son and Grandson both own them and we've had one or 2 Ourselves over the years... Great cars

Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2026 11:38 AM (VE6XX)

154 I liked the first season of sandman, and am slogging through the final one.

I couldn't get through a single episode. All I remember is it pushed Big Ghey.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 08, 2026 11:38 AM (Riz8t)

155 Because he's impotent.

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Former NFL offensive lineman Matt Kalil is hauling his glamorous ex-wife, model Haley Kalil, into court for what he’s calling an “invasive” breach of his most private secrets.
The 36-year-old retired Pro Bowler, known for his stints with the Minnesota Vikings and Carolina Panthers, claims Haley’s loose-lipped livestream comments about the size of his manhood have turned his life into a nightmare.
. . . .
With a flair for the dramatic, she described Matt’s manhood as measuring up to “two Coke cans, maybe even a third,” slamming it as “the biggest factor” in their marriage’s collapse.
To drive the point home, Haley flopped her arm on the table in a crude imitation, declaring, “Deada**… for our whole marriage, deada**,” and quipping that her life felt like a comedy because of it.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 08, 2026 11:38 AM (L/fGl)

156 Plus, everyone is a VP of something or other now, and that usually adds more salary.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 11:35 AM (iFTx/)

In banking that has always been the case and it was and is a joke. VP is basically a step above entry level.

American Psycho poked fun at it as well.

Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 11:38 AM (/HZvU)

157 You know who murdered a woman in Minneapolis? That totally unqualified Somalian that shot the poor woman who called the police for assistance, and shot her in the most unprofessional and reckless way imaginable. But crickets from the usual suspects.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 08, 2026 11:39 AM (xAP/Y)

158 "The Memorandum orders all Executive Departments and Agencies to cease participating in and funding 35 non-United Nations (UN) organizations and 31 UN entities that operate contrary to U.S. national interests, security, economic prosperity, or sovereignty."
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

Good start, I guess. I really just want us to withdraw from the UN entirely and kick it off our soil.

Posted by: Bulg at January 08, 2026 11:39 AM (77rzZ)

159 152 inquizeX on YouTube - live feeds from Iran. Helps if you speak & understand Kurdish.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 11:37 AM (6mogZ)

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If you know Kurdish and watch the first Iron Man, the twist is revealed in the first few minutes of the film.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 11:39 AM (GBKbO)

160 The bigger and underlying story is that Pres. Trump is ending the paralization of contraband imports from bad actors around the globe.
He has seen the fruits of this movie.
Great Britain ruined China with importation of opium and lost most of its protectorate outliers.

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at January 08, 2026 11:39 AM (WQDw6)

161 Second season of Ted Lasso in my universe would have him chopping up lines with Rebecca and trying to get her in a threesome with Beard.

Posted by: pawn at January 08, 2026 11:39 AM (Rmqfl)

162 @InsiderWire
#BREAKING: DHS, FBI, and IRS agents now going door-to-door ‘raiding Somali businesses in Minneapolis.’

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"But you have to stop because one of our dummies got themselves killed!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 11:35 AM (GBKbO)

This is the best news I've seen today.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 08, 2026 11:40 AM (zjgNU)

163 Two coke cans is kinda small I guess.

Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 11:40 AM (/HZvU)

164 141 the CIA pushed for Delcy.

I do not trust the CIA.

it was a mistake; it's still early enough to rectify. I think smart people on our side have noticed she SUCKS

she's also an evil bitch
Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 08, 2026 11:35 AM (emBoF)

The idea is that Venezuela is still such a snakepit that only an evil bitch can hope to run things and stay alive. Remember, the real goal is to try and control Venezuela *without* having to put 100,000 troops on the streets of Caracas, like we did in Baghdad. To put Machado in right now is gonna take 100,000 troops and a lot of casualties with it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2026 11:40 AM (uWKK8)

165 132 129 Nobel Peace Prize Recipient Maria Corina Machado...

At least Obama had won an election and given a speech. Why are they pushing her upon us so hard, he asks rhetorically.

Posted by: t-bird at January 08, 2026 11:33 AM (uTrw+)
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Because she did win the last Venezuela election. Maduro ignored the results and kept power.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through
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There are loyalist on the streets, there are many Chinese paid operators on the streets. Uncertainty is everywhere.

A Sandbox mistake was trying to micro manage the people. Give it time. Machado's not a dummy. The people that voted for her aren't dummies. Let the people shake it out.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 08, 2026 11:40 AM (gIcAo)

166 We can't leave the UN until Trump addresses the membership and does that "I've seen what makes you cheer" line from Rick and Morty.

Posted by: Oglebay at January 08, 2026 11:40 AM (2ap+5)

167 [For those of you -- and there were many -- who predicted this a few weeks ago, please collect your winnings:]

Eyal Yakoby
@EYakoby

BREAKING: Just two days after quitting Congress, Marjorie Taylor Greene joins The View.

You literally cannot make this up

https://is.gd/ogA1rp

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 11:40 AM (KLJj4)

168 40. If she goes back, she needs to be extremely cautious. She may too big to be arrested, but she's not too big to be assassinated by a government sniper - remember Benigno Aquino, Philippines, 1983? And there are many other examples. We need her to stay alive until a transition can be accomplished.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Its all a crap shoot.

No one is too big and, perhaps, women are still more vulnerable - unless, maybe, they're running a drug cartel. 🤷‍♀️

Indira Gandhi (India)
Benazir Bhutto (Pakistan)

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 08, 2026 11:40 AM (NFX2v)

169 Everyone who has access to the internet has known who Delcy and Jorge Rodriguez are for a very long time. They didn't just pop on the scene 15 minutes ago. They have been key leaders of the Cartel de los Soles for years. They are original Chavez gangsters.

Nobody got tricked into leaving the current structure in place at least temporarily. Nobody had a clue Trump was going to take Maduro down until he did it. There's a lot going on behind the scenes we don't know.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 08, 2026 11:40 AM (viF8m)

170 153 Watched all of "Pluribus". I liked it. Didn't love it.

I like the low key reveals and "cute" horror.

I hope that they end it next season or the one after. I think I know where they're going now and the story, assuming I'm correct doesn't justify ten seasons or whatever they think they can squeak out of it.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 08, 2026 11:38 AM (iJfKG)

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I loved Pluribus. Straight up character-based storytelling in a weird sci-fi concept.

Pluribus spending 35 minutes watching Carol be alone in Albuquerque is infinitely more compelling than Patricia Arquette staring at people in the icy north until she finds out something she already knows after 50 minutes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 11:40 AM (GBKbO)

171 We've had a $25 million bounty on Caballo for years and haven't been able to touch him. Maduro was stupidly overconfident and didn't try to hide his location much.
Caballo doesn't make those mistakes, and may be the most dangerous man in South America these days.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2026 11:37 AM (uWKK

I'm fairly certain that if we didn't try to take him alive, we would not have much problem "touching" him.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 08, 2026 11:41 AM (zjgNU)

172 Via WSJ

U.S. Trade Deficit Unexpectedly Falls to Lowest Level Since 2009
Posted by: Huck Follywood

As US quits flooding the world with dollars, expect to see some liquidity problems in other nations as they have to have some form of external currency to trade between nations.

One of the reasons of the Deep State and Oligarchs to go the opposite way. No US trade deficit, no flows to skim going in and out of the country.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 11:41 AM (WDjG6)

173 Sounds like Mossad is involved in Iran. Covertly of course.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 11:41 AM (6mogZ)

174 she's also an evil bitch
Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 08, 2026 11:35 AM (emBoF)
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An evil bitch in the Maduro hot seat. The Maduro-less junta survivors, I suspect, are cutting their exit deals with Washington, DC. The trade embargoes remain in place. They have no chips on the table. They don't even have excuses for violence - installing Machado without overwhelming military support would have given them that. The US pressure will continue to escalate until they depart.

Posted by: mrp at January 08, 2026 11:41 AM (rj6Yv)

175 Venezuelans have a history of choosing poorly so I don't expect it will be the shining city on the hill anytime soon.

USAID was "helping" most of the world choose poorly (when they weren't trying to make them gay to improve Obama's dating options), up to and including having a Hawaiian judge released from jail to lead an insurrection against Jair Bolsonaro.

Just as I keep trying to remind people that elections in blue states are more corrupt than Tim Walz picking up hundred dollar bills at a learing center, don't assume any elections are legit elsewhere in the world.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 08, 2026 11:41 AM (2ocoG)

176 @InsiderWire
#BREAKING: DHS, FBI, and IRS agents now going door-to-door ‘raiding Somali businesses in Minneapolis.’

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"But you have to stop because one of our dummies got themselves killed!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 11:35 AM (GBKbO)
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As I said yesterday, the Dead Dyke Ditty will be gone by the end of the weekend. Nobody cares about dead white dykes who kicked a bear in the nuts.

Meanwhile, while the leftwing media screeches about shiny objects like that Maryland Man cucaracha and (for a few days at least) this dead clamdigger, ICE is rounding up these rats en masse and catapulting them out of the country.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 11:41 AM (iFTx/)

177 162 Second season of Ted Lasso in my universe would have him chopping up lines with Rebecca and trying to get her in a threesome with Beard.

Posted by: pawn at January 08, 2026 11:39 AM (Rmqfl)

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We decided to watch the British show William and Mary. Rebecca shows up in the third season, but it was made 15 years earlier.

She was very hard to recognize. It's weird how work to keep a woman looking young makes her end up looking like a different person.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 11:42 AM (GBKbO)

178 What happens next is up to the people of Venezuela. I don't mind giving some material support to the better options, but I'm fine with 'Don't make me come back" as our policy. And certainly no troops there.

Posted by: Ryan Frank at January 08, 2026 11:42 AM (fgmuN)

179 And they like her because she was a Yale Fellow in 2009.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 08, 2026 11:42 AM (NFX2v)

180 @InsiderWire
#BREAKING: DHS, FBI, and IRS agents now going door-to-door ‘raiding Somali businesses in Minneapolis.’

*knock, knock* We saw your sign outside...

The ultimate spell-checkers!

Posted by: t-bird at January 08, 2026 11:42 AM (uTrw+)

181 BREAKING: Just two days after quitting Congress, Marjorie Taylor Greene joins The View.

You literally cannot make this up

https://is.gd/ogA1rp

She's obviously going to cash in before her shelf life expires in...oh, about 20 minutes.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 08, 2026 11:42 AM (Riz8t)

182 >>> 138 @InsiderWire
#BREAKING: DHS, FBI, and IRS agents now going door-to-door ‘raiding Somali businesses in Minneapolis.’

It was anecdotal, but someone that works at a twin cities airport said all the flights from Minneapolis back to Somalia or to other places are completely full of Somalies. They had never seen anything like it. And apparently one Somali was caught with $700k in gold coins trying to smuggle them out of the US.

We will never get all our stolen money back. But if all the Somalis self deport, I'm fine with that.

Posted by: LizLem at January 08, 2026 11:42 AM (gWBY1)

183 Rubio has just been named as the manager of the Miami Dolphins.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 08, 2026 11:34 AM (viF8m)

He has actually tried to settle that rumor

Marco Rubio
@marcorubio
27m
I do not normally respond to online rumors but feel the need to do so at this moment

I will not be a candidate for the currently vacant HC and GM positions with the Miami Dolphins.

While you never know what the future may bring right now my focus must remain on global events and also the precious archives of the United States of America.

Thank you
Jan 8, 2026 · 4:13 PM UTC

https://tinyurl.com/encb3waf

Posted by: Kindltot at January 08, 2026 11:42 AM (rbvCR)

184 BREAKING: Just two days after quitting Congress, Marjorie Taylor Greene joins The View.

You literally cannot make this up

https://is.gd/ogA1rp
Posted by: ShainS
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She took the ticket.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 11:43 AM (WDjG6)

185 My Son and Grandson both own them and we've had one or 2 Ourselves over the years... Great cars
Posted by: It's me donna

I have a 17 Forester and it's almost at 230K. Mind you, my commute is 50 miles one way but things are still running well.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 08, 2026 11:43 AM (jjoN6)

186 It isn’t widely known, but the old salt caverns that were used to store the petroleum reserve are not suitable for filling and emptying, filling, and emptying. filling, and emptying. Much of them are probably useless by now. That was the strategy our enemies in government utilized, for just this reason.

Everything they do is predicated on making America vulnerable, weak, ineffectual, dependent, unable to wage war if necessary, fighting amongst ourselves, and for other purposes

Posted by: Common Tater at January 08, 2026 11:43 AM (SSuxC)

187 There was a rash of Iranian nuclear scientists getting blown up in traffic in the 1990s(?). There was a conspiracy theory that Mossad might have had a hand in those projects.

Posted by: Oglebay at January 08, 2026 11:43 AM (2ap+5)

188 I'll hold my breath.

Edward Ring: How the Left and Right Can Unite to Restore Opportunity in America

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 08, 2026 11:43 AM (L/fGl)

189 Our goal in Shitinzuela is to kill commies, kill more commies and kill commies.

Then leave.

Let the little brown shitheads who live their fight over whats left.

Posted by: Divide And Leave at January 08, 2026 11:43 AM (GlDYx)

190 Meanwhile, while the leftwing media screeches about shiny objects like that Maryland Man cucaracha and (for a few days at least) this dead clamdigger, ICE is rounding up these rats en masse and catapulting them out of the country.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 11:41 AM (iFTx/)

Yes while they are screeching about their latest martyr we are kicking ass elsewhere...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2026 11:43 AM (VE6XX)

191 Seems like there's only three or four options:

-Leave Rodriguez in power
-Remove the entire leadership caste, and see who seizes the vacuum organically.
-Remove leadership and install someone of our own choice, and try to prop them up as best we can
-Conquer the entire place, declare it US soil, and install a military governor

The second and third almost amount to the same thing, and are basically the "Regime Change" model that has been demonstrated to not work.

The last one is only possible if America is willing to go Full Empire and not stop at just Venezuela. And you never go Full Empire because the moment the fire of expansion stalls out, the whole thing collapses.

So basically, we're left with leaving what's her nuts in power and holding a big, sharp sword over her head.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 11:43 AM (06Hmj)

192 When I first was promoted to project engineer I tried to hire good people of course but hit the mark few times. My real mistake was to try to change those people into good workers. Soon I figured out that it was easier and faster to take a hire and fire strategy. This worked quite well as I would get the self motivated people that were worthy of training. With far less stress.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 08, 2026 11:43 AM (xvV+O)

193 I'm familiar with the theory that our intelligence peaked during the Renaissance, and that this is dangerous territory but... we really can't improve upon the Founding Fathers and come up with a better form of government? A Republic is pretty much it?

Posted by: Fen at January 08, 2026 11:43 AM (ciYHQ)

194 Not quite apropos of anything...

Watched the new 4K of "Re-Animator" from Ignite on our new snazzy OLED brought by Santa.

Wow! It's beautiful! (for certain values of beautiful). Ignite did a fantastic job on it.

I can't believe they can make such a fantastic looking disc on "Re-Animator" whereas some of the classic Hollywood movies...uh...aren't great.

Anyway, it's a demo disc to show just how good your TV can look and sound Definitely, check it out.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 08, 2026 11:44 AM (iJfKG)

195 >30 Absolutely. Let the Venezuelans deal with either keeping Rodriguez or having another election.

Posted by: sidney at January 08, 2026 11:44 AM (Uy/WF)

196 It was anecdotal, but someone that works at a twin cities airport said all the flights from Minneapolis back to Somalia or to other places are completely full of Somalies. They had never seen anything like it. And apparently one Somali was caught with $700k in gold coins trying to smuggle them out of the US.

We will never get all our stolen money back. But if all the Somalis self deport, I'm fine with that.
Posted by: LizLem
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Should and has to be linked to denaturalization for crimes of these assholes fleeing. Otherwise a Dem administration will simply allow them back in, all sins forgiven.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 11:44 AM (WDjG6)

197 177 As I said yesterday, the Dead Dyke Ditty will be gone by the end of the weekend. Nobody cares about dead white dykes who kicked a bear in the nuts.

Meanwhile, while the leftwing media screeches about shiny objects like that Maryland Man cucaracha and (for a few days at least) this dead clamdigger, ICE is rounding up these rats en masse and catapulting them out of the country.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 11:41 AM (iFTx/)

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"We got Maryland Man free!"

"What about us?"
-600,000 forcible deportations

"Who gives a shit?"

This is how the left loses on policy, chasing narratives above all else. They have the worst governing instincts because Obama took over the party and expunged anyone who wanted to actually govern.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 11:44 AM (GBKbO)

198 G'morn, morning Morons.

Had tornado warnings this morning. Survived the threat. And the flurry of texts from our offspring about ir. And the dog barking.

Had my cell on silent, but MiladyJo's was not so I couldn't ignore it all.

Daisy Dog 🐕 needs a silent setting. 🤪

'Naders already? Early Spring. Well, some of the fruit trees are already budding.

Showered. Need coffee. What?

Posted by: mindful webworker's cell at January 08, 2026 11:44 AM (dESj/)

199 We can't leave the UN until Trump addresses the membership and does that "I've seen what makes you cheer" line from Rick and Morty.

Posted by: Oglebay at January 08, 2026 11:40 AM (2ap+5)

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""Gentlemen! I despise each and every one of you!"

[h/t Koichi Toyama (2007 candidate in the Tokyo gubernatorial election)]

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 11:45 AM (KLJj4)

200 I went to a minor hockey league game a couple of years ago. Tickets were practically free, this is nice. Then I saw the beer prices. $12 for a tall boy Miler Light. Lol. And I was like OK I understand the business model now.
Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 11:32 AM (/HZvU)

That's pretty standard "venue pricing". Same at fairs, car shows, you name it. Food and drink at the barret jackson car auction are way high.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 08, 2026 11:45 AM (8zz6B)

201 I couldn't get through a single episode. All I remember is it pushed Big Ghey.


Sandman the comic was also very very gay. The show was pretty true to the comic but the whole thing was cut short by Gaiman's Me-Too situation, which made it kind of a hot mess.

Ted Lasso just ... don't watch any season but the first. what a shame.

watching Fallout now and it's .. it's fun bc I play the games and the references/simliarities are fun. I like the main character too bc I always played "straight/good" (my husband always ends up a nasty cannibal when he plays lol so he's like her ghoul partner)

it's a good show but I dunno. kinda silly

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 08, 2026 11:45 AM (emBoF)

202 181 @InsiderWire
#BREAKING: DHS, FBI, and IRS agents now going door-to-door ‘raiding Somali businesses in Minneapolis.’

*knock, knock* We saw your sign outside...

The ultimate spell-checkers!

Posted by: t-bird at January 08, 2026 11:42 AM (uTrw+)

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But the feds aren't doing anything. It's only a lone YouTuber doing anything.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 11:45 AM (GBKbO)

203 She's also been grovelling in negotiations, agreeing with everything our negotiators have demanded.

Latest I heard was an agreement to only buy US goods with oil money.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 11:21 AM (GBKbO)

She knows that all she has to do is stay in power and wait for Democrats to regain the WH and she's in clover.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 11:45 AM (ExV1e)

204 Goldie Ghamari Live Stream

https://www.youtube.com/live/KFWc37fNG1k

IRGC disconnected internet 2 hours ago but Goldie has managed to get feeds from a Tehran neighbourhood via starlink.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at January 08, 2026 11:45 AM (kvcnI)

205 Latest from Goldie: Pahlavi says Trump is watching situation closely.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at January 08, 2026 11:46 AM (kvcnI)

206 179 What happens next is up to the people of Venezuela. I don't mind giving some material support to the better options, but I'm fine with 'Don't make me come back" as our policy. And certainly no troops there.
Posted by: Ryan Frank

Trump's doing it wrong. Where are all the contracts?

Posted by: Dubya at January 08, 2026 11:46 AM (Dv3i1)

207 195 Not quite apropos of anything...

Watched the new 4K of "Re-Animator" from Ignite on our new snazzy OLED brought by Santa.

Wow! It's beautiful! (for certain values of beautiful). Ignite did a fantastic job on it.

I can't believe they can make such a fantastic looking disc on "Re-Animator" whereas some of the classic Hollywood movies...uh...aren't great.

Anyway, it's a demo disc to show just how good your TV can look and sound Definitely, check it out.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 08, 2026 11:44 AM (iJfKG)

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They sent me that disc for free. Yes, it's a shockingly gorgeous disc.

I should be getting the 4K of Bride of Re-Animator, too.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 11:46 AM (GBKbO)

208 So basically, we're left with leaving what's her nuts in power and holding a big, sharp sword over her head.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 11:43 AM (06Hmj)

and the benefit is that while risky, that is a very low cost option for us, while the other three are all potentially very high cost options. (see Iraq, where we chose the High Cost option)

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2026 11:47 AM (uWKK8)

209 There's short-term fixes and long-term solutions. For the long term, yeah, all the Chavistas have gotta go, but for the time being some level of stability is useful as part of how you engineer that outcome. Far from ideal, no arguments, but if you're walking from Nome to Rome, that first footstep ain't taking you to France.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 08, 2026 11:47 AM (OUMaO)

210 >>She knows that all she has to do is stay in power and wait for Democrats to regain the WH and she's in clover.

That strategy doesn't seem to be working for the mullahs.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 08, 2026 11:47 AM (viF8m)

211 206 Latest from Goldie: Pahlavi says Trump is watching situation closely.
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Hey, so am I!

Posted by: The Zohan Mamadami at January 08, 2026 11:47 AM (Dv3i1)

212 145
‘ Germany and Japan were both countries with a highly intelligent, highly educated, and highly disciplined populace, which made them easy to rebuild.’

They were uniquely well suited for recovery. It makes me feel less bad about us bombing the shit out of them.
That and all the war crimes.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 08, 2026 11:47 AM (jbnUc)

213 197 Should and has to be linked to denaturalization for crimes of these assholes fleeing. Otherwise a Dem administration will simply allow them back in, all sins forgiven.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 11:44 AM (WDjG6)

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Democrats are going to make repatriating every deported illegal a central part of every campaign for the next 20 years.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 11:47 AM (GBKbO)

214 Agreed.

No more 20 year wars-turned-nation building.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 08, 2026 11:48 AM (NuV6c)

215 and the benefit is that while risky, that is a very low cost option for us, while the other three are all potentially very high cost options. (see Iraq, where we chose the High Cost option)

yes it's the least-worst option

also the people rushing in and investing in future tourism in VZ will have some amount of power/influence so. let's see how it goes.

keep things stable, hold a free/fair election, yada yada. be nice uncle USA

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 08, 2026 11:48 AM (emBoF)

216 Latest from Goldie: Pahlavi says Trump is watching situation closely.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know

In other news, sun expected to rise in East.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 08, 2026 11:48 AM (OUMaO)

217 @183 absolutely, self deport. We may not get the $ back but if they return to Somalia they'll be targets of other clans

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 08, 2026 11:48 AM (ScJGb)

218 Uhm, we just snatched the prez from a military base and people are worried. Why?

This aint your grandpa's GOP with Trump calling the shots. It's different.

Posted by: connected and litigious at January 08, 2026 11:48 AM (cS1cw)

219 IRGC disconnected internet 2 hours ago but Goldie has managed to get feeds from a Tehran neighbourhood via starlink.
Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at January 08, 2026 11:45 AM (kvcnI)

Iran's government is now arresting journalists and disconnecting the internet - but those are both very weak moves. They're focused on trying to pretend nothing is happening, but it is far too late for that.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2026 11:48 AM (uWKK8)

220 The idea is that Venezuela is still such a snakepit that only an evil bitch can hope to run things and stay alive. Remember, the real goal is to try and control Venezuela *without* having to put 100,000 troops on the streets of Caracas, like we did in Baghdad. To put Machado in right now is gonna take 100,000 troops and a lot of casualties with it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2026 11:40 AM (uWKK

the last 25 years have pretty much proved that regime change lasts as long as the US pumps huge amounts of money into that new regime.

Also, Maria Corina Machado appears to be pushed by the EU and UK as the newest best hope. At least we know Delcy Rodriguez is a snake, but at least she is a politically savvy snake

Posted by: Kindltot at January 08, 2026 11:49 AM (rbvCR)

221 194 I'm familiar with the theory that our intelligence peaked during the Renaissance, and that this is dangerous territory but... we really can't improve upon the Founding Fathers and come up with a better form of government? A Republic is pretty much it?
Posted by: Fen
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Winston Churchill comes to mind, Democracy is the worst form of government except when compared with all the others.

The major flaw in the Constitution is that political parties arose to 'fix' the separation of powers problems despite most of the Founders deploring parties (John Adams was the exception to the rule). With parties, you get the organized log rolling to overcome the difficulties in getting a law passed or some other action done. But that also introduces a temptation for the power mad, the corrupt, and the division into team Red and team Blue on process rather than results. That also leaves a large pool of people that view both parties as assholes and demotivates them to participate.

Parties enable things to get done but at the same time can and do undermine our republic.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 11:49 AM (WDjG6)

222 Marco Rubio
@marcorubio
35m
I do not normally respond to online rumors but feel the need to do so at this moment

I will not be a candidate for the currently vacant HC and GM positions with the Miami Dolphins.

While you never know what the future may bring right now my focus must remain on global events and also the precious archives of the United States of America.

Thank you

Posted by: Tonypete at January 08, 2026 11:49 AM (cYBz/)

223 Iran's government is now arresting journalists and disconnecting the internet
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2026 11:48 AM (uWKK

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I'm listening...

Posted by: Oglebay at January 08, 2026 11:50 AM (2ap+5)

224 Democrats are going to make repatriating every deported illegal a central part of every campaign for the next 20 years.

Good. That should ensure they have a nice, long stay in the wilderness.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 08, 2026 11:50 AM (Riz8t)

225 watching Fallout now and it's .. it's fun bc I play the games and the references/simliarities are fun.

I just saw something about how the games are going to be patched to have more gay in them so they match the show.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 08, 2026 11:50 AM (2ocoG)

226 Iran's government is now arresting journalists and disconnecting the internet - but those are both very weak moves.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2026 11:48 AM (uWKK

Last time they did this 5000 people were killed ...

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at January 08, 2026 11:50 AM (kvcnI)

227 the CIA pushed for Delcy.

I do not trust the CIA.

With billions at stake, they'd be fools to only control one party.

Posted by: t-bird at January 08, 2026 11:50 AM (uTrw+)

228 Julia Ioffe
@juliaioffe
Remember, there was video of January 6, too. Lots and lots of video. Way more than of this. They actually *did* assault and kill cops. But they convinced half the country that they didn’t see what they saw—or that it wasn’t that bad.
Remember all of it.

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They were stacking the bodies like cord wood.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 08, 2026 11:50 AM (L/fGl)

229 >>@InsiderWire
#BREAKING: DHS, FBI, and IRS agents now going door-to-door ‘raiding Somali businesses in Minneapolis.’


Good.
They got the message that We The People are fed up with inaction, and outraged at the large-scale theft of taxpayer money.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 08, 2026 11:50 AM (NuV6c)

230 So has Boasberg ruled yet that Maduro must be returned to VZ ? Oh and ICE must be disbanded ? I'm waiting.....

Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2026 11:50 AM (VE6XX)

231 The name Subaru sounds like some kind of sex toy.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 08, 2026 11:50 AM (pLaQB)

232 Democrats are going to make repatriating every deported illegal a central part of every campaign for the next 20 years.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen
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Yes that is why Pinochet’s helicopter rides were such a good idea.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 08, 2026 11:51 AM (xvV+O)

233 225 Democrats are going to make repatriating every deported illegal a central part of every campaign for the next 20 years.

Good. That should ensure they have a nice, long stay in the wilderness.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 08, 2026 11:50 AM (Riz8t)

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"No political party would so anything like this!"

The Italian Democrat Party pretty much has. As they have lost power over the last 15 years, they've never wavered from their open borders stances. They will not move. They are ideologically committed to open borders even though everyone knows it keeps them from power.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 11:51 AM (GBKbO)

234 231 So has Boasberg ruled yet that Maduro must be returned to VZ ? Oh and ICE must be disbanded ? I'm waiting.....
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He has been awfully quiet of late.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 08, 2026 11:51 AM (pLaQB)

235 Democrats are going to make repatriating every deported illegal a central part of every campaign for the next 20 years.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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IF those assholes are not here to illegally vote and take our money, the popularity of such is not going to be advantageous politically.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 11:51 AM (WDjG6)

236 There's a bit of a "Good luck, but I don't really give a shit what you do" vibe about it all.

Which, honestly, seems to be the general mood of the non-insane remnant of the country at large.

We didn't take out Maduro to solve Venezuela's problems. We took out Maduro to solve America's problems.

He's gone now. Don't be a problem, Delcy, and you can Cartel your Soles all the way to Miami and back. Nobody actually gives a fuck about drugs. Shoving his grimy drug dealer nose into the Grand Game is what got Your Guy schwacked.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 11:51 AM (06Hmj)

237 Crypto Rich has a more nuanced view of Venezuela than I'm hearing here.

https://youtu.be/QWt1AeU7ZYQ

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at January 08, 2026 11:52 AM (kvcnI)

238 >>@juliaioffe
Remember, there was video of January 6, too. Lots and lots of video. Way more than of this. They actually *did* assault and kill cops. But they convinced half the country that they didn’t see what they saw—or that it wasn’t that bad.
Remember all of it.


Funny, the J6 Committee didn't want to release much f it. Ask yourself why, Julia?

*I know, she's Lefty jouro, so she's reinforcing the narrative.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 08, 2026 11:52 AM (NuV6c)

239 Parties enable things to get done but at the same time can and do undermine our republic.
Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 11:49 AM (WDjG6)
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So it has ever been since the first bite of the apple.

Posted by: mrp at January 08, 2026 11:52 AM (rj6Yv)

240 So has Boasberg ruled yet that Maduro must be returned to VZ ?

No, he has instead demanded the installation of Simon Bolivar as El Jefe.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 08, 2026 11:52 AM (Riz8t)

241 What kind of a name is Delcy anyway? If she has two brain cells to rub together she’ll probably do generally what we want (having witnessed what happened to Maduro)… don’t care what she says; her actions matter

Stop the drugs; take the oil
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 08, 2026 11:10 AM (xT8gx)

I knew a chick named Anubis from Venezuela. She was a sweetheart.
I think in MX and VZ there was a fad for new and exciting names - You know, change from the paradigms of the past. Colombia tended to have pretty standard Christian names when I was there, but that may have changed in the last umpty-um years

Posted by: Kindltot at January 08, 2026 11:52 AM (rbvCR)

242 Sun unexpectedly rises in the East!

Posted by: Ken Burns, now bereft of CPB funding at January 08, 2026 11:52 AM (YjTyD)

243 I just saw something about how the games are going to be patched to have more gay in them so they match the show.


well that would be a really stupid thing to do

the show isn't gay tho. there is one girl who is supposed to be a tranny (F2M) but she's so femme looking it's just silly.

yeah the show isn't gay. it's just very sort of pinko-ish politically in the flashbacks. but that's fine, the game was like that too. and it's a confusing mess so not terribly pro-commie even still.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 08, 2026 11:52 AM (emBoF)

244 236 Democrats are going to make repatriating every deported illegal a central part of every campaign for the next 20 years.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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IF those assholes are not here to illegally vote and take our money, the popularity of such is not going to be advantageous politically.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 11:51 AM (WDjG6)

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The only people who will give the Democrat Party money will be those completely committed to open borders.

The radicalization is just going to get worse. There's nothing that will save them except an outsider coming in and taking over, and that's not happening anytime soon.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 11:53 AM (GBKbO)

245 I desperately wanted to like Pluribus. Binge Gilligan right!!

I just couldn’t. I’m not opposed to slow burn series. But this wasn’t slow burn. This was glacial pace burn.

Plus it’s like just ask the hive questions all day every day and you’ll solve the mystery. There’s no need for detective work when they will give you all the info by asking.

I liked the black French guy. He was funny.

Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 11:53 AM (/HZvU)

246
Where did all these rich white liberal women get their money from?

Posted by: pawn at January 08, 2026 11:31 AM (Rmqfl)



First Wife Alimony. Before their exes figure out that they really need a prenup for wife numbers 2-4. Which is why they also have lots of free time to organize and protest.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 08, 2026 11:53 AM (y9nCu)

247 So has Boasberg ruled yet that Maduro must be returned to VZ ?
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Boasberg is working on a ruling that Maduro is legitimate president in exile, of the USA.

Posted by: The Critocracy at January 08, 2026 11:53 AM (Dv3i1)

248 "No political party would so anything like this!"

The Italian Democrat Party pretty much has. As they have lost power over the last 15 years, they've never wavered from their open borders stances. They will not move. They are ideologically committed to open borders even though everyone knows it keeps them from power.

Well, that and Georgia Meloni is smokin'.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 08, 2026 11:53 AM (Riz8t)

249 I went to a minor hockey league game a couple of years ago. Tickets were practically free, this is nice. Then I saw the beer prices. $12 for a tall boy Miler Light. Lol. And I was like OK I understand the business model now.

Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 11:32 AM (/HZvU)

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Attended a college football game about 5 years ago and went to buy a bottle of water (yeah, it was like $5). They no longer take cash for any purposes now at any stadiums -- credit or debit cards only.

Also a decade ago was shopping around for a local dermatologist to perform a skin cancer screening. I always explain that I don't have health insurance (wifey and I, who are fortunately very healthy, refuse to participate in DeathCare ) and ask for the cash prices.

The first place I called said don't take cash -- only insurance (which is "legalized" overbilling & fraud) I LOL'd and replied "So I guess you don't want my money? Good luck with that ..." and hung-up.

Wrote a very popular Yelp review of the incident. I wonder how much other money they didn't want or get as a result ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 11:54 AM (KLJj4)

250 "The Trump administration's assumption that Delcy Rodríguez is the correct choice to maintain some semblance of continuity in government is an odd one, since she is simply a reflection of Maduro's fanatical anti-Americanism".- CBD


Haven't read the comments but ... Trump admin didn't choose her. The Venezuelan constitution did. It says the VP gets the job. Period.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at January 08, 2026 11:54 AM (2J/Lj)

251 Walz and Frey are total badasses, so we'll have to be super cautious about a possible counterattack from all their troops. They make the SS look like pussies.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 08, 2026 11:29 AM (Riz8t)

They won't fight a conventional war. They're assassins are legendary. They blend in anywhere. Any time you see a gawky, 6'5" woman with an Adam's apple you have to wonder... could that be a Walz Woman?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 11:54 AM (ExV1e)

252 yesterday just one lonely post on the blockade thing among my pals. got very little traction. today nothing.

I don't think this is a huge deal maybe just in MN

I think everyone is sick of MN honestly

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 08, 2026 11:54 AM (emBoF)

253 249 Well, that and Georgia Meloni is smokin'.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 08, 2026 11:53 AM (Riz8t)

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Dear lord, bruh.

She's an office 6. At best.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 11:54 AM (GBKbO)

254 I noted the other day, it's kind of a fascinating "Mexican Standoff" as all the criminal communist factions are waiting for some other faction to make the first move.

Which seems to be the best thing, because the people, the good guys, have been kept down so long, it's going to take them some time to organize.

It's going to be ugly, it's going to be painful, but if it's going to be lasting, the good guys in VZ need to violently set their future, with a complete destruction of the criminal communist factions.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 08, 2026 11:54 AM (HXT0k)

255 They sent me that disc for free. Yes, it's a shockingly gorgeous disc.

I should be getting the 4K of Bride of Re-Animator, too.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 11:46 AM (GBKbO)

Neat! Well, there you go. Your side gig as Mr Movie is already paying dividends.

Hey, do you just wing your videos after thinking a bit or do you more or less write out what you want to say and learn it?

Just curious. If you wing it, I'm very impressed.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 08, 2026 11:54 AM (iJfKG)

256 "when you read the list of grifter "organizations" listed in that EO to which we were tied and undoubtedly funded -- I mean it's like at least a hundred random-generated leftist-drivel names out of a Monty Python script -- it's jaw-dropping and disgusting ... but mostly disgusting."

And not a single Republican leader noticed?

Posted by: Fen at January 08, 2026 11:54 AM (ciYHQ)

257 If the CIA is behind, or supports Delcy, it's likely because they've got an "interest" in what the cartel's doing down there. And she's got connections.

It's "business."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 08, 2026 11:54 AM (NwnyJ)

258 Look at how much trouble Trump has had trying to govern with a bureaucracy that tries to hamstring at every turn. And the US is still a much more free country than Venezuela with at least a hint of constitutional order.

What good would it have done to put Machado in the presidency if the entire corrupt government hates her and would try to sabotage anything she tried to do?

On the other hand running the Iraq playbook and kicking every Chavista out of government would have given us an Iraq in our backyard. Sometimes you have to chose the least bad option in the short term and have a plan to slowly move toward an optimal outcome.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 08, 2026 11:55 AM (viF8m)

259 The voice of reason.

Chuck Todd
@chucktodd
The problem with the credibility of this current admin is that they seem to go out of their way to provoke confrontation on just about every front. Whether internationally, with Congress with DHS, with ICE, every action seems to be intended to see how far they can go before push back. And then they use the push back as rationalization to do more. It’s an ugly loop they’ve created. It’s all intentional

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 08, 2026 11:55 AM (L/fGl)

260 256 Neat! Well, there you go. Your side gig as Mr Movie is already paying dividends.

Hey, do you just wing your videos after thinking a bit or do you more or less write out what you want to say and learn it?

Just curious. If you wing it, I'm very impressed.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 08, 2026 11:54 AM (iJfKG)

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Most of what I've done so far is just regurgitating what I've already written. So, the structure is something I've already settled on.

But, otherwise, it's just me winging it. I tend to practice when I'm driving myself, alone, in a car.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 11:55 AM (GBKbO)

261 I'm pretty sure I just saw Marco Rubio in a bucket truck taking down the city Christmas decorations on the main streets of Shamokin, PA.

Posted by: Busy Fella at January 08, 2026 11:55 AM (oftw2)

262 I knew a chick named Anubis from Venezuela.

She's a favela 4.

Posted by: Anck-su-namun at January 08, 2026 11:55 AM (Riz8t)

263 All because “someone” caliber-shamed me recently!

Posted by: RI Red at January 08, 2026 11:11 AM (tez/p)

The power of John Moses Browning compels you!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 08, 2026 11:55 AM (n9ltV)

264 Watched the new 4K of "Re-Animator" from Ignite on our new snazzy OLED brought by Santa.

Wow! It's beautiful! (for certain values of beautiful). Ignite did a fantastic job on it.

I can't believe they can make such a fantastic looking disc on "Re-Animator" whereas some of the classic Hollywood movies...uh...aren't great.

Last fall's new UHD disc of the original TRON is fantastic on OLED as well. They cleaned up the original effects glitches (the glow on the actors and backgrounds was hand painted frame by frame and mistakes were made) but didn't go too far and ruin it.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 08, 2026 11:56 AM (2ocoG)

265 147
‘ We've had a $25 million bounty on Caballo for years and haven't been able to touch him.’

Well not with that kind of attitude.
I’m fine with leaving him alone unless he becomes a problem for the US. Then he he needs to go.
Our guiding principles for Venezuela should be:
1) they can’t be an enemy of the US
2) they can’t sell their oil to anyone we don’t want

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 08, 2026 11:56 AM (jbnUc)

266 260 The voice of reason.

Chuck Todd
@chucktodd
The problem with the credibility of this current admin is that they seem to go out of their way to provoke confrontation on just about every front. Whether internationally, with Congress with DHS, with ICE, every action seems to be intended to see how far they can go before push back. And then they use the push back as rationalization to do more. It’s an ugly loop they’ve created. It’s all intentional

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 08, 2026 11:55 AM (L/fGl)

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So...don't resist ICE deporting illegal immigrants?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 11:56 AM (GBKbO)

267 Not quite apropos of anything...

Watched the new 4K of "Re-Animator" from Ignite on our new snazzy OLED brought by Santa.

Wow! It's beautiful! (for certain values of beautiful). Ignite did a fantastic job on it.

I can't believe they can make such a fantastic looking disc on "Re-Animator" whereas some of the classic Hollywood movies...uh...aren't great.

Anyway, it's a demo disc to show just how good your TV can look and sound Definitely, check it out.
Posted by: naturalfake at January 08, 2026 11:44 AM (iJfKG)
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If you really want to take picture quality to the next level, get the OLED professionally calibrated to D65 and BT2020. Setting the screen mode to "Cinema," "Movie," or "Filmmaker" will get you 80-85% there. (Avoid "Vivid," "Sports," "Game," or anything like them.) A pro calibration will take you to 100%. Worth the money, IMO.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 11:56 AM (iFTx/)

268 >>> 229 Julia Ioffe
@juliaioffe
Remember, there was video of January 6, too. Lots and lots of video. Way more than of this. They actually *did* assault and kill cops. But they convinced half the country that they didn’t see what they saw—or that it wasn’t that bad.
Remember all of it.

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They were stacking the bodies like cord wood.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 08, 2026 11:50 AM (L/fGl)

If she really believes that, she should be very, very afraid of pissing us off.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 11:56 AM (ULPxl)

269
And then they use the push back as rationalization to do more. It’s an ugly loop they’ve created. It’s all intentional

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 08, 2026 11:55 AM (L/fGl)

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Maybe he learned it from the Democratic playbook.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 11:57 AM (tgvbd)

270 we really can't improve upon the Founding Fathers and come up with a better form of government?
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Start with the premise that while technology improves, human nature does not.

This is one of the key errors in world view. Leftists believe in the perfectability of Mankind. Everyone else knows that’s bullshit.

We are invaded by barbarians with every generation of children. They have to be raised right, brought up in civilized ways.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 08, 2026 11:57 AM (SSuxC)

271 "Democrats are going to make repatriating every deported illegal a central part of every campaign for the next 20 years.

Good. That should ensure they have a nice, long stay in the wilderness.
Posted by: Archimedes"

They won't campaign on it, might even blather about a secure border and that will fool the LIV's. Once back in power it will be open borders and not only will they allow the deportees back in, they will order ICE/Border Patrol patrol to track them down and pay their expenses to return if they wish.

Posted by: Ripley at January 08, 2026 11:57 AM (GUOwU)

272 She knows that all she has to do is stay in power and wait for Democrats to regain the WH and she's in clover.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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And is that any different than Dubya's Iraq adventure? Dems come in with Obama and allow Iran and the Shia militias to run the place to the detriment of the other minorities.

Trump is trying to walk the US back from what Jerry Pournelle called, an incompetent Empire.


If we want to be an Empire, then we have to do things like the Brits did, use the internal splits in a country--pick one minority to oppress the others, and do mass killings every now and again by superior technology if the locals revolt. Democracy never came into the picture unless, like Canada and Australia/New Zealand, they demonstrated the ability to do so while expanding the Empire. They were a competent Empire until WWI happened.

We never were because we are not ruthless enough.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 11:57 AM (WDjG6)

273 I'm pretty sure I just saw Marco Rubio in a bucket truck taking down the city Christmas decorations on the main streets of Shamokin, PA.
Posted by: Busy Fella

When visiting Shamokin, don't forget to visit the Anthracite Outdoor Adventure Area!

Posted by: Tonypete at January 08, 2026 11:57 AM (cYBz/)

274 Trump admin didn't choose her. The Venezuelan constitution did. It says the VP gets the job. Period.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at January 08, 2026 11:54 AM (2J/Lj)

We could have taken her as well. We decided to allow her to remain in power.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 08, 2026 11:57 AM (n9ltV)

275 Domestic terrorist tried to kill ice officer but Trump is pushing too far.

Upchuck Todd is brilliant.

Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 11:58 AM (/HZvU)

276 And not a single Republican leader noticed?
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They'll notice when the direct deposits into their Cayman accounts stop coming in.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 08, 2026 11:58 AM (Dv3i1)

277 272 They won't campaign on it, might even blather about a secure border and that will fool the LIV's. Once back in power it will be open borders and not only will they allow the deportees back in, they will order ICE/Border Patrol patrol to track them down and pay their expenses to return if they wish.

Posted by: Ripley at January 08, 2026 11:57 AM (GUOwU)

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No...they're going to campaign on it.

It's going to be front and center.

This ain't your father's Democrat Party. They don't have to hide their extremism anymore. They won the NYC mayorship with extremism.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 11:58 AM (GBKbO)

278 >>@chucktodd
The problem with the credibility of this current admin is that they seem to go out of their way to provoke confrontation on just about every front. Whether internationally, with Congress with DHS, with ICE, every action seems to be intended to see how far they can go before push back. And then they use the push back as rationalization to do more. It’s an ugly loop they’ve created. It’s all intentional



Projection is a Helluva drug, F-Chuck!!

The Left see disagreeing with them as provocation and taking action on that disagreement as an act of war.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 08, 2026 11:58 AM (NuV6c)

279 FYI - Didn't see this yesterday, but Rs lost 2 Rs in the House - 1 long term (death) and 1 serious car accident with spinal implications (but recovery, over months? expected).

So, it's 216-213...and really 215-214 with Massie. For the next weeks/months...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 08, 2026 11:58 AM (tOcjL)

280 Man, I miss a single art thread and it was Day of the Angry Juggs.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 08, 2026 11:58 AM (9FEtL)

281
I noted the other day, it's kind of a fascinating "Mexican Standoff" as all the criminal communist factions are waiting for some other faction to make the first move.

________

Mañana.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 11:58 AM (tgvbd)

282 Chuck Todd
@chucktodd
The problem with the credibility of this current admin is that they seem to go out of their way to provoke confrontation on just about every front. Whether internationally, with Congress with DHS, with ICE, every action seems to be intended to see how far they can go before push back. And then they use the push back as rationalization to do more. It’s an ugly loop they’ve created. It’s all intentional

I agree completely. That's why they've been so successful. They weren't afraid of their shadows like previous GOPe eunuchs.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 08, 2026 11:58 AM (Riz8t)

283 No more 20 year wars-turned-nation building.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 08, 2026 11:48 AM (NuV6c)

Trump ain't doing that, no way.

Posted by: ... at January 08, 2026 11:58 AM (0Sg1Q)

284 speaking OF EMPIRE

there was an interesting X post yesterday - the dude was like, why don't we (the West) start "doing empire/colonialism" again?

fix up the 3rd world and repatriate their people. but it's nice now. basically how England did in India before

it's a great idea honestly!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 08, 2026 11:59 AM (emBoF)

285 284 No more 20 year wars-turned-nation building.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 08, 2026 11:48 AM (NuV6c)

Trump ain't doing that, no way.

Posted by: ... at January 08, 2026 11:58 AM (0Sg1Q)

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Ignore everything Trump has said and done in terms of foreign policy, and trust that W actually runs this White House.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 11:59 AM (GBKbO)

286 If Trump had captured Maduro, the insisted that the "Unelected" Machado be installed in the Capitol Palace....he would have played right into the Democrats refrain of him trying to overthrow and replace the duly elected Govt...that they claim he tried to do here, with "Violence" as well. Even nearly all the Dems agreed that Maduro was not "Lawfully elected" thus VP/Prez Rodriguez isn't either...BUT...her Brother who is head of the Assembly, is next in line. He(or at least his advisors) calculated...correctly....that armed quasi govt militias would take to the streets and start rounding up beating/shooting, taking/intimidating any pro-america/anti-regime voices....EXACTLY what the Dems claimed "Tyrant Trump" would do. He has set the scene where the people/party that the Dems support THERE are doing the very thing they falsely claim Trump wants to do HERE. In the meantime while "control" get sorted out...no income will be flowing to the current regime, Chinese/russian/Iran trade drops to near nothing, support for Cuba does as well. Both systems will in a short period of time collapse now on their own, and local "Leaders" will arise...

Posted by: birddog at January 08, 2026 11:59 AM (s5LY2)

287 275 Trump admin didn't choose her. The Venezuelan constitution did. It says the VP gets the job. Period.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at January 08, 2026 11:54 AM (2J/Lj)

We could have taken her as well. We decided to allow her to remain in power.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 08, 2026 11:57 AM (n9ltV)

Trump prefers to charm women opponents...at least as an initial diplomatic try...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 08, 2026 11:59 AM (tOcjL)

288 every action seems to be intended to see how far they can go before push back. And then they use the push back as rationalization to do more
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Wait, I thought Trump Always Chickens Out...?

Posted by: ... at January 08, 2026 11:59 AM (0Sg1Q)

289 I desperately wanted to like Pluribus. Binge Gilligan right!!

I just couldn’t. I’m not opposed to slow burn series. But this wasn’t slow burn. This was glacial pace burn.

The criticism I've heard is mostly that the main character is intensely unlikable, unless I'm thinking of another recent ATV series.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 08, 2026 11:59 AM (2ocoG)

290 And then they use the push back as rationalization to do more. It’s an ugly loop they’ve created. It’s all intentional
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 08, 2026 11:55 AM (L/fGl)

It's a beautiful loop. One of the greatest loops that's.... ever. Does Chuck have a beautiful loop? Does Chuck even have a loop at all? Let me tell you, everyone says how great my loop is, you better believe it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 11:59 AM (06Hmj)

291 The taking point of leftists is “ICE is kidnapping our friends and neighbors”.

Uhm so you live next to drug dealers and Somali fraudsters? I kinda doubt that Karen.

Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 11:59 AM (/HZvU)

292 "Remember, there was video of January 6, too. Lots and lots of video. Way more than of this. They actually *did* assault and kill cops. But they convinced half the country that they didn’t see what they saw—or that it wasn’t that bad.
Remember all of it. "


Weird that nobody was charged with murder. You would think with dead cops all over the place and hours of video evidence at least one person would have been charged.

Posted by: Ripley at January 08, 2026 12:00 PM (GUOwU)

293 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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Chuck Todd is a longtime shill for the Dems and used to be a political operative for them. What he is bitching about is that the Democrats are being shown as feckless, corrupt, weak, and all around assholes. So he is trying his best to push back on that. His problem is his platform got a lot smaller to do that which he also resents undoubtedly.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 12:00 PM (WDjG6)

294 280 FYI - Didn't see this yesterday, but Rs lost 2 Rs in the House - 1 long term (death) and 1 serious car accident with spinal implications (but recovery, over months? expected).


yeah it sucks and is suss

their guys are all 100 years old and fine? we lost two youngish guys?

hmmmm

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 08, 2026 12:00 PM (emBoF)

295 I was afraid they would back off for a while.. Glad to hear this..
Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2026 11:36 AM (VE6XX)

The Rebellion of the Judges, coupled with the Uselessness of the Congress, means that they can never back off. They have to go balls to the wall at all times in order to accomplish anything before his time is done.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 12:00 PM (ExV1e)

296 "The Trump administration's assumption that Delcy Rodríguez is the correct choice to maintain some semblance of continuity in government is an odd one, since she is simply a reflection of Maduro's fanatical anti-Americanism, and a willing participant in the evil perpetrated by the communist government."

As I stated in the other thread, this is justification, a way for the remaining regime to launder liberalization. Delcy is already cooperating with Trump. If she goes through with the liberalization then Trump is 100% correct.

Posted by: Leninism at January 08, 2026 12:00 PM (C7PXe)

297 ...at which point we can support and protect them, at "Arms length, and not be accused of "Installing them"

Posted by: birddog at January 08, 2026 12:00 PM (s5LY2)

298 So...don't resist ICE deporting illegal immigrants?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 11:56 AM (GBKbO)
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No. C. Todd is politely informing the world that Team Trump is winning. So much winning, we might get tired of winning. Are we tired of winning? C. Todd wants to know!

Posted by: mrp at January 08, 2026 12:00 PM (rj6Yv)

299 Julia Ioffe
@juliaioffe
Remember, there was video of January 6, too. Lots and lots of video. Way more than of this. They actually *did* assault and kill cops.
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Ioffe may be the single most crazed AWFL's in America. Maybe she should return to Russia and see how her crazy plays there.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 08, 2026 12:01 PM (xbLzn)

300 Well, that and Georgia Meloni is smokin'.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 08, 2026 11:53 AM (Riz8t)

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Dear lord, bruh.

She's an office 6. At best.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 11:54 AM (GBKbO)
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Meloni gets graded on the curve because she's an attractive lady in a political world full of hideous slugs and farm animals. Plus, she's to the right of most Eurofags. Which ain't saying much, but still.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 12:01 PM (iFTx/)

301 The criticism I've heard is mostly that the main character is intensely unlikable, unless I'm thinking of another recent ATV series.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 08, 2026 11:59 AM (2ocoG)

There is a lot of hate towards the character. That’s not my beef though. She’s kind of a cvnt but given the circumstances I can’t really blame her.

My beef is almost nothing happened in the entire first season.

Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 12:01 PM (/HZvU)

302 NEW: Stephen A. Smith says the ICE agent who fired on Renee Good was legally justified, but should have shot her tires instead.
"From a lawful perspective, as it pertains to a law enforcement official, don't expect him to be prosecuted. He was completely justified."
"From a humanitarian perspective, however, why did you have to do that? If you could move out of the way, that means you could have shot the tires."

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They should've shot the gear shift into neutral.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 08, 2026 12:01 PM (L/fGl)

303 Germany and Japan were both countries with a highly intelligent, highly educated, and highly disciplined populace, which made them easy to rebuild. Every advocate of nation-building in other countries forgets that.
Posted by: Bulg at January 08, 2026 11:36 AM (77rzZ)

Germany and Japan were both utterly crushed during WW2 and both surrendered unconditionally. Civilian deaths were widespread. Every advocate of limited warfare in other countries forgets that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 12:01 PM (ExV1e)

304 OMG.... Here comes Saint Renee... The media is doing a retrospect of her life.. Mother of the year evidently.... Yuck....

Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2026 12:02 PM (VE6XX)

305 She's also been grovelling in negotiations, agreeing with everything our negotiators have demanded.

Latest I heard was an agreement to only buy US goods with oil money.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 11:21 AM (GBKbO)

The economy is shot because of socialism, the external market for petroleum is shot because of the USN, same for a fair percentage of the coke being shipped out.
Maduro had been doing the "don't worry be happy" tour to try to hold things together, Rodriguez pretty much has the secret police since that was shown to be completely false -- and Trump offers her a lifeline.
She is a power player, and wants to go out on her feet if she has to go. She is also claims to be a patriot.
Food, infrastructure, jobs, and the return of a lot of motivated expats is a good thing if she will accept it.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 08, 2026 12:02 PM (rbvCR)

306 Anyone here disagree with the premise that we are surrounded and infiltrated by enemies? Internally and externally? Anyone here have a great idea on how to respond to that?

Posted by: tubal at January 08, 2026 12:02 PM (pDt9x)

307 "that also leaves a large pool of people that view both parties as assholes and demotivates them to participate."
Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 11:49 AM (WDjG6)

That's probably a limiting factor too - what kind of people you have?

Posted by: Fen at January 08, 2026 12:02 PM (ciYHQ)

308 >>> 280 FYI - Didn't see this yesterday, but Rs lost 2 Rs in the House - 1 long term (death) and 1 serious car accident with spinal implications (but recovery, over months? expected).

So, it's 216-213...and really 215-214 with Massie. For the next weeks/months...
Posted by: Nova Local at January 08, 2026 11:58 AM (tOcjL)

Yikes, I heard about the death, but not the car accident.

Seems a bit Coincidental...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 12:02 PM (ULPxl)

309 303 NEW: Stephen A. Smith says the ICE agent who fired on Renee Good was legally justified, but should have shot her tires instead.
"From a lawful perspective, as it pertains to a law enforcement official, don't expect him to be prosecuted. He was completely justified."
"From a humanitarian perspective, however, why did you have to do that? If you could move out of the way, that means you could have shot the tires."

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They should've shot the gear shift into neutral.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 08, 2026 12:01 PM (L/fGl)

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Remember, no matter how "reasonable" Smith sounds in isolated bites:

Dude is still a moron. Shooting out tires...while a car is moving forward...on icy roads?

He might be outright retarded.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 12:02 PM (GBKbO)

310 281 Man, I miss a single art thread and it was Day of the Angry Juggs.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls

They were pretty symmetrical, though.

Posted by: Arbiter of Beauty And Taste! at January 08, 2026 12:03 PM (oftw2)

311 Trump prefers to charm women opponents...at least as an initial diplomatic try...
Posted by: Nova Local

I think it was the brutal reality, like Iran, Maduro was the figurehead over a nest of very nasty scorpions. Their version of separation of power unified those looting the country wholesale and the ideologues getting to impose their view of heaven on the poor peasants.

Think Lebanon which is another snakepit that Saint Ronnie stupidly put US troops there to try to protect worthless Palestinians who destroyed the country in the first place.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 12:03 PM (WDjG6)

312 What Chuck Todd is bemoaning is literally Leadership.

Push the boundaries. Maximize the potential gains for your side. Accept nothing. Always demand more.

And no one has seen an R do that since Teddy Roosevelt, not even Reagan really, so it looks strange to modern eyes conditioned to modern Cuck Chair Republicanism.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 12:03 PM (06Hmj)

313 "From a humanitarian perspective, however, why did you have to do that? If you could move out of the way, that means you could have shot the tires."



LOL... In a split second as she is potentially aiming her SUV at him he would have time to shoot her tires which would have magically stopped her car ?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2026 12:03 PM (VE6XX)

314 248 So has Boasberg ruled yet that Maduro must be returned to VZ ?

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He's also ordered that all the bombs dropped be turned around.

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 12:03 PM (KLJj4)

315 The real trick that Britain pulled off in India was in controlling a couple hundred million people while never having more than about 50,000 of their own people in country. Best trick was getting the Hindu's support by claiming to protect them from the muslims, and getting the muslims support by claiming to protect them from the Hindi. And promising to protect the Sikh's from everybody else.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2026 12:04 PM (uWKK8)

316 Uhm, we just snatched the prez from a military base and people are worried. Why?

This aint your grandpa's GOP with Trump calling the shots. It's different.
Posted by: connected and litigious at January 08, 2026 11:48 AM (cS1cw)

Trump only has three more years, and the opposition figured in 2016 that they could survive 4 years of Trump but not 8. That calculation has not changed

Posted by: Kindltot at January 08, 2026 12:04 PM (rbvCR)

317 [BTW, and I've mentioned this before here: my freshman year of college ('79-'80) at a small private liberal arts college in SoCal, — Shain

Did you go to Biola?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 08, 2026 12:04 PM (ZtAny)

318 Yes Chuck Todd we are trying to stock it up your nose. By the way I had forgotten you continue to exist

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 08, 2026 12:04 PM (ScJGb)

319 >>As I stated in the other thread, this is justification, a way for the remaining regime to launder liberalization. Delcy is already cooperating with Trump. If she goes through with the liberalization then Trump is 100% correct.

A week ago all the foreign money flowing into Venezuela was coming from China, Russia and Iran. Now it's coming through the US. Trump to be specific.

Money has a way of altering behavior.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 08, 2026 12:04 PM (viF8m)

320 With a flair for the dramatic, she described Matt’s manhood as measuring up to “two Coke cans, maybe even a third,” slamming it as “the biggest factor” in their marriage’s collapse.

And she was a virgin on her wedding night. I see.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 12:04 PM (ExV1e)

321 We could have taken her as well. We decided to allow her to remain in power.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 08, 2026 11:57 AM (n9ltV)

I hadn't heard of any warrant for her arrest.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at January 08, 2026 12:04 PM (2J/Lj)

322 He might be outright retarded.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 12:02 PM (GBKbO)
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Or his contract renewal is in negotiation.

Posted by: mrp at January 08, 2026 12:04 PM (rj6Yv)

323 There's no #3
If opposition leaders try to grab the ring of power the military will take over.
That's probably what's going to happen anyway.

Posted by: Quality Lerning Center at January 08, 2026 12:04 PM (MkFn4)

324 >>Ignore everything Trump has said and done in terms of foreign policy, and trust that W actually runs this White House.


I wasn't expressing doubt in Trump, just overall exhaustion with the foreign policy of recent decades.

I've given up predicting what Trump will do, and jumping to conclusions/overreacting when he appears to be wavering. No Panican here!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 08, 2026 12:05 PM (NuV6c)

325 Our friends in the insurrectionist Democrat party have stage-managed a death-by--police event to justify their breathtaking corruption. A time honored technique! Horst Wessel approved.

Posted by: ErikInTexas at January 08, 2026 12:05 PM (4b7CV)

326 Julia Ioffe
@juliaioffe
Remember, there was video of January 6, too. Lots and lots of video. Way more than of this. They actually *did* assault and kill cops. But they convinced half the country that they didn’t see what they saw—or that it wasn’t that bad.
Remember all of it.

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They were stacking the bodies like cord wood.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 08, 2026 11:50 AM (L/fGl)

If she really believes that, she should be very, very afraid of pissing us off.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 11:56 AM (ULPxl)
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Who? Literally: who? I have no idea who 90% of these desperate randos are. It's like every bimbo, THOT, whore, basement-dwelling incel, dork, dyke, dweeb, homo, faggot, ass-pirate, and gay homunulus has some twatter feed that makes them think anyone gives a rat's ass about their opinions.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 12:05 PM (iFTx/)

327 "From a humanitarian perspective, however, why did you have to do that? If you could move out of the way, that means you could have shot the tires."

LOL... In a split second as she is potentially aiming her SUV at him he would have time to shoot her tires which would have magically stopped her car ?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2026 12:03 PM (VE6XX)

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"He could have just shot her earlobe off like Trump's patsy assassin! I see it in the movies and TV all the time ... REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 12:05 PM (KLJj4)

328 "Ioffe may be the single most crazed AWFL's in America. Maybe she should return to Russia and see how her crazy plays there.
Posted by: Huck Follywood"


She has resting bitch face (or active bitch face as it has been called here)

Posted by: Ripley at January 08, 2026 12:05 PM (GUOwU)

329 305.... St Rene, patron saint of assault SUVs.

Posted by: Rex B at January 08, 2026 12:05 PM (C9oTe)

330 317 Trump only has three more years, and the opposition figured in 2016 that they could survive 4 years of Trump but not 8. That calculation has not changed

Posted by: Kindltot at January 08, 2026 12:04 PM (rbvCR)

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They don't have anything like a reasonable path to power in the next decade within the GOP, especially at the presidential level.

The mercenaries are on board because that's where the money is. The true believers in the old ways have gone into hiding or outright become Democrats.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 12:05 PM (GBKbO)

331 So Mayor Mamdani has weighed in on the woman being shot by the ICE officer, saying that NYC will stand by "immigrants". Have all the other Democrat Mayors besides Frey given their hearty F Offs to ICE ( so manly/sarc) yet?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 12:05 PM (8Xy/A)

332 They should've shot the gear shift into neutral.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 08, 2026 12:01 PM (L/fGl)
LMAO

Posted by: ... at January 08, 2026 12:06 PM (0Sg1Q)

333 Car with flat tires can still do a lot of damage. It’s not like the car magically stops if it has a flat tire.

Stephen A., stick to talking about sportsball.

Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 12:06 PM (/HZvU)

334 I'm getting a bit sick of this whole "shoot the tires" thing...

Oh, hey, this quarter ton of steel is careening towards me! Well that's boring, how about we disable its only source of stability! Now it's not just coming at me, it's wibble-wobbling around unpredictably as it careens towards me!

Any idiot can jump out the way of a car. This guy should have tried to S-tier it for the bonus points if he really wants anyone to think he's cool.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 12:06 PM (06Hmj)

335 He might be outright retarded.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Out of his lane. You see that idiocy expressed in PIT stops as well when the perp ends up dying because of their own inherent stupidity.

Those assholes telling people that they will get shot if they stop are also complicit in the deaths of those idiots. Not the cops.

Cars and trucks are lethal weapons operating on the public roads. And yet the Democrats believe that we should allow, in the name of fairness, thugs and idiots to do what they do on the roads without consequences. While nailing John Q Public for any slight offense so that those tickets make the locality and state richer by ways of fines and fees.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 12:06 PM (WDjG6)

336 Not familiar with Tousi but they're reporting Delta Force deploying toward Iran

Posted by: PA Dutchman at January 08, 2026 12:06 PM (h/O4U)

337 118 Where did all these rich white liberal women get their money from?

Posted by: pawn

>Who they've slept with. (Not necessarily that person but through the name.)

>Foundations, nom-profits, etc.

Kathleen Anne Buhle, formerly known as Kathleen Biden, is an American writer and non-profit executive. She is the founder and CEO of the non-profit organization The House at 1229.

Cecile Richards. Mort but similar.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 08, 2026 12:07 PM (NFX2v)

338 >>Who? Literally: who? I have no idea who 90% of these desperate randos are. It's like every bimbo, THOT, whore, basement-dwelling incel, dork, dyke, dweeb, homo, faggot, ass-pirate, and gay homunulus has some twatter feed that makes them think anyone gives a rat's ass about their opinions.

Heh, she's a journalist, so most of your description applies.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 08, 2026 12:07 PM (NuV6c)

339 "Rioters have smashed the door of a Minneapolis courthouse after a woman was shot dead by an ICE agent in the city.

Dozens of protesters were seen banging on the doors of the federal Diana E Murphy courthouse while chanting 'ICE out now!' just hours after the shooting in shocking footage shared to social media by Mercado Media.

One walked out of the courthouse while appearing to wear a keffiyeh, a traditional Middle Eastern scarf worn by those showing support for Palestine."
****

Oh, the keffiyeh, of course.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 08, 2026 12:08 PM (Y1sOo)

340 The real reason nobody does Empire anymore is the same reason the system fell apart; it just isn't worth it. Maintaining those shithole countries costs more than is ever returned from them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2026 12:08 PM (uWKK8)

341 Our Goal In Venezuela Should Not Be The Creation Of a Jeffersonian Democracy

They've already had a couple. Just dig the old books out.

Posted by: DaveA at January 08, 2026 12:09 PM (FhXTo)

342
 It's like every bimbo, THOT, whore, basement-dwelling incel, dork, dyke, dweeb, homo, faggot, ass-pirate, and gay homunulus has some twatter feed that makes them think anyone gives a rat's ass about their opinions.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 12:05 PM (iFTx/)

___________

I come here instead.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 12:09 PM (tgvbd)

343 342 The real reason nobody does Empire anymore is the same reason the system fell apart; it just isn't worth it. Maintaining those shithole countries costs more than is ever returned from them.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2026 12:08 PM (uWKK

#50IsTooMany

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 12:09 PM (06Hmj)

344 Where did all these rich white liberal women get their money from?

The old-fashioned way. Divorce. Courts are so one-sided in that regard that young girls are now told as a strategy to convince a guy who makes good money that they're in love and then divorce him, take all his money, and buy a yearly pass from their local The Paolo franchise.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 08, 2026 12:10 PM (2ocoG)

345 She was very hard to recognize. It's weird how work to keep a woman looking young makes her end up looking like a different person.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through
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Plastic surgeons, aesthetic reconstructor are perverts. They have the same concept of women as those Mannix girls do of themselves.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 08, 2026 12:10 PM (gIcAo)

346 343 Our Goal In Venezuela Should Not Be The Creation Of a Jeffersonian Democracy

They've already had a couple. Just dig the old books out.

Posted by: DaveA at January 08, 2026 12:09 PM (FhXTo)

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Nation building in Venezuela would probably be a lot easier than it was in Iraq.

Venezuela has the traditions and the established processes. They've just been corrupted.

It still wouldn't be cheap. It's also an open question of whether it would be in our interest to do it. I don't think it is if there's an alternate option of amenable tyranny that doesn't try to fuck with us.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 12:10 PM (GBKbO)

347 There's a fine line between a keffiyeh and a tablecloth

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 08, 2026 12:10 PM (ScJGb)

348 The admin state is populated with AWFLs making $150k. But that’s in big cities where $$150k ain’t much. The ones with real money are almost all either wives or ex wives of rich men.

Look at any top X richest people list and virtually every woman in it is either a widow, ex or child/grandchild of a rich guy.

Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 12:11 PM (/HZvU)

349 So communism in Venezuela will probably end if our goals are to be achieved. But that is a delightful bonus...not the end game.

communism on Earth will have to end for humans to be free. It's only one of the end games.

Posted by: DaveA at January 08, 2026 12:11 PM (FhXTo)

350 I come here instead.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 12:09 PM (tgvbd)

*mutters under breath*

(bimbo... dork... dweeb... .....)

Three out of eleven? I must be slacking.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 12:11 PM (06Hmj)

351 I don't know if they still have it, but back before Chavez, VZ passed a law on names because they were tired of people naming their kids shit like Adolfhitler Gonzales and Batman Ramirez.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 08, 2026 12:11 PM (BI5O2)

352 That sort of strategy is doomed to fail as it has repeatedly in places like Haiti and Minnesota.

Indeed, trying to create a Jeffersonian democracy, which is not in itself a particularly good system given how poorly Jefferson led, is doomed to fail, but it does not mean the attempt to evade action will be any more successful.

If you want to eliminate drug smuggling and the like from Venezuela, you need to eliminate the drug smugglers in Venezuela. That means troops or whoever committed there. If that means local rule is delayed, then local rule is delayed.

Trying to do that long distance will just ensure the worst local will win. Maduro was bad. When the head of Cartel de los Soles takes over and eliminates Machado it will be worse.

Posted by: Sam at January 08, 2026 12:11 PM (7jMef)

353 I do like the fact that Laura Bush's Dr. didn't get her eyes the same. Sort of cockeyed, like her.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 08, 2026 12:12 PM (gIcAo)

354 Oh, the keffiyeh, of course.
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I assume anyone wearing a keffiyeh supports choking 1 year old babies to death as a form of 'resistance'. (Kfir Bibas, RIP)

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 08, 2026 12:12 PM (Dv3i1)

355 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 12:09 PM (tgvbd)

Could you please surprise me by posting something you like about yourself?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 12:12 PM (8Xy/A)

356 Push the boundaries. Maximize the potential gains for your side. Accept nothing. Always demand more.

And no one has seen an R do that since Teddy Roosevelt, not even Reagan really, so it looks strange to modern eyes conditioned to modern Cuck Chair Republicanism.
Posted by: Warai-otoko
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Good points. Somehow, perhaps with Coolidge, the GOP developed flacidity as its main goal for fear of doing something wrong. Coolidge, for example, saw the coming financial panic coming due to Wall Street speculation but declined to do anything about it. Ike felt winning the Cold War by sleight of hand was better than challenging and cutting back Democrat excess via the New Deal. Nixon declined to challenge JFK's fraud and failed to consolidate his winnings in Vietnam in 72 becuz Watergate. He also surrendered on the home front (EPA, affirmative action, War on Poverty, price controls, were all done under his watch). I can go on.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 12:12 PM (WDjG6)

357 Headline (ABC 7 Chicago):

"Woman killed by ICE agent in Minneapolis was a mother of 3, poet and new to the city"

Posted by: mrp at January 08, 2026 12:12 PM (rj6Yv)

358 I assume anyone wearing a keffiyeh supports choking 1 year old babies to death as a form of 'resistance'. (Kfir Bibas, RIP)

They almost certainly support abortion, so the choking is kind of mild by comparison.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 08, 2026 12:13 PM (2ocoG)

359 Stephen A. Smith says the ICE agent who fired on Renee Good was legally justified, but should have shot her tires instead.
"From a lawful perspective, as it pertains to a law enforcement official, don't expect him to be prosecuted. He was completely justified."
"From a humanitarian perspective, however, why did you have to do that? If you could move out of the way, that means you could have shot the tires."

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They should've shot the gear shift into neutral.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 08, 2026 12:01 PM (L/fGl)

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Dude is still a moron. Shooting out tires...while a car is moving forward...on icy roads?

He might be outright retarded.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 12:02 PM (GBKbO)
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Au contrauire, his statement was deftly done. He voted for Kamala, and has a primarily center-left audience. He's giving his seal of approval to the legality of the shooting (which is the big thing), while offering a lame pat on the head to his the more leftist members of his audience. The key is the word is out that the shooting is legally justified.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 12:13 PM (iFTx/)

360 OPINION: A culture that celebrates death is what we get when we choose ourselves over God

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The husband of one of Mrs. Wrecks' friends died a couple of days ago. They had a "celebration of life" then assisted him to commit suicide.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 08, 2026 12:13 PM (L/fGl)

361 353 I don't know if they still have it, but back before Chavez, VZ passed a law on names because they were tired of people naming their kids shit like Adolfhitler Gonzales and Batman Ramirez.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

No kidding.

Posted by: Asdrúbal Cabrera at January 08, 2026 12:13 PM (Dv3i1)

362 IRGC Families begin seeking asylum in Fwance.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 12:13 PM (6mogZ)

363 It's like every bimbo, THOT, whore, basement-dwelling incel, dork, dyke, dweeb, homo, faggot, ass-pirate, and gay homunulus has some twatter feed that makes them think anyone gives a rat's ass about their opinions.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

I come here instead.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

That's right - We have the collection of sportos, motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, waistoids, dweebies, and d*ckheads covered here!

Posted by: Tonypete at January 08, 2026 12:13 PM (cYBz/)

364 =====

Nation building in Venezuela would probably be a lot easier than it was in Iraq.
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Aw, geeeeeeeeeeeee's, let them do it. They aren't stupit.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 08, 2026 12:13 PM (gIcAo)

365 353 I don't know if they still have it, but back before Chavez, VZ passed a law on names because they were tired of people naming their kids shit like Adolfhitler Gonzales and Batman Ramirez.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

No kidding.
-Asdrúbal Cabrera

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 08, 2026 12:14 PM (Dv3i1)

366 and new to the city

That's one heck of a welcome to town.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 08, 2026 12:14 PM (jjoN6)

367 The male horde members may be interested to know that today's word search was on Sydney Sweeney. I have never seen her in anything, but one of the words to search for was 'horde".

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 12:15 PM (8Xy/A)

368
Look at any top X richest people list and virtually every woman in it is either a widow, ex or child/grandchild of a rich guy.

Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 12:11 PM (/HZvU)

__________

Lower-class: wife doesn't work.

Middle-class: wife works.

Upper-class: wife runs a business that loses $10,000 a month.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 12:15 PM (tgvbd)

369 >>When the head of Cartel de los Soles takes over and eliminates Machado it will be worse.

The head of the Cartel de los Soles has taken over. More likely, never left.

Delcy Rodriguez is now officially president. Her brother Jorge is the president of the national assembly. That is the Cartel de los Soles.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 08, 2026 12:15 PM (viF8m)

370 >>Venezuela has the traditions and the established processes. They've just been corrupted.

Disagree, TJM, because Venezuela's traditions descend primarily from Spain. It would take generations to instill a liberty mindset there.

Posted by: Nazdar at January 08, 2026 12:16 PM (NcvvS)

371 Posted by: Asdr�bal Cabrera at January 08, 2026 12:13 PM (Dv3i1)

I doubt that was banned I've noticed Hispanics from a number of different countries have an affinity fir Spanish-ified Carthaginian names. Always wondered about that.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 08, 2026 12:16 PM (BI5O2)

372 317
‘ Anyone here disagree with the premise that we are surrounded and infiltrated by enemies? Internally and externally? Anyone here have a great idea on how to respond to that?’

Kill the leaders. Intimidate the rest.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 08, 2026 12:16 PM (jbnUc)

373 I saw Every Bimbo, THOT, Whore, Basement-Dwelling Incel, Dork, Dyke, Dweeb, Homo, Faggot, Ass-Pirate, and Gay Homunulus open for Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. at Burning Man in '08.

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 12:16 PM (KLJj4)

374 Yeah, you can make the bullets curve and miss you.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 08, 2026 12:16 PM (EyfuW)

375 Upper-class: wife runs a business that loses $10,000 a month.

Or an NGO that runs a chain of learing centers.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 08, 2026 12:16 PM (2ocoG)

376 >>I'm getting a bit sick of this whole "shoot the tires" thing...

Me, too. These people want us to pretend this all happened in a bubble. This wasn't some random person being approach by ICE.

Reports are that she and her team had been stalking and harassing ICE all day. Were they trapped and potentially vulnerable to attack, or was this them reaching their boiling point after playing these games all day? She was intentionally blocking their way. In that context, as well as the overall context of cartel putting bounties out for ICE agents, Democrats trying to force de-masking (essentially doxxing them), and so on, she was a threat that needed to be neutralized by arrest. She chose to flee.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 08, 2026 12:16 PM (NuV6c)

377 It's like every bimbo, THOT, whore, basement-dwelling incel, dork, dyke, dweeb, homo, faggot, ass-pirate, and gay homunculus has some twatter feed that makes them think anyone gives a rat's ass about their opinions.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

I come here instead.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

That's right - We have the collection of sportos, motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, waistoids, dweebies, and d*ckheads covered here!
Posted by: Tonypete at January 08, 2026 12:13 PM (cYBz/)
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And Literary Creations!

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 12:16 PM (iFTx/)

378 Ace must have a lengthy Disney post in the works.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 08, 2026 12:17 PM (jbnUc)

379 Headline (CBS News):

"Trump speaks with Colombian president Petro amid rising tensions; Colombian official calls it "very positive"


I bet.

Posted by: mrp at January 08, 2026 12:17 PM (rj6Yv)

380 Disagree, TJM, because Venezuela's traditions descend primarily from Spain. It would take generations to instill a liberty mindset there.

El Salvador was worse and it's now safer than any American blue city.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 08, 2026 12:17 PM (2ocoG)

381 "Woman killed by ICE agent in Minneapolis was a mother of 3, poet and new to the city"
Posted by: mrp

Among her best poems are Die, Motherf*cker, Die! and Up Yours, Fascist!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 08, 2026 12:17 PM (L/fGl)

382
Ever watch police chase videos? Cars can go a remarkable distance while spewing sparks from the rims.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 12:18 PM (tgvbd)

383 342 The real reason nobody does Empire anymore is the same reason the system fell apart; it just isn't worth it. Maintaining those shithole countries costs more than is ever returned from them.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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After WWI and WWII, the main colonizers were broke. Plus the manpower they used to keep the peace in colonies was by and large dead, wounded, or severely disinterested in fighting in combat again.

The US and USSR, for their own reasons, were also demanding the tired colonial powers to give up their colonies so that the Great Game would be competing for those newly independent colonies for trade, bases, and bennies.

US became a trading empire like Athens relying on its Navy and Air Force with enclaves around the world. The USSR became an actual empire itself with its Brezhnev doctrine that once a nation goes commie, it cannot revert. See Afghanistan and other places as examples.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 12:18 PM (WDjG6)

384 > "Woman killed by ICE agent in Minneapolis was a mother of 3, poet and new to the city"
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If I were curious, I'd want to know why a mother of 3, poet and new to the area was at a staged ICE protest with her "partner" filming a confrontational encounter with said ICE.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 08, 2026 12:18 PM (NwnyJ)

385 Delcy Rodriguez is now officially president. Her brother Jorge is the president of the national assembly. That is the Cartel de los Soles.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 08, 2026 12:15 PM (viF8m)

And now they don't have plausible deniability.

"That wasn't the cartels, that was Maduro and his kooky Chavismo nonsense. Trust us. We're for the people."

No mas with that excuse.

And cartels in general limit their violence to those who directly fuck over the cartel or try to make it look bad. Communists only limit their violence to the number of hours in the day.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 12:18 PM (06Hmj)

386 Upper-class: wife runs a business that loses $10,000 a month.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

My Kitty Kafe only loses 5K a month now and is well on the road to solvency.

Posted by: Karen McMansion at January 08, 2026 12:19 PM (oftw2)

387 372 >>Venezuela has the traditions and the established processes. They've just been corrupted.

Disagree, TJM, because Venezuela's traditions descend primarily from Spain. It would take generations to instill a liberty mindset there.
Posted by: Nazdar at January 08, 2026 12:16 PM (NcvvS)

I and others have long noted that most of Central and South America's governments are troubled because they are descended from Spanish Colonial Government, which gives them a 400 year tradition of rampant corruption and misrule.
Which is probably why they have a far better chance of an efficient government with a benevolent dictator than with pure democracy, which seems to always turn into a contest of everybody grab what they can get while they can get it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2026 12:19 PM (uWKK8)

388 I have never seen her in anything,

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 12:15 PM (8Xy/A)

I would also like to see her in nothing.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at January 08, 2026 12:19 PM (kvcnI)

389 Casey Anthony says Trump administration must be held accountable. We're opposed by her, Ken Jennings etc. We're doomed

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 08, 2026 12:19 PM (ScJGb)

390 in the vein of George Floyd adoration...Houston will participate in the protests in Minneapolis over the ventilation of the sweet mom that got in the way of an ICE bullet

Posted by: DanMan at January 08, 2026 12:19 PM (8uzBS)

391 They don't have anything like a reasonable path to power in the next decade within the GOP, especially at the presidential level.

The mercenaries are on board because that's where the money is. The true believers in the old ways have gone into hiding or outright become Democrats.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 12:05 PM (GBKbO)

Trump impeached, JD Vance sidelined because he doesn't embrace limited globalism, and deSantis doing his wonderful imitation of a lump of warm dough on the campaign trail. The true believers and RINOs will get behind Mike Pence since he promises to keep the status ante quo.

My nightmare. You don't have to participate by the way

Posted by: Kindltot at January 08, 2026 12:19 PM (rbvCR)

392 I doubt that was banned I've noticed Hispanics from a number of different countries have an affinity fir Spanish-ified Carthaginian names. Always wondered about that.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 08, 2026 12:16 PM (BI5O2)

Just a little harmless Vandalism?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 12:20 PM (06Hmj)

393 The first thing I do in a new city is harrass the government there. So far so good.

Posted by: connected and litigious at January 08, 2026 12:20 PM (cS1cw)

394 Casey Anthony says Trump administration must be held accountable.

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And she didn't spontaneously combust while saying that?

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 08, 2026 12:20 PM (qBdHI)

395 Ever watch police chase videos? Cars can go a remarkable distance while spewing sparks from the rims.

I've seen them keep going for miles after the rim completely disintegrates. And on snow and ice like in Minneapolis not having an inflated tire would be barely an inconvenience.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 08, 2026 12:20 PM (2ocoG)

396 I love how Western shitlib media is STILL trying to tell everyone this is about the economy, even as literally ALL video from Iran shows massive crowds screaming for an end to political Islam and a return of the Shah.

They're so g-ddamn worthless.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 08, 2026 12:20 PM (BI5O2)

397 Headline (CBS News):

"Trump speaks with Colombian president Petro amid rising tensions; Colombian official calls it "very positive"


I bet.
Posted by: mrp at January 08, 2026 12:17 PM (rj6Yv)
____

Trump: "Que pasa, you junkie commie faggot. See what happened to your pal Maduro? We grabbed that motherfucker out of his bed while his wife was pegging him with a neon green dildo. He cried like a little bitch. Have a nice day."

Petro: "It was a positive conversation!"

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 12:20 PM (iFTx/)

398 393
Trump impeached, JD Vance sidelined because he doesn't embrace limited globalism, and deSantis doing his wonderful imitation of a lump of warm dough on the campaign trail. The true believers and RINOs will get behind Mike Pence since he promises to keep the status ante quo.

My nightmare. You don't have to participate by the way

Posted by: Kindltot at January 08, 2026 12:19 PM (rbvCR)

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Right after 1/6, when Trump was at his lowest point and Congress could have kicked Trump out of politics forever...

The Senate came 10 votes short of convicting him.

Impeachment will happen again if Dems take the House. Conviction will not.

People need to stop being afraid of impeachment. It's a joke of a process. Has been since the 1860s.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 12:20 PM (GBKbO)

399 Tom Selleck Plots TV Comeback at 80 After “Blue Bloods” Cancellation

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I like Selleck and his acting, but have found his public comments about the Blue Bloods cancellation to be rather whiny and off-putting.

Posted by: Bigsmith at January 08, 2026 12:21 PM (1Au9i)

400
To maintain an empire, you have to project force to maintain it. After WWII, the Europeans were no longer able or could not afford to do so.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 12:21 PM (tgvbd)

401 When you've lost Casey Anthony.....

Posted by: ... at January 08, 2026 12:21 PM (0Sg1Q)

402 Casey Anthony says Trump administration must be held accountable.

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Well, if a paragon of virtue like her thinks we're wrong, maybe we should rethink this.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 08, 2026 12:22 PM (L/fGl)

403 Woman killed by ICE agent in Minneapolis was a mother of 3, poet and new to the city"

And her poetry was angry and awful. Someone posted the title on the tech thread or after that-something about "on first dissecting" something (forget what it was )

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 12:22 PM (8Xy/A)

404 Disagree, TJM, because Venezuela's traditions descend primarily from Spain. It would take generations to instill a liberty mindset there.
Posted by: Nazdar

Libre Hemisferio Occidental
_Deltafors Donaltrom

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 08, 2026 12:22 PM (gIcAo)

405 There's a fine line between a keffiyeh and a tablecloth
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Houndstooth?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 08, 2026 12:22 PM (mlg/3)

406 If I were curious, I'd want to know why a mother of 3, poet and new to the area was at a staged ICE protest with her "partner" filming a confrontational encounter with said ICE.

Didn't the partner already admit they were there to fuck around with ICE? FA, meet FO.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 08, 2026 12:22 PM (2ocoG)

407 Most tell their kids, Do everything the cop says. If you don't , i'' punish you and so will the cops.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 08, 2026 12:22 PM (EyfuW)

408 To maintain an empire, you have to project force to maintain it. After WWII, the Europeans were no longer able or could not afford to do so.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 12:21 PM (tgvbd)
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Rule #1 for projecting power - Build power plants.

Posted by: mrp at January 08, 2026 12:23 PM (rj6Yv)

409 71 She is far too public and well known a figure for the current dictator to arrest and kill her
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Like Trump, er, wait a minute.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 12:23 PM (WDjG6)

410 408 If I were curious, I'd want to know why a mother of 3, poet and new to the area was at a staged ICE protest with her "partner" filming a confrontational encounter with said ICE.

Didn't the partner already admit they were there to fuck around with ICE? FA, meet FO.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 08, 2026 12:22 PM (2ocoG)

======

If you're doing this without preparation for escalation and without expectation of consequences, you are LARPing.

And LARPing with real police has consequences because it's fucking stupid.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 12:23 PM (GBKbO)

411 I like Selleck and his acting, but have found his public comments about the Blue Bloods cancellation to be rather whiny and off-putting.
Posted by: Bigsmith

Magnum PI on mobility scooters might sound strange, but we stand ready to help.

Posted by: Hoveround Corp. at January 08, 2026 12:23 PM (oftw2)

412 Trump should have had DF seize Maduro's empanadas on the way out, and eaten one of them in a recreation of his famous "taco bowl" photo.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 08, 2026 12:23 PM (BI5O2)

413 >>El Salvador was worse and it's now safer than any American blue city.

Can this get beyond Bukele? Instilling the habits of ordered liberty must overcome the temptation of 'order over all' versus the temptation of 'do as thou wilt'. We've walked an awfully fine line for a long time and it's worrisome as to whether we'll tumble to one side, much less a polity that doesn't yet have the habit. Still praying on this.

Posted by: Nazdar at January 08, 2026 12:23 PM (NcvvS)

414 Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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Did she give birth to the children or did she and her pervert lover adopt them?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 08, 2026 12:24 PM (gIcAo)

415 They're so g-ddamn worthless.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 08, 2026 12:20 PM (BI5O2)

They're clearly shouting "Meth to Khamenei".

Who wouldn't want to party with that guy?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 12:24 PM (06Hmj)

416 Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at January 08, 2026 12:19 PM (kvcnI)

LOL. Well, it was a word search not a Sydney Sweeney search

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 12:24 PM (8Xy/A)

417 417 They're so g-ddamn worthless.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 08, 2026 12:20 PM (BI5O2)

They're clearly shouting "Meth to Khamenei".

Who wouldn't want to party with that guy?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 12:24 PM (06Hmj)

====

It sounded like Boo-urns to me.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 12:24 PM (GBKbO)

418 Disagree, TJM, because Venezuela's traditions descend primarily from Spain. It would take generations to instill a liberty mindset there.
Posted by: Nazdar at January 08, 2026 12:16 PM (NcvvS)

Simon Bolivar certainly had trouble with that task, too.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 08, 2026 12:24 PM (rbvCR)

419 I like Selleck and his acting, but have found his public comments about the Blue Bloods cancellation to be rather whiny and off-putting.

The new sequel, Boston Blue, is better than late-period Blue Bloods. Also it demonstrates that Sonequa Martin-Green actually *can* act when she's not trapped in an Alex Kurtzmann show.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 08, 2026 12:24 PM (2ocoG)

420 Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 08, 2026 12:24 PM (gIcAo)

Don't know

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 12:25 PM (8Xy/A)

421 I'm getting a bit sick of this whole "shoot the tires" thing...

Me, too. These people want us to pretend this all happened in a bubble. This wasn't some random person being approach by ICE.

Reports are that she and her team had been stalking and harassing ICE all day. Were they trapped and potentially vulnerable to attack, or was this them reaching their boiling point after playing these games all day? She was intentionally blocking their way. In that context, as well as the overall context of cartel putting bounties out for ICE agents, Democrats trying to force de-masking (essentially doxxing them), and so on, she was a threat that needed to be neutralized by arrest. She chose to flee.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 08, 2026 12:16 PM (NuV6c)
______

I said yesterday that the cops are already enraged and screaming at her when the vid started. This was clearly not their first encounter with this rabid scunt. There was lotsa bad blood already. I theorized yesterday that she's already tried to run the cops over, and they were already on edge. I haven't seen any earlier vid that supports this, so my theory might be wrong. But something went down beforehand.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 12:25 PM (iFTx/)

422 A japanese nude buffet with Maduro's likeness as the nude.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 08, 2026 12:25 PM (EyfuW)

423 423
I said yesterday that the cops are already enraged and screaming at her when the vid started. This was clearly not their first encounter with this rabid scunt. There was lotsa bad blood already. I theorized yesterday that she's already tried to run the cops over, and they were already on edge. I haven't seen any earlier vid that supports this, so my theory might be wrong. But something went down beforehand.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 12:25 PM (iFTx/)

=======

"She was just trying to put daisies in the barrels of their guns!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 12:25 PM (GBKbO)

424 Scott Adams not doing well

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 08, 2026 12:26 PM (emBoF)

425 Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2026 12:19 PM (uWKK

+1, sir.

Posted by: Nazdar at January 08, 2026 12:26 PM (NcvvS)

426 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 12:22 PM (8Xy/A)

You can't kill someone for bad poetry or they would all be dead.

Posted by: ... at January 08, 2026 12:27 PM (0Sg1Q)

427 There's a fine line between a keffiyeh and a tablecloth
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Houndstooth?
Posted by: weft cut-loop

It ain't nothin' but a houndstooth wrapped around your head
It ain't nothin' but a houndstooth wrapped around your head
Well, it never covered a table and it ain't no friend of mine.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 08, 2026 12:27 PM (L/fGl)

428 a neon green dildo

Should we be troubled or amused by your oddly specific choice of color?

Posted by: DaveA at January 08, 2026 12:27 PM (FhXTo)

429 People need to stop being afraid of impeachment. It's a joke of a process. Has been since the 1860s.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 12:20 PM (GBKbO)
========

Afraid? The Dems are afraid right now of shutting down the government. And if they do take control of the House, the stupidest thing they could do would be to impeach DJT before the midterms.

But, being Dems, doing the stupidest thing possible is certainly on the table.

Posted by: mrp at January 08, 2026 12:27 PM (rj6Yv)

430 You can't kill someone for bad poetry or they would all be dead.
Posted by: ... at January 08, 2026 12:27 PM (0Sg1Q)

Has anyone really ever tried?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 12:27 PM (06Hmj)

431 Is ilhan omar a muz?

That would mean she is allowed to lie to us non-muz.

She might just be a liar by default.

Posted by: connected and litigious at January 08, 2026 12:28 PM (cS1cw)

432 Anyone here have a great idea on how to respond to that?"

Yeah but it's not pretty, you have to go what the wife calls Full Fen. About a third of the Left is mentally ill and should be institutionalized. I'm not one to talk, as I am slowly being driven insane but we need more mental wards, and we need to tighten the definition of mentally fit. And I don't know if a human being can be trusted with that kind of power.

Posted by: Fen at January 08, 2026 12:28 PM (ciYHQ)

433 Should we be troubled or amused by your oddly specific choice of color?

WNBA callback, I think?

Posted by: Ian S. at January 08, 2026 12:28 PM (2ocoG)

434
Delcy needs to be convinced that her only way forward is to ally with the regular military, exterminate the remainder of the Chavista thugs, hold a free and fair election, and then beat feet with her ill-gotten millions.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

==============

100%

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 08, 2026 12:28 PM (Uo+RY)

435 Should we be troubled or amused by your oddly specific choice of color?
Posted by: DaveA at January 08, 2026 12:27 PM (FhXTo)

Google "WNBA neon green dildo".

On second thought, don't.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 12:28 PM (06Hmj)

436 And, NOOD!

Posted by: Nazdar at January 08, 2026 12:28 PM (NcvvS)

437 Pahlavi thanks Trump for support of Iranian protesters (JPost)

https://tinyurl.com/2seb63sj

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at January 08, 2026 12:29 PM (kvcnI)

438 People need to stop being afraid of impeachment. It's a joke of a process. Has been since the 1860s.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Brits came to that conclusion as well. The last impeachment in the United Kingdom was that of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, in 1806, who was accused of misusing public funds but ultimately acquitted by the House of Lords.

Founders were divided at the Convention. At the time, the famous and failed impeachment of Warren Hastings over his actions in India was occurring (1786 to 1795). He was overwhelmingly acquitted.

For bonus points, the leader of Parliament trying to impeach Hastings was Edmund Burke.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 12:29 PM (WDjG6)

439 A japanese nude buffet with Maduro's likeness as the nude.
Posted by: thug dolphin at January 08, 2026 12:25 PM (EyfuW)
_________________

Good old very wholesome family-friendly nantaimori!

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 08, 2026 12:29 PM (iFTx/)

440 Killing for bad poetry?

Hairy Reed would have been dead decades ago.

Vogons are a special case.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 08, 2026 12:30 PM (45BvE)

441
Scott Adams not doing well
Posted by: BlackOrchid

============

He's an amazing fighter.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 08, 2026 12:31 PM (Uo+RY)

442 ======

If you're doing this without preparation for escalation and without expectation of consequences, you are LARPing.
---------

We used to call it 'acting out'.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 08, 2026 12:31 PM (gIcAo)

443 But, being Dems, doing the stupidest thing possible is certainly on the table.
Posted by: mrp
=====
The ideologues are running the Dem side. The True Believers aka Democrat SOCIALIST Alliance. They are purposefully doubling down like the Commies they are and now publicly expressing their desires for blood, tyranny, and evil.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 12:31 PM (WDjG6)

444 There's a fine line between a keffiyeh and a tablecloth
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Houndstooth?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 08, 2026 12:22 PM (mlg/3)

Dish towel>>>tablecloth.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 08, 2026 12:31 PM (8zz6B)

445 Who? Literally: who? I have no idea who 90% of these desperate randos are. It's like every bimbo, THOT, whore, basement-dwelling incel, dork, dyke, dweeb, homo, faggot, ass-pirate, and gay homunulus has some twatter feed that makes them think anyone gives a rat's ass about their opinions.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

Which tells you it's all fake and gay, if they really believed that's how it was they'd be too scared to pass their mental gas publicly.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 08, 2026 12:38 PM (OUMaO)

446 You have t remember - the people in charge of Venezuela are trying to avoid the hang man's noose. Hence any loss of power could result in their death.

On the other hand, I don't think Trump or Rubio have any delusions about this. But as long as the Navy controls all shipping in and out, Venezuela needs to cooperate with us.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 08, 2026 12:44 PM (s/0Zp)

447 The husband of one of Mrs. Wrecks' friends died a couple of days ago. They had a "celebration of life" then assisted him to commit suicide.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 08, 2026 12:13 PM (L/fGl)

Awful.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 08, 2026 12:46 PM (Dpscb)

448 Absolutely nailed it, CBD.

Posted by: Caiwyn at January 08, 2026 12:52 PM (OJfxv)

Mid-Morning Art Thread

Jackson 330pm1.jpg

3:30 p.m.
Billy Morrow Jackson

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM




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1 yow!

Posted by: cmeat at January 08, 2026 09:30 AM (R11M+)

2 Gravity is unkind.

Posted by: huerfano at January 08, 2026 09:31 AM (98kQX)

3 I don't see a clock to confirm the title.

Very sus.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 09:32 AM (GBKbO)

4 Looks like my house. Same doors, woodwork, yellowed blinds. But no chick or tubular steel furniture.

Posted by: gp at January 08, 2026 09:32 AM (GHIyr)

5 Murphy's Oil Soap keeps all the woodwork clean!

That's the focus of this painting, right!?

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at January 08, 2026 09:32 AM (rDZVo)

6
ESPONJA!!1!!1!1

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 08, 2026 09:32 AM (tljrc)

7 So I guess saying "you're sister liked doing it that way" really dampened the mood.

Posted by: Donny Brook at January 08, 2026 09:32 AM (Dc1Hd)

8 What a waiting room

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 08, 2026 09:33 AM (NwnyJ)

9 I feel like I have been chummed.

Is that linoleum flooring?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 08, 2026 09:33 AM (bss/y)

10 Afternoon delight

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 08, 2026 09:33 AM (XvL8K)

11 Ok that’s Art.

Not a lot of furniture in that house.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2026 09:33 AM (ukUWv)

12 all the shades are drawn
and the knobs are dented
sourpuss is disappointed and frustrated
it's a good thing we rented

Posted by: cmeat at January 08, 2026 09:33 AM (R11M+)

13 Akshully, it looks like the woman and chair were painted in by a different artist onto a finished still life.

Posted by: gp at January 08, 2026 09:33 AM (GHIyr)

14 Three doorways. Three windows.
Feel cheated somehow?

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 08, 2026 09:33 AM (zdLoL)

15 The ideal wife waiting for her hubby to arrive home from work?

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 09:33 AM (IpnJw)

16

Early Bird Dinner!

Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at January 08, 2026 09:33 AM (aLI2b)

17 Is the model annoyed because she had something else to do at 3:30 p.m besides sitting around mostly naked for a painting?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 09:34 AM (sKqQm)

18 I don't know what to say.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at January 08, 2026 09:34 AM (DgMqy)

19 She seems annoyed. Can't say I blame her.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at January 08, 2026 09:34 AM (qDqQ5)

20 Sometimes it's best to just not comment. That said, Bulg will like this one.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 08, 2026 09:34 AM (2NHgQ)

21 The doctor will see you now.

Posted by: Kingsman at January 08, 2026 09:34 AM (ehY6c)

22
Those are some grand tetons.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 08, 2026 09:34 AM (x0n13)

23 > 2 Gravity is unkind.
Posted by: huerfano at January 08, 2026 09:31 AM (98kQX)

Kinda looks like she might be nursing.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 08, 2026 09:35 AM (IG3/x)

24 The Feng Shui of this room is a nightmare.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 09:35 AM (06Hmj)

25 I'm thinking of the song "Afternoon Delight" for some reason.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at January 08, 2026 09:35 AM (BHrzb)

26 Wow, nice yabbos.

Posted by: Bulg at January 08, 2026 09:35 AM (77rzZ)

27 Location: Smithsonian American Art Museum
Gift: Donated in memory of Dr. H. Lester Cooke

Posted by: redridinghood at January 08, 2026 09:35 AM (NpAcC)

28 "Let's pull down the blinds and tear off a piece"
--just the punch line

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 08, 2026 09:35 AM (zdLoL)

29 The boobs are kinda lopsided.

They hang, would not hang.

Posted by: Czech Chick at January 08, 2026 09:35 AM (vK/Ja)

30 I guess she has nothing to do but drink a cup of coffee at 3:30 pm.

Posted by: dantesed at January 08, 2026 09:35 AM (Oy/m2)

31 She seems annoyed. Can't say I blame her.
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at January 08, 2026 09:34 AM (qDqQ5)

I had a reply for this but it references current events so CBD would get all French on us.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 09:36 AM (ExV1e)

32 As the pic began to download and I saw windows, I said, "Hopper!" But this is unusual, to say the least. She looks like the kind of actress Hawaii Five-O (the original) used to cast as hippie girls involved in crime.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 08, 2026 09:36 AM (wzUl9)

33 She must be 6'2" or something.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 09:36 AM (06Hmj)

34
No. Just, no.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 09:36 AM (tgvbd)

35 You'll be using Murphy's all the time,
Cuz the dirt is finished,
But the finish is fine!

Posted by: Aspiring Lesbian Poet at January 08, 2026 09:36 AM (oftw2)

36 Those are some grand tetons.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 08, 2026 09:34 AM (x0n13)

Indeed, but she also seems royally pissed.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 08, 2026 09:36 AM (bss/y)

37 The cushions look soft and realistic.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at January 08, 2026 09:36 AM (rDZVo)

38 Sliding Doors?

[Left or Right choice?]

/Good movie, but I hated the ending ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 09:36 AM (IpnJw)

39 I guess the Rent to Own guys showed up to repo all the furniture at 3:00 PM.




Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 08, 2026 09:36 AM (IG3/x)

40 The ideal wife waiting for her hubby to arrive home from work?
Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability

After selling all the furniture. I shudder to think what might be in the cup she's about to splash in his face.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at January 08, 2026 09:36 AM (qDqQ5)

41 American Art Museum

Artist
Billy Morrow Jackson, born Kansas City, MO 1926-died Urbana, IL 2006
Credit Line
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of an anonymous donor in memory of Dr. H. Lester Cooke
Date
1971
Object number
1980.59
Restrictions & Rights
Usage conditions apply
Type
Painting
Medium
oil on fiberboard
Dimensions
41 7/8 x 48 1/8 in. (106.4 x 122.3 cm)

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 08, 2026 09:36 AM (gbOdA)

42 It's 3pm. Do you know where your sad MILF is?

Posted by: 80s PSA at January 08, 2026 09:36 AM (JCZqz)

43 So...some odd things with the painting

1) She's facing the wall. Did the painter put her in...naked timeout?

2) It looks like an empty house? Is she mad because instead of unloading their stuff the painter wanted to paint her NOW?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 09:36 AM (sKqQm)

44 3:30 p.m. executive dilemma: Do I go home early to beat the traffic or bang the secretary while falsely promising a "raise" for the twentieth time?

Posted by: pookysgirl, shrinking from that glare at January 08, 2026 09:36 AM (Wt5PA)

45 32 As the pic began to download and I saw windows, I said, "Hopper!" But this is unusual, to say the least. She looks like the kind of actress Hawaii Five-O (the original) used to cast as hippie girls involved in crime.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 08, 2026 09:36 AM (wzUl9)

Straight part down the center of the head?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 08, 2026 09:36 AM (bss/y)

46
Major league RBF there.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 09:37 AM (tgvbd)

47 She looks too young for that much sag.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 08, 2026 09:37 AM (s0JqF)

48 Looks like blog fav Sidney Sweeney. But The Blade is unlike the rest of the learing perverts and boob-obsessed lascivious libidonoids here. I think the best part of the painting is the coloring on the door. The painting would be better without the nekkid chick.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at January 08, 2026 09:37 AM (jPv1n)

49 Waiting for her 4 o'clock to show up

Posted by: Ben Had at January 08, 2026 09:37 AM (sDNVV)

50

Amber is ready for you in room three Mr. Hunter.

Posted by: Madame Huma at January 08, 2026 09:37 AM (aLI2b)

51 Those are some grand tetons.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 08, 2026 09:34 AM (x0n13)

Indeed, but she also seems royally pissed.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 08, 2026 09:36 AM (bss/y)

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Like a COB, I can hear her now:

"YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DID!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 09:37 AM (IpnJw)

52 is the pooch from a previous, current or past "condition?"
sure seems like i wouldn't need to visit the fridge to lighten my coffee.

Posted by: cmeat at January 08, 2026 09:37 AM (R11M+)

53 Love this. Would hang in every room.

Posted by: Case at January 08, 2026 09:37 AM (4rWc3)

54 Hat tip for the 'ettes: Greeting your husband nekkid when he comes home from work will get you bonus points.

But...make sure he isn't bringing over a coworker with him first...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 09:37 AM (sKqQm)

55 I guess the Rent to Own guys showed up to repo all the furniture at 3:00 PM.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia



Clothes too, from the looks of it.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 09:38 AM (6mogZ)

56 Biff beat me to it.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at January 08, 2026 09:38 AM (BHrzb)

57 48 Concur.

Posted by: gp at January 08, 2026 09:38 AM (GHIyr)

58 Is this what artsy fartsy people call a diptych?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 09:38 AM (06Hmj)

59 Woman doesn't look too happy.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 09:38 AM (8Xy/A)

60 Well…okay. It was donated to the Smithsonian anonymously, but is not on view.

Maybe the movers haven’t arrived and the airline lost her luggage?

Posted by: Piper at January 08, 2026 09:38 AM (OoFl2)

61 She seems annoyed. Can't say I blame her.
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at January 08, 2026

***
More like a severe pout because of disappointment.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 08, 2026 09:38 AM (wzUl9)

62 Sorry I’m late, honey. Gimme a minute to get out of these work clothes.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 08, 2026 09:39 AM (1HW+a)

63 Posted by: Elric the Blade at January 08, 2026 09:37 AM (jPv1n)

I agree with you.I like the door.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 09:39 AM (8Xy/A)

64 Piss ass expression on her face. Would not hang nor bang.

Posted by: From about That Time at January 08, 2026 09:39 AM (ynRNo)

65 54 Hat tip for the 'ettes: Greeting your husband nekkid when he comes home from work will get you bonus points.

But...make sure he isn't bringing over a coworker with him first...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 09:37 AM (sKqQm)

*David French perks up*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 08, 2026 09:39 AM (bss/y)

66
Get that out of here!

Posted by: Anonymous Donor's Wife at January 08, 2026 09:40 AM (tgvbd)

67 . . . She looks like the kind of actress Hawaii Five-O (the original) used to cast as hippie girls involved in crime.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 08, 2026
*
Straight part down the center of the head?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 08, 2026

***
Exactly.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 08, 2026 09:40 AM (wzUl9)

68 She knows what I did, but I don't care.

Posted by: Bulg at January 08, 2026 09:40 AM (77rzZ)

69 Her husband just left her and took all the things except for a pajama top, a chair, and a coffee mug.

And he's not talking to his brother anymore, either.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 09:40 AM (06Hmj)

70 She doesn't look like a happy girl

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 08, 2026 09:40 AM (/16YE)

71 Waiting for her 4 o'clock to show up

Posted by: Ben Had at January 08, 2026 09:37 AM (sDNVV)

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* chuckles *

Imma open a "Sex Therapy" business for needy children in Minnesomalia and request a few hundred million dollars from Uncle Sugar and Aunt Grift ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 09:40 AM (IpnJw)

72 One other odd thing.

She has a nightgown over her shoulders not on her body

If she was wearing it and decided to just show off her assets it would still be around her arms. But instead she picked it up and just put it over her.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 09:41 AM (sKqQm)

73 Rejected ad for Andersen Windows and Doors.

Posted by: Wood Eye at January 08, 2026 09:41 AM (oftw2)

74 The boobs were sad that day, my friends.

Posted by: George Costanza at January 08, 2026 09:41 AM (2Ez/1)

75 She knows what I did, but I don't care.

Posted by: Bulg at January 08, 2026 09:40 AM (77rzZ)

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lol

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 09:41 AM (IpnJw)

76 Now serving number 34.... number 34... serving 34

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 08, 2026 09:41 AM (NwnyJ)

77 This is what happens when the tits are *too* calm....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 09:41 AM (06Hmj)

78 Her husband just left her and took all the things except for a pajama top, a chair, and a coffee mug.

And he's not talking to his brother anymore, either.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 09:40 AM

All she needs is that mug. And that chair. And that pajama to. And that's it.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 08, 2026 09:42 AM (kgE5c)

79 I wanna see what happens at 3:45.

Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 09:43 AM (/HZvU)

80 We've been having lots of art from the Smithsonian lately.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 08, 2026 09:43 AM (NpAcC)

81 She's on break.

Posted by: pawn at January 08, 2026 09:43 AM (Rmqfl)

82 . . . She looks like the kind of actress Hawaii Five-O (the original) used to cast as hippie girls involved in crime.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 08, 2026
*
Straight part down the center of the head?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 08, 2026

***
Exactly.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 08, 2026 09:40 AM (wzUl9)

--------------

"Fuck you!" -- Peggy Lipton (AKA Jule from "The Mod Squad")

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 09:43 AM (IpnJw)

83 Those bewbs look like they were painted on as an afterthought. Or like the artist painted proportionate ones at first and then said, "nah, let's embiggen them!"

Posted by: PabloD at January 08, 2026 09:44 AM (cFv0u)

84 Well, my guess that this week's theme was obvious titles is clearly wrong.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 08, 2026 09:44 AM (kgE5c)

85 This has to be based off a real room somewhere.

No painter who needed a generic space for their painting would dream up this clashing mess of perspective out of thin air.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 09:44 AM (06Hmj)

86 I didn't look at his other paintings a lot, but "Farm Landscape With Wet Fields and Blue Sky" is very nice.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 09:44 AM (8Xy/A)

87 The artist served as a Marine in WWII.

Interesting.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 08, 2026 09:45 AM (IG3/x)

88 Teh gleam on the doors, and the shape of the paneling, is well done. I'm guessing this is a second- or third-floor apartment. The room directly ahead of us must be fairly small, since the window to the right of the girl is presumably an outside window too.

I'm guessing the hall to the left leads to the front door.

And WHY am I analyzing doors and windows when there are much more interesting things in this painting to obsess about?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 08, 2026 09:45 AM (wzUl9)

89 Missed opportunity by the artist. Should have had a mousy guy leering at her standing on an end table peering through the transom.

1.No mousy guy.
2.No End table.
3. No transom.

Three strikes! Y'er out!

Posted by: The Eyes Have It at January 08, 2026 09:45 AM (oftw2)

90 Her boobs are perfectly fine. Very nice.

Posted by: Bulg at January 08, 2026 09:45 AM (77rzZ)

91 Yesterday was hump day

Posted by: Ben Had at January 08, 2026 09:45 AM (sDNVV)

92 83 Those bewbs look like they were painted on as an afterthought. Or like the artist painted proportionate ones at first and then said, "nah, let's embiggen them!"
Posted by: PabloD at January 08, 2026 09:44 AM (cFv0u)

Maybe it's a commentary, 'he took everything when he left except these bad fake boobs.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 08, 2026 09:45 AM (bss/y)

93 All she needs is that mug. And that chair. And that pajama to. And that's it.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 08, 2026 09:42 AM (kgE5c)

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I re-enact that "The Jerk" scene every couple of months in a variety of situations (mostly at home).

"... and this paddle-ball ... and this lamp ... and this ..."

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 09:46 AM (IpnJw)

94 Her boobs are perfectly fine. Very nice.
Posted by: Bulg at January 08, 2026 09:45 AM

Is next, afternoon vear!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 08, 2026 09:46 AM (kgE5c)

95 Well, my guess that this week's theme was obvious titles is clearly wrong.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 08, 2026 09:44 AM (kgE5c)

Why? That's not a typical 3:30 for most of you?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 08, 2026 09:46 AM (n9ltV)

96 Nice rack.

Posted by: ballistic at January 08, 2026 09:47 AM (5aZAZ)

97
And WHY am I analyzing doors and windows when there are much more interesting things in this painting to obsess about?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 08, 2026 09:45 AM (wzUl9)

______________

You're a homosexual. Or you want to sleep with your mother.

Posted by: Every Psychiatrist Everywhere All the Time at January 08, 2026 09:47 AM (tgvbd)

98 I bet the artist put little pieces of tape on the ground to make sure the doors were always in the same exact position every time he sat down for a session.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 09:47 AM (06Hmj)

99 Dem be some oddly shaped boobages.

Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 09:47 AM (/HZvU)

100 I seem to be coming down with the flu again. Son of a bitch. I never got sick hardly at all when I vaped/smoked.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 08, 2026 09:47 AM (bss/y)

101 Nice chest sacks

Posted by: Truck Monkey at January 08, 2026 09:47 AM (Bo9Yf)

102 Sweet dreams are made of these. Who am I to disagree.

Posted by: Kingsman at January 08, 2026 09:47 AM (ehY6c)

103 Why? That's not a typical 3:30 for most of you?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 08, 2026 09:46 AM (n9ltV)

Don't be silly.

My boobs are nowhere near as nice.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 09:48 AM (06Hmj)

104 I think I know why she has her nightgown or robe draped around her shoulders. She's taking a break from posing for the artist, or *an* artist, having a cup of coffee. She looks sourly disappointed because the artist just told her he can't pay her today.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 08, 2026 09:48 AM (wzUl9)

105 99 Dem be some oddly shaped boobages.
Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 09:47 AM (/HZvU)

Kind of my point. Would look great in a dress... not so well free roam.

These are nit picks.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 08, 2026 09:48 AM (bss/y)

106 I'd hit it.

Posted by: Hillary! at January 08, 2026 09:48 AM (JCZqz)

107 103 Why? That's not a typical 3:30 for most of you?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 08, 2026 09:46 AM (n9ltV)

Don't be silly.

My boobs are nowhere near as nice.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 09:48 AM (06Hmj)

*golfclap*

Mrs Warai: he also does not bother with the negligee.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 08, 2026 09:49 AM (bss/y)

108 The artist served as a Marine in WWII.

Interesting.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 08, 2026 09:45 AM (IG3/x)

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New ICD-10 entry (Muldoon will know the details):

PTBD (Post-Traumatic Breast Disorder)

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 09:50 AM (IpnJw)

109 These are nit picks.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

tit pics

Posted by: Bulg at January 08, 2026 09:50 AM (77rzZ)

110 He taught at the University of Illinois for decades.

Perhaps this is a coed who's just been told she hasn't quite earned the A she thought she was going to get for this.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 08, 2026 09:50 AM (IG3/x)

111 Your assignment: make a nude somehow grim and bland.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 08, 2026 09:50 AM (NuV6c)

112 a mousy guy

A chinaman.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 08, 2026 09:50 AM (Kt19C)

113 My first thought is the Three Stooges or The Marx Brothers running through these rooms slamming doors with the hotel manager and house detective in hot pursuit.

Posted by: Emil Sitka at January 08, 2026 09:50 AM (oftw2)

114 I re-enact that "The Jerk" scene every couple of months in a variety of situations (mostly at home).

"... and this paddle-ball ... and this lamp ... and this ..."
Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026

***
I do the Airplane! gag.

Me: "Toast."
Miss Linda: "Toast?"
Me: "It's a procedure where you roast a piece of bread between electric heating panels. But that's not important right now."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 08, 2026 09:51 AM (wzUl9)

115 Here is his "Farm Landscape with wet fields and Blue Sky"

https://tinyurl.com/3aj5v23u

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 09:51 AM (8Xy/A)

116 83 Those bewbs look like they were painted on as an afterthought. Or like the artist painted proportionate ones at first and then said, "nah, let's embiggen them!"
Posted by: PabloD at January 08, 2026 09:44 AM


You know about the cup sizes,?

Posted by: Frank Costanza at January 08, 2026 09:51 AM (2Ez/1)

117 >>Perhaps this is a coed who's just been told she hasn't quite earned the A she thought she was going to get for this.


Now you've made it even more grim.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 08, 2026 09:51 AM (NuV6c)

118 111 Your assignment: make a nude somehow grim and bland.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 08, 2026 09:50 AM (NuV6c)

Yeah. One interesting thought experiment: leave everything the same, but she has a beautiful smile on her face.

Would completely change the whole piece.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 08, 2026 09:51 AM (bss/y)

119 89 Missed opportunity by the artist. Should have had a mousy guy leering at her standing on an end table peering through the transom.
Posted by: The Eyes Have It

We can provide several brown graduates from our quality learing center! Durk durk, Allah.

Posted by: Muhammed Muhammad Mohammed at January 08, 2026 09:52 AM (JCZqz)

120 She ought to take some interior design classes.
Like the sparseness. Would hang
Thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 08, 2026 09:52 AM (ScJGb)

121 She reminds me of a pretty blonde graduate student who taught a speech class I took in college. I don't recall her scowling like this, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 08, 2026 09:52 AM (wzUl9)

122 Willowed:

“Stop or I’ll shoot” must have been OK at one time, fleeing felon or not. It is part of every old time movie or radio cop drama.

The really vintage Dragnet is interesting, before search warrants and Miranda. They’d bring a suspect down to the station for 5 or 6 hours of questioning and search his house top to bottom.
Posted by: Common Tater



Dragnet had nothing on Highway Patrol.

Broderick Crawford capped at least one person an episode.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 09:52 AM (6mogZ)

123 The artists had ties to the west and...Martha's Vineyard Island.

An odd combo...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 09:52 AM (sKqQm)

124 I seem to be coming down with the flu again. Son of a bitch. I never got sick hardly at all when I vaped/smoked.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 08, 2026 09:47 AM (bss/y)

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There's a video out there somewhere showing nicotine attacking and destroying viruses under a microscope.

I have a dear old friend from high school who swears by wearing nicotine patches as a way to fight off any infections.

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 09:53 AM (IpnJw)

125 She reminds me of a pretty blonde graduate student who taught a speech class I took in college. I don't recall her scowling like this, though.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Well, you just never looked at her face.

Posted by: Bulg at January 08, 2026 09:53 AM (77rzZ)

126 Minneapolis ICE protesters are getting shoved around pretty good on livestream. I love it when they scream "You have no authority here!" and are promptly cuffed and stuffed.

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 08, 2026 09:53 AM (vV6n9)

127 Why? That's not a typical 3:30 for most of you?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 08, 2026 09:46 AM

I guess I have a very boring life.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 08, 2026 09:53 AM (kgE5c)

128 >>"... and this paddle-ball ... and this lamp ... and this ..."


Ha! Glad I'm not the only one who does this.

"I'm picking out a thermos for you! Not an ordinary thermos for you!. . ."

Posted by: Lizzy at January 08, 2026 09:53 AM (NuV6c)

129 Would completely change the whole piece.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 08, 2026 09:51 AM (bss/y)

Or a knowing, coquettish gaze!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 08, 2026 09:54 AM (n9ltV)

130 We can provide several brown graduates from our quality learing center! Durk durk, Allah.
Posted by: Muhammed Muhammad Mohammed


Dirka dirka muhammad jihad
Haka sherpa sherpa
Abac allah

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 09:54 AM (6mogZ)

131 I swear, I think the artist was more interested in the house's layout, and painting that heavy door's reflective wooden panels and trim, than anything else. The nekkid girl looks like she was placed there as an afterthought to lend more "visual interest" and attempted counter-balance. SMH.

Posted by: tankascribe at January 08, 2026 09:54 AM (NtoJk)

132 There's a video out there somewhere showing nicotine attacking and destroying viruses under a microscope.

I have a dear old friend from high school who swears by wearing nicotine patches as a way to fight off any infections.
Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026

***
It may be a coincidence. But I've been sick exactly once since I took up the pipe again in early 2021.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 08, 2026 09:54 AM (wzUl9)

133 I do the Airplane! gag.

Me: "Toast."
Miss Linda: "Toast?"
Me: "It's a procedure where you roast a piece of bread between electric heating panels. But that's not important right now."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 08, 2026 09:51 AM

I do that one a lot. Sometimes people even get it. I like those people.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 08, 2026 09:54 AM (kgE5c)

134 Seems a weird way to advertise an apartment for sale.

Posted by: stv at January 08, 2026 09:55 AM (XMeSM)

135 There are two suns on that planet.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 08, 2026 09:55 AM (RIvkX)

136 126 Minneapolis ICE protesters are getting shoved around pretty good on livestream. I love it when they scream "You have no authority here!" and are promptly cuffed and stuffed.
Posted by: Lincolntf

It's the local equivalent of nations crying "That's against international law" as Trump grabs Maduro and Venezuelan oil tankers.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 08, 2026 09:55 AM (JCZqz)

137 She reminds me of a pretty blonde graduate student who taught a speech class I took in college. I don't recall her scowling like this, though.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
*
Well, you just never looked at her face.
Posted by: Bulg at January 08, 2026

***
Probably not. But I do recall she wore glasses -- the "hot librarian" look.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 08, 2026 09:55 AM (wzUl9)

138 Bewbs!!

(But she doesn't look particularly happy about it)

Posted by: Tonypete at January 08, 2026 09:55 AM (cYBz/)

139 Like the sparseness.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 08, 2026 09:52 AM (ScJGb)

So do I, and it is a carefully painted and quite detailed sparseness, which I found interesting!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 08, 2026 09:56 AM (n9ltV)

140 She's definitely pouty. Also carefully placed where noone can see her through the windows, and yet, showing off the goods to anyone inside.

Put in time-out for too much flashing the neighborhood?

Posted by: RandomDave at January 08, 2026 09:56 AM (aJQbY)

141 Yeah, there's a nude in the painting but her expression is pouting and unpleasant and detracts from her nice figure. The rooms are more interesting with the golden light from the windows reflected in the wood of the doors and floor. The woman is almost superfluous and just an odd element: a naked woman sitting in what looks like a train depot waiting room. I wonder if Jackson did the interior of straight lines and hard surfaces and afterwards added the curvy woman as a contrast.

Posted by: JTB at January 08, 2026 09:56 AM (yTvNw)

142 Here is his "Farm Landscape with wet fields and Blue Sky"

https://tinyurl.com/3aj5v23u

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 09:51 AM (8Xy/A)

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I can see boobies in those clouds!

j/k, thanks Fen

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 09:56 AM (IpnJw)

143 Probably not. But I do recall she wore glasses -- the "hot librarian" look.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius


Mmmmmm...

Posted by: Bulg at January 08, 2026 09:56 AM (77rzZ)

144
"I'm picking out a thermos for you! Not an ordinary thermos for you!. . ."

Posted by: Lizzy at January 08, 2026 09:53 AM (NuV6c)

____________

Have thermoses changed shape or just gone away completely? Somehow you never see the old style anymore.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 09:57 AM (tgvbd)

145 Bazoongas!

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at January 08, 2026 09:57 AM (36PRH)

146 I know that face. Someone replaced her quality coffee with Folgers.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 08, 2026 09:57 AM (JCZqz)

147 No thanks.

Posted by: muldoon at January 08, 2026 09:58 AM (/iMjX)

148 Bewbs!!

(But she doesn't look particularly happy about it)
Posted by: Tonypete at January 08, 2026 09:55 AM (cYBz/)
--------
You try going around with two five pound bags of sand taped to your chest, see how you like it.

Posted by: Nekkid Girl at January 08, 2026 09:58 AM (X4XpB)

149
3:30?
No, it's a little later than that.
Maybe 25 or 26 minutes to four.

Posted by: Member of the band Chicago, squinting at the clock across the room at January 08, 2026 09:58 AM (2Ez/1)

150 Yeah, there's a nude in the painting but her expression is pouting and unpleasant and detracts from her nice figure. The rooms are more interesting with the golden light from the windows reflected in the wood of the doors and floor. The woman is almost superfluous and just an odd element: a naked woman sitting in what looks like a train depot waiting room. I wonder if Jackson did the interior of straight lines and hard surfaces and afterwards added the curvy woman as a contrast.

Posted by: JTB at January 08, 2026 09:56 AM (yTvNw)

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Always appreciate your analyses, JTB.

First thing I noticed is that the immediate door slightly-left of center is in focus (like taken by a camera), while the right-of-center woman and rest if the background are somewhat out-of-focus.

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 09:59 AM (IpnJw)

151 I figgured out what to say:

"How you doin?"

Posted by: Bad Andrew at January 08, 2026 09:59 AM (DgMqy)

152 Carol Doda

Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 08, 2026 09:59 AM (BNA0v)

153 Something about this image feels like it's a painting of a mirror image. Maybe the door that's really up close on the left? It's odd, like when I open my medicine cabinet a bit and the mirror on it show the room from a strange perspective.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 08, 2026 09:59 AM (JCZqz)

154 Its surreal. She's not real neither are her bewbs.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 08, 2026 09:59 AM (RIvkX)

155 So do I, and it is a carefully painted and quite detailed sparseness, which I found interesting!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 08, 2026 09:56 AM

I do like his treatment of the wood and the hardware.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 08, 2026 09:59 AM (kgE5c)

156 The hall door is that old-fashioned kind with a keyhole, but with a Yale (?) lock added above. The other door does not have the additional lock. This suggests that the hallway to the left leads past other apartments, that this is the front door to this apartment.

Which means somebody could walk in at any moment and get the surprise or shock of his or her life.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 08, 2026 10:00 AM (wzUl9)

157 It may be a coincidence. But I've been sick exactly once since I took up the pipe again in early 2021.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,

It's no coincidence. I haven't been sick once since I took the gaspipe.

Posted by: Jazz Musician Jack Purvis at January 08, 2026 10:00 AM (oftw2)

158 Most Spartan brothel evah....

Posted by: Michael K at January 08, 2026 10:00 AM (eCB+U)

159 None of my tenant-move-out inspections have ever been this interesting.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 08, 2026 10:00 AM (1Nv0l)

160 Is she wearing panties?

Posted by: Inquiring minds at January 08, 2026 10:00 AM (2Ez/1)

161 I do like his treatment of the wood and the hardware.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Save that for the ladies' room at Planet Fitness.

Posted by: Bulg at January 08, 2026 10:01 AM (77rzZ)

162 The art is very cool (with or without the nude). Would definitely hang.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 08, 2026 10:01 AM (g8Ew8)

163 Typical "starving artist" apartment. No furniture, no atmosphere, no clothing.

Posted by: MiG18 at January 08, 2026 10:01 AM (/ndhT)

164 Have thermoses changed shape or just gone away completely? Somehow you never see the old style anymore.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 09:57 AM

I think they've been largely replaced by the ubiquitous travel mug.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 08, 2026 10:01 AM (kgE5c)

165 Me: "Toast."
Miss Linda: "Toast?"
Me: "It's a procedure where you roast a piece of bread between electric heating panels. But that's not important right now."
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

If I step into an elevator and the woman in the car says 'Going Down?", at a minimum she's going to be able to tell her buds, "Geebus, old men will say anything!"

Posted by: Tonypete at January 08, 2026 10:01 AM (cYBz/)

166 I have a dear old friend from high school who swears by wearing nicotine patches
——-

I somehow managed to acquire the China Lung Rot in February 2020. I hadn’t had any sort of Flu in about 15 or 20 years, but I knew I was in for an unpleasant experience. Ordinarily I quit the ciggies, as a bacterial lung infection is not a pleasant upgrade.

Fever was 104 and not going away. Then, the word went out from China that former smokers who acquired the lung rot were dying all out of proportion compared to smokers.

Do I quit for the duration, or not? LOL

Posted by: Common Tater at January 08, 2026 10:01 AM (tXwiM)

167 3:30?
No, it's a little later than that.
Maybe 25 or 26 minutes to four.

Posted by: Member of the band Chicago, squinting at the clock across the room at January 08, 2026 09:58 AM (2Ez/1)

-----------------

[Channels Sponge:] "You asked for it."

Greatest live guitar performance ever (Terry Kath was Jimi Hendrix' favorite guitarist) at Tanglewood in 1970 -- 25 or 6 to 4:

youtube.com/watch?v=7uAUoz7j___

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 10:02 AM (IpnJw)

168 True sign you are getting old.
Every night around 10:00 pm, you realize it's only 6:30 pm.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 10:02 AM (6mogZ)

169 >>Have thermoses changed shape or just gone away completely? Somehow you never see the old style anymore.


I think Thermos brand still makes their classic ones, the kind with the lid that doubles as a cup? We just got rid of one that was my grandmothers - it finally wore our.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 08, 2026 10:02 AM (NuV6c)

170 I wonder if there real backstory behind this painting is...

Mrs Jackson: I found out about your secret apartment. And your secret woman!

Mr Jackson (thinking furiously): Uh no honey its not like that at all, I'm uh...painting her yeah. That's it.

Mrs Jackson: Then why did I see her naked in the window?!?

Mr Jackson: She's not naked baby. She's got a nightgown in the painting, but uh, I made her look all arty.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 10:02 AM (sKqQm)

171 @160 after closer inspection, I'd say no. Just an oversized shirt draped over her shoulders.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at January 08, 2026 10:02 AM (36PRH)

172 Is she wearing panties?
Posted by: Inquiring minds at January 08, 2026

***
If so, they are pretty tiny. Her left forearm blocks any view.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 08, 2026 10:02 AM (wzUl9)

173 Or dress

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at January 08, 2026 10:02 AM (36PRH)

174 Here is his "Farm Landscape with wet fields and Blue Sky"

https://tinyurl.com/3aj5v23u
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Blue sky? BLUE SKY!??!!! Please, God, no! Anything but that! I....oh. The actual sky! Oh thank goodness. 😭

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 08, 2026 10:02 AM (JCZqz)

175 Most Spartan brothel evah....
Posted by: Michael K at January 08, 2026 10:00 AM (eCB+U)
----------
IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE IT SOUNDS LIKE "SPARTAN BROTH", THEIR CHARACTERISTIC NATIONAL MEAL.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at January 08, 2026 10:03 AM (X4XpB)

176 >>Her husband just left her and took all the things except for a pajama top, a chair, and a coffee mug.

And he's not talking to his brother anymore, either.
- - - -

Wow, nailed the mood perfectly!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 08, 2026 10:03 AM (NuV6c)

177 No thanks.

Posted by: muldoon at January 08, 2026 09:58 AM (/iMjX)

FINE!

I'll do it.

There once was a tenant alone,
who couldn't pay rent on her own.
With large, sagging breasts,
She failed gravity’s tests,
As the landlord demanded a bone.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 08, 2026 10:03 AM (n9ltV)

178 CBS News interviewed Tom Homan and actually got the DHS side of the story.

Kudos there.

Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 10:04 AM (/HZvU)

179 What. Knockers.

Posted by: Doctor FRONK-en-shteen at January 08, 2026 10:04 AM (JkO4W)

180 Tousi is reporting IRGC dependents are in flight out of Iran. Things seem to be proceeding in advance of the Shah's call at 8 pm.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 08, 2026 10:04 AM (RIvkX)

181 Crying shame Terry Kath never met Weasel.

Posted by: Fellow Organic Tree Farmer at January 08, 2026 10:04 AM (oftw2)

182 180 Tousi is reporting IRGC dependents are in flight out of Iran. Things seem to be proceeding in advance of the Shah's call at 8 pm.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 08, 2026 10:04 AM (RIvkX)

======

"Yeah, but it's never happened before so it can't be happening now."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 10:05 AM (GBKbO)

183 >>There once was a tenant alone,
who couldn't pay rent on her own.
With large, sagging breasts,
She failed gravity’s tests,
As the landlord demanded a bone.


GRIM

Posted by: Lizzy at January 08, 2026 10:05 AM (NuV6c)

184 Uh oh. CBD's doing limericks now.

The end times are upon us.

Posted by: Bulg at January 08, 2026 10:05 AM (77rzZ)

185 Oh, now you've gone and done it CBD.

THIS JACKSON Fellow IS AN ARTIST !

Posted by: scottst at January 08, 2026 10:05 AM (6fhoX)

186 IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE IT SOUNDS LIKE "SPARTAN BROTH", THEIR CHARACTERISTIC NATIONAL MEAL.
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at January 08, 2026

***
Which makes me wonder: Is Roman Meal bread still available?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 08, 2026 10:05 AM (wzUl9)

187 Question:

Is this about premature ejaculation or impotence?

Inclusive or not operative here.

Posted by: epador at January 08, 2026 10:06 AM (TRnzq)

188 I don't remember being sick much when I was a smoker and drank more. But I was also younger.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 08, 2026 10:06 AM (XvL8K)

189 Which makes me wonder: Is Roman Meal bread still available?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 08, 2026 10:05 AM (wzUl9)

Internet says yes.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 10:06 AM (ExV1e)

190 @180 many commenters on Russian telegram channels are still convinced it's just small groups of Mossad instigators.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at January 08, 2026 10:06 AM (36PRH)

191 FINE!

I'll do it.

There once was a tenant alone,
who couldn't pay rent on her own.
With large, sagging breasts,
She failed gravity’s tests,
As the landlord demanded a bone.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 08, 2026 10:03 AM

*slow clap*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 08, 2026 10:06 AM (kgE5c)

192 Oh, sank you doctor!

Posted by: Teri Garr at January 08, 2026 10:07 AM (2Ez/1)

193 The kickstand on that chair looks like the designer wanted a cool, sleek, simple form, but the first person to lean back in it wound up with his heels in the air.

Posted by: red speck at January 08, 2026 10:07 AM (Ve/HL)

194 Newsweek headline: Trump protects protestors in Iran but not at home.

No matter how much you hate them it will never be enough.

Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 10:08 AM (/HZvU)

195 Which makes me wonder: Is Roman Meal bread still available?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Yeah, and what about Roman's Frozen Pizza?

Posted by: Meat Lover Deluxe at January 08, 2026 10:08 AM (oftw2)

196 > 158 Most Spartan brothel evah....
Posted by: Michael K at January 08, 2026 10:00 AM (eCB+U)

No, she's definitely not a pre-pubescent boy.

The Spartans would've had no interest whatsoever.


Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 08, 2026 10:09 AM (IG3/x)

197 Tousi is reporting IRGC dependents are in flight out of Iran. Things seem to be proceeding in advance of the Shah's call at 8 pm.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 08, 2026 10:04 AM

Watching his livestream. Things getting sporty in Iran.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 08, 2026 10:09 AM (kgE5c)

198 193 The kickstand on that chair looks like the designer wanted a cool, sleek, simple form, but the first person to lean back in it wound up with his heels in the air.
Posted by: red speck

Leaning back with my heels in the air sounds like the start of a great party!!!

Posted by: Sam Brinton at January 08, 2026 10:09 AM (JCZqz)

199 160 comments in, and no one has mentioned the view out of the window on the left hand side, reminiscent of Renaissance era (?) paintings.

Posted by: capercaillie4901 at January 08, 2026 10:09 AM (f1WVr)

200 Which makes me wonder: Is Roman Meal bread still available?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Yeah, and what about Roman's Frozen Pizza?
Posted by: Meat Lover Deluxe

Speaking of today's art -- Ruth Roman. Mmmmmmmm...

Posted by: Bulg at January 08, 2026 10:09 AM (77rzZ)

201 Oh, I just found a more interesting interpretation, I think.

She's pouting because her husband got an emergency call and had to stop right as she was about to, well.

Posted by: RandomDave at January 08, 2026 10:09 AM (aJQbY)

202 126 Minneapolis ICE protesters are getting shoved around pretty good on livestream. I love it when they scream "You have no authority here!" and are promptly cuffed and stuffed.
Posted by: Lincolntf at January 08, 2026 09:53 AM (vV6n9)

What you are watching is the result of parents not spanking their kids.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 08, 2026 10:09 AM (N39Ws)

203 > , but the first person to lean back in it wound up with his heels in the air.
Posted by: red speck at January 08, 2026 10:07 AM (Ve/HL)

Feature, not bug. And "her", not "his".



Posted by: Billy Morrow Jackson at January 08, 2026 10:09 AM (IG3/x)

204 But I do recall she wore glasses -- the "hot librarian" look"

"Molecules"

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 10:09 AM (XuXeR)

205 Let's see what's behind Door No. 3...!

Posted by: Monty Hall at January 08, 2026 10:10 AM (cUMVS)

206 >>>It's odd, like when I open my medicine cabinet a bit and the mirror on it show the room from a strange perspective.

Never look in the mirror of a medicine cabinet while opening it. Unless you wish to see your crazy ex-girlfriend holding a butcher's knife.

Posted by: guy who watches too many scary movies at January 08, 2026 10:10 AM (Y1sOo)

207 Which makes me wonder: Is Roman Meal bread still available?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Yeah, and what about Roman's Frozen Pizza?
Posted by: Meat Lover Deluxe at January 08, 2026 10:08 AM (oftw2)

I love eating Roman food under the light of Roman candles.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 08, 2026 10:10 AM (g8Ew8)

208 She's pouting because her husband got an emergency call and had to stop right as she was about to, well.
Posted by: RandomDave at January 08, 2026 10:09 AM

Push the buy button on Amazon?

Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 10:10 AM (/HZvU)

209 Getting a "called to the principal's office" vibe.

Need to stop watching the news.

Posted by: creeper at January 08, 2026 10:10 AM (80oeU)

210 GRIM

Posted by: Lizzy at January 08, 2026 10:05 AM (NuV6c)

It's Muldoon's fault! He is holding out and won't write a good one.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 08, 2026 10:12 AM (n9ltV)

211 Need to stop watching the news."

Still fronted by Huey Lewis?

/ the news

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 10:12 AM (XuXeR)

212 Jacob Frey looks like Justin Trudeau's even more retarded brother.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 08, 2026 10:12 AM (8CIFn)

213 Looks a little bit like Sandy Johnson, except for the boobs and face.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at January 08, 2026 10:13 AM (36PRH)

214 We all know what she needs. Okay Hun, put some clothes on and let's go shopping. That will turn that frown upside down.

Posted by: Case at January 08, 2026 10:13 AM (4rWc3)

215
211 Need to stop watching the news."

Still fronted by Huey Lewis?

/ the news

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 10:12 AM (XuXeR)

====

Obligatory:

"In '87, Huey released this; Fore!, their most accomplished album. I think their undisputed masterpiece is "Hip To Be Square". A song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity and the importance of trends. It's also a personal statement about the band itself. Hey, Paul!"

Bateman murders Allen with an axe.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 10:13 AM (GBKbO)

216 Iran's top Army general is threatening "preemptive action", presumably against the United States.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 08, 2026 10:13 AM (IG3/x)

217 Of course, this thread won't be complete until a certain connoisseur opines on the lady's feet.

Posted by: Bulg at January 08, 2026 10:13 AM (77rzZ)

218 Have thermoses changed shape or just gone away completely? Somehow you never see the old style anymore.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 09:57 AM

-------------

I drive several hours each day for work (as a courier) and carry a modern "lunch box" -- light zippered material with a slot for an ice pack, and carry water & electrolyte bottles and occasionally food.

Also a side bonus -- especially in the Arizona summers: my mobile phone frequently gets so hot (usually streaming something and/or charging in the heat) that it overheats and I an place it in my lunch box next to the ice pack to cool it back down to a reasonable and operable temperature.

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 10:13 AM (IpnJw)

219 Seems a weird way to advertise an apartment for sale.

You have never seen "Last Tango in Paris"?b

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 08, 2026 10:13 AM (zdLoL)

220 216 Iran's top Army general is threatening "preemptive action", presumably against the United States.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 08, 2026 10:13 AM (IG3/x)

======

So...they've forgotten about bombing the shit out of their nuclear site at Fordow, huh?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 10:14 AM (GBKbO)

221 Looks a little bit like Sandy Johnson"

Any relation to Howard?

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 10:14 AM (XuXeR)

222 Tousi is reporting IRGC dependents are in flight out of Iran.

The poor dears! We'll re-settle them...

Posted by: Lutheran Ladies' Auxiliary of Lakeville, Minnesota at January 08, 2026 10:14 AM (cUMVS)

223 Ordinary Extraordinary = same house, a different girl though.

Old house with modern laminated wood floors? Seems odd.

Posted by: 5cats at January 08, 2026 10:14 AM (evYr/)

224 222 Tousi is reporting IRGC dependents are in flight out of Iran.


OMG

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 08, 2026 10:15 AM (emBoF)

225 @156 old-fashioned kind with a keyhole, but with a Yale (?) lock added above. The other door does not have the additional lock.

Obvious Baldwin escutcheon, IYGWIM.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 08, 2026 10:15 AM (zdLoL)

226
224 222 Tousi is reporting IRGC dependents are in flight out of Iran.


OMG

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 08, 2026 10:15 AM (emBoF)

=====

It's just a pre-planned trip to Disneyland Paris.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 10:15 AM (GBKbO)

227 Obligatory:"

Ok, so as all threads go, this too is now a movie thread.

PROMETHEUS.

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 10:15 AM (XuXeR)

228 Iran's top Army general is threatening "preemptive action", presumably against the United States.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 08, 2026 10:13 AM (IG3/x)

--------------

One has to wonder how many Iranian (and Other) Islamist Terrorist Cells the Truly Treasonous AutoPen Empire imported -- if not invited and flew in gratis -- into the country from 2021 through 2024?

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 10:16 AM (IpnJw)

229 Old house with modern laminated wood floors? Seems odd.
Posted by: 5cats at January 08, 2026 10:14 AM

Some people just don't appreciate classic decor.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 08, 2026 10:16 AM (kgE5c)

230 Of course, this thread won't be complete until a certain connoisseur opines on the lady's feet.
Posted by: Bulg at January 08, 2026

***
They're a little too shadowy, or dirty -- or both -- to make any kind of judgment.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 08, 2026 10:16 AM (wzUl9)

231 My brother in law caddied at a fancy schmancy country club when he was a yuuute. Among other notable people he caddied for was Huey Lewis. This was after his fame had subsided. Said he was a very good tipper and easy to caddy for.

Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 10:17 AM (/HZvU)

232 Tousi is reporting IRGC dependents are in flight out of Iran.
_____________

He's been saying similar shit since this started. Maybe it's different this time. Hope so.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 08, 2026 10:17 AM (XvL8K)

233 This is interesting, but what is behind the green door will really tickle your fancy.

Posted by: Marilyn Chambers.. at January 08, 2026 10:17 AM (oftw2)

234 @156 old-fashioned kind with a keyhole, but with a Yale (?) lock added above. The other door does not have the additional lock.

Obvious Baldwin escutcheon, IYGWIM.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 08, 2026 10:15 AM

Careful...you're going to trigger CBD.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 08, 2026 10:17 AM (kgE5c)

235 Nice fun zeppelins.

Posted by: Joe Mama at January 08, 2026 10:17 AM (TezPK)

236 Hell has frozen over. MSNOW has interesting news (once you dig through the derangement).

Kari Lake buys Iowa condo as speculation swirls about her future. The twice-defeated Arizona candidate has long flirted with politics in her home state.

Kari Lake...recently purchased a $60,000 condo in her home community of eastern Iowa...Official property records from Scott County, Iowa, show the November sale of the two-bedroom condominium in a brick apartment building in Davenport to a family trust controlled by Lake. She graduated from a high school near the property before attending the University of Iowa.

Sen. Grassley has not closed the door on running for re-election in 2028, but would be 95 years old on Election Day if he pursued another term.

In early 2025, as Iowa’s other Republican senator, Joni Ernst, faced criticism from Trump loyalists over her support for the incoming president’s agenda, Lake planned a political visit to the greater Des Moines area. A source familiar with her political interests said at the time that Lake had not ruled out a primary challenge to Ernst, who later announced she would retire rather than seek re-election.

Posted by: Intercepted MSNOW Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 08, 2026 10:17 AM (JCZqz)

237 216 Iran's top Army general is threatening "preemptive action", presumably against the United States.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 08, 2026 10:13 AM (IG3/x)

US Gen. "Raisin'" Kane grins approvingly since it has been a while since an all around ass-woopin has been administered.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 08, 2026 10:17 AM (N39Ws)

238 Some people just don't appreciate classic decor"

"How about you, Jimmie, you an oak man?"

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 10:17 AM (XuXeR)

239
It's just a pre-planned trip to Disneyland Paris.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 10:15 AM

with just a short lay-over in Moscow

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 08, 2026 10:18 AM (tljrc)

240 I have a serious question.
If the police officer who shot and killed Ashley during Jan 6, was not being made to stand trial, why is there any talk about this border guard being sued?

Posted by: Chillin the most at January 08, 2026 10:18 AM (Sv8TC)

241
Took a look. Yes, Thermos LLC still makes beverage and food thermoses. The style has changed a bit, but the function remains the same. Lunchboxes are still around too, but, again, look quite different than my dim, distant youth remembers.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 10:18 AM (tgvbd)

242 Assad will finally have some friends in Moscow.

Or wait do they hate each other? Baaths va Shia and all that.

Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 10:18 AM (/HZvU)

243 I love Huey Lewis and The News. Yes, they were phenomenally successful, but I believe they were underrated musically.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at January 08, 2026 10:18 AM (DgMqy)

244 240 I have a serious question.
If the police officer who shot and killed Ashley during Jan 6, was not being made to stand trial, why is there any talk about this border guard being sued?

Posted by: Chillin the most at January 08, 2026 10:18 AM (Sv8TC)

======

State and local prosecutors will try.

But, the DOJ will motion to have the case moved to federal courts since it's a federal officer performing his official duties.

And then the DOJ will take the case and motion for it to be dismissed.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 10:19 AM (GBKbO)

245 I didn't look at his other paintings a lot, but "Farm Landscape With Wet Fields and Blue Sky" is very nice.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 09:44 AM (8Xy/A)

I'm guessing there's no "wet fields" in the painting above.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 08, 2026 10:19 AM (iJfKG)

246 Yeah, and what about Roman's Frozen Pizza?
Posted by: Meat Lover Deluxe


Lulu Roman's Frozen Pizza


*Feeds 28

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 10:19 AM (6mogZ)

247 Seventies porn could be ruined by female "actresses" with dirty feet, or socks.

Posted by: Peep Show Mop Boy at January 08, 2026 10:19 AM (oftw2)

248 232 Tousi is reporting IRGC dependents are in flight out of Iran.
_____________

He's been saying similar shit since this started. Maybe it's different this time. Hope so.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

See also: Kathleen Kennedy, Doomcock.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 08, 2026 10:19 AM (JCZqz)

249 I have a serious question.
If the police officer who shot and killed Ashley during Jan 6, was not being made to stand trial, why is there any talk about this border guard being sued?
Posted by: Chillin the most at January 08, 2026 10:18 AM (Sv8TC)

(D)ifferent (R)ules

Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 10:19 AM (/HZvU)

250 Said he was a very good tipper and easy to caddy for."

So, did he recieve total consciousness?

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 10:20 AM (XuXeR)

251

Has a very Edward Hopper-like quality vis a vis the sparseness and isolation of the figure.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 08, 2026 10:20 AM (x0n13)

252 Will the Iranian Generals throw the Mullahs under the bus?

That is what is going on.

Posted by: pawn at January 08, 2026 10:20 AM (Rmqfl)

253 240 I have a serious question.
If the police officer who shot and killed Ashley during Jan 6, was not being made to stand trial, why is there any talk about this border guard being sued?
Posted by: Chillin the most
---

Same reason there was much talk about the same for Michael Byrd. Just different sides doing the talking.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 08, 2026 10:20 AM (1Nv0l)

254 I'm guessing there's no "wet fields" in the painting above.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 08, 2026 10:19 AM

Hard to tell, but there's certainly a lot of hardwood around the place. Could be more on the floor, though.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 08, 2026 10:21 AM (kgE5c)

255 Kari Lake found a two-BR condo for $60K? Where is this fabled town, and must you travel a Yellow Brick Road to get there?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 08, 2026 10:21 AM (wzUl9)

256 Oh, so now it's deadbolt escutcheon thread?

Posted by: It never fails at January 08, 2026 10:21 AM (2Ez/1)

257 Kari Lake found a two-BR condo for $60K? Where is this fabled town, and must you travel a Yellow Brick Road to get there?"

It's not heaven. It's Iowa...

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 10:22 AM (XuXeR)

258 True sign you are getting old.

Every night around 10:00 pm, you realize it's only 6:30 pm.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 10:02 AM (6mogZ)

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lol

Winter is the worst.

"Wait, it's dark outside and it's ONLY 5:30?"

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 10:22 AM (IpnJw)

259 243 I love Huey Lewis and The News. Yes, they were phenomenally successful, but I believe they were underrated musically.
Posted by: Bad Andrew at January 08, 2026 10:18 AM (DgMqy

I got to see them in the early 2000's past their peak popularity by a few years. It was about a 3000 seat venue.

They played for about an hour and a half and i knew every word to every song they played.

Pretty impressive. They were huge back Inna day.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 08, 2026 10:22 AM (i0Hi3)

260 Kari Lake...recently purchased a $60,000 condo in her home community of eastern Iowa

$60k?! Is it on the floor of a big meatpacking plant?

Posted by: t-bird at January 08, 2026 10:22 AM (kpuIJ)

261 Said he was a very good tipper and easy to caddy for."

So, did he recieve total consciousness?
Posted by: man
________

Fun fact: That was not in the script. Bill Murray improvised the whole thing. Makes me wonder what the dude with the pitchfork against his neck was thinking.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 08, 2026 10:22 AM (XvL8K)

262 George Floyd had blacks rioting, so no action. It remains to be seen if Antifa kids will riot for this dyke. If so - I recommend an extremely violent suppression. These are whites, and by the rules they forced on society, their lives don't mean shit.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 08, 2026 10:22 AM (BI5O2)

263 Jerry:
Because...I spent my money on the Clapgo D. 29, it's the most impenetrable lock on the market today...it has only one design flaw:the door... [closing door] must be closed!

Posted by: Bad Andrew at January 08, 2026 10:23 AM (DgMqy)

264
Kari Lake found a two-BR condo for $60K? Where is this fabled town, and must you travel a Yellow Brick Road to get there?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 08, 2026 10:21 AM (wzUl9)

Methinks it's like Tish James buying a house in Norfolk, VA for $130K. Might be worthwhile to ask.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 10:23 AM (tgvbd)

265 Former Turning Point leader and AZ state legislature convicted of multiple counts of election fraud

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at January 08, 2026 10:24 AM (yMxXU)

266 Took a look. Yes, Thermos LLC still makes beverage and food thermoses. The style has changed a bit, but the function remains the same. Lunchboxes are still around too, but, again, look quite different than my dim, distant youth remembers.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

I had a plaid lunch box with a matching plaid thermos.

Posted by: Tuna at January 08, 2026 10:24 AM (lJ0H4)

267 Kari Lake buys Iowa condo as speculation swirls about her future. The twice-defeated Arizona candidate has long flirted with politics in her home state.

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Had two elections stolen from her, as did the squish RINO Martha McSally.

Arizona is a deep red state, but Maricopa (Phoenix) and Pima (Tucson) Counties continue to steal Governor and US Senate elections with impunity.

* spit *

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 10:24 AM (IpnJw)

268 Kari Lake found a two-BR condo for $60K? Where is this fabled town, and must you travel a Yellow Brick Road to get there?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 08, 2026 10:21 AM (wzUl9)

You can buy 3 bedroom houses for $100k in many parts of the country. And not in the ghetto or tear downs. Actual livable homes for regular people.

You have step out of the media centric narrative that you need $1M in cash for a down payment on a studio apartment. That’s true in coastal cities. Out in flyover country, houses are generally affordable to the masses.

Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 10:24 AM (/HZvU)

269 262 George Floyd had blacks rioting, so no action. It remains to be seen if Antifa kids will riot for this dyke. If so - I recommend an extremely violent suppression. These are whites, and by the rules they forced on society, their lives don't mean shit.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 08, 2026 10:22 AM (BI5O2)

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Big protest in Minneapolis this morning. Still seems to be going.

Feds are just arresting anyone who touches them, though, all while ICE keeps rolling up to known illegal haunts.

This DHS is not going to slow down.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 10:24 AM (GBKbO)

270 The entire az state legislature was convicted for fraud? This is indeed shocking news.

Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 10:25 AM (/HZvU)

271 I had a plaid lunch box with a matching plaid thermos.

Posted by: Tuna at January 08, 2026 10:24 AM (lJ0H4)

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I have a memory of popular Charlie Brown (& Snoopy and the Gang) lunchboxes and thermoses from back in the late 60s and 70s).

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 10:26 AM (IpnJw)

272 You can buy 3 bedroom houses for $100k in many parts of the country. And not in the ghetto or tear downs. Actual livable homes for regular people.

You have step out of the media centric narrative that you need $1M in cash for a down payment on a studio apartment. That’s true in coastal cities. Out in flyover country, houses are generally affordable to the masses.
Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026

***
I know -- I'm looking! True, I don't want to live so far from a small city that I can't get service for my car, or for me. But I'm certainly not looking at big cities.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 08, 2026 10:26 AM (wzUl9)

273
I love Huey Lewis and The News. Yes, they were phenomenally successful, but I believe they were underrated musically.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at January 08, 2026 10:18 AM

I got to see them in the early 2000's past their peak popularity by a few years. It was about a 3000 seat venue.

They played for about an hour and a half and i knew every word to every song they played.

Pretty impressive. They were huge back Inna day.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 08, 2026 10:22 AM

damn shame that Huey had to retire 'cause of hearing loss due to Meniere's disease

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 08, 2026 10:26 AM (tljrc)

274 It remains to be seen if Antifa kids will riot for this dyke."

Yeah, they have to get the riots in before the front moves thru.. forecast for near/in single digit temps this weekend.

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 10:26 AM (XuXeR)

275 255 Kari Lake found a two-BR condo for $60K? Where is this fabled town, and must you travel a Yellow Brick Road to get there?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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You'd be surprised. There's plenty of cheap-housing in small-town USA. A youtuber I follow drives around small-town USA quoting census figures and things like median home prices. It's oddly compelling and relaxing viewing.
https://is.gd/67rRWN

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 08, 2026 10:26 AM (1Nv0l)

276 "Has a very Edward Hopper-like quality"

Edward Hooters, if you will

Posted by: Wally at January 08, 2026 10:27 AM (65cLN)

277 Any bets on what new, but failing, cause Trump will force the left to embrace today?

It's a great time to be alive!

Posted by: Tonypete at January 08, 2026 10:27 AM (cYBz/)

278 Would love to know how many mentions of "escutcheon" in all the years of the blog up until Sunday 2PM EST, and how many since.

Posted by: Happy Harry at January 08, 2026 10:27 AM (oftw2)

279 @LeadingReport
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4m
BREAKING: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has been referred to the DOJ for criminal charges for allegedly knowingly being complicit in the Somali fraud scandal.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 08, 2026 10:27 AM (mlg/3)

280 277 Any bets on what new, but failing, cause Trump will force the left to embrace today?

It's a great time to be alive!

Posted by: Tonypete at January 08, 2026 10:27 AM (cYBz/)

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"Trump negotiates with Switzerland to return stolen Jewish art from the Nazi era."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 10:27 AM (GBKbO)

281 Big protest in Minneapolis this morning. Still seems to be going.

Feds are just arresting anyone who touches them, though, all while ICE keeps rolling up to known illegal haunts.

This DHS is not going to slow down.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 10:24 AM (GBKbO)

The theater kids have to decide whether or not their little, junior high level version of "Peter Pan" is worth getting shot in the head or not.

I imagine the smell of soy-based panic sweat is overwhelming.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 08, 2026 10:28 AM (iJfKG)

282 This woman needs a lot of companionship. Imma here to help.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 08, 2026 10:28 AM (pLaQB)

283 279 @LeadingReport
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4m
BREAKING: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has been referred to the DOJ for criminal charges for allegedly knowingly being complicit in the Somali fraud scandal.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 08, 2026 10:27 AM (mlg/3)

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Referrals are not news. They are press releases from Congress that they did some theater.

The DOJ has probably been criminally investigating a lot of the MN state apparatus for the fraud for months already.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 10:28 AM (GBKbO)

284 Where is this fabled town, and must you travel a Yellow Brick Road to get there?

Hush up now. We don't want the NYC crowd to find out what life costs in the rest of the world. They'll want a "collective good."

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 08, 2026 10:29 AM (zdLoL)

285 Out in flyover country, houses are generally affordable to the masses."

This is true. Young un's kolledge friends all seem to wind up in pretty nice newish places under $300k.

Of course, it's Texas, so ....

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 10:29 AM (XuXeR)

286 158 "sparta!"

Posted by: cmeat at January 08, 2026 10:29 AM (R11M+)

287 281 The theater kids have to decide whether or not their little, junior high level version of "Peter Pan" is worth getting shot in the head or not.

I imagine the smell of soy-based panic sweat is overwhelming.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 08, 2026 10:28 AM (iJfKG)

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They are all soldiers. Sure, they can't throw a punch and they don't carry weapons (most of them), but they have the mentality.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 10:29 AM (GBKbO)

288 243 I love Huey Lewis and The News. Yes, they were phenomenally successful, but I believe they were underrated musically.
Posted by: Bad Andrew at January 08, 2026 10:18 AM (DgMqy


Wasn't Huey Lewis part of or the leader of a band called Clover that backed Elvis Costello? Might be misremembering.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 08, 2026 10:29 AM (x0n13)

289 Big protest in Minneapolis this morning. Still seems to be going.

The ICE guy was an idiot. You couldn't sidestep a car?!

Posted by: St. Rachel of Pavement at January 08, 2026 10:29 AM (o5jAD)

290 This woman needs a lot of companionship. Imma here to help."

Well, aren't you a giver?

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 10:30 AM (XuXeR)

291 And then the DOJ will take the case and motion for it to be dismissed.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
=
Yep. Federal officer doing official federal law enforcement activities on the clock. State prosecutors do not have jurisdiction. Plus, qualified immunity applies--that means that the court takes into account the officer's perspective based on facts on the ground as to whether USING THE TOTALITY OF CIRCUMSTANCES, whether the officer acted reasonably. That means you do not pick and choose which instances apply and which do not. The entire extended confrontation applies from the moment that perp blocked ICE vehicles. It includes objective notice that opponents of ICE enforcement are using cars as weapons by ramming ICE vehicles, that the road was slippery, the positions of the officers (they have no requirement to retreat nor get out of the way of someone if that person had been issued an order to stop), the risk to a fellow officer (the agent who had their hand inside the vehicle attempting I think to switch it off), what was said by the driver, and the physical injury to the agent.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 10:30 AM (WDjG6)

292 *BREAKING: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has been referred to the DOJ for criminal charges for allegedly knowingly being complicit in the Somali fraud scandal.*


Dang it.

Posted by: The Nothing Will Happen guy at January 08, 2026 10:30 AM (2Ez/1)

293 My brother in law caddied at a fancy schmancy country club when he was a yuuute. Among other notable people he caddied for was Huey Lewis. This was after his fame had subsided. Said he was a very good tipper and easy to caddy for.

Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 10:17 AM (/HZvU)

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Huey seemed like a great guy, and that band was not your stereotypical rock & roll druggie act.

He had a good cameo in The Blacklist.

I think I heard recently that he has gone deaf -- maybe as a result of all the loud music?

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 10:30 AM (IpnJw)

294 255 Kari Lake found a two-BR condo for $60K? Where is this fabled town, and must you travel a Yellow Brick Road to get there?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Here's one in Davenport (the biggest town in Scott County, where they say she bought the condo) for sale at $75k. Across the river in Rock Island I saw one listed in the $60k range...but that place is the hood.
https://tinyurl.com/2c9evemk

I'm guessing this property is less for actually living in, and more for establishing residence cheaply.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 08, 2026 10:30 AM (JCZqz)

295 Like most great modern artists Morrow was an extreme leftist

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at January 08, 2026 10:31 AM (yMxXU)

296 post coitum omne animal triste est sive gallus et mulier

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 08, 2026 10:31 AM (zdLoL)

297 276 "Has a very Edward Hopper-like quality"
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Mmm, Hopper could not paint figures and faces.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 08, 2026 10:31 AM (pLaQB)

298 @LeadingReport
·
4m
BREAKING: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has been referred to the DOJ for criminal charges for allegedly knowingly being complicit in the Somali fraud scandal.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 08, 2026 10:27 AM

Don't tease...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 08, 2026 10:31 AM (kgE5c)

299 I have a serious question.
If the police officer who shot and killed Ashley during Jan 6, was not being made to stand trial, why is there any talk about this border guard being sued?
Posted by: Chillin the most at January 08, 2026 10:18 AM (Sv8TC)

(D)ifferent (R)ules
Posted by: Really??



ISWYDT.

Golf clap.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 10:32 AM (6mogZ)

300 FINE!

I'll do it.
.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 08, 2026 10:03 AM (n9ltV)

********

Short-form humorous verse with an AABBA rhyme scheme with a dash of naughty imagery in the hands of an amateur is a terrifying prospect.

Posted by: muldoon at January 08, 2026 10:32 AM (/iMjX)

301 What is the latest with Kamikaze Karen?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 08, 2026 10:32 AM (45BvE)

302 Her feet look dirty, Quentin Tarantino approves.

Posted by: steevy at January 08, 2026 10:33 AM (YwEeS)

303 Short-form humorous verse with an AABBA rhyme scheme"

Dancing Queen? Waterloo?

/oh, AABBA song form.

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 10:33 AM (XuXeR)

304 297 276 "Has a very Edward Hopper-like quality"
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Mmm, Hopper could not paint figures and faces.
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 08, 2026 10:31 AM (pLaQB)


He was no Rembrandt, but his portraiture and figure drawing were quite good IMHO and worked well for the style of the overall work

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 08, 2026 10:34 AM (x0n13)

305 What is the latest with Kamikaze Karen?"

There's a slow pitch for the horde...

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 10:34 AM (XuXeR)

306 Wasn't Huey Lewis part of or the leader of a band called Clover that backed Elvis Costello? Might be misremembering.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 08, 2026 10:29 AM (x0n13)

They backed EC on his first album. None of the other ones.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 08, 2026 10:34 AM (iJfKG)

307
What is the latest with Kamikaze Karen?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 08, 2026 10:32 AM

she's still in a stable condition

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 08, 2026 10:34 AM (tljrc)

308 279 @LeadingReport
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4m
BREAKING: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has been referred to the DOJ for criminal charges for allegedly knowingly being complicit in the Somali fraud scandal.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 08, 2026 10:27 AM (mlg/

That's unfortunate. Wonder if he'll get as nice as mug shot as Trump. Or will he hole up in the governors office and ......you know..... or maybe he calls out the national guard to protect him from arrest.


Interesting times.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 08, 2026 10:34 AM (i0Hi3)

309 It looks like 2026 is the year that Don will settle all of the family business.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 08, 2026 10:34 AM (+HNx/)

310 You can buy 3 bedroom houses for $100k in many parts of the country. And not in the ghetto or tear downs. Actual livable homes for regular people.

You have step out of the media centric narrative that you need $1M in cash for a down payment on a studio apartment. That’s true in coastal cities. Out in flyover country, houses are generally affordable to the masses.
Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 10:24 AM (/HZvU)

This. BUT the states in the middle of the country are horrible places. Heat, cold, snakes, churches, people that mostly get along with each other (boring). It's best that the east and west coasters stay where they are.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 08, 2026 10:34 AM (g8Ew8)

311 I’m late to the art thread.
My first thought is “ Anything more than a Hermie is wasted!”

Posted by: Fenderbender at January 08, 2026 10:34 AM (1FEc1)

312 Those cans frighten me.

Posted by: connected and litigious at January 08, 2026 10:35 AM (cS1cw)

313 The ICE guy was an idiot. You couldn't sidestep a car?!
Posted by: St. Rachel of Pavement a

Not necessary, she was given a lawful order to stop and she disobeyed. She was also dragging another officer a bit trying to drive off. But, if you actually look at the officers, not her, the road was a roller rink and officers were slipping. One video shows the contact between the vehicle and the officer and he is literally skating backwards. That means lateral movement could very well lead to a fall right in front of the vehicle.

At this point, I conclude people coming on here are simply trolling and could not actually state what the rules of engagement for law enforcement if their life depended on it. Instead they cherry pick instead of like the courts must do, the whole of the event. She was a fleeing felon so Garner does not apply. The actions of the officer were reasonable as there is no duty for officers to retreat in ANY state or federal law, and she ended up dead due to her own actions threatening death and serious injury to them for a stupid illegal protest.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 10:35 AM (WDjG6)

314

Huey Lewis was a member of SF-based Clover and they toured with Graham Parker and number of other acts in the late 70s

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 08, 2026 10:35 AM (x0n13)

315 What is the latest with Kamikaze Karen?
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 08, 2026 10:32 AM

Still pining for the fjords.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 08, 2026 10:35 AM (kgE5c)

316 Among other notable people he caddied for was Huey Lewis. This was after his fame had subsided. Said he was a very good tipper and easy to caddy for.

Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 10:17 AM (/HZvU)

He went to my high school, although he is far older than I (I'm 29), so I never met him.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 08, 2026 10:36 AM (n9ltV)

317
This. BUT the states in the middle of the country are horrible places. Heat, cold, snakes, churches, people that mostly get along with each other (boring). It's best that the east and west coasters stay where they are.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 08, 2026 10:34 AM

and just forget about getting Thai food at 3AM

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 08, 2026 10:36 AM (tljrc)

318 Good to know.

Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey: “We as Democrats are anti-crime."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 08, 2026 10:36 AM (L/fGl)

319 That's unfortunate. Wonder if he'll get as nice as mug shot as Trump. Or will he hole up in the governors office and ......you know..... or maybe he calls out the national guard to protect him from arrest.

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PRO TIP: Keep a bullet nearby.

Posted by: Warden Norton at January 08, 2026 10:36 AM (+HNx/)

320 no such thing as bad tits

Posted by: Rick in SK at January 08, 2026 10:36 AM (FZYNt)

321 Lots of info on the woman shot by ICE but no info who they were seeking. It was a targeted raid so no doubt it was somebody with a criminal record and/or deportation order.

This is who this woman sacrificed her life for? Really? I hope it was worth it.

F***ing Dems like to think they are defending black school kids from attack dogs or Jews from being put on the cattle cars. They are delusional.

Posted by: Ripley at January 08, 2026 10:36 AM (GUOwU)

322 293 My brother in law caddied at a fancy schmancy country club when he was a yuuute. Among other notable people he caddied for was Huey Lewis. This was after his fame had subsided. Said he was a very good tipper and easy to caddy for.

Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 10:17 AM (/HZvU)

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Huey seemed like a great guy, and that band was not your stereotypical rock & roll druggie act.

He had a good cameo in The Blacklist.

I think I heard recently that he has gone deaf -- maybe as a result of all the loud music?
Posted by: ShainS
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IRRC Garrett has met him and the band in his professional capacity and spent some time with them.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 10:36 AM (WDjG6)

323 Those cans frighten me.
Posted by: connected and litigious at January 08, 2026 10:35 AM

Stay away from them!

Posted by: Navin R. Johnson at January 08, 2026 10:36 AM (kgE5c)

324 What is the latest with Kamikaze Karen?
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 08, 2026 10:32 AM"

"we're meeting at IHOP"

/Rachel Corrie

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 10:37 AM (XuXeR)

325 301 What is the latest with Kamikaze Karen?
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 08, 2026 10:32 AM (45BvE)

It's been determined that she lost her mind.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 08, 2026 10:37 AM (N39Ws)

326 You have step out of the media centric narrative that you need $1M in cash for a down payment on a studio apartment. That’s true in coastal cities. Out in flyover country, houses are generally affordable to the masses.
Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 10:24 AM (/HZvU)

Yes, but the TikTok generation insists that they should be able to buy a 12,000 sqft mansion on billionaires row at 22, like their parents did.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 10:37 AM (ExV1e)

327 **Minneapolis public schools just announced all schools will be closed Thursday and Friday as a precaution amid escalating unrest & safety concerns.**


Sounds like some teachers have a protest they need to attend.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 10:37 AM (6mogZ)

328 You couldn't sidestep a car?!

You couldn't not challenge an armed group with your vehicle?

Should be an easy one.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at January 08, 2026 10:38 AM (DgMqy)

329 318 Good to know.

Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey: “We as Democrats are anti-crime."

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Interesting.

There was once a time when a face of a major political party wouldn't need to make such a statement.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 08, 2026 10:38 AM (+HNx/)

330 Reimagine the cafeteria scene in Blazing Saddles, Tampon Timmy in his Mao suit, " after the bunker scene I'm out."

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 08, 2026 10:38 AM (45BvE)

331 What is the latest with Kamikaze Karen's lesbo partner?

Posted by: That's the real story at January 08, 2026 10:38 AM (2Ez/1)

332 327 **Minneapolis public schools just announced all schools will be closed Thursday and Friday as a precaution amid escalating unrest & safety concerns.**


Sounds like some teachers have a protest they need to attend.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 10:37 AM (6mogZ)

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This is all because of the president's rhetoric against Somalis!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 10:38 AM (GBKbO)

333 320 no such thing as bad tits
Posted by: Rick in SK at January 08, 2026 10:36 AM (FZYNt)

TrigglyPuff has entered the chat.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 08, 2026 10:38 AM (N39Ws)

334 I has a question - as a practical matter, what sidearm do geared up ICE agents carry? The reason I ask is my 9mm pew pew many times does all kinds of bad things when it hits glass/windshield.

9mm - .45 ACP

The debate goes on . . . .

Posted by: Tonypete at January 08, 2026 10:38 AM (cYBz/)

335 >>Same reason there was much talk about the same for Michael Byrd. Just different sides doing the talking.

Unlike the Lesbo yesterday, Ashli Babbitt was unarmed.

Unlike the Lesbo yesterday, Ashli Babbitt was not a threat to the law enforcement officers on scene.

How much longer are you going to fuck this chicken?

Posted by: one hour sober at January 08, 2026 10:39 AM (Y1sOo)

336 331 What is the latest with Kamikaze Karen's lesbo partner?
Posted by: That's the real story at January 08, 2026 10:38 AM (2Ez/1)

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She's back in the dating market.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 08, 2026 10:39 AM (+HNx/)

337 no such thing as bad tits
Posted by: Rick in SK



There is iron in your words of life.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 10:39 AM (6mogZ)

338 F***ing Dems like to think they are defending black school kids from attack dogs or putting Jews from being put on the cattle cars.
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FiFY

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 08, 2026 10:40 AM (X4XpB)

339 Lots of info on the woman shot by ICE but no info who they were seeking"

It's possible that she was one of the "travelling show" that's been following Federal agents/agencies across parts of the country, seemingly to confound/shut down ICE enforcement efforts.

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 10:40 AM (XuXeR)

340 327 **Minneapolis public schools just announced all schools will be closed Thursday and Friday as a precaution amid escalating unrest & safety concerns.**


Sounds like some teachers have a protest they need to attend.
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Blue and Pink haired teachers hardest hit.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 08, 2026 10:40 AM (pLaQB)

341 It's hard to be That Guy on these little items, but, fellows,
"escutcheon" has a naughty, urb-dic Other Meaning.

So it does, as these things will, pop up from decade to decade.
If you had never heard of this, I just don't know what to say.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 08, 2026 10:40 AM (zdLoL)

342 F***ing Dems like to think they are defending black school kids from attack dogs or Jews from being put on the cattle cars. They are delusional.
Posted by: Ripley
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She got paid and her activist lesbian lover helped make that woman's kids orphans. Father died just a little while back.

These protesters are not sitting in lunchrooms, registering people to vote, etc. Instead, like leftists do nowadays, they commit a long list of crimes, up to and including felony assaults on officers trying to enforce this nation's laws. Democrats, AWFLs, are not exempt from being prosecuted by some sort of warped privilege that these characters have in their minds.

It is NOT a civil rights issue to expel those here illegally. By the Constitution itself, they have no right to be here nor right to resist removal. They are invaders that would not even be contemplated as having rights until the Burger Court.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 10:40 AM (WDjG6)

343 > BREAKING: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has been referred to the DOJ for criminal charges for allegedly knowingly being complicit in the Somali fraud scandal.
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More of the "litmus test" for insurrection act. He/they will fight it. Walz is going to be the poster boy for this.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 08, 2026 10:40 AM (NwnyJ)

344 Sounds like some teachers have a protest they need to attend.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 10:37 AM

Gee...be a real shame if something was to happen. Like prison...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 08, 2026 10:41 AM (Wnv9h)

345
"no such thing as bad tits"


We're down here.

Posted by: San Fran Nan's mammary glands at January 08, 2026 10:41 AM (2Ez/1)

346 235 Nice fun zeppelins.

do not taunt happy fun zeppelins

Posted by: anachronda at January 08, 2026 10:41 AM (oY6Yp)

347 At this point, I conclude people coming on here are simply trolling and could not actually state what the rules of engagement for law enforcement if their life depended on it.

ROE? In most cases it's apparent that they either haven't seen the video (taking the word of noted truth-tellers like the Mayor of Minneapolis), are incapable of seeing what happened after having watched, or are flat out lying for political reasons.

She struck an ICE agent with her car. The end. Would it have been better if none of this had happened? Yes. But she made her choices and we're all living with the consequences.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 10:41 AM (ExV1e)

348 post coitum omne animal triste est sive gallus et mulier

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 08, 2026 10:31 AM (zdLoL)

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LATIN PRIVILEGE!

[Had to look it up because I was not properly edumacated and didn't stick with the Catholic Church after dad bailed on the family:}

"After sexual intercourse every animal is sad, except the cock (rooster) and the woman.”

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 10:41 AM (IpnJw)

349 340 327 **Minneapolis public schools just announced all schools will be closed Thursday and Friday as a precaution amid escalating unrest & safety concerns.**

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A day without LGBTQWXYZ indoctrination is really going to put those kids behind.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 08, 2026 10:41 AM (+HNx/)

350 post coitum omne animal triste est sive gallus et mulier
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 08, 2026

***
I can almost read that. "After sex all animals are sad except the chicken and the woman?"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 08, 2026 10:41 AM (wzUl9)

351 Blue and Pink haired teachers hardest hit.
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 08, 2026 10:40 AM

Hopefully.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 08, 2026 10:42 AM (Wnv9h)

352 333 320 no such thing as bad tits
Posted by: Rick in SK at January 08, 2026 10:36 AM (FZYNt)

TrigglyPuff has entered the chat.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed

Oh really? Challenge accepted.

https://tinyurl.com/mtjz66tu

I see cleavage, and I DON'T want to see more.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at January 08, 2026 10:42 AM (JCZqz)

353 She struck an ICE agent with her car.

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Truth.

Attempted Murder.

Justified Self-Defense Homicide.

Next!

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 10:42 AM (IpnJw)

354 If it is true Kamikaze Karen's wife was outside filming her, then they were looking for an incident to make viral.

Looks like they succeeded but in the worse way possible.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 08, 2026 10:42 AM (45BvE)

355 Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey: “We as Democrats are anti-crime."



Good. Then point out where all the wetbacks are.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 10:42 AM (6mogZ)

356 " It remains to be seen if Antifa kids will riot for this dyke."

BTW, this morning I had the pleasure of watching black BLM cow go after a white feminist for posting "SayHerName" in re to the dead woman. Apparently the phrase was coined to draw attention to black women who were abused by police. Black women are REALLY TIRED of Karen's appropriating their pain, oppression, blah blah blah

If this does go hot (I doubt it will) their whole feminist/BLM/LGBT alliance is a house of cards only propped up their unifying hatred of white men. If we had a decent Baltar, he would have them at each other's throats inside of a week

Posted by: Fen at January 08, 2026 10:42 AM (ciYHQ)

357 Burgerville >>>>> Burger Court

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 08, 2026 10:43 AM (X4XpB)

358
"Escutcheon."

Is that what you kids are calling it these days?

Posted by: Grandpa Simpson at January 08, 2026 10:43 AM (2Ez/1)

359 347 She struck an ICE agent with her car. The end. Would it have been better if none of this had happened? Yes. But she made her choices and we're all living with the consequences.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 10:41 AM (ExV1e)

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She'd been chasing them around all day. She was probably high on adrenaline, especially once she got so close.

She couldn't process information well in that situation, and she panicked. Probably shouldn't have put herself into a situation she couldn't process but could lead to felonious action on her part.

If she thought she was getting into a life or death situation, she would have prepared differently.

She was LARPing. She was chasing a thrill while thinking she was doing good for the darkies.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 10:43 AM (GBKbO)

360 their whole feminist/BLM/LGBT alliance is a house of cards only propped up their unifying hatred of white men. "

Shhh. You just mentioned the underlying text for all rioting these days... you white guys gotta go!

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 10:44 AM (XuXeR)

361 I see cleavage, and I DON'T want to see more.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar

there are only 2 genders....

Posted by: Rick in SK at January 08, 2026 10:44 AM (FZYNt)

362 Unlike the Lesbo yesterday, Ashli Babbitt was unarmed.

Unlike the Lesbo yesterday, Ashli Babbitt was not a threat to the law enforcement officers on scene.

How much longer are you going to fuck this chicken?
Posted by: one hour sober at January 08, 2026 10:39 AM (Y1sOo)

Unlike the Lesbo yesterday, I don't believe that Ashli Babbitt was ever given either warning or command by law enforcement.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 10:44 AM (ExV1e)

363 I tend to think there will be bluster, but nobody wants to get shot.

Shooting a couple more will take care of the sane. Leaving the unhinged with less safety in numbers.

Posted by: connected and litigious at January 08, 2026 10:45 AM (cS1cw)

364

Sydney Sweeney is eternal, apparently, but not immune to gravity

Posted by: imp at January 08, 2026 10:45 AM (g6TN6)

365 How much longer are you going to fuck this chicken?
Posted by: one hour sober
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I read in the earlier thread and have concluded this one note johnnie is a troll. Yesterday I tried to be polite and explain why what this creature (and he did the Glenn Greenwald trick of sockpuppeting to support his position) was wrong about his ideas of the law. Futhermore, caught him in a lie about reading Scotus cases (probably read some AI summary).

You can tell because they misapply the word reasonable to be subjective and ignore the totality of circumstances requirement to determine what is reasonable. By only focusing on the shots, they miss the fact that this dead poet took every step to increase danger to the ICE officers and defy lawful orders to stop. She had already assaulted one ICE officer by dragging him/her a short way while teh officer was trying to execute a stop and all of this occurred in roughly 25 seconds.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 10:45 AM (WDjG6)

366 I have a memory of popular Charlie Brown (& Snoopy and the Gang) lunchboxes and thermoses from back in the late 60s and 70s).
Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 10:26 AM (IpnJw)
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Mine was Fireball XL5

Much much cooler.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 08, 2026 10:45 AM (RIvkX)

367 Crazy Quaker catches bullet. We need to see moar of this.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 08, 2026 10:46 AM (pLaQB)

368 >320 no such thing as bad tits

Posted by: Rick in SK at January 08, 2026 10:36 AM (FZYNt)

Are you sure about that Slick?

Posted by: N. Pelosi at January 08, 2026 10:46 AM (NgqoH)

369 And just like that, Maduro is off the front page.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 08, 2026 10:46 AM (45BvE)

370 Unlike the Lesbo yesterday, I don't believe that Ashli Babbitt was ever given either warning or command by law enforcement.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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From all accounts she was pressed up against the door by others behind her and I don't remember that she was the one actually breaking the glass of the doors to the chamber.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 10:46 AM (WDjG6)

371 "It remains to be seen if Antifa kids will riot for this dyke."

They'll riot over anything. The only real question is whether Trump will unleash the power of the Federal government to crush them.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 08, 2026 10:46 AM (JCZqz)

372 She'd been chasing them around all day. "

Mizz tags on the Pilot. She's been at this more than one day...

My guess is SUV = Lead vehicle/gear stash

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 10:47 AM (XuXeR)

373 Lunch pale bowling was a thing.

Posted by: connected and litigious at January 08, 2026 10:47 AM (cS1cw)

374

Btw, those are phenomenal tetons in the right posture

Posted by: imp at January 08, 2026 10:47 AM (g6TN6)

375 >Mine was Fireball XL5

Much much cooler.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 08, 2026 10:45 AM (RIvkX)

Mine was plaid...my old man was not about to spend the extra 50 cents on a cool kids lunch box.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 08, 2026 10:47 AM (NgqoH)

376 I saw The Chicken and The Woman open for Echo & The Bunnymen at Barrowland Ballroom in '84.

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 10:48 AM (IpnJw)

377 354 If it is true Kamikaze Karen's wife was outside filming her, then they were looking for an incident to make viral.

Looks like they succeeded but in the worse way possible.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 08, 2026 10:42 AM (45BvE)

That would be insane. What would be the plan? KK speeds off, and the one with the camera is left there to.... what? Make small talk?

"Well that just happened! So.... uhhh.... Anyone wanna go get a donut?"

*thud thud thud thwack thud*

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 10:48 AM (06Hmj)

378 Some of us want supermodels, and some of us just want a nice pair. She has a nice pair.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at January 08, 2026 10:48 AM (MZ+PY)

379 She was a fleeing felon so Garner does not apply.
Posted by: whig
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That's literally the opposite of what Garner says:

"The use of deadly force to prevent the escape of all felony suspects, whatever the circumstances, is constitutionally unreasonable."

They then establish the "reasonableness framework" for when deadly force can be considered appropriate.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 08, 2026 10:48 AM (1Nv0l)

380 Closing in on 400 comments and as yet no "motorboating' comments.

I am disappoint.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 08, 2026 10:48 AM (wVcYX)

381 We called 'em torpedo tits

Posted by: one hour sober at January 08, 2026 10:49 AM (Y1sOo)

382 Mine was plaid...my old man was not about to spend the extra 50 cents on a cool kids lunch box.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 08, 2026 10:47 AM (NgqoH)

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lol

* My Wife, whose father was raised during The Depression, has entered the chat *

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 10:49 AM (IpnJw)

383 >>> 344 Sounds like some teachers have a protest they need to attend.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 10:37 AM

Gee...be a real shame if something was to happen. Like prison...
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 08, 2026 10:41 AM (Wnv9h)

OrangeManBad should have ICE dump the protesters in Alligator Alcatraz.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 08, 2026 10:49 AM (ULPxl)

384 Dagmars have motored in.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 08, 2026 10:49 AM (45BvE)

385 378 Some of us want supermodels, and some of us just want a nice pair. She has a nice pair.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at January 08, 2026 10:48 AM (MZ+PY)

Rest of us are just grateful to see them.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 08, 2026 10:49 AM (N39Ws)

386
I can almost read that. "After sex all animals are sad except the chicken and the woman?"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 08, 2026 10:41 AM (wzUl9)

Rooster. Otherwise, yes.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 10:49 AM (tgvbd)

387 380 Closing in on 400 comments and as yet no "motorboating' comments.

I am disappoint.
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 08, 2026 10:48 AM (wVcYX)

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That comment seems a bit Evinrude, don't you think?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 08, 2026 10:49 AM (+HNx/)

388 Cool angle on the painting. But this looks like the type of art some creepy dude would put on his wall in a place chicks can see it when he invites them over, and claim "hey it's art! I'm a sophisticated guy!"

It feels seedy even if the technique is clearly there.

Posted by: LizLem at January 08, 2026 10:50 AM (gWBY1)

389 Some of us want supermodels, and some of us just want a nice pair. She has a nice pair.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder

*nod*

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 08, 2026 10:50 AM (1Nv0l)

390
Mine was Fireball XL5

Much much cooler.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Mmmmmmm, Venus

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 08, 2026 10:50 AM (pkeXY)

391 372 She'd been chasing them around all day. "

Mizz tags on the Pilot. She's been at this more than one day...

My guess is SUV = Lead vehicle/gear stash
Posted by: man

Her lesbo "wife" reportedly said, immediately after the shooting, "I made her come down here, it's my fault"

Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 08, 2026 10:50 AM (JCZqz)

392 Mine was Fireball XL5

Much much cooler.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 08, 2026

***
I was a little too old for lunchboxes (I thought) when the Man From U.N.C.L.E. one was on sale. I'd love to have one now for my collection.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 08, 2026 10:50 AM (wzUl9)

393 We called 'em torpedo tits

Posted by: one hour sober at January 08, 2026 10:49 AM (Y1sOo)

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Damn, I'm old enough to remember something about "Bullet Bras."

/I think they were influenced by the automobile designs of the 1950s ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 10:50 AM (IpnJw)

394 Since the shooting in Minnesota my facebook feed has been flooded with leftist sites and propaganda. This is entirely new. I've scrubbed about 40 so far.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 08, 2026 10:50 AM (t+TFX)

395 That would be insane. What would be the plan? "

That's why I'm going with (for now, 72 hour rule and all) going with "lead vehicle". Tactic is to vid "moving protest" to shove ICE aside (there were more people/vehicles behind), then button up to follow agents.

Yeah, they're stupid. Really f'ing nuts.

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 10:50 AM (XuXeR)

396 Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Posted by: whig at January

I was I was told I could could hand out the prizes and maybe have my swingline stapler back?

Posted by: Fen at January 08, 2026 10:51 AM (ciYHQ)

397 363 I tend to think there will be bluster, but nobody wants to get shot.

Shooting a couple more will take care of the sane. Leaving the unhinged with less safety in numbers.
Posted by: connected and litigious
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Because the Democrat party is now a crime syndicate, it is acting like any criminal organization and it is desperate to keep the grift going and keep stealing hundreds of billions if not trillions from taxpayers to win ultimate power. These protesters do not give one shit about illegals but rather that Team Blue stays in power forever. To that end, they adopted the commie mindset that power has its own justification beyond any existing laws or restraint. Like in 1861, they have declared themselves and the jurisdictions they control as beyond the reach of the law and that includes their hacks in black adding fuel to the fire.

The Democrats have crossed the Rubicon by their lawbreaking and now it is a question for Republicans and normies what to do about this monstrous criminal organization and its footsoldiers.


Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 10:51 AM (WDjG6)

398 375 >Mine was Fireball XL5

Much much cooler.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 08, 2026 10:45 AM (RIvkX)

Mine was plaid...my old man was not about to spend the extra 50 cents on a cool kids lunch box.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 08, 2026 10:47 AM (NgqoH)

I had a lunch box featuring the TV series UFO. Wish I still had it.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 08, 2026 10:51 AM (i0Hi3)

399 278 "is there room in there for me too?"
"sure, escutcheon."

Posted by: cmeat at January 08, 2026 10:51 AM (R11M+)

400 391 372 She'd been chasing them around all day. "

Mizz tags on the Pilot. She's been at this more than one day...

My guess is SUV = Lead vehicle/gear stash
Posted by: man

Her lesbo "wife" reportedly said, immediately after the shooting, "I made her come down here, it's my fault"
Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 08, 2026 10:50 AM (JCZqz)
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How did her partner just happen to be a bystander (on foot) at the scene of the incident?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at January 08, 2026 10:51 AM (36PRH)

401 380 Closing in on 400 comments and as yet no "motorboating' comments.

I am disappoint.
Posted by: Count de Monet
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Good point. It's hard to imagine when she is sitting in a chair.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 08, 2026 10:51 AM (1Nv0l)

402 this looks like the type of art some creepy dude would put on his wall in a place chicks can see it when he invites them over, and claim "hey it's art! I'm a sophisticated guy!"

It feels seedy even if the technique is clearly there.
Posted by: LizLem

No matter where I go in the room, my eyes follow her boobs!

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at January 08, 2026 10:51 AM (JCZqz)

403 3:30 p.m.

Smithsonian Institution
American Art Museum Collection

Object Details
Artist, Billy Morrow Jackson, born Kansas City, MO 1926-died Urbana, IL 2006
Credit Line
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of an anonymous donor in memory of Dr. H. Lester Cooke
Date, 1971
Object number
1980.59

What a sad, stark painting but with an interesting Credit Line and large dimensions for its subject matter. (41 7/8 x 48 1/8 in. (106.4 x 122.3 cm))

I'm not clear about the painting's message, if there is one, & would pass on its hanging,

Thanks.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 08, 2026 10:51 AM (NFX2v)

404
"She'd been chasing them around all day."


What time of day did this happen?

Posted by: Just the fax, ma'am at January 08, 2026 10:51 AM (2Ez/1)

405 Dolphins fired MMD.

Posted by: mr tmz at January 08, 2026 10:52 AM (rJ48h)

406 34 I has a question - as a practical matter, what sidearm do geared up ICE agents carry? The reason I ask is my 9mm pew pew many times does all kinds of bad things when it hits glass/windshield.

9mm - .45 ACP

The debate goes on . . . .
Posted by: Tonypete at January 08, 2026 10:38 AM (cYBz/)

.357 Sig for the win.
The win-dshield penetration, that is.

Posted by: RI Red at January 08, 2026 10:52 AM (7PD8l)

407 I was I was told I could could hand out the prizes and maybe have my swingline stapler back?
Posted by: Fen
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Well, the prize in this case is several bullets to the body. Suicide by cop.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 10:52 AM (WDjG6)

408 You can kinda see her face in the floor.


No. Not that face. Not that floor.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 08, 2026 10:53 AM (EyfuW)

409 394 Since the shooting in Minnesota my facebook feed has been flooded with leftist sites and propaganda. This is entirely new. I've scrubbed about 40 so far.
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 08, 2026 10:50 AM (t+TFX)
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It's like, the algorithm, man!

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at January 08, 2026 10:53 AM (36PRH)

410 Her lesbo "wife" reportedly said, immediately after the shooting, "I made her come down here, it's my fault"

Hmm. Seems to support the "organized" idea.

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 10:53 AM (XuXeR)

411 It feels seedy even if the technique is clearly there.

Posted by: LizLem at January 08, 2026 10:50 AM (gWBY1)

--------------

[w/apologies to Kenny Rogers:]

"Oh, Ruby, don't take your seed to town."

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 10:53 AM (IpnJw)

412 Has a certain "je ne sais quoi."

Or maybe two,

Posted by: RS at January 08, 2026 10:54 AM (SuU/K)

413 How did her partner just happen to be a bystander (on foot) at the scene of the incident?
Posted by: Chairman LMAO

I believe she was in the passenger seat and got out after Good crashed into a parked vehicle?

Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 08, 2026 10:54 AM (JCZqz)

414
Is she sporting a 'stache?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 08, 2026 10:54 AM (xG4kz)

415 Rat Patrol lunchbox

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 08, 2026 10:54 AM (wVcYX)

416 It's crazy that it can snow two feet in Utah and there will be no snow delays at all for schools, and yet Minnesota will close schools just in the threat of violence.

Posted by: LizLem at January 08, 2026 10:54 AM (gWBY1)

417 >I had a lunch box featuring the TV series UFO. Wish I still had it.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 08, 2026 10:51 AM (i0Hi3)

I loved that show. I could sometimes watch it on WOR when the signal was just right.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 08, 2026 10:55 AM (NgqoH)

418
How did her partner just happen to be a bystander (on foot) at the scene of the incident?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at January 08, 2026 10:51 AM

or

"How did her partner just happen to be (on foot) filming the incident?"

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 08, 2026 10:55 AM (tljrc)

419 .357 Sig for the win.
The win-dshield penetration, that is.
Posted by: RI Red
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I think they have stopped using 40 S&W and 357 Sig as general issue but do not know if they still allow some agents to carry those under grandfathering rules.

IIRC, most agents now are armed with 9 mm bullets capable of penetrating barriers like Hornady's Critical Defense.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 10:55 AM (WDjG6)

420 It's like, the algorithm, man!

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at January 08, 2026 10:53 AM (36PRH)

---------------

We could use a modern sequel to The Big Lebowski right about now ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 10:55 AM (IpnJw)

421 > If it is true Kamikaze Karen's wife was outside filming her, then they were looking for an incident to make viral.
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The ICE "protest" yesterday was staged. It was bitterly cold. The streets were frozen with slush. Icy, you might say. And most agitators were prepped with their cellphones out, ready to film.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 08, 2026 10:55 AM (NwnyJ)

422 No matter where I go in the room, my eyes follow her boobs!
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at January 08, 2026 10:51 AM (JCZqz)

Hypnotic, even.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 08, 2026 10:56 AM (wVcYX)

423 This morning Scott Adams (the Dilbert guy) announced that his condition is deteriorating rapidly and that he likely has a few weeks to live. Prayers up for Scott.

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at January 08, 2026 10:56 AM (V362x)

424
It's crazy that it can snow two feet in Utah and there will be no snow delays at all for schools, and yet Minnesota will close schools just in the threat of violence.

Posted by: LizLem at January 08, 2026 10:54 AM (gWBY1)

The teachers need time to join the demonstrations.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 10:56 AM (tgvbd)

425 Damn, I'm old enough to remember something about "Bullet Bras."

/I think they were influenced by the automobile designs of the 1950s ...
Posted by: ShainS


Tail fins/taillights

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 10:56 AM (6mogZ)

426 "How did her partner just happen to be (on foot) filming the incident?"

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 08, 2026 10:55 AM (tljrc)

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"Video killed the terrorist star."

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 10:56 AM (IpnJw)

427 Alternate Title:

"Amanda Learns to Her Regret That Going Braless Since She Was Thirteen Led to a Short Career as 'The Most Beautiful Girl with the Most Spectacular Tits' and She's Now Just 'The Pretty Gal With Eh, Pretty Nice Tits'"

Posted by: naturalfake at January 08, 2026 10:56 AM (iJfKG)

428 How did her partner just happen to be a bystander (on foot) at the scene of the incident?"

It may be that said partner was the usual driver, but they swapped for some pics/vid perhaps? I do note, however, that the driver did back up - to get a running start? Try to turn? (that makes it worse, BTW. Not better for the stupid)

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 10:56 AM (XuXeR)

429 The ICE "protest" yesterday was staged. It was bitterly cold. The streets were frozen with slush. Icy, you might say. And most agitators were prepped with their cellphones out, ready to film.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 08, 2026 10:55 AM (NwnyJ)

They really don't seem to appreciate the degree to which very large swathes of this country are unapologetically rooting for a full on massacre of these fucking mutants.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 10:57 AM (06Hmj)

430
I had a lunch box featuring the TV series UFO. Wish I still had it.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 08, 2026 10:51 AM (i0Hi3)


I had that one too. That, and Kikaida (which was super popular in Hawaii when I grew up there).

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 08, 2026 10:57 AM (y9nCu)

431 Ackbar, no matter where you go in the room, the boobs follow you! One of those type of paintings.

I wonder what types of paintings are hung by this one in the museum. What painting compliments sad, seedy, deflated looking boobs?

Posted by: LizLem at January 08, 2026 10:57 AM (gWBY1)

432 "The use of deadly force-

In self-defense.

What's with the alligators and why are you running interference for them? I'm beginning to suspect that they ARE to blame

Posted by: Fen at January 08, 2026 10:57 AM (ciYHQ)

433 Hi, honey … I'm home! Let's get nekkid … oh - wow! … yeah, wait while I get nekkid …

Posted by: Dr_No at January 08, 2026 10:57 AM (ayRl+)

434 432 What's with the alligators and why are you running interference for them? I'm beginning to suspect that they ARE to blame

Posted by: Fen at January 08, 2026 10:57 AM (ciYHQ)

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Just another tool of Big Penguin (which itself is a tool of Liechtenstein, plans within plans).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 10:57 AM (GBKbO)

435 Kind of saggy boobs for someone who doesn't look that old

Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2026 10:57 AM (VE6XX)

436 You just want to see 'em all. - Ron White

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 08, 2026 10:58 AM (wVcYX)

437 And most agitators were prepped with their cellphones out, ready to film."

Yeah, noticed that too. They're not calling uber eats...

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 10:58 AM (XuXeR)

438 Tail fins/taillights

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 10:56 AM (6mogZ)

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Nailed it!

"Firm follows fashion."

/Wait, that's not quite right ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 10:58 AM (IpnJw)

439 435 Kind of saggy boobs for someone who doesn't look that old
Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2026 10:57 AM (VE6XX)


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MeeeOWWWW

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 08, 2026 10:58 AM (+HNx/)

440 Just another tool of Big Penguin (which itself is a tool of Liechtenstein, plans within plans).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 10:57 AM (GBKbO)
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"The Penguins of Liechtenstein" sounds like a surrealist Wes Anderson movie.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 08, 2026 10:59 AM (X4XpB)

441 .357 Sig for the win.
The win-dshield penetration, that is.

Posted by: RI Red at January 08, 2026 10:52 AM (7PD8l)

.45ACP FMJ!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 08, 2026 10:59 AM (n9ltV)

442 The Penguin That Roared

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 08, 2026 10:59 AM (wVcYX)

443 Kind of saggy boobs for someone who doesn't look that old
Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2026 10:57 AM (VE6XX)
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You've heard of this phenomenon called "gravity"...?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 08, 2026 11:00 AM (X4XpB)

444 Kind of saggy boobs for someone who doesn't look that old
Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2026 10:57 AM (VE6XX)

That's because they're big 'uns.

Posted by: Bulg at January 08, 2026 11:00 AM (77rzZ)

445 Hadrian, agreed the teachers want the protest day. And if they've done their good little liberal job turning the kids woke, the groomed kids will join them.

The left wants a kid killed in these protests. You and I both know it.

If this lady was as good a mom and the left claims she is, she would have been at home with her kids and not running people over, FAFO style.

Posted by: LizLem at January 08, 2026 11:00 AM (gWBY1)

446 You've heard of this phenomenon called "gravity"...?"

"Time"

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 11:00 AM (XuXeR)

447 441 .357 Sig for the win.
The win-dshield penetration, that is.

Posted by: RI Red at January 08, 2026 10:52 AM (7PD8l)

.45ACP FMJ!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 08, 2026 10:59 AM (n9ltV)
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1911 in 10mm!

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at January 08, 2026 11:00 AM (36PRH)

448 So was the "wife" in the car with the woman while she was trying to hit the ICE agent.. And yes I believe she was aiming her car at him...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2026 11:00 AM (VE6XX)

449
.45ACP FMJ!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 08, 2026 10:59 AM

accept no substitute

gettin' siht done for 115 years

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 08, 2026 11:01 AM (tljrc)

450 446 You've heard of this phenomenon called "gravity"...?"

"Time"
Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 11:00 AM (XuXeR)
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It's all relative.

Posted by: Albert Einstein at January 08, 2026 11:01 AM (36PRH)

451
1911 in 10mm!
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at January 08, 2026 11:00 AM (36PRH)



Owwie.

Posted by: Cracked 1911 Frame at January 08, 2026 11:01 AM (y9nCu)

452 I want a gun chambered in .47 Trump.

Full gold jacket.

Preposterous muzzle velocity.

Only available in the U.S.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 11:02 AM (06Hmj)

453 That's because they're big 'uns.
Posted by: Bulg
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*Real* big 'uns.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 08, 2026 11:02 AM (1Nv0l)

454
nood rant

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 08, 2026 11:02 AM (tljrc)

455 Rant up

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 11:02 AM (6mogZ)

456 Playtex 18 Hour - for us full figured gals.

Posted by: Jane Russell at January 08, 2026 11:02 AM (wVcYX)

457 And yes I believe she was aiming her car at him..."

Watch the vehicle's operating lights (brake/reverse) and listen to ambient noise. She was going to hit someone... and with 4,000 plus lbs at her disposal.

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 11:02 AM (XuXeR)

458
.45ACP FMJ!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 08, 2026 10:59 AM

accept no substitute

gettin' siht done for 115 years
Posted by: AltonJackson at January 08, 2026 11:01 AM (tljrc)



Because John Browning (PBUH) didn't invent a 46.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 08, 2026 11:02 AM (y9nCu)

459 Facebook, CAIR-Minnesota (CAIR-MN) Director Jaylani Hussein speaks with the BBC at a community vigil for Renee Nicole Good.

Don't know if implying she was involved with the organization prior to her death or its speaking of her death for its own potential political benefit.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 08, 2026 11:03 AM (NFX2v)

460 It's all relative."

"Relative Humidity"...

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 11:03 AM (XuXeR)

461 FWIW, for individual self defense, not a great idea to use barrier penetrating rounds in a handgun as they are a compromise between penetration and expansion. Expansion is what is needed in most self defense cases .

If fearing the worst, get an AR pistol for travel as a 223 penetrates car bodies with ease and you have the mag capacity. In most states, it is illegal to carry a loaded long gun (poaching is the reason), but an AR pistol is not covered. Do be aware that some unfree states might need following the federal FOPA laws to pass--locked container, no mag or bullet in chamber, passing through, etc.

NY State and city and NJ are particularly unfriendly to passage under FOPA .

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2026 11:03 AM (WDjG6)

462

Looks a great deal like "Viola O" tbh

Posted by: imp at January 08, 2026 11:04 AM (g6TN6)

463 "The Penguins of Liechtenstein" sounds like a surrealist Wes Anderson movie.
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Don't give Wes any ideas.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 08, 2026 11:04 AM (pLaQB)

464 I can still vividly remember my aerobics teacher in high school using her hands to demonstrate for us what would happen if we didn't wear sports bras when we work out...the girls start flopping. Wish I had listened more!

But hey, when you're horizontal the sag is less noticeable, iykwim.

Posted by: LizLem at January 08, 2026 11:04 AM (gWBY1)

465 Posted by: RI Red at January 08, 2026 10:52 AM (7PD8l)

.45ACP FMJ!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 08, 2026 10:59 AM (n9ltV)

Remarkably, that is what I have on my hip right now breaking in a new holster.
And I’m headed to the range momentarily to see how the new tritium sights work.

All because “someone” caliber-shamed me recently!

Posted by: RI Red at January 08, 2026 11:05 AM (tez/p)

466 I was reading up on SMRs (Small Modular Reactors), and it appears that the $9B+ in MN graft could have paid for 2 300Mw reactors. Now that presupposes that MN voters would encourage the construction of clean, safe nuclear power, but for me, the reactor costs puts the magnitude of the graft in a new perspective.

Posted by: mrp at January 08, 2026 11:05 AM (rj6Yv)

467 Since the shooting in Minnesota my facebook feed has been flooded with leftist sites and propaganda. This is entirely new. I've scrubbed about 40 so far.
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 08, 2026 10:50 AM (t+TFX)

They finally got their deranged-bitch-getting-shot-by-ICE story. This is the old BLM playbook being executed.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 08, 2026 11:06 AM (g8Ew8)

468 You've heard of this phenomenon called "gravity"...?"

"Time"
Posted by: man

The gravity time continuum.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 08, 2026 11:07 AM (L/fGl)

469 397-yeah, I was using sane logic. I don't think like a criminal.

Your analysis makes more sense.

Posted by: connected and litigious at January 08, 2026 11:07 AM (cS1cw)

470 My personal defense rounds are now solid copper. Looks like a giant phillips screwdriver in 45acp.

Fluid dynamics in your gut. It's gross.

Posted by: connected and litigious at January 08, 2026 11:11 AM (cS1cw)

471 They finally got their deranged-bitch-getting-shot-by-ICE story. This is the old BLM playbook being executed.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 08, 2026 11:06 AM (g8Ew
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It also underlines the reason why the agitators surround every confrontation with people recording every move. When things turn violent, Commie HQ can cherry-pick the best angle and then scatter-shot the video to their favorite MSM contacts.

Posted by: mrp at January 08, 2026 11:11 AM (rj6Yv)

472 World's Least Fun Whorehouse.

Posted by: Zek at January 08, 2026 11:12 AM (5FPX4)

473 Every Penthouse forum.

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at January 08, 2026 11:19 AM (WQDw6)

474 "Oh, Ruby, don't take your seed to town."
Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability

You made me laugh when i wasn't suppose to.

Like nazis watching Jewish porn.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 08, 2026 11:34 AM (EyfuW)

475 I find her expression unsettling and I don't know why. I feel sadness.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 08, 2026 12:25 PM (fszBn)

476 Too many guys are complaining about this girl's sagging tits. First, they're not sagging that much, and second, when tits are this big, they are gonna sag a bit. Just enjoy them and go with the flow.

Posted by: Ralph at January 08, 2026 02:16 PM (8WZD4)

477 152 Carol Doda
Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 08, 2026 09:59 AM (BNA0v)

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Not Carol Doda. Carol Doda's tits were lumpy from silicone injections, which was the way they did the early boob jobs in the 60s. This girl's tits seem to be natural, especially given the sag that is visible.

Posted by: Ralph at January 08, 2026 02:25 PM (8WZD4)

478 "Her last attempt at stopping the repossessing crew didn't work."

Posted by: MartynWW at January 08, 2026 03:05 PM (M9zxq)

479 Whistlers Daughter

Posted by: Tamaa tthe Drongo Bird at January 08, 2026 05:20 PM (wGqjj)

The Morning Report — 1/8/26

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Good morning kids. The top story is of course not only the justified taking out of what can only be described as a domestic terrorist behind the wheel of an automobile as she attempted to mow down ICE agents in Minneapolis, but of the truly insane, heinous and altogether completely predictable reaction of the Anti-American Left and its heart of darkness in the Democrat Party. The Projection and incandescent chutzpocrisy to blame President Trump and ICE for doing their duty in rounding up and deporting illegal aliens while at the same time encouraging and praising violent attacks on ICE and police is off the charts infuriating.

Yesterday at 2:22PM, Ace himself said

It's time for Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act.

Considering that this is a "Smart Military Blog ™" and that many of you are smart military people and/or just smart people, You know full well what he is referring to, but for the sake of clarity, this is what it states:

The Insurrection Act is a U.S. federal law passed in 1807 that originally authorized the president of the United States to deploy “such part of the land or naval force of the United States” that the president deems necessary to suppress an insurrection or to enable the local enforcement of federal or state laws. The act thereby expanded the president’s existing authority—under the Militia Acts of 1792 and 1795—to employ state militias to repel invasions or to enforce federal laws. The original text of the Insurrection Act is: individual state or territory, where it is lawful for the President of the United States to call forth the militia for the purpose of suppressing such insurrection, or of causing the laws to be duly executed, it shall be lawful for him to employ, for the same purposes, such part of the land or naval force of the United States, as shall be judged necessary, having first observed all the pre-requisites of the law in that respect.

Psaki-Psircling back to the chutzpocrisy of the Left, considering what happened at the Capitol 5 years ago this past Tuesday, imagine the nightmare scenario if God-forbid Hillary Clinton had been President. There is no doubt that Ashli Babbitt and Roseanne Boyland would've been two among dozens or scores of Americans whose bodies would've been stacked like cordwood, and the Republican lawmakers and others rounded up and arrested for fomenting insurrection.

That said, President Trump would be completely justified in his invocation of that act. And now given the fact that the pederast criminal governor Walz is contemplating calling up the National Guard to essentially do what that now ventilated asshole in the car attempted to do and that is form a skirmish line to open fire on ICE agents to stop them from doing their sworn duty.

I think at some point, and very soon, President Trump is going to have to go before the American people to address this very dangerous and explosive situation before things get out of hand if indeed we've already blown past that warning sign. What happened is not the first incident of this kind as attacks on ICE and Police have been through the roof this past year.

What I would like to see is the President hold a nationally televised ceremony to to award the Ice agents who took this terrorist down some sort of medal of valor. Hopefully before the left turns the ventilated terrorist into the next George Floyd/Horst Wessel.

That and declare total war on all organized and individual acts of anti-law enforcement insurrectionists. And as Ace suggested if the insurrection act is invoked. It's high time to decapitate the head of the snake — The Democrat National Committee and anyone who publicly foments, and approves of any assault on any law enforcement officer, national or local. It's terrorism straight up. It must be crushed. Whatever dangers there may be politically in the near or long term, the danger to our civil society is real and it is mortal Doing nothing will be one of the final signposts on the road to America's extinction as it was founded.

This madness ends now, or ultimately it ends us.

The Insurrection Proclamation: Trump issued it eight months ago. Governors called it an immigration order.
When you review the eight-month timeline you recognize what most ‘experts’ miss. The April 28 EO satisfied every Section 334 requirement.
It designated sanctuary conduct as insurrection. It provided formal notification. It established consequences. It granted eight months to comply.
Compliance never arrived. California and New York passed laws shielding criminal networks. Illinois officials threatened to prosecute ICE agents. Multiple states coordinated legal defenses against federal authority.
Courts blocked every standard enforcement attempt. They certified that ordinary measures have become impracticable.

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1 Thirsty Thursday

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 08, 2026 07:18 AM (gbOdA)

2 Bonjour

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 08, 2026 07:20 AM (x0n13)

3 Thank you, JJ

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 08, 2026 07:20 AM (iMotb)

4 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 08, 2026 07:22 AM (NwnyJ)

5 The incident in MN is reminding me of that scene from Liar, Liar:

"STOP BREAKING THE LAW, ASSHOLE!"

Posted by: NR Pax at January 08, 2026 07:22 AM (jjoN6)

6 My mother's dick tastes like a truck stop urinal cake

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at January 08, 2026 07:24 AM (yMxXU)

7 .
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Thanks for all you do Mr. Sefton.

Posted by: Marooned at January 08, 2026 07:25 AM (kt8QE)

8 Willowed:

Thanks. I'd like to see the pictures.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Happy to provide. He's a good pup and quite comfortable in our house. And he's malleable so my girl likes him.

Nothing, but nothing, sleeps like a sighthound. When I go down to the kennel in the morning to let everyone out, the question is frequently, "Are you alive?"
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

And I enjoy your Borzoi tales. I've met a few and they are absolutely sweet dogs. But I've heard that they are a bit like pandas as in "Without people, they'd die because they're not smart."

Posted by: NR Pax at January 08, 2026 07:25 AM (jjoN6)

9 "Macron won't dare admit what France’s overarching problem is.
In France, More Than a Quarter of the Population Wants to Leave"

And the other three quarters want them gone. (one way or another)

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 07:25 AM (06Hmj)

10 Good morning my friends. Press Secretary Leavitt's statement was something else. I guess we now know what Tulsi's been doing lately.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 08, 2026 07:26 AM (kpS4V)

11 JJ, there is no link for the Budapest story.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 08, 2026 07:26 AM (jjoN6)

12 > Yesterday at 2:22PM, Ace himself said

It's time for Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act.
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The Insurrection Proclamation: Trump issued it eight months ago. Governors called it an immigration order.

Follow some of the links in that essay. It makes a compelling case for what might be coming.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 08, 2026 07:27 AM (NwnyJ)

13 Thanks, JJ!

"This madness ends now, or ultimately it ends us."

truer words have never been said.

and I will add parenthetically, "BAMN".

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 08, 2026 07:28 AM (Cjt/F)

14 Good morning again dear horde and happy birthday JJ

"hysterical, blood-covered "wife" of woman killed by ICE, crying out ‘it’s my fault’"
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Probably the only leftist to draw the correct conclusion.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 08, 2026 07:28 AM (RIvkX)

15 "HHS Scraps Old Alcohol Guidance, Says Drinking Can Be Socially Healthy"

It's at the top of my food pyramid.

Posted by: fd at January 08, 2026 07:29 AM (vFG9F)

16 "Speaking at a Goldman Sachs conference in Miami, Wright said the U.S. will initially market backed-up crude currently stored in Venezuelan facilities and tankers, then continue selling all Venezuelan oil production going forward.
U.S. to Control Venezuelan Oil Sales Indefinitely"

Regime change for nothing, and your crude for free.

That's the kind of "no blood for oil" i can get behind!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 07:29 AM (06Hmj)

17 Walz is a seriously damaged individual, and now a cornered one. I imagine Trump will stay cool and not invoke the Insurrection Act yet. Good to see that no one on our side is yielding an inch in the narrative battle over the shooting.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 08, 2026 07:29 AM (t+TFX)

18
In France, More Than a Quarter of the Population Wants to Leave

For where? Here's where we absolutely must put our foot down. Importing Somalis to this country is bad enough, but the French would be intolerable.

France, unfortunately, is unreformable. Any effort at all to rein in spending and benefits will unleash massive demonstrations, riots and carbeques.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 07:30 AM (tgvbd)

19 France, unfortunately, is unreformable. Any effort at all to rein in spending and benefits will unleash massive demonstrations, riots and carbeques.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 07:30 AM (tgvbd)

Filthy breadbacks.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 07:31 AM (06Hmj)

20
From the Tech Thread

I like a breed where "Check that he's breathing" is a normal thing to say.

Sporting dog: "Great day for hunting! Let's play two!"

Sighthound: "Let me sleep."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 07:31 AM (tgvbd)

21
The Insurrection Act is 10 USC Sec 331-335.

331 is the "voluntary" section, where the governor requests federal troops.

332 and 333 are the involuntary ones, where the president can act on his own.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 08, 2026 07:32 AM (w6EFb)

22 "Study: If Europa has an underground ocean, it is lifeless and dormant"

You know what else is lifeless and dormant?

Posted by: Mitch McConnell's dick at January 08, 2026 07:32 AM (vFG9F)

23
ORBAN link fixed

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 08, 2026 07:32 AM (x0n13)

24
Sec 332:
Whenever the President considers that unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, or rebellion against the authority of the United States, make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States in any State by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, he may call into Federal service such of the militia of any State, and use such of the armed forces, as he considers necessary to enforce those laws or to suppress the rebellion.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 08, 2026 07:32 AM (w6EFb)

25 Well it appears that the left got the martyr they wanted against the evil Trump and his gestapo. It's all over the msn how this brave innocent protestor was gunned down by that ICE agent for no reason yesterday in minneapolis.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 08, 2026 07:33 AM (0N4FZ)

26 22 "Study: If Europa has an underground ocean, it is lifeless and dormant"

You know what else is lifeless and dormant?
Posted by: Mitch McConnell's dick at January 08, 2026 07:32 AM (vFG9F)

"What's down there?"

"Prolly nuthin'."

Total cost of study: $1.53 billion

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 07:33 AM (06Hmj)

27 Make an example of Frey. He's another self gassing Jew who needs to be removed from politics before he gets someone killed.

What? Oh, Too late.

Posted by: Fry Frey at January 08, 2026 07:34 AM (GlDYx)

28 Sec 333:
The President, by using the militia or the armed forces, or both, or by any other means, shall take such measures as he considers necessary to suppress, in a State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy, if it--
(1) so hinders the execution of the laws of that State, and of the United States within the State, that any part or class of its people is deprived of a right, privilege, immunity, or protection named in the Constitution and secured by law, and the constituted authorities of that State are unable, fail, or refuse to protect that right, privilege, or immunity, or to give that protection;

or (2) opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws.

In any situation covered by clause (1), the State shall be considered to have denied the equal protection of the laws secured by the Constitution.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 08, 2026 07:34 AM (w6EFb)

29 "We yelled at you, we harassed you, we tried to kill you, but you still refused to obey us. Why couldn't you be reasonable?"

Posted by: 2009Refugee at January 08, 2026 07:35 AM (8AONa)

30 What's the official con-law definition of the term "unlawful combination"?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 07:35 AM (06Hmj)

31 Just a catch all phrase to mean "wherever two or more are gathered in the name of general shitbaggery"?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 07:36 AM (06Hmj)

32 I genuinely wonder if the NG would comply with an order from Walz to oppose federal law enforcement.

Posted by: Halfhand at January 08, 2026 07:38 AM (edbiH)

33
I think here unlawful combination just sort of means conspiracy, in the sense that multiple actors are "combining forces" agin' the lawful authority. In anti-trust law, I see it has a specific meaning of two or more parties conspiring to restrict trade, create a monopoly, or similar.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 08, 2026 07:40 AM (w6EFb)

34 If one media whore tries to push this martyr narrative on any of Trump's team they should reply simply "Stop lying to the people. Stop lying." Call them out at as liars. Enough with the protocols and pretenses.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 08, 2026 07:41 AM (t+TFX)

35 If I were advising Trump, I would tell him "Flip the Script. Castigate Democrats for encouraging radicals to interfere with law enforcement. Attack Democrat mayors for refusing to cooperate and endangering public safety. Tell the public that putting yourself at a risk for few seconds of social media fame on Reddit and BlueSky isn't worth it."

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 08, 2026 07:41 AM (HR9Tb)

36 How many months/years do we realistically have to straighten things out? I imagine it's not all that long... depending on how it is approached.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 08, 2026 07:41 AM (NwnyJ)

37 If a Red State governor had done something similar to Biden, this would be an insurrection and as terrible as 9/11 wrapped around Pearl Harbor.

But double standards are twice as good.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 08, 2026 07:41 AM (jjoN6)

38 Good morning again Horde. Thx JJ
As I noted in Pixy's thread the usual suspects on Facebook are yelling "murder". More postings since. Most vocal are the middles class leftist white women. The left ain't stopping anytime soon when the are herding mindless sheep like these folks

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 08, 2026 07:42 AM (ScJGb)

39 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 07:43 AM (ExV1e)

40
If a Red State governor had done something similar to Biden, this would be an insurrection and as terrible as 9/11 wrapped around Pearl Harbor.

Who was the gink congresscritter who suggested nuclear weapons might be used on red states?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 07:43 AM (tgvbd)

41 Hungary at the turn of the 20th century had an excellent education and school system, that is one of the reasons a great many of the best theoretical physicists hailed from there. It was one of the quirks of history, the Nazis expelled jewish scientists in Europe - Great Britain effectively said “come on down, we’ll find something for you to do”, and many emigrated to the U.S.A.

An alternate history where the Nazis weren’t in power, with rabid anti-semites, could have seen Von Braun’s V2 raining down on London, except with nukes?

Posted by: Common Tater at January 08, 2026 07:43 AM (Kjgfl)

42 I always thought the whole "There's life on Antarctica so there's probably life on Europa" pretty dumb. Yes, life can adapt to harsh conditions. But it has to start in favorable conditions. A dark frozen moon ain't that.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 08, 2026 07:43 AM (HR9Tb)

43 I think here unlawful combination just sort of means conspiracy, in the sense that multiple actors are "combining forces" agin' the lawful authority. In anti-trust law, I see it has a specific meaning of two or more parties conspiring to restrict trade, create a monopoly, or similar.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 08, 2026 07:40 AM (w6EFb)

The upshot being it doesn't matter if the people causing problems are organized or disorganized, officially or unofficially. Whoever is causing the problem, the President is allowed to use the military to go stop the problem.

It's interesting that the Constitution really only seems to get expansive in its definitions like this when it's talking about handling abuses of power. If you want to act like you're outside the law, then you get treated like an Outlaw.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 07:44 AM (06Hmj)

44
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 08, 2026 07:44 AM (tljrc)

45
ORBAN AND DEFENSE LINKS FIXED


Apologies

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 08, 2026 07:44 AM (x0n13)

46 Cue up Mel Brooks' Inquisition song from History of the World, Part I, with changes.

The Insurrection song.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 08, 2026 07:45 AM (wVcYX)

47
Note the difference in wording between 332 and 333. In the former, it's the President "may". In 333 it is the president "shall".

And also note that 333 mentions the laws of the State -- ie state law. If the authorities of state are incapable or refusing to enforce their own state laws, those that protect some right in the Constitution (like life or property, or trial by jury and all that), then the president *shall* act to restore order.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 08, 2026 07:45 AM (w6EFb)

48 It's Mornin' Time!

Posted by: Jesse Hi-Jackson! at January 08, 2026 07:45 AM (oftw2)

49 Walz insinuating that he'd activate the MNNG to confront the national LE agency sounds pretty serious, almost rebellious. Waiting to see the response from PDTS.

In the mean time, the preznits press secretary came out and accused the purple lipped penis sipper and a host of government officials of attempting to overthrow the government.

Should be an interesting few weeks ahead.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at January 08, 2026 07:46 AM (luW68)

50 the usual suspects on Facebook are yelling "murder"
——

What would they call it if she had ran over the guy with her car and killed him?

She and her “wife” were professional or semi-pro shit-stirrers. They were playing games all day. Too bad so sad.

Don’t start none won’t be none. (Shit)

Posted by: Common Tater at January 08, 2026 07:47 AM (Kjgfl)

51 I wish liberal women would seek professional treatment rather than get killed protesting. Same applies to liberal politicians and reporters that fan the flames of activism.

Posted by: High tech at January 08, 2026 07:47 AM (37cEZ)

52 Who was the gink congresscritter who suggested nuclear weapons might be used on red states?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

I believe it was Swallwell.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 08, 2026 07:47 AM (jjoN6)

53 Shorter Leavitt:

"Your crazy uncle at Thanksgiving was right."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 07:48 AM (06Hmj)

54 A Republic, if you can keep it.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 08, 2026 07:49 AM (wVcYX)

55 "41 Hungary at the turn of the 20th century had an excellent education and school system, that is one of the reasons a great many of the best theoretical physicists hailed from there."

They had the highest literacy rate in Europe. My father sponsored a Hungarian refugee who lived with us for a while and became a lifelong friend. He spoke five languages and knew more about my country's history than I did.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 08, 2026 07:49 AM (t+TFX)

56 Good to see that no one on our side is yielding an inch in the narrative battle over the shooting.

--

In the first hours after this happened, my ICE agent sibling said the guy shouldn't have fired that shot based on whatever scant info was out there. He's since seen all the footage available, from different angles, and has changed his view 100%. I don't think the narrative battle is going to be won by these lunatics because the video evidence is strong. The agent was in the right.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 08, 2026 07:49 AM (qBdHI)

57 Roses are red
Violets are blue
I love it when you ride me
And wear your spurs too

Posted by: Lesbian Cowboy Poetry at January 08, 2026 07:50 AM (vFG9F)

58 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at January 08, 2026 07:50 AM (53oGX)

59
Who was the gink congresscritter who suggested nuclear weapons might be used on red states?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

I believe it was Swallwell.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 08, 2026 07:47 AM

I was thinking it was that pencil-necked geek with the bugged-out eyes

Kinzinger? or some siht?

dunno...theys all the same

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 08, 2026 07:51 AM (tljrc)

60 It was pretty obvious the mob in MN was not "organic." It was bitterly cold. A large crowd in a random neighborhood to protest. Many with cellphones at the ready... a common tactic. Agitators. Crisis actors. Probably some mentally unstable members of various demographic groups known to be leveraged by the left. Queers. Trasns. Commies, Socialists, Marxists. Etc.

Find the organizers and money men who set it up.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 08, 2026 07:51 AM (NwnyJ)

61 Posted by: Lady in Black at January 08, 2026 07:49 AM (qBdHI)

Good to know. Thanks.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 08, 2026 07:51 AM (t+TFX)

62 Thanks as always JJ. I hope you and yours are as healthy as can be….

Regarding the ICE shooting in MN, even as I read the comments here on Ace’s post yesterday afternoon it became clear to me: we’re living in an age where truth really doesn’t exist. What I mean is this: Everyone watched exactly the same videos of the shooting… we all say the same things with our eyeballs. And yet from that sensory input even here you had some saying “that was an iffy shooting” while others said “she was trying to run him down”…. Of course the retards on the left (redundant) howled “murder”…. People see what they want to see; what their preconceived notions conditioned them to see

What did I see? A lady who FA and FO…. Impeding law enforcement, ignoring their orders, then speeding away (right in the direction of an officer no less!) is insanely stupid at best. FAFO

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 08, 2026 07:52 AM (YobFY)

63 "HHS Scraps Old Alcohol Guidance, Says Drinking Can Be Socially Healthy"

It's at the top of my food pyramid.
Posted by: fd at January 08, 2026 07:29 AM (vFG9F)

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary! at January 08, 2026 07:52 AM (wVcYX)

64
I wish liberal women would seek professional treatment rather than get killed protesting.

I used to think a good, frequent plowing would help, but I now feel that nothing can cure them.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 07:52 AM (tgvbd)

65 So sick of the smellies.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 07:52 AM (06Hmj)

66 I hope they arrested the wife for conspiracy to commit first degree murder at least.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 08, 2026 07:53 AM (RIvkX)

67 She crossed state lines.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 08, 2026 07:53 AM (HR9Tb)

68 I wish liberal women would seek professional treatment
——

Whst makes you believe they aren’t? That’s part of the problem, they are already behind the 8-ball, but the US has the highest prescription drug mind bender consumption on the planet, and you can be sure the lion’s share is being consumed by these whack bitches. I think it puts the “whack” in bitch, or some sort of synergistic effect. Mood elevators, tranquilizers, and golly knows what all.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 08, 2026 07:53 AM (Kjgfl)

69
The Shah, Jr (Reza Pahlavi) has called for everyone in Iran to simultaneously chant the same slogan at 8PM local time today (UTC+03:30, EST+08:30).

We'll see how that goes.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 08, 2026 07:54 AM (w6EFb)

70 iirc JJ's wife is having surgery today?

A prayer for her complete and speedy recovery

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 08, 2026 07:54 AM (RIvkX)

71 We need the MN Guard to protect us. This will escalate, agitators are already on the way. The entire federal government is working against us. ICE is out for blood, and so are 80m+ maga enthusiasts. Please be safe and consider methods to protect your family by any means necessary.

Nobody wants an active conflict with federal agents. But it's better than living under Trump's fucking boot and letting our neighbors disappear one after another.

The Minnesota NG would be under the authority of Gov. Walz this time. The Commanding officers have made clear they support their people (us). This isnt the Floyd protests-this is something more. This is Democracy and the Republic on the line.

THIS IS WHAT THE SECOND AMMENDMENT IS FOR. THE RIGHT TO HAVE A WELL REGULATED MILITIA TO DEFEND THE PEOPLE OF A FREE STATE. Not hoarding weapons in the homes of private citizens to be used against innocent school children or their neighbors in a road rage dispute. The fucking national guard to protect the people.

We have have entered the Dark Walz era, where he isn’t afraid and pussyfooting around due to the upcoming election. He is just (rightfully) seething pissed.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 08, 2026 07:54 AM (ycI94)

72 Morning everyone.

I'm still waiting for more news about the shooting in SLC last night at an LDS church, during a viewing for someone that died. At least two gunned down. Dead and six injured. Sounds like it took pace in the parking lot. Everyone with cars parked near the shooting couldn't access their cars, as it was in a now active crime scene.

I don't think it was a religious hate crime, it sounds like it might have been someone connected to the deceased or their family. But the killer is still on the loose.

Posted by: LizLem at January 08, 2026 07:55 AM (gWBY1)

73 I don't think anyone is wrong for calling for the insurrection to be put down.

But, consider two things.

First, without Congress to impose proper sanctions (unseating the Congresscritters from Minnesota, for example), Trump won't have as much (constitutional) control as might be needed.

Second, he will be going exactly where the Dems have said he would go for almost 10 years. He will be taking up ultimate executive power to crush a state. While he might be right (morally and legally) he will still be stepping into the role of "authoritarian."

We will have to deal with those two things if we want to right the ship of state.

Posted by: GWB at January 08, 2026 07:56 AM (NMya2)

74 As soon as I can get myself off the floor from falling out of my chair howling with laughter at "Dark Walz", i'll come up with something biting and pithy to say about that overly-moisturized schnook.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 07:56 AM (06Hmj)

75 I'm not in favor of Feds shooting citizens generally, but Frey, Walz and Democrats generally need to dial down their rhetoric.

It is all a deflection anyway, from their criminal funneling of money to Somalis and corrupt NGO's.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 08, 2026 07:56 AM (c+lcp)

76 Like the aristocracy of old, Barron Trump marries Danish Princess Isabella (she's hawt, a 1). In return we get Greenland as a dowry. Plus cookies.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 08, 2026 07:56 AM (cxFcK)

77 And of course this lady had a “wife”… of course

Even less surprising: some media outlets lied. Some lefty group in Minneapolis labeled the lady as “part of our community” so the news said she “lived in Minneapolis”… despite the Missouri plates on the vehicle. Because it supports their narrative if she lives there… just protecting her neighborhood doncha know

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 08, 2026 07:56 AM (YobFY)

78 Self defense attorney Andrew Branca analyze the shooting for the required elements of self defense. He says it is justified.

https://tinyurl.com/yc33wcdf

Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 08, 2026 07:56 AM (SiYcf)

79 Back in the day, anyone could sit for the Bar Exam. You didn't need a JD. One could be a pupil of an experienced lawyer.

Posted by: no one at January 08, 2026 07:56 AM (qFwJc)

80 "We have have entered the Dark Walz era"

pfft

Posted by: Dark Helmet at January 08, 2026 07:57 AM (vFG9F)

81 >> The Minnesota NG would be under the authority of Gov. Walz this time. The Commanding officers have made clear they support their people (us).

Until Trump invokes the IA and federalizes said militia under it (of which there is no legal question once the IA is enacted -- the recent SCOTUS ruling referred to that).

And if the NG officers refuse, well, sucks to be them.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 08, 2026 07:57 AM (w6EFb)

82
Whst makes you believe they aren’t? That’s part of the problem, they are already behind the 8-ball, but the US has the highest prescription drug mind bender consumption on the planet, and you can be sure the lion’s share is being consumed by these whack bitches. I think it puts the “whack” in bitch, or some sort of synergistic effect. Mood elevators, tranquilizers, and golly knows what all.
Posted by: Common Tater at January 08, 2026 07:53 AM (Kjgfl)

Or they see "therapists", usually other women, who just affirm all their delusions. Whereas what they really need is some hard-shell priest or minister to tell them to grow up and stop being silly.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 07:57 AM (tgvbd)

83 iirc JJ's wife is having surgery today?

A prayer for her complete and speedy recovery
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 08, 2026 07:54 AM (RIvkX)
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This; most definitely this.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 08, 2026 07:57 AM (c+lcp)

84 he will still be stepping into the role of "authoritarian."

We will have to deal with those two things if we want to right the ship of state.
Posted by: GWB at January 08, 2026 07:56 AM (NMya2)

For every person squealing "He's doing what we all said he would do for the last ten years", there's another person thinking "And it's about time he did".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 07:57 AM (06Hmj)

85 67 She crossed state lines.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo

An excellent point. Saving that for later use.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 08, 2026 07:58 AM (jjoN6)

86 They had the highest literacy rate in Europe.
——-

Yes, and they tracked gifted children for further enhancement. There’s no shame in working a mechanic’s job or “blue collar”. Johnny Von Neumann was recognized early on, as very gifted in Math, as a child. His teacher said “Hey, your kid is something else, let’s send him to schools that will advance his skills better than I can.

No telling what modern schools do to kids like this today, but we have plenty of examples. He would likely be drugged and mind-fvcked.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 08, 2026 07:59 AM (Kjgfl)

87 Michael Reagan was all right, the few times I caught him on the radio.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 08, 2026 07:59 AM (+RheU)

88 I wish liberal women would seek professional treatment

==

Scourges in modern times:

White American liberal women > bed bugs > crab lice

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 08, 2026 07:59 AM (qBdHI)

89 Well that settles it. Geraldo Rivera finds no justification for the shooting. Go home everyone, nothing to see here

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 08, 2026 07:59 AM (ScJGb)

90 Prayers up for Mrs. JJ. Good luck and God bless

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 08, 2026 08:00 AM (ScJGb)

91 One of the reasons the Hungarians developed such a robust education system is because they are linguistically isolated from the rest of Europe. They had to.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 08, 2026 08:00 AM (RIvkX)

92 "Geraldo Rivera finds no justification for the shooting."

Let's put Jerry in front of a Ford Expedition and floor it and see what happens.

Posted by: fd at January 08, 2026 08:01 AM (vFG9F)

93 These leftist street maniacs have been operating under an illusion of immunity and invincibility. They trusted in the restraint and even fearful reluctance of authorities to use deadly force. Long accustomed to strutting their stuff even spitting in the faces of cops, they believed they could do anything without consequence. Reality hit yesterday. But the shrieking over reality's audacity will only increase. Why not? It has worked in the past. Which is why we not only cannot give an inch to their intimidations, but should even double down.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 08, 2026 08:02 AM (t+TFX)

94 I don't think the narrative battle is going to be won by these lunatics because the video evidence is strong.

Video evidence means nothing. The tiktok screechers, and Instagram screechers, and OF screechers, etc. will say things and the average person will just accept that they MUST know what they're talking about.

Think about known racist and misogynist Charlie Kirk. The fact that they could not provide a single video of him being racist, or misogynistic, was irrelevant.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 08:02 AM (ExV1e)

95 Walz lacks self-awareness.

Posted by: mr tmz at January 08, 2026 08:02 AM (rJ48h)

96 83 iirc JJ's wife is having surgery today?

A prayer for her complete and speedy recovery
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 08, 2026 07:54 AM (RIvkX)
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This; most definitely this.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 08, 2026 07:57 AM (c+lcp)



UPDATE: The surgery was supposed to be on the 22nd of this month but unfortunately, because her insurance doesn't kick in until Feb 1 it's been delayed until 2/5. We're soldiering on and God bless you all for your prayers and good wishes.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 08, 2026 08:02 AM (x0n13)

97 Some lady died yesterday on a Minnesota ICE-y road.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 08:02 AM (6mogZ)

98 The MN Natl Guard despises Walz. Remember that Walz "retired" from the MN Natl Guard just prior to deployment to Iraq. The Guard remembers. He is considered a Blue Falcon (it's not a compliment). I'm not too concerned about the Guard joining Walz insurrection. BTW, this comment from a suburb of Minneapolis.

Posted by: Neoluddite at January 08, 2026 08:03 AM (6ocYR)

99 "Geraldo Rivera finds no justification for the shooting."

--

And I'm sure this is based on his vast training in law enforcement.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 08, 2026 08:03 AM (qBdHI)

100 So, lefty lesbian decides to go for social media up twinkles by larping as a revolutionary. Acts out the protesting she has seen on BlueSky and Reddit by driving her car into an ICE operation. Suddenly realizes she's in over her head. Real life isn't like phone life. She panics. Tries to flee. An officer, in fear for his life, fires on her.

Stupid. Stupid. Stupid way to die.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 08, 2026 08:03 AM (0jsOz)

101 Derek Chauvin was on video saying "Don't worry, I got you bro, you're gonna be ok".

Fat lot of good it did him.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 08:04 AM (06Hmj)

102 The gauntlet. It has been thrown. Time to put up or shut up.

https://tinyurl.com/acwzrptp

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at January 08, 2026 08:04 AM (luW68)

103 Aren't You Glad the Head of the Joint Chiefs Didn't Call Maduro to Tell Him We Were Coming?

Did the head of the Joint Chiefs know? There's no reason he needed to.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 08:04 AM (ExV1e)

104 Everyone knows that you can manipulate video with AI nowadays.

Posted by: fd at January 08, 2026 08:04 AM (vFG9F)

105 "Let's put Jerry in front of a Ford Expedition and floor it and see what happens."


Point Of Order: the vehicle involved was a Honda Pilot.

Posted by: Person who likes to say Point Of Order at January 08, 2026 08:05 AM (2Ez/1)

106 Lesbian uses SUV as phallic symbol

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 08, 2026 08:05 AM (ScJGb)

107 74 As soon as I can get myself off the floor from falling out of my chair howling with laughter at "Dark Walz", i'll come up with something biting and pithy to say about that overly-moisturized schnook.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Just when I think he couldn't possibly be any gayer, he goes and does something like this... and totally redeems himself!

Posted by: Harry Dunne at January 08, 2026 08:05 AM (ycI94)

108 "Johnny Von Neumann was recognized early on, as very gifted in Math, as a child"

The ultimate polymath. Smarter than Einstein. Told better jokes at Princeton parties.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 08, 2026 08:05 AM (dtajH)

109 > Nobody wants an active conflict with federal agents. But it's better than living under Trump's fucking boot and letting our neighbors disappear one after another.

The Minnesota NG would be under the authority of Gov. Walz this time. The Commanding officers have made clear they support their people (us). This isnt the Floyd protests-this is something more. This is Democracy and the Republic on the line.
---------
Sounds vaguely familiar. Like something said here, 2-3 years ago. From a different perspective, obviously.

But unlike us, they'll act. Violently. As the left always does. As the proverb says; "Shit's about to get real."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 08, 2026 08:06 AM (NwnyJ)

110 "Some lady died yesterday on a Minnesota ICE-y road.
Posted by: rickb223"

She was trying to make ICE cream cones.

Ok, I denounce myself.

Posted by: fd at January 08, 2026 08:06 AM (vFG9F)

111 Good Morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear into the heart of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 08, 2026 08:06 AM (u82oZ)

112 Perhaps President Trump could give some sort of award to the MN ICE agent for actions in the line of duty. Say a pair of ivory-handled .45 Long Colt Single Action revolvers, 1873 Army Model.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 08, 2026 08:06 AM (wVcYX)

113 "The original text of the Insurrection Act is: individual state or territory, where it is lawful for the President of the United States to call forth the militia for the purpose of suppressing such insurrection, or of causing the laws to be duly executed, it shall be lawful for him to employ, for the same purposes, such part of the land or naval force of the United States, as shall be judged necessary, having first observed all the pre-requisites of the law in that respect."
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Seems to me like any state could try to make the argument that they can pass any law they want (some having already done so??) to make it illegal for the President to interfere.

Posted by: Doof at January 08, 2026 08:06 AM (dP47V)

114 "Point Of Order: the vehicle involved was a Honda Pilot.
Posted by: Person who likes to say Point Of Order"

I want to make sure the job is done right.

Posted by: fd at January 08, 2026 08:07 AM (vFG9F)

115 >> Did the head of the Joint Chiefs know? There's no reason he needed to.

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs is now Gen. Razin' Caine. He's the opposite of Milley. And he was part of this from the get-go.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 08, 2026 08:07 AM (w6EFb)

116 Study: If Europa has an underground ocean, it is lifeless and dormant

"And on an icy world like Europa, a quiet seafloor might well mean a lifeless ocean, he added."

That headline was a lot more confident than 'might' would seem to warrant.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 08:07 AM (ExV1e)

117 The left's teenage angst bullshit has a body count.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 08, 2026 08:08 AM (0jsOz)

118 Jerry is a clown. He famously interviewed Charlie Manson in jail and came off making Charlie look good. That takes dedication. He’s a sensationalist huckster, I’m not certain how he unerringly manages to get on the wrong side of everything. It’s a gift, I guess.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 08, 2026 08:08 AM (Kjgfl)

119 >>> The gauntlet. It has been thrown. Time to put up or shut up.
https://tinyurl.com/acwzrptp
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at January 08, 2026 08:04 AM (luW6

Same with the fraud in MN. A house committee scrapped a resolution to investigate Ilan Omar and see if her marriage to her brother was legal.

If congress doesn't want to investigate stuff they have a hand in, nothing will happen.

Posted by: LizLem at January 08, 2026 08:08 AM (gWBY1)

120 If congress doesn't want to investigate stuff they have a hand in, nothing will happen.
______________________

But if they do investigate then nothing will also happen

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 08, 2026 08:09 AM (0jsOz)

121 The guy that shot Ashli Babbit got a Congressional Gold Medal, so Trump needs to give this ICE agent a Presidential medal of Freedom. They send one of yours to the hospital, you send one of theirs to the morgue. That's the Trump way!

Posted by: Sean Connery in The Untouchables at January 08, 2026 08:10 AM (ycI94)

122 That study about Europa's lifeless oceans is bunk. I caught my limit of skrimps and lobstuhs there just last week.

Posted by: The Gorton's Fisherman at January 08, 2026 08:10 AM (oftw2)

123 I think Minnesomalia has earned the right to revert to a territory. No federal taxes, but no congressional representation.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 08, 2026 08:10 AM (cxFcK)

124 MN makes me appreciate where I live. You can keep Walz, Omar and Ellison.. Thank you very much.

Posted by: High tech at January 08, 2026 08:10 AM (37cEZ)

125
The Europa Clipper mission, which won't get there until 2030, will confirm whether or not Europa has a subsurface ocean, and will measure all sorts of properties if it indeed exists.

It will determine the ice thickness, the ocean thickness, and also look for organic molecules.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 08, 2026 08:10 AM (w6EFb)

126 >>Some lady died yesterday on a Minnesota ICE-y road.

Um, that wasn't just "some lady."

Posted by: Dead Lesbian Poets Society at January 08, 2026 08:11 AM (Y1sOo)

127 Whenever Jerry Rivers appeared on my screen the channel got changed. Same with Donna Brazile. Same with Chris Christie.

Just. Too. Vile.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 08, 2026 08:11 AM (RIvkX)

128 When a group (leftists) get their hearts set on a Khmer Rouge lifestyle, it’s hard to stop them.

Posted by: Eromero at January 08, 2026 08:12 AM (o2ZRX)

129 I believe that Democrats, especially Walz, are trying to get Trump to invoke the Insurrection act because it fits with their, "Trump's a dictator" narrative. Trump should wait until Walz actually issues an order in his official capacity as governor. Then arrest him.

Posted by: MLCross at January 08, 2026 08:12 AM (Q2MxE)

130 It will determine the ice thickness, the ocean thickness, and also look for organic molecules.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

And whether or not we can tax it.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 08, 2026 08:12 AM (jjoN6)

131 Time to put up or shut up.
https://tinyurl.com/acwzrptp
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at January 08, 2026 08:04 AM (luW6

We're well past "put up or shut up" time. We should consider ourselves blessed to still have a chance.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 08, 2026 08:12 AM (t+TFX)

132 Steny Hoyer is retiring. This is his 45th year in Congress. The old line Dems are leaving, Pelosi, Nadler , Hoyer. After them hard left loons.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 08, 2026 08:13 AM (ScJGb)

133 "Let's put Jerry in front of a Ford Expedition and floor it and see what happens."


Point Of Order: the vehicle involved was a Honda Pilot.
Posted by: Person who likes to say Point Of Order at January 08, 2026 08:05 AM (2Ez/1)

Was there a tilted "3" painted on the doors for intimidation?

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 08, 2026 08:13 AM (wVcYX)

134 It'll look different at regular speed than in slo-mo.

When the cop shot she was aimed at him, and closing on him with just a short distance to go, before she veered right.

Was she still aiming for him and only veered right after getting shot? Or was she turning away to escape? Shouldn't matter. She's the one who created a split-second life-or-death siuation.

Compare Ashli.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 08, 2026 08:14 AM (dtajH)

135 Video appears to show hysterical, blood-covered "wife" of woman killed by ICE, crying out ‘it’s my fault’
_______
At least that means there's someone left to feed the cats.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 08, 2026 08:14 AM (s0JqF)

136 Nobody wants an active conflict with federal agents. But it's better than living under Trump's fucking boot and letting our neighbors disappear one after another.

The Minnesota NG would be under the authority of Gov. Walz this time.



1. Your fucking neighbors are wetbacks.
2. Go ahead. Call up the MN National Guard. Get them all in one place. Easier for Trump to federalize them and put them all on cargo planes to American Samoa.

Check & Mate.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 08:14 AM (6mogZ)

137 "Steny Hoyer is retiring. This is his 45th year in Congress."

Piker.

Posted by: The ghost of Strom Thurmond at January 08, 2026 08:15 AM (2Ez/1)

138 Geraldo now lives in Shaker Heights OH. He is a member of Shaker Heights proud Puerto Rican community. The community consists of Geraldo and five house maids that take the bus to work.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 08, 2026 08:16 AM (gm9Sb)

139
Then there's the ESA "JUICE" mission (JUpiter ICy moons Explorer) that will get there by 2031. It will study Ganymede and Callisto as well as Europa.

If Clipper and JUICE find something interesting, the next step will be a lander to drill through the ice crust and get a probe into the ocean.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 08, 2026 08:16 AM (w6EFb)

140 Yeah, it is very frightening that the education system has been hijacked by leftist saboteurs. They have a mission, and it’s obvious a dumbed down populace is Job 1. And they are succeeding. Hungary showed how it was done. There’s no reason America can’t have good schools.

Notice the first thing the saboteurs go after are the “talented and gifted” programs. The very type of programs that produced a Johnny Von Neumann.

Excellence should be encouraged. Attention to detail. Punctuality. A broad based learning, rote memorization of facts, figures, History. Discipline. Etc.

All of those things are now excoriated as “White Supremacy”.

Can you believe that? “Get stupid, do dumb ass shit, or you’re racist!”

I’m old enough to remember when Civil Rights was largely about getting everyone a good education. The Marxists, socialists, saboteurs will not allow this any longer.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 08, 2026 08:16 AM (Kjgfl)

141 It'll look different at regular speed than in slo-mo.

When the cop shot she was aimed at him, and closing on him with just a short distance to go, before she veered right.

Was she still aiming for him and only veered right after getting shot? Or was she turning away to escape? Shouldn't matter. She's the one who created a split-second life-or-death siuation.

Compare Ashli.

Posted by: Ignoramus


One shot went thru the windshield. She was aimed at him.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 08:16 AM (6mogZ)

142 Today Is National Bubble Bath Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 08, 2026 08:16 AM (NpAcC)

143 >>Some lady died yesterday on a Minnesota ICE-y road.

Um, that wasn't just "some lady."
Posted by: Dead Lesbian Poets Society at January 08, 2026 08:11 AM (Y1sOo)

"That's no lady, that's my wife!"

Posted by: Lebesian Standup Comic at January 08, 2026 08:17 AM (wVcYX)

144 THE GREAT SOMALIAN SAMOLIAN SWINDLE
________
It's spelled "simoleon".

Posted by: Eeyore at January 08, 2026 08:18 AM (s0JqF)

145 Video appears to show hysterical, blood-covered "wife" of woman killed by ICE, crying out ‘it’s my fault’


What is that person's name?

Posted by: News accounts are already obscuring it at January 08, 2026 08:18 AM (2Ez/1)

146 I wish liberal women would seek professional treatment

Professional treatment consists of talking to another woman who will tell them that they're right and it's all the Trump's fault, coupled with still more chemicals floating around their brain.

They need to be banned from social media. Maybe permit them to post but they can't read anything.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 08:18 AM (ExV1e)

147 "Today Is National Bubble Bath Day.
Posted by: redridinghood"

Got my camera ready!

Posted by: Mr Bubble at January 08, 2026 08:19 AM (vFG9F)

148 Jerry Rivers first gained fame standing on the backs of retarded folks at the Willowbrook State School on Staten Island. He's always been a sensationalist using people and stories to boost only himself.

Posted by: Eyewitless News 7 at January 08, 2026 08:19 AM (oftw2)

149 If Clipper and JUICE find something interesting, the next step will be a lander to drill through the ice crust and get a probe into the ocean.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 08, 2026 08:16 AM (w6EFb)
----
That will be an interesting challenge considering the ice is likely very, very thick. How will they keep the ice from freezing again around the drill?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 08, 2026 08:19 AM (ESVrU)

150 Back in the day, parents would think nothing about having me in the tub with their kids.

Posted by: Mr Bubble at January 08, 2026 08:20 AM (vFG9F)

151
Believe or not, Saturn's moon Enceladus may be a better "warm ocean" candidate than Europa. Hydrothermal vents are strongly suggested by the data.

And then stronger tidal flex heating, too.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 08, 2026 08:20 AM (w6EFb)

152 They need to be banned from social media. Maybe permit them to post but they can't read anything.
——-

I think that’s what we have now

Posted by: Common Tater at January 08, 2026 08:21 AM (Kjgfl)

153 147 "Today Is National Bubble Bath Day.

That's nothing! I make bubbles in the bathtub every night! Sometimes with chunks! If you don't believe me, ask Ashley!

Posted by: Joe From Scranton!! at January 08, 2026 08:22 AM (oftw2)

154 147 "Today Is National Bubble Bath Day.
Posted by: redridinghood"

Got my camera ready!
Posted by: Mr Bubble

Time for another painting of my feet in the tub again!

Posted by: George Bush at January 08, 2026 08:22 AM (ycI94)

155 Mornin’, All. Happy Thursday.

Posted by: Bulg at January 08, 2026 08:23 AM (77rzZ)

156 Morning JJ and the Horde. I believe Trump could Federalize Minn Natl Guard, before Walz could even use them

Posted by: Jonah at January 08, 2026 08:23 AM (YCxFk)

157 >> How will they keep the ice from freezing again around the drill?

The idea is an autonomous probe that uses a drill bit and radioactive powered heater. It will melt and drill it's way down to the ocean. As there's no long drill stem, the hole refreezes behind it as it goes.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 08, 2026 08:23 AM (w6EFb)

158 Japan has a new stationmaster cat. The Wakayama Electric Railway Kishigawa Line is famous for its feline stationmasters. A new cat, Rokutama, has been appointed trainee stationmaster of 2 stations. Other cats received promotions. This is serious stuff.

https://is.gd/1pwp6C

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 08, 2026 08:23 AM (OZOVQ)

159 The former brother-in-law of a mother shot dead by an ICE agent during immigration operations in Minneapolis has argued she 'should have minded her own business'.


Wow. When you lose family members...

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 08:24 AM (6mogZ)

160 98. Good info my friend

Posted by: Jonah at January 08, 2026 08:24 AM (YCxFk)

161 It's spelled "simoleon".
Posted by: Eeyore at January 08, 2026 08:18 AM (s0JqF)

Artistic license. Transposing the A and O is more comedically satisfying than simple assonance.

This isn't Vietnam, this is comedy. There are rules, damnit.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 08:24 AM (06Hmj)

162 Steny Hoyer is retiring. This is his 45th year in Congress."
Piker.
Posted by: The ghost of Strom Thurmond at January 08, 2026 08:15 AM (2Ez/1)

You got that right son. I was also banging my colored maids two at a time and pumping out mulatto children like hot cakes. Them wimmen loved old Strom! Hot Damn!

Posted by: Zombie Strom Thurmond, Hung Like A Donkey at January 08, 2026 08:25 AM (GlDYx)

163 When a Fed agent or Cop with a Gun, tells you to stay put and shut up. You do it. Bottom line

Posted by: Jonah at January 08, 2026 08:25 AM (YCxFk)

164 The Patriot Oasis™
@ThePatriotOasis
🔥🚨BREAKING: U.S. Attorney for California Bill Essayli reveals that California has spent $24 BILLION on homelessness, with no one knowing where the money's going.

"California has spent $24 billion in the last five years on homelessness. No one can account for where that money really went."

"So the first thing I did was set up that task force, and all we did was follow the money. We already charged millions of dollars in fraud. I can tell you more charges are coming. Probably as soon as this month."

Video-
https://tinyurl.com/yc5avpxt

Posted by: redridinghood at January 08, 2026 08:25 AM (NpAcC)

165 Video appears to show hysterical, blood-covered "wife" of woman killed by ICE, crying out ‘it’s my fau
because it WAS her fault

she's the nuttier one. (the kids are "Good's" from her previous marriage. her ex husband died and "Good" went off with this chick)

she's the one who said "I'll pick up the kids, YOU lead the blockade today honey" - knowing it was dangerous and her "partner" was not a very well trained Antifa.

she also has been charged with child abuse towards "Good's" child, burning with her cigarette

these are desperate, messed-up females. I have more to say on that topic, maybe later. it's about how I was wrong way back when I said "I know these people, they're a mess, they will be ineffective."

unfortunately with enough support from the Leftist machine, they are in fact "effective" at mayhem and even running towns and cities (into the ground).

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 08, 2026 08:25 AM (emBoF)

166 Minnesota situation may not be the biggest story today - the future Shah is sending word out that there is to a nationwide anti-government outpouring in Iran at 8 pm their time, about noon our time.
No one can say for sure, but it is possible that the Iranian government falls today. All it will take is for the Iranian Army to declare against them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2026 08:27 AM (ukUWv)

167 When a Fed agent or Cop with a Gun, tells you to stay put and shut up. You do it. Bottom line
Posted by: Jonah


Chris Rock's "How Not To Get Your Ass Kicked By Cops" applies here too.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 08:27 AM (6mogZ)

168 > Reports: China Expected to Replace Venezuelan Oil with Iranian Crude

Enjoy it while it lasts, Buttwheat.

Posted by: The Iranian People at January 08, 2026 08:28 AM (IG3/x)

169 163 When a Fed agent or Cop with a Gun, tells you to stay put and shut up. You do it. Bottom line


we spent time with the kids (well, mainly the boys) going over how to act with police. this is an important thing to know. it helped when one was going 90 trying to get to class on time and a statie nabbed him! he even got to go to court.

life lessons. some are never taught, plus they get coddled SO MUCH. are they even considered adults, with agency? I've been asking that about my own sex for a long time.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 08, 2026 08:28 AM (emBoF)

170 This shooting is going to cause a family mess. The woman was allegedly "married" to another woman. The woman who got shot had a relationship with a man which produced the child , now 6. The man died in 2023, so the guy's father, the child's grandfather is going to claim the kid. It will be interesting to see if the surviving lesbian puts up a custody fight

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 08, 2026 08:28 AM (ScJGb)

171 Enjoy it while it lasts, Buttwheat.


hopefully tonite is the night

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 08, 2026 08:29 AM (emBoF)

172 https://is.gd/1pwp6C

Broken link

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 08, 2026 08:29 AM (RIvkX)

173 Regarding Artemis II:

"...the pressure of schedule convinced managers at NASA to look the other way, to place those scheduling concerns above fundamental engineering principles. In both cases, people died when the engineering issues were ignored."

It amazes me how institutional knowledge can be lost. Each generation seems to want to make it's own mistakes.

This mission is a huge gamble. NASA's willing to sacrifice another four astronauts to prove that Failure is indeed an Option.

It's a fake and made up political schedule vs. Mother Nature is a cold bitch.

I'd really love to hear Elon's take on this.

Posted by: pawn at January 08, 2026 08:29 AM (Rmqfl)

174 Goldie Ghamari is supposed to be going live today at 11:30 am Eastern to cover what may be the end of the Islamists in Iran. Prayers up for the people of Iran.

Posted by: PA Dutchman at January 08, 2026 08:29 AM (h/O4U)

175 Minnesota situation may not be the biggest story today - the future Shah is sending word out that there is to a nationwide anti-government outpouring in Iran at 8 pm their time, about noon our time.
No one can say for sure, but it is possible that the Iranian government falls today. All it will take is for the Iranian Army to declare against them.
Posted by: Tom Servo


11:00am Eastern.
It's 5:00pm in Tehran. +9.30 hours

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 08:30 AM (6mogZ)

176 Per the Executive Order noted above (Protecting American Communities From Criminal Aliens), MN has been designated a "sanctuary jurisdiction". It has company. This designation was made before recent events.

Per the order, Trump's next move is to cut off funding to MN especially federal benefits going to "aliens" as provided for in the order. Note that it's already been established that there's massive fraud going on.

No need to send troops yet. Starve them out.

Can't wait for Timmy to complain when he's neck deep in the fraud.



Posted by: Ignoramus at January 08, 2026 08:30 AM (dtajH)

177 "California has spent $24 billion in the last five years on homelessness. No one can account for where that money really went."

Sounds like it went to keeping people from being homeless. And yachtless.

Posted by: fd at January 08, 2026 08:30 AM (vFG9F)

178 No one can say for sure, but it is possible that the Iranian government falls today. All it will take is for the Iranian Army to declare against them.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2026 08:27 AM (ukUWv)

They'll need the air force to shoot down any escape planes to keep the bad guys from coming back.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 08, 2026 08:30 AM (uQesX)

179 Sounds like it went to keeping people from being homeless. And yachtless.
Posted by: fd at January 08, 2026 08:30 AM (vFG9F)

*golf clap*

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 08:31 AM (06Hmj)

180 174 Goldie Ghamari is supposed to be going live today at 11:30 am Eastern to cover what may be the end of the Islamists in Iran. Prayers up for the people of Iran.


been waiting my whole life. just praying and praying.

my grandparents on one side were frequent visitors pre-revolution, and knew the Shah. they instilled a hatred of the mullahs in me. (and they gave me lots of pretty things they were able to get out of the country before.)

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 08, 2026 08:31 AM (emBoF)

181
Iran time zone is UTC+03:30, or EST+08:30.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 08, 2026 08:31 AM (w6EFb)

182 Last day of lock up for Future Leader. He gets released from jail tomorrow. This time out has been hard on him.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 08, 2026 08:32 AM (pLaQB)

183 Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 08, 2026 08:23 AM (OZOVQ)

The link provided seems to have nothing whatsoever to do with the description provided.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 08:32 AM (ExV1e)

184 BREAKING: U.S. Attorney for California Bill Essayli reveals that California has spent $24 BILLION on homelessness, with no one knowing where the money's going.”

I have realized lately that when someone says “no one knows where the money is going”, in fact almost everyone knows where the money is going. But it’s not to the homeless, that’s for damn sure.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2026 08:32 AM (ukUWv)

185 I got to spend some time with Michael Reagan several years ago. A great guy and down to earth.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 08, 2026 08:32 AM (R5Nr8)

186 This shooting is going to cause a family mess. The woman was allegedly "married" to another woman. The woman who got shot had a relationship with a man which produced the child , now 6. The man died in 2023, so the guy's father, the child's grandfather is going to claim the kid. It will be interesting to see if the surviving lesbian puts up a custody fight
Posted by: Smell the Glove


If the surviving lesbo didn't legally adopt the child, sh's no different legally than the hobo in the train yard.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 08:32 AM (6mogZ)

187
Shah, Jr's X page:
https://is.gd/25oqRo

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 08, 2026 08:32 AM (w6EFb)

188 The world is an emptier place today, down one lesbian poetess. It's palpable, the loss, I'm heartbroken. Will be headed out to purchase her entire life's output of verse soon. What might have been!

Posted by: The Literary World Mourns In Unison at January 08, 2026 08:32 AM (oftw2)

189 Growing up we had a family a few doors down from us that got out during the Islamic takeover of Iran. Been thinking of them a lot lately.

Posted by: PA Dutchman at January 08, 2026 08:33 AM (h/O4U)

190 Why was the dead perp driving a Honda? I thought Lesbos were required to drive Subarus.

Posted by: Martin Tell at January 08, 2026 08:33 AM (sFNX2)

191 I have realized lately that when someone says “no one knows where the money is going”, in fact almost everyone knows where the money is going. But it’s not to the homeless, that’s for damn sure.

The point of government is to take as much money as possible from the taxpayers - whatever they claim to be spending the money on doesn't really matter

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 08:33 AM (sKqQm)

192 I've been on Indian media earlier this morning, they are reporting that mass gatherings are widespread, joined by the police, and the Shah's speeches are being broadcast in public who are flying the Lion and Sun flag.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 08, 2026 08:33 AM (RIvkX)

193 Telegraph has a picture today of two Greenlanders protesting against Trump. Both are older affluent-looking (well dressed) white women.

Anyone surprised?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 08, 2026 08:33 AM (lCkcl)

194 Russian media is silent in English and Russian total blackout.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 08, 2026 08:34 AM (RIvkX)

195 all my understanding dribbles down the chin onto the chest & is summarized as:

life is merely

to ovum and sperm

and where those two meet

and how often and how well

and what dies there.

Posted by: Dead Lesbian Poets Society at January 08, 2026 08:34 AM (Y1sOo)

196 tangential but I love how spacing does so much work in modern poetry

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 08, 2026 08:34 AM (emBoF)

197 Prayers up for the people of Iran.
Posted by: PA Dutchman at January 08, 2026 08:29 AM

Amen!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 08:35 AM (7RYym)

198
FLying that Lion and Sun flag, and supporting the Shah/old regime are treason there, punishable by death.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 08, 2026 08:35 AM (w6EFb)

199 Telegraph has a picture today of two Greenlanders protesting against Trump. Both are older affluent-looking (well dressed) white women.

Anyone surprised?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 08, 2026 08:33 AM (lCkcl)

Then, they're not natives. Greenland should deport them to Whiteland.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 08, 2026 08:35 AM (uQesX)

200 Getting a feeling of the country taking sides, as with the Vietnam war protests of the '60s and early '70s. MSM doing its usual bit.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 08, 2026 08:35 AM (FJh8P)

201 The fact that we've let the left build a network to stalk ICE agents is astounding.

Why weren't the app creators arrested along with anyone populating it for conspiracy? I mean the whole illegal alien grift network is 100% a criminal enterprise in the RICO sense

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 08:35 AM (sKqQm)

202 Bass-TARD: Protest Isn’t Right Way to Commemorate Fires, People ‘Profiting Off of This’

Their accusations are their confessions.

Change out "Commemorate Fires" with "Prevent Immigration Enforcement" or "Stop Fraud Prosecutions" and you can feel the hypocrisy.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 08, 2026 08:36 AM (rgGn5)

203 184 BREAKING: U.S. Attorney for California Bill Essayli reveals that California has spent $24 BILLION on homelessness, with no one knowing where the money's going.”

No, it's quite obvious. There's $24 Billion in tents and blue tarps erected all over The Golden State.

Posted by: Camping World at January 08, 2026 08:36 AM (oftw2)

204
Shah, Jr's wife and daughters are not uneasy on the eyes. He's named his eldest daughter, Princess Noor the Crown Princess.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 08, 2026 08:36 AM (w6EFb)

205 Telegraph has a picture today of two Greenlanders protesting against Trump. Both are older affluent-looking (well dressed) white women.


I'm going to guess...they both work for the Danish government either directly or through an NGO administering some sort of aide to the locals that never seems to actually get to the locales...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 08:37 AM (sKqQm)

206 They'll need the air force to shoot down any escape planes to keep the bad guys from coming back.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 08, 2026 08:30 AM (uQesX)

Supposedly Putin has given them an invitation to Moscow (nice little dacha just down the street from Assad?) and some Russian cargo planes are standing by to take them there when the time comes. The mullahs have to be thinking about Maduro and the danger of not getting out of town when the getting is still good.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2026 08:37 AM (ukUWv)

207 The former brother-in-law of a mother shot dead by an ICE agent during immigration operations in Minneapolis has argued she 'should have minded her own business'.


Wow. When you lose family members...
Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 08:24 AM (6mogZ)
******
Well, she was once married to this guy's brother and had a 6 yr old child with him. Now she's married to a woman.
So yeah, I can see where she's not exactly a family favorite.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 08, 2026 08:38 AM (NpAcC)

208 We have have entered the Dark Walz era, where he isn’t afraid and pussyfooting around due to the upcoming election. He is just (rightfully) seething pissed.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 08, 2026 07:54 AM

Yes! This is the modern masculinity we crave. This is the modern masculinity we need! Gov. Walz, Mr. Emhoff, and Mr. Hogg are our role models, just like Dark Brandon was!

Posted by: (D)emocrats & the MSM at January 08, 2026 08:38 AM (0sNs1)

209 Watched a retrospective on Led Zeppelin last night. Damn, those guys were GREAT! What I found interesting is how nice those guys were.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 08, 2026 08:38 AM (pLaQB)

210 Why was the dead perp driving a Honda? I thought Lesbos were required to drive Subarus.
Posted by: Martin Tell at January 08, 2026 08:33 AM


And where's the COEXIST bumper sticker?

Posted by: Mildly disappointed at January 08, 2026 08:38 AM (2Ez/1)

211 And where's the COEXIST bumper sticker?


lol it was probably there the thing was COVERED in bumper stickers!

as one does

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 08, 2026 08:39 AM (emBoF)

212 Why was the dead perp driving a Honda? I thought Lesbos were required to drive Subarus.
Posted by: Martin Tell at January 08, 2026 08:33 AM (sFNX2)

That is how fucked up the rug munchers are. Couldn't even get that part right. Too bad the other lip licker was not there to get ventilated too.

Good riddance to human garbage.

Posted by: Waste Management at January 08, 2026 08:39 AM (GlDYx)

213 If the surviving lesbo didn't legally adopt the child, sh's no different legally than the hobo in the train yard.
Posted by: rickb223

Calling someone a hobo on AoS HQ, home of legendary hobo-hunter Ace?!?!?!? It's not even a dog whistle anymore!!!!

Posted by: Rabid deranged Lefty activist at January 08, 2026 08:39 AM (ycI94)

214 "What I found interesting is how nice those guys were."

Frank Zappa says ... Mudshark!

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 08, 2026 08:39 AM (dtajH)

215 Supposedly Putin has given them an invitation to Moscow (nice little dacha just down the street from Assad?) and some Russian cargo planes are standing by to take them there when the time comes. The mullahs have to be thinking about Maduro and the danger of not getting out of town when the getting is still good.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2026 08:37 AM (ukUWv)

So once the military declares against them, impose a no-fly zone. Any plane entering or attempting to leave Iranian airspace gets shot down. I'm sure we could help them.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 08, 2026 08:40 AM (uQesX)

216 It is said that if you shoot at the king, you best not miss because of the the consequences. Trump is our last chance to defeat the totalitarians.

Posted by: davidt at January 08, 2026 08:40 AM (Q+gd/)

217 Yes! This is the modern masculinity we crave. This is the modern masculinity we need! Gov. Walz, Mr. Emhoff, and Mr. Hogg are our role models, just like Dark Brandon was!
-----------------
All of this was prophesied by Dark Shadows and Barnaby Collins. Not surprisingly, they both sucked.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 08, 2026 08:40 AM (pLaQB)

218 I'm going to guess...they both work for the Danish government either directly or through an NGO administering some sort of aide to the locals that never seems to actually get to the locales...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 08:37 AM (sKqQm)

The locals? They're like children. Much better than we spend the money on their behalf for important things... like that new Louis Vuitton handbag I've had my eye on. -- NGO wimmins

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 08:40 AM (ExV1e)

219 "Now she's married to a woman."

Posted by: redridinghood at January 08, 2026 08:38 AM



Not anymore.

Posted by: She's dead Jim at January 08, 2026 08:40 AM (2Ez/1)

220 no different legally than the hobo in the train yard.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 08:32 AM

* makes jerky motion *

Posted by: Ewokian Consul in Newark, N.J. at January 08, 2026 08:41 AM (0sNs1)

221
More on the Insurrection act and it's activation.
https://ekolovesyou.com/p/the-insurrection-proclamation

Posted by: Kurtz at January 08, 2026 08:41 AM (GPXDT)

222 One interesting headline on ewetub:


Southern New England responds to ICE agents fatally shooting U.S. citizen in Minneapolis
NBC 10 WJAR


Me: so if she had been a migrant, would everything have been aces?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 08, 2026 08:41 AM (bss/y)

223 No one can say for sure, but it is possible that the Iranian government falls today.

Wish we could say the same about the Minnesomalian "government".

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 08, 2026 08:41 AM (pUU4E)

224 Plus, Southern New England? Is that like Pennsylvania?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 08, 2026 08:41 AM (bss/y)

225 https://is.gd/1pwp6C

Broken link

Works for me in Brave

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 08, 2026 08:42 AM (fElA8)

226 Someone should create a sitcom about all the deposed dictators living together in a suburban Moscow neighborhood, and all the shenanigans they get up to.

This week, Khamenei doesn't return Assad's weed-whacker, so he yanks all his teeth out.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 08:42 AM (06Hmj)

227 214 "What I found interesting is how nice those guys were."

Frank Zappa says ... Mudshark!
---------------
Zappa was a hardcore reactionist. I like his music but not so much the man that was Zappa. In a lot of ways he was another Rob Reiner.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 08, 2026 08:42 AM (pLaQB)

228 Posted by: Dead Lesbian Poets Society at January 08, 2026 08:34 AM (Y1sOo)

Is this what the woman wrote or you're standing for her?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 08:42 AM (ZeH0U)

229 Ken Jennings says he'll vote for anyone who'll prosecute the Trump administration.
Just host Jeopardy dude

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 08, 2026 08:42 AM (ScJGb)

230 Frank Zappa says ... Mudshark!
Posted by: Ignoramus at January 08, 2026 08:39 AM

The Mudshark Arpeggio is a very nice little arpeggio.

Posted by: zombie Frank Zappa at January 08, 2026 08:42 AM (0sNs1)

231 We have have entered the Dark Walz era, where he isn’t afraid and pussyfooting around due to the upcoming election. He is just (rightfully) seething pissed.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 08, 2026 07:54 AM (ycI94)

I think there is a picture of Walz beside the def of pussyfooting.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 08, 2026 08:43 AM (gbOdA)

232 All of this was prophesied by Dark Shadows and Barnaby Collins. Not surprisingly, they both sucked.
Posted by: Pudinhead


Instant flashback to 1969.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 08:43 AM (6mogZ)

233 Well, she was once married to this guy's brother and had a 6 yr old child with him. Now she's married to a woman.
So yeah, I can see where she's not exactly a family favorite.

The internet says this woman was 37 - so while the common pattern of "married to a man until menopause, then becomes a 100% born this way lesbian" isn't in play.

I'm going to guess she was just a leftwing political freak and switching which team she played for was likely an explicitly political thing...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 08:43 AM (sKqQm)

234 Tornado sirens in central Oklahoma? In January? In the morning? See, I love everything about Oklahoma except the weather that is always trying to kill me.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 08, 2026 08:44 AM (cxFcK)

235 Ken Jennings says he'll vote for anyone who'll prosecute the Trump administration.
Just host Jeopardy dude
Posted by: Smell the Glove


I thought that nut licker was supposed to be smart.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 08:44 AM (6mogZ)

236 233 Well, she was once married to this guy's brother and had a 6 yr old child with him. Now she's married to a woman.
So yeah, I can see where she's not exactly a family favorite.

The internet says this woman was 37 - so while the common pattern of "married to a man until menopause, then becomes a 100% born this way lesbian" isn't in play.

I'm going to guess she was just a leftwing political freak and switching which team she played for was likely an explicitly political thing...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 08:43 AM (sKqQm)

Switched probably b/c of depression/mental illness...I mean, do we know how former spouse died so young?

Posted by: Nova Local at January 08, 2026 08:44 AM (tOcjL)

237 https://is.gd/1pwp6C

Broken link

Works for me in Brave
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 08, 2026 08:42 AM (fElA

It goes to an AI video of Apocalypse Now with Star Trek characters, however, and not anything to do with Japanese cats.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 08:45 AM (ExV1e)

238 why so many gays in power, and on the left?

any thoughts?

it's weird

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 08, 2026 08:45 AM (emBoF)

239 Why was the dead perp driving a Honda? I thought Lesbos were required to drive Subarus.

Someone reported that the Honda had Missouri plates on it. Which would be interesting if true since the "couple" allegedly are from Colorado in Minnisomalia as mercenaries for Teh Cause™

It would be interesting to know who owns that car's title.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 08, 2026 08:45 AM (kHd4y)

240 Switched probably b/c of depression/mental illness...I mean, do we know how former spouse died so young?


that's my thought. and btw aggressive lesbians exist and definitely recruit, and they like to recruit soft-minded mild hetero females the most

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 08, 2026 08:46 AM (emBoF)

241 It would be interesting to know who owns that car's title.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 08, 2026 08:45 AM (kHd4y)

Company car for some daycare center in St. Louis.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 08:46 AM (06Hmj)

242 I thought that nut licker was supposed to be smart.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 08:44 AM (6mogZ)

Being able to memorize a bunch of factoids fools a lot of people.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 08:46 AM (ExV1e)

243 Watched a retrospective on Led Zeppelin last night. Damn, those guys were GREAT! What I found interesting is how nice those guys were.
Posted by: Pudinhead
__________

Lori Mattix?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 08, 2026 08:46 AM (XvL8K)

244 Company car for some daycare center in St. Louis.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 08:46 AM (06Hmj)

(That was a joke. Don't go trying to look it up.)

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 08:46 AM (06Hmj)

245 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 08:42 AM (ZeH0U)

Meant "standing in for her"?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 08:47 AM (8Xy/A)

246 why so many gays in power, and on the left?

any thoughts?

it's weird


1) Because they'll hire other gay people to "date" on the job.

2) Because leftists only hire leftists for government jobs, and most homosexuals are leftist

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 08:47 AM (sKqQm)

247 Someone should create a sitcom about all the deposed dictators living together in a suburban Moscow neighborhood, and all the shenanigans they get up to.

This week, Khamenei doesn't return Assad's weed-whacker, so he yanks all his teeth out.
Posted by: Warai-otoko



Little Dachas on the Prarie
Assad's Mountain
The Mullahs of Russia
The Real Housewives of Moscow

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 08:47 AM (6mogZ)

248 Interestingly, 3 kids per CNN, but 2 different dads (doesn't seem she married the veteran, aka 3rd kid dad who died, b/c they only mention 1st marriage...but not sure she has custody of 1st 2)...

Mental illness seems even more likely...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 08, 2026 08:47 AM (tOcjL)

249 Ken Jennings has always been an asshole.

He was onboard with firing one of the other hosts because she was Jewish.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 08:47 AM (sKqQm)

250 Dems 2028
Prosecute Trump
Tear down Ballroom
10 million more illegals
Fraud Fraud and More Fraud
Taxes
Restoration of Cuba and Venezuela Socialist

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 08, 2026 08:47 AM (gbOdA)

251 Goldie Ghamari announcing police defections on YouTube.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 08:48 AM (6mogZ)

252 I mean, do we know how former spouse died so young?
Posted by: Nova Local

Maybe he wanted to after years of dealing with her.

I'll show myself out.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 08, 2026 08:48 AM (jjoN6)

253 Dems 2028
Prosecute Trump
Tear down Ballroom
10 million more illegals
Fraud Fraud and More Fraud
Taxes
Restoration of Cuba and Venezuela Socialist

Restore federal funding for sexually mutilating children

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 08:48 AM (sKqQm)

254 Someone should create a sitcom about all the deposed dictators living together in a suburban Moscow neighborhood, and all the shenanigans they get up to.

This week, Khamenei doesn't return Assad's weed-whacker, so he yanks all his teeth out.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

My Blue Heaven.

Posted by: davidt at January 08, 2026 08:48 AM (Q+gd/)

255 Walz is a seriously damaged individual, and now a cornered one. I imagine Trump will stay cool and not invoke the Insurrection Act yet. Good to see that no one on our side is yielding an inch in the narrative battle over the shooting.
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That linked article, the last excerpt ....
Ok, that is very, very, very interesting.
Not just that Trump has carefully laid a trap for the left.
But also, the suggestion that all of the fed, state and local (including the federal judges) "resistance" is in service to cartel cash.

If they riot today, impede a single ICE raid, the trap is fully closed.
Trump will have every basis to invoke the Insurrection Act, every predicate satisfied.
And legal review by the federal courts is barred.
(Not that a clown judge won't issue an illegal injunction, that's inevitable.)

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 08, 2026 08:48 AM (HXT0k)

256 Goldie Ghamari announcing police defections on YouTube.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 08:48 AM (6mogZ)

Once the bodyguards defect....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 08, 2026 08:49 AM (uQesX)

257 I re-emsmallened the link and tested in two browsers. Try now.

https://is.gd/HCpeSX

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 08, 2026 08:49 AM (fElA8)

258 "Lori Mattix?"

Isn't she the 13-year old (looked 12) that Jimmy Page "kidnapped"?

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 08, 2026 08:49 AM (dtajH)

259 NYC Subways tried using cats as station masters, but Pizza Rat ate them.

Posted by: Take The A Train at January 08, 2026 08:49 AM (oftw2)

260
Let's not start fellating each other just yet over Iran, but's its hard not to get excited and hope.

Shah Jr put out a statement to the military telling them now is the time to make their choice. Either stand with the people and be heroes and welcome in the new order, or stand with the mullahs and seal their fate.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 08, 2026 08:49 AM (w6EFb)

261 208 We have have entered the Dark Walz era, where he isn’t afraid and pussyfooting around due to the upcoming election. He is just (rightfully) seething pissed.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 08, 2026 07:54 AM

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He knows he's a target of the DOJ investigation. He sees his underlings testifying to Congress that he's in on the fraud, knowingly advancing it for years.

To save his ass personally, he's going to try and throw the country in the Second Civil War.

He's exactly what we all thought he would be.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 08:49 AM (GBKbO)

262 I'll show myself out.
Posted by: NR Pax at January 08, 2026 08:48 AM (jjoN6)

Why? I was thinking the same thing.

Posted by: Sure, it's wrong but.... at January 08, 2026 08:49 AM (uQesX)

263
Frey?

Frey?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at January 08, 2026 08:50 AM (xG4kz)

264 On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs
by Renée Nicole Macklin (Good)

https://tinyurl.com/yeywsza9

We weep.

Posted by: Dead Lesbian Poets Society at January 08, 2026 08:51 AM (Y1sOo)

265
Sec. 334 of the IA:

Whenever the President considers it necessary to use the militia or the armed forces under this chapter, he shall, by proclamation, immediately order the insurgents or those obstructing the enforcement of the laws to disperse and retire peaceably to their abodes within a limited time.

I want to hear Trump give that order.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 08, 2026 08:51 AM (w6EFb)

266 To save his ass personally, he's going to try and throw the country in the Second Civil War.


If Trump plays this smart he can really, really damage the left by letting Walz go down this track.

As a former VP candidate and a big name for the dems they aren't going to be able to distance themselves from Walz...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 08:51 AM (sKqQm)

267 Why? I was thinking the same thing.
Posted by: Sure, it's wrong but....

Just my sense of humor. I know most folks are not appalled by my posts.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 08, 2026 08:51 AM (jjoN6)

268 "I imagine Trump will stay cool and not invoke the Insurrection Act yet"

@176 Trump has laid the groundwork to cut off funding to MN as a next step.

Then it's Timmy's move. He'll choose poorly

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 08, 2026 08:52 AM (dtajH)

269 Anyone still watching Jeopardy after the firing of Art Fleming is a Communist. Trebek was a Canuck and we all know what Jennings is.

Posted by: Bill Cullen at January 08, 2026 08:52 AM (oftw2)

270 Stent Hoyer is a fucking dinosaur and as dry as a popcorn fart. Good riddance, jackoff. Enjoy your millions you stole from the taxpayers in the next two years you have left to live.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 08, 2026 08:53 AM (1HW+a)

271 266 If Trump plays this smart he can really, really damage the left by letting Walz go down this track.

As a former VP candidate and a big name for the dems they aren't going to be able to distance themselves from Walz...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 08:51 AM (sKqQm)

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Walz seemed to be dancing back and forth from "we're at war" to "please calm down" last night.

Dude has no idea what's going on now, and him even talking about calling up the National Guard in response to ICE's presence is probably making Roberts in DC shudder.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 08:53 AM (GBKbO)

272 There’s no reason America can’t have good schools.

We do, its Home Schooling and Private School.

Government schools is an abomination to God and Man. For a nation to say "Separation of Church and State" and "God has no place in our education" that should be your first clue that this is a complete surrender to those who oppose Godly instruction.

Failure is not an option, it is a primary feature.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 08, 2026 08:53 AM (WCaCG)

273
Dems 2028
Prosecute Trump
Tear down Ballroom
10 million more illegals
Fraud Fraud and More Fraud
Taxes
Restoration of Cuba and Venezuela Socialist

Going full Pali, especially with the "tear down ballroom" gambit?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at January 08, 2026 08:53 AM (xG4kz)

274 268 "I imagine Trump will stay cool and not invoke the Insurrection Act yet"

@176 Trump has laid the groundwork to cut off funding to MN as a next step.

Then it's Timmy's move. He'll choose poorly

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 08, 2026 08:52 AM (dtajH)

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Oz announced yesterday morning that they were cutting off a bunch of federal welfare funds.

There have been reports of some genuine autism centers being shut down because of the sudden cut in funds.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 08:53 AM (GBKbO)

275 1) Because they'll hire other gay people to "date" on the job.
2) Because leftists only hire leftists for government jobs, and most homosexuals are leftist
Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 08:47 AM (sKqQm)

Correct. Never Hire The Gay.

Posted by: Pray The Gay Away at January 08, 2026 08:53 AM (GlDYx)

276
Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
Hilton sign being removed from the hotel which canceled ICE agents’ reservations then lied about it.

Incredible case of FAFO

https://tinyurl.com/2s3rmkfj

Posted by: redridinghood at January 08, 2026 08:54 AM (NpAcC)

277 and all the shenanigans they get up to.
———-

Hijinks. Zany Hijinks. I think it’s in the AOS Styleguide.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 08, 2026 08:54 AM (J+7DF)

278 Dude has no idea what's going on now, and him even talking about calling up the National Guard in response to ICE's presence is probably making Roberts in DC shudder./i]

I wonder if he is trying to negotiate an exist where his kids get to keep what he stole for them and he doesn't go to jail in return for going peacefully...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 08:54 AM (sKqQm)

279 What I found interesting is how nice those guys were.
Posted by: Pudinhead

I thought they were Satanists or occultists. I'm probably thinking of someone else.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 08, 2026 08:54 AM (cxFcK)

280 273
Dems 2028
Prosecute Trump
Tear down Ballroom
10 million more illegals
Fraud Fraud and More Fraud
Taxes
Restoration of Cuba and Venezuela Socialist

Going full Pali, especially with the "tear down ballroom" gambit?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at January 08, 2026 08:53 AM (xG4kz)

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Dem 2028 is going to be "Black Girl Magic will make Trump's policies disappear."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 08:54 AM (GBKbO)

281 I was a wee lad when Carter handed over Iran to the Islamists, but I have a fuzzy memory of one of those Saturday morning newsbreaks they used to do, and some CBS reporter telling me the Ayatollah was popular and believed by his people.

Even then the media were the enemy.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 08, 2026 08:54 AM (fElA8)

282 NYC Subways tried using cats as station masters, but Pizza Rat ate them.
Posted by: Take The A Train at January 08, 2026 08:49 AM (oftw2)
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Biggest subway rat I ever saw was in Philadelphia not New York. Bigger than a cat.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 08, 2026 08:55 AM (RIvkX)

283
Well, hell, NASA has declared a "medical emergency" aboard the ISS. Apparently an astronaut is having some medical problem. They are considering an evacuation. That is, the current NASA crew would come home early on Dragon.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 08, 2026 08:55 AM (w6EFb)

284 Frey on Futurama. >. Mayor Frey

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 08, 2026 08:55 AM (ScJGb)

285
So you're a lesbo.
And you're standing near an intersection in Minneapolis on a Wednesday morning at 9:30 in 25 degree weather directing your lesbo partner where to drive her Honda Pilot in order to disrupt federal agents from doing their job.
And you watch in horror as she panics, drives erratically and is shot and killed right in front of you.

It's time to reconsider all of the life choices that brought you to this moment.

Posted by: Did I leave anything out? at January 08, 2026 08:55 AM (2Ez/1)

286 278
I wonder if he is trying to negotiate an exist where his kids get to keep what he stole for them and he doesn't go to jail in return for going peacefully...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 08:54 AM (sKqQm)

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I would honestly be surprised if Walz personally got a cut of the lucre. Sure, there were the donations to his campaign, but he seems to be rather poor himself.

He seems to just be a true believer who wanted to "do good" by facilitating massive fraud for people who showed up in our country 3 days ago.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 08:56 AM (GBKbO)

287
Insurrection Sergeant Major Timmuh Walz to you!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at January 08, 2026 08:56 AM (xG4kz)

288 I'm not the only one that pointed it out but, the same people who prosecuted Kyle Rittenhouse for murder are the same people who are shouting that woman was murdered by ICE.

And they are, both times, legally, factually and morally wrong.

But all of the LOLs as you see the impotent rage of the Red Karen spamming Facebook feeds and comment sections.
Don your parka madam, and hie ye to the Land of Lakes!

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 08, 2026 08:56 AM (HXT0k)

289 285 It's time to reconsider all of the life choices that brought you to this moment.

Posted by: Did I leave anything out? at January 08, 2026 08:55 AM (2Ez/1)

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By strapping a bomb to her chest and throwing herself into a Christian daycare, probably.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 08:56 AM (GBKbO)

290 The Shah, Jr (Reza Pahlavi) has called for everyone in Iran to simultaneously chant the same slogan at 8PM local time today

SHLEMIEL! SHLAMAZLE! HOTZENFEFFER INCORPORATED!

Posted by: Delurker at January 08, 2026 08:57 AM (gtcuf)

291 Biggest subway rat I ever saw was in Philadelphia not New York. Bigger than a cat.


speaking of poetry, and friend of mine wrote4 a poem about the rats by 30th Street Station:

Rats in the grass,

Rats in the grass ...

actually I forget the rest lol. she used to chant it when we walked from CC to the station over the bridge. the grassy areas on the side of the bridge were FULL of massive, cat-sized rats!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 08, 2026 08:58 AM (emBoF)

292 So you're a lesbo
-------------------------

Frank Sinatra's first words when he met Joan Crawford

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 08, 2026 08:58 AM (fElA8)

293
This is just like being in the shit in Tiananmen Square, right Insurrection Sergeant Major?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at January 08, 2026 08:58 AM (xG4kz)

294 There have been reports of some genuine autism centers being shut down because of the sudden cut in funds.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 08:53 AM (GBKbO)
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Mrs. F. is convinced a lot of the broken promises California has made to its disabled population is directly caused by this massive fraud and my own professional experience in the system confirms. There are literally tens of thousands of state employees and state-funded ngos with thousands of employees who have been getting paid the last 5 years without ever showing up for work.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 08, 2026 08:58 AM (RIvkX)

295 I'm not the only one that pointed it out but, the same people who prosecuted Kyle Rittenhouse for murder are the same people who are shouting that woman was murdered by ICE.
-----------------------------

Well, she did cross state lines.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 08, 2026 08:59 AM (fElA8)

296 I said yesterday that MN likely going to be the litmus test for the Insurrection Act. Walz and his buddies Frey and Ellison are going to cross the line this week. As if they haven't already.

When the other states that are in insurrection see this, they'll either double down, or quit with this horseshit

I'm betting they double down.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 08, 2026 08:59 AM (NwnyJ)

297 Frey: "They are already trying to spin this as an action of self-defense. Having seen the video myself, I can tell everybody directly, that is bullshit."

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 08, 2026 08:59 AM (gbOdA)

298 Trump has laid the groundwork to cut off funding to MN as a next step.

The Demonic Party has heavily relied on lies, fraud and violence against a peaceful and order-seeking population to get their way.

Their ability to use emotions rather than intellect to accomplish so much that their reasoning skills have atrophied (also the Romans Road to Reprobation doctrine)

Trump has been successful in the toughest real-estate market on earth, working with corrupt governments, unions and unscrupulous competitors, lawyers and banksters.

Calculating successful strategeries against Governor Retard is something DJT can do between wipes of his bottom.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 08, 2026 08:59 AM (PVBkQ)

299 Posted by: Dead Lesbian Poets Society at January 08, 2026 08:51 AM (Y1sOo)

Gosh, that is some awful poetry. A very angry woman.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 08:59 AM (8Xy/A)

300 I wish liberal women would seek professional treatment rather than get killed protesting. Same applies to liberal politicians and reporters that fan the flames of activism.
--
As Ace put it yesterday, they have a thousand snakes writhing in their brains.

Insanity is a baseline.
Derangement is improvement.
Delusion is aspirational.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 08, 2026 09:00 AM (HXT0k)

301 294 Mrs. F. is convinced a lot of the broken promises California has made to its disabled population is directly caused by this massive fraud and my own professional experience in the system confirms. There are literally tens of thousands of state employees and state-funded ngos with thousands of employees who have been getting paid the last 5 years without ever showing up for work.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 08, 2026 08:58 AM (RIvkX)

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And the left is...not mad about this.

The people who are supposed to be getting helped by these programs are not being helped.

And if you point out that the programs and the money is just wildly inefficient and not getting anything done, despite massive, massive increases in amounts over the last few years, the only solution is more money.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 09:00 AM (GBKbO)

302 Waltz is cultivating suicide with his crew.

I bet he war games during fake love.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 08, 2026 09:01 AM (EyfuW)

303
Frey: "They are already trying to spin this as an action of self-defense. Having seen the video myself, I can tell everybody directly, that is bullshit."

Posted by: r hennigantx

Then he went off and had himself a good, long cry.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at January 08, 2026 09:01 AM (xG4kz)

304 Dems 2028

Dan Goldman dumps gas on the fire: “It was an outright m*rder."

“This officer...needs to be charged with m*rder."

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 08, 2026 09:01 AM (gbOdA)

305 The surviving lesbian could make the death of her lover into a very lucrative grift. I'm thinking she will.
"My dead lesbian leftist pro illegal immigrant empathetic wife was slaughtered by ICE, send donations to...'

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 08, 2026 09:01 AM (ScJGb)

306 I'm betting they double down.

They need to drag this out a few more months into the Mass Riots in The Streets weather.

Gives the administration time to find the criminals underwriting this insurrection and remove them from the game board.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 08, 2026 09:01 AM (PVBkQ)

307 Dwight Frye>>>Mayor Frey

Posted by: Millions Of Rats... at January 08, 2026 09:02 AM (oftw2)

308 296 I said yesterday that MN likely going to be the litmus test for the Insurrection Act. Walz and his buddies Frey and Ellison are going to cross the line this week. As if they haven't already.

When the other states that are in insurrection see this, they'll either double down, or quit with this horseshit

I'm betting they double down.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 08, 2026 08:59 AM (NwnyJ)

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Without Lincoln's call for 70,000 troops to march on South Carolina, South Carolina would have probably remained alone in its rebellion against the federal government.

With a standing army today, there's no need to call new troops. You just send in the existing army to put down the 8,000 national guard troops Walz commands (who probably won't follow his orders), and you make an example of the civilian government that led the call.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 09:02 AM (GBKbO)

309 The feeling I get in California in 2026 is much the same I had in Moscow in 1984. Everything is fake.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 08, 2026 09:02 AM (RIvkX)

310 299 Gosh, that is some awful poetry. A very angry woman.

"maybe there in-between my pancreas & large intestine is the piddly brook of my soul"

I'm dyin' over here! The piddly brook of me soul!

Posted by: Delurker at January 08, 2026 09:02 AM (gtcuf)

311 234 Tornado sirens in central Oklahoma? In January? In the morning? See, I love everything about Oklahoma except the weather that is always trying to kill me.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 08, 2026 08:44 AM (cxFcK)

It is abnormally warm in the south central US. Has been the past 2-3months.

The OK City tornado possibility is due to a classic collision of a cold front moving south with an area of warm, moist Gulf air.

The high was 80 in my AO in Houston yesterday and is predicted the same today. No freeze so far in my AO, that's unusual by the second week in January.

Posted by: Gref at January 08, 2026 09:02 AM (5rh/l)

312 "My dead lesbian leftist pro illegal immigrant empathetic wife was slaughtered by ICE, send donations to...'

More to her so she can buy more and better grade of box wine means less for the politicians who are behind all of this criminality.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 08, 2026 09:03 AM (PVBkQ)

313 There are literally tens of thousands of state employees and state-funded ngos with thousands of employees who have been getting paid the last 5 years without ever showing up for work.

The point of government is to pay those people. It is not to aid disabled people.

And you can see that in practice because as you note those people keep getting paid even when there is no impact on the problem they are supposedly trying to solve...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 09:03 AM (sKqQm)

314 312 "My dead lesbian leftist pro illegal immigrant empathetic wife was slaughtered by ICE, send donations to...'

More to her so she can buy more and better grade of box wine means less for the politicians who are behind all of this criminality.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 08, 2026 09:03 AM (PVBkQ)

She has started a go fund me, mentioning the youngest kid...again, I think 1st 2 of the dead lady (15 and 12) have been with 1st dad...this is just the 3rd...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 08, 2026 09:04 AM (tOcjL)

315 78 Self defense attorney Andrew Branca analyze the shooting for the required elements of self defense. He says it is justified.

https://tinyurl.com/yc33wcdf
Posted by: JM in Illinois

He doesn't address the fact that the second and third shot were through the side window. Or that the wheels had turned before the first shot was fired. He makes a small concession to potential prosecution arguments right at the end, but overall no real attempt to steelman his argument.

The problem for our side is this is not the "obvious justified killing" everyone is claiming it to be. It may be legally justifiable in front of 7/10 juries, but that's not what is going to win the day in the court of public opinion.

Someone died. She wasn't innocent. But dancing on her grave is not helping either.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 08, 2026 09:05 AM (1Nv0l)

316 There once was a Lesbo from Missouri
Who drove up north in a furry
She blocked ICE on a street
In her quest to defeat
but wound up dead in a hurry

Posted by: Dead Lesbian Poets Society at January 08, 2026 09:05 AM (Y1sOo)

317 The end result of all this progressive social engineering is that we have a significant population of outrage junkies.

The fact that there has to be a new "big story" everyday should tip you off.

Posted by: pawn at January 08, 2026 09:06 AM (Rmqfl)

318 "The point of government is to pay those people. It is not to aid disabled people."

So I read that in Canada, disabled people are becoming afraid to contact The Healthcare System with symptoms, because they will be presented with the suggestion that they Opt Out... if you know what I mean.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at January 08, 2026 09:06 AM (DgMqy)

319
NASA isn't saying what the medical problem is, but a lot are speculating. Appendicitis is one possibility. Blood clot is another possibility.

They screen and test for just about everything that could be a problem in zero-g, but those two are something that can happen.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 08, 2026 09:07 AM (w6EFb)

320 317 The end result of all this progressive social engineering is that we have a significant population of outrage junkies.

The fact that there has to be a new "big story" everyday should tip you off.


it distracts them from their miserable, lonely lives

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 08, 2026 09:07 AM (emBoF)

321 Good morning JJ, Horde

Posted by: callsign claymore at January 08, 2026 09:07 AM (AIHT7)

322 93% of lesbo couples are giving the rest of us a bad reputation.

Posted by: The other seven percent at January 08, 2026 09:07 AM (2Ez/1)

323 I said yesterday that MN likely going to be the litmus test for the Insurrection Act. Walz and his buddies Frey and Ellison are going to cross the line this week. As if they haven't already.

When the other states that are in insurrection see this, they'll either double down, or quit with this horseshit

I'm betting they double down.
Posted by: Martini Farmer


101st Airborne to Minnesota. 82nd Airborne to Oregon. 1st Cav to Califueza.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 09:08 AM (6mogZ)

324 " In a lot of ways he was another Rob Reiner.
Posted by: Pudinhead"

Except his kids liked him.

Posted by: fd at January 08, 2026 09:08 AM (vFG9F)

325
The Shah we cut the legs out from under was no worse and likely a great deal better than the common run of thugs that part of the world specializes in. Instead, we pushed him out so that a crew of Islamic fanatics could take over.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 09:08 AM (tgvbd)

326 Oh, I would say 2020 was when this should have happened. That was the year the Party:

1.) Released the illegal bio weapon they produced in cahoots with our Chinese enemies and sparked a global pandemic

2.) Fomented race riots in most major cities

3.) Stole an election and carried out a coup

By mid-November of that year, I think Trump would have been wholly justified in saying "this is an illegitimate rogue state, and it's a clear and present danger both to the American people and global stability. I am putting it down by main force and proscribing both major Parties. No current or former officeholder may run in the new elections we're holding a year from now."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 08, 2026 09:08 AM (BI5O2)

327 I munch clam
That's who I am
Why munch clam?
Because I don't like the taste of spam

Lesbian Poetess Competition Rainbow Prize winner

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 08, 2026 09:08 AM (ScJGb)

328 But dancing on her grave is not helping either.

They hired the band, it would be disrespectful to not appreciate their work.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 09:09 AM (ExV1e)

329 Mohammed Used Food Stamps to Buy $180,000 in Food to Resell at His Deli

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And there are 180,000 Mohammeds each in Minnesomalia, Pennsylvanistan, Califzuela, Maineistan, and New Zimbabwe City.

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 09:10 AM (IpnJw)

330 (I'm so awesome, so so awesome)

Came across an Antifa punk online advising the public that ICE agents are only body armored from the waist up.

screenshotted and reported thru ICE tip line

(I feel awesome, so so awesome)

Posted by: Fen at January 08, 2026 09:10 AM (ciYHQ)

331 NASA isn't saying what the medical problem is, but a lot are speculating. Appendicitis is one possibility. Blood clot is another possibility.

They screen and test for just about everything that could be a problem in zero-g, but those two are something that can happen.
Posted by: publius


Can't have appendicitis if you don't have an appendix.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 09:10 AM (6mogZ)

332 There once was a Lesbo from Missouri
Who drove up north in a furry
She blocked ICE on a street
In her quest to defeat
but wound up dead in a hurry
Posted by: Dead Lesbian Poets Society at January 08, 2026 09:05 AM


LOL!

Posted by: That's gold, Jerry! Gold! at January 08, 2026 09:10 AM (2Ez/1)

333
330 (I'm so awesome, so so awesome)

Came across an Antifa punk online advising the public that ICE agents are only body armored from the waist up.

screenshotted and reported thru ICE tip line

(I feel awesome, so so awesome)

Posted by: Fen at January 08, 2026 09:10 AM (ciYHQ)

=====

"Just shoot the legs!"
-ironclad firearm engagement advice

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 09:10 AM (GBKbO)

334
There once was a Lesbo from Missouri
Who drove up north in a fury
"When I said to you, 'Show me'.
"I didn't me blow me
"Away."

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at January 08, 2026 09:11 AM (xG4kz)

335 What did I see? A lady who FA and FO…. Impeding law enforcement, ignoring their orders, then speeding away (right in the direction of an officer no less!) is insanely stupid at best. FAFO
---
She played the Death Card.
She put that on the table, when she refused to shut off and exit the vehicle as ordered.
The clunk of the transmission into "drive" was when she slapped that Death Card on the table.

She chose to risk the death of the officers.
But she also chose to risk her own death.

All other analysis is irrelevant:
When you refuse to comply with the order of an officer of the law--even an unlawful one*--you are playing the Death Card.
Every law, every single law, is, when pushed far enough, subject to enforcement by death.
Refuse to stop for the sirens and lights when you run a stop sign? That cop can choose to shoot you dead.

*there is no right under law to resist what you think is an unlawful arrest. There just isn't.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 08, 2026 09:11 AM (HXT0k)

336 I’m now really rooting for Trump to send the 101st to Greenland and plant the flag. What’s anyone gonna do about it? Bring some Danish pastries along

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 08, 2026 09:11 AM (/iXAp)

337 It would be very interesting to see a copy of the warning order Tampon Tim issued to Minnesota National Guard. What's the Situation? Mission?

Posted by: callsign claymore at January 08, 2026 09:11 AM (AIHT7)

338 yum yum shit
yummy shit pebbles
in my mouth

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at January 08, 2026 09:11 AM (yMxXU)

339 Can't have appendicitis if you don't have an appendix.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 09:10 AM (6mogZ)

What if one of your kidneys identifies as an appendix?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 09:11 AM (ExV1e)

340 Mollie
@MZHemingway

My tolerance for left-wing lawlessness ended in 2020 during their BLM riots and now I'm just so done with it I can't possibly express how done with it I am. The country can't survive the left's support for lawlessness. It is destroying us.

Everyone who is illegally impeding law enforcement engaged in lawful operations should be arrested ASAP. The groups that are coordinating and inciting these attacks and interferences with federal law enforcement should also be charged with any violations of the law.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 08, 2026 09:11 AM (NpAcC)

341 He doesn't address the fact that the second and third shot were through the side window.

Why does this matter? At all?

As soon as you attempt to murder a police officer they are going to fire on you until you surrender or you are down.

That this didn't lead to every agent there doing a mag dumb into the insurrectionist is a testimony to their restraint and good training.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 09:12 AM (sKqQm)

342 https://is.gd/1pwp6C

Broken link

Works for me in Brave
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 08, 2026
*
It goes to an AI video of Apocalypse Now with Star Trek characters, however, and not anything to do with Japanese cats.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026

***
That's brilliant stuff.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 08, 2026 09:12 AM (wzUl9)

343 341 As soon as you attempt to murder a police officer they are going to fire on you until you surrender or you are down.

That this didn't lead to every agent there doing a mag dumb into the insurrectionist is a testimony to their restraint and good training.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 09:12 AM (sKqQm)

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"I stopped trying to kill you a second ago. Why are you still firing?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 09:13 AM (GBKbO)

344 Everyone who is illegally impeding law enforcement engaged in lawful operations should be arrested ASAP. The groups that are coordinating and inciting these attacks and interferences with federal law enforcement should also be charged with any violations of the law.

This

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 09:13 AM (sKqQm)

345 The 8,000 national guardsmen in Minnesota are all ex US army personnel. If they engage in any insurrection type activities, each one of them can be brought before a board under the UCMJ and stripped of all lifetime benefits (at a minimum)

I suspect the threat of that alone will stop any of them from doing anything foolish.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2026 09:13 AM (ukUWv)

346 Every law, every single law, is, when pushed far enough, subject to enforcement by death.

That's a fact. -- Eric Garner

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 09:13 AM (ExV1e)

347
NASA doesn't require appendix removal. It would likely be required for say a Mars trip, or extended lunar stay.

Now, overwintering crew down there at the South Pole do have to have the appendix removed, I think.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 08, 2026 09:13 AM (w6EFb)

348 He doesn't address the fact that the second and third shot were through the side window.


If your first shot goes thru the windshield, and shots two & three goes through the side window, that's proof positive that she was still moving and a threat.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 09:14 AM (6mogZ)

349 My retort is they believed a fleeing car in Charlottesville resulted in a murder so why can’t they believe a fleeing car in MN couldn’t result in great bodily harm or death?

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 08, 2026 09:14 AM (KDPiq)

350 345 The 8,000 national guardsmen in Minnesota are all ex US army personnel. If they engage in any insurrection type activities, each one of them can be brought before a board under the UCMJ and stripped of all lifetime benefits (at a minimum)

I suspect the threat of that alone will stop any of them from doing anything foolish.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2026 09:13 AM (ukUWv)

======

Yeah. Exactly.

Walz trying his hand at an insurrection, at best, leads him to have 8000 troops. And that is not going to happen.

I imagine he'll get a few dozen willing to guard the executive mansion, but not much else.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 09:15 AM (GBKbO)

351 Major global asset manager Blackstone’s stock slid 7.3% during early Wednesday afternoon following Trump’s announcement, MarketScreener reported. Blackstone was notably the largest private-equity apartment owner in the U.S. last year with over 230,000 units, according to a Private Equity Stakeholder Project report released in April 2025.

Posted by: SMOD at January 08, 2026 09:15 AM (RHGPo)

352 Oh, I would say 2020 was when this should have happened. That was the year the Party:
1.) Released the illegal bio weapon they produced in cahoots with our Chinese enemies and sparked a global pandemic
2.) Fomented race riots in most major cities
3.) Stole an election and carried out a coup

By mid-November of that year, I think Trump would have been wholly justified in saying "this is an illegitimate rogue state, and it's a clear and present danger both to the American people and global stability. I am putting it down by main force and proscribing both major Parties. No current or former officeholder may run in the new elections we're holding a year from now."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
---
Yep. I was advocating for Trump to go Full Pinochet in 2020.

[Reprising my comment from yesterday:]

I was consistent and harsh in my criticism of President Trump for not nipping this shit in the bud on Night One in Minneapolis in 2020.

The National Guard should have been sent in with orders to disperse or be shot. He should have invoked the Insurrection Act THEN -- and he needed not now needs no permission from Treasonous Insurrection-y Governors.

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 09:15 AM (IpnJw)

353 When Karen intentionally blocked the road she committed a crime. Now, its one she likely would have gotten no more then a slap on the wrist for if she had just complied with the officer's legal orders

When she put the car into reverse, but still away from the officers - here see increases her crime to the more serious resisting arrested, but still if she stops at this point she's like spending some time in a court house and getting a suspended sentence

But the second she put the car into forward with an officer in front of her she graduated to attempted murder. And everything the ICE agents did was a reasonable response

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 09:16 AM (sKqQm)

354 Good morning!

I hope that when they investigate the ICE shooting, they look into this gal's communications and finances. This was organized action on the first or second day of ICE's activities in Minnesota.

Yes, she was dumb and brainwashed.
Yes, she brought this on herself.
However, she was part of a *team* yesterday, playing her role of blocking ICE while others filmed (and did Lord knows what else). This coordinated activity to block and entrap ICE has been happening for months.

Noem et al, please use this incident to identify ALL of this activity, and to stop it.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 08, 2026 09:16 AM (NuV6c)

355 Initial Jobless Claims Continue To Show No Signs Of Labor Market Stress

...and job cuts plunged in December

Posted by: SMOD at January 08, 2026 09:16 AM (RHGPo)

356 I imagine he'll get a few dozen willing to guard the executive mansion, but not much else.

Until Delta shows up to effect an arrest.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 08, 2026 09:16 AM (nCgQz)

357 But dancing on her grave is not helping either
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This is the point where the troll is asked for examples and cannot cute any.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 08, 2026 09:17 AM (p64nT)

358 Sugar Walz

(Sheena Easton song reference)

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 08, 2026 09:17 AM (Dv3i1)

359 Now, overwintering crew down there at the South Pole do have to have the appendix removed, I think.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 08, 2026 09:13 AM (w6EFb)

I immediately thought of Kurt Russell and John Carpenter’s The Thing

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 08, 2026 09:17 AM (/iXAp)

360 Two men allegedly attacked and stabbed a Kentucky Fried Chicken worker multiple times in Nevada during a dispute over gravy, according to reports. James Carter, 48, and Gerald Carter, 32, were arrested and booked on attempted murder charges for the assault that broke out on Dec. 27 at a Las Vegas KFC.

Posted by: SMOD at January 08, 2026 09:17 AM (RHGPo)

361 Walz trying his hand at an insurrection, at best, leads him to have 8000 troops. And that is not going to happen.

I imagine he'll get a few dozen willing to guard the executive mansion, but not much else.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 09:15 AM (GBKbO)

What about following illegal orders? I seem to recall a group of elected officials decrying illegal orders and how it's OK for military to ignore them. Et tu Mark Kelly?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 08, 2026 09:18 AM (N39Ws)

362 That's brilliant stuff.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 08, 2026 09:12 AM (wzUl9)
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It is.
Uptwinkles.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 08, 2026 09:18 AM (Q+8fu)

363 > 261 208 We have have entered the Dark Walz era, where he isn’t afraid and pussyfooting around due to the upcoming election.


As I said last night, he's upgrading a normal felony (fraud) to a capital felony (treason).


"Not afraid"? I'd say "desperate and unhinged".

Posted by: The Iranian People at January 08, 2026 09:19 AM (IG3/x)

364 Some high-profile CBS News staffers were aghast last night when Tony Dokoupil's brief mention of the Jan. 6 anniversary was a both-sides mess.

Posted by: SMOD at January 08, 2026 09:19 AM (RHGPo)

365 Frey is asshoe.

Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 09:19 AM (/HZvU)

366 My retort is they believed a fleeing car in Charlottesville resulted in a murder so why can’t they believe a fleeing car in MN couldn’t result in great bodily harm or death?
---------------------------:
The only constant on the left is intellectual dishonesty

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 08, 2026 09:19 AM (p64nT)

367 He doesn't address the fact that the second and third shot were through the side window.


If your first shot goes thru the windshield, and shots two & three goes through the side window, that's proof positive that she was still moving and a threat.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 09:14 AM (6mogZ)

Yes but not a threat to him but the other officers.

I think the shooting was borderline justified but I I understand the mindset established by other similar actions by protestors thus siding with ICE.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 08, 2026 09:19 AM (KDPiq)

368 Instead, we pushed him out so that a crew of Islamic fanatics could take over
——

“We” did no such fucking thing.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 08, 2026 09:19 AM (tXwiM)

369 361 What about following illegal orders? I seem to recall a group of elected officials decrying illegal orders and how it's OK for military to ignore them. Et tu Mark Kelly?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 08, 2026 09:18 AM (N39Ws)

=====

"A governor calling out the national guard to impede federal law enforcement from enforcing federal law is not illegal. Duh. Unless the governor is Republican and the president is Democrat, of course."
-Kelly, who wants to be a Democrat president

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 09:19 AM (GBKbO)

370 I’m now really rooting for Trump to send the 101st to Greenland and plant the flag. What’s anyone gonna do about it? Bring some Danish pastries along
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 08, 2026 09:11 AM (/iXAp)

Yup...the danes are a bunch of lazy homosexuals who are wasting Greenland because they are a bunch of lazy homosexuals.

Posted by: Hagar The Horrible at January 08, 2026 09:19 AM (GlDYx)

371 Two men allegedly attacked and stabbed a Kentucky Fried Chicken worker multiple times in Nevada during a dispute over gravy, according to reports. James Carter, 48, and Gerald Carter, 32, were arrested and booked on attempted murder charges for the assault that broke out on Dec. 27 at a Las Vegas KFC.
Posted by: SMOD at January 08, 2026 09:17 AM (RHGPo)

Normally you expect that kind of thing at Popeye's, not a classy joint like KFC.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 09:19 AM (ExV1e)

372 Every law, every single law, is, when pushed far enough, subject to enforcement by death.
Refuse to stop for the sirens and lights when you run a stop sign? That cop can choose to shoot you dead.

This is false as a matter of law. Tennessee vs Garner (SCOTUS) established precisely the opposite:

"The use of deadly force to prevent the escape of all felony suspects, whatever the circumstances, is constitutionally unreasonable."

It's constitutionally unreasonable under the fourth amendment because it's unlawful seizure of your life. Sounds quaint but it makes sense when you think about it.

The case then goes on to outline when it would be "reasonable" to use deadly force. Needless to say "refus[ing] to stop for the sirens and lights when you run a stop sign" on its own is not one of them. It's very similar to the case that triggered the original SCOTUS decision: felon escaping over a fence.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 08, 2026 09:20 AM (1Nv0l)

373 Philadelphia rats achieve their large size by consuming vast quantities of Cheez-Whiz. Nobody knows what is in that foul stuff.

Posted by: RFK Jr. at January 08, 2026 09:20 AM (oftw2)

374 Slotkin: The Trump administration language is escalatory. Everyone take a damn breath.

Walz: Minnesota is "at war" with the federal government.

Posted by: SMOD at January 08, 2026 09:20 AM (RHGPo)

375 I’m not dancing on her grave
I honestly felt sorry for her.
Until I read her poetry.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2026 09:20 AM (ukUWv)

376 340 Mollie
@MZHemingway

My tolerance for left-wing lawlessness ended in 2020 during their BLM riots and now I'm just so done with it I can't possibly express how done with it I am. The country can't survive the left's support for lawlessness. It is destroying us.

Everyone who is illegally impeding law enforcement engaged in lawful operations should be arrested ASAP. The groups that are coordinating and inciting these attacks and interferences with federal law enforcement should also be charged with any violations of the law.
_____

A lot of foreign money funding this. And, probably, US taxpayer money.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 08, 2026 09:20 AM (Dv3i1)

377 372 This is false as a matter of law. Tennessee vs Garner (SCOTUS) established precisely the opposite:

"The use of deadly force to prevent the escape of all felony suspects, whatever the circumstances, is constitutionally unreasonable."

It's constitutionally unreasonable under the fourth amendment because it's unlawful seizure of your life. Sounds quaint but it makes sense when you think about it.

The case then goes on to outline when it would be "reasonable" to use deadly force. Needless to say "refus[ing] to stop for the sirens and lights when you run a stop sign" on its own is not one of them. It's very similar to the case that triggered the original SCOTUS decision: felon escaping over a fence.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 08, 2026 09:20 AM (1Nv0l)

=====

Yeah, that felon wasn't operating a vehicle which is classified as a potential deadly weapon.

Garner doesn't apply.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 09:21 AM (GBKbO)

378 Kirk and Spock in Vietnam is brilliant!

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2026 09:21 AM (ukUWv)

379 But dancing on her grave is not helping either

This is one of the most frustrating things I see with the right.

We literally just ended the left's celebration of the murder of Ashli Babbitt and Rosalyn Boyd, which of course came after their celebration of the murder of Charlie Kirk and now...this?

The one think I'll give Althouse credit for is she coined the term for what this is...civility bullshit.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 09:21 AM (sKqQm)

380 Rep. Brandon Gill shuts down witness Brendan Ballou with fact after fact after he claimed Somalis are "strengthening" Minnesota.

Gill: "Does large-scale Somali immigration make Minnesota stronger or weaker?"

Ballou: "Certainly stronger."

Gill: "Do you know what percentage of Somali-headed households in Minnesota are on food stamps?"

Ballou: "No."

Gill: "54%. Do you know what that number is for native Minnesota-headed households?"

Ballou: "Well..."

Gill: "It's 7%... What percentage of Somali-headed households in Minnesota are on Medicaid?"

Ballou: "I don't know."

Gill: "It's 73% ... What percentage of Somali-headed households are on welfare in general?"

Ballou: "I don't know."

Gill: "It's 81%."

Brutal.

Posted by: SMOD at January 08, 2026 09:21 AM (RHGPo)

381 What about following illegal orders? I seem to recall a group of elected officials decrying illegal orders and how it's OK for military to ignore them. Et tu Mark Kelly?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 08, 2026 09:18 AM (N39Ws)

It's not only okay to refuse illegal orders, it's required to refuse illegal orders. Kinda tough on the troops since guessing wrong puts you in a world of hurt.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 09:21 AM (ExV1e)

382 "That's brilliant stuff."

There's more!

https://tinyurl.com/djrers7e

Posted by: pawn at January 08, 2026 09:21 AM (Rmqfl)

383 Appendicitis? Space station? BFD.

A Soviet doctor in Antarctica performed an appendectomy on himself because evacuation was impossible and there were no other surgeons on station. He did get some folks to hold a large mirror so he could see what he was doing.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 08, 2026 09:21 AM (tXwiM)

384 1,200 medical transport outfits in the area that do nothing while collecting taxpayer dollars.

MN is just 1 big Somali Pirate State.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 08, 2026 09:21 AM (gbOdA)

385 347
NASA doesn't require appendix removal. It would likely be required for say a Mars trip, or extended lunar stay.

Now, overwintering crew down there at the South Pole do have to have the appendix removed, I think.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 08, 2026 09:13 AM (w6EFb)


On-site med staff should be capable of removing an appendix.

Posted by: Gref at January 08, 2026 09:22 AM (5rh/l)

386 On to Greenland! Excelsior!

Posted by: Merry Marching Penguin Majority at January 08, 2026 09:22 AM (oftw2)

387 Normally you expect that kind of thing at Popeye's, not a classy joint like KFC.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 09:19 AM (ExV1e)

Los Pollos Hermanos is the classiest; top shelf

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 08, 2026 09:22 AM (/iXAp)

388 >>The 8,000 national guardsmen in Minnesota are all ex US army personnel. If they engage in any insurrection type activities, each one of them can be brought before a board under the UCMJ and stripped of all lifetime benefits (at a minimum)

I suspect the threat of that alone will stop any of them from doing anything foolish.



Aaaaand this is where Mark Kelly and the 5 other military/IC in Congress come in. They have prepped the battlefield for this: we will help you defy "unlawful" orders.

As is obvious to all here, the activist leaders have been wanting an ICE incident like yesterdays, and have had plans/narrative in place for their reaction. They have also fomented/prepared for insurrection within the National Guard.
Gonna get spicy!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 08, 2026 09:22 AM (NuV6c)

389 One of the "face in dire need of a fist" Krassenstein brothers on X was jabbering about how she was "shot in the face while trying to run away".

Exactly how it's possible for someone to shoot you in the face from behind wasn't specified.


Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 08, 2026 09:22 AM (IG3/x)

390 When Karen intentionally blocked the road she committed a crime. Now, its one she likely would have gotten no more then a slap on the wrist for if she had just complied with the officer's legal orders
Posted by: 18-1

Worse, she was, according to another 'protestor' the lead in a caravan that was stalking ICE during the day. Compounding that with interfering with their operations, and then refusing lawful orders to get out of her SUV, she stacked a number of misdemeanors in pursuit of a political goal. They had every reason to arrest her.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 08, 2026 09:22 AM (mlg/3)

391 President Trump and NASA Administrator Isaacman: Please Take the Crew Off of Artemis II

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I say replace them with the Hags of The View to test the faulty heat shield.

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 09:23 AM (IpnJw)

392 Yeah, that felon wasn't operating a vehicle which is classified as a potential deadly weapon.

Garner doesn't apply.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 09:21 AM (GBKbO)

A muffler is just a kind of silencer. No way she had NFA tax stamps for that car.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 09:23 AM (06Hmj)

393 There once was a Lesbo from Missouri
Who drove up north in a furry
She blocked ICE on a street
In her quest to defeat
but wound up dead in a hurry

Great. Give this to all the kids you know. It will live on like... Doctor. Doctor. Help me quick.
My brother is sick, sick, sick.
Oh doctor, will he die?
Of course he will child, and so will I.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 08, 2026 09:23 AM (EyfuW)

394 Gill: "It's 73% ... What percentage of Somali-headed households are on welfare in general?"

Ballou: "I don't know."

Gill: "It's 81%."

Brutal.
Posted by: SMOD at January 08, 2026 09:21 AM (RHGPo)

End the NGOs and this stops.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 08, 2026 09:23 AM (gbOdA)

395 "He doesn't address the fact that the second and third shot were through the side window. Or that the wheels had turned before the first shot was fired."
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators

Because none of those facts are relevant.


"The problem for our side is-"

Concern Troll is very concerned

Posted by: Fen at January 08, 2026 09:23 AM (ciYHQ)

396 I think the shooting was borderline justified but I I understand the mindset established by other similar actions by protestors thus siding with ICE.
Posted by: Opinion fact

I think it was borderline unjustified but since its borderline both views are clearly valid. What's not valid is our side's "obviously justified" nor the other side's "obviously unjustified".

It's politically smarter for us to concede it's borderline rather than obviously justified, and to refrain from celebrating her death. But I know I'm pissing into the wind with that view.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 08, 2026 09:24 AM (1Nv0l)

397 "The problem for our side is-"

Concern Troll is very concerned
Posted by: Fen at January 08, 2026 09:23 AM (ciYHQ)

Correction - paid troll.

Posted by: Nova Local at January 08, 2026 09:24 AM (tOcjL)

398 Or that the wheels had turned before the first shot was fired. "

Because vehicles on ice/snow turn the moment the front wheels are turned? Physics says you're an idiot. Really. That's not a smart take at all.

3,500 LBS at even low speeds such as 5 mph = more force than a human can withstand.

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 09:25 AM (XuXeR)

399 He doesn't address the fact that the second and third shot were through the side window.

Spoken by someone who has never been in a hot situation where someone is trying to kill you. Adrenaline, basic survival instinct, etc.

Or by anyone who knows anything at all about defensive shooting.

You don't stop to admire the handiwork and grouping after a shot or two. It isn't explosions or large blood splatter like shooting zombies in a video game. Watch some of those videos from body cams and the perps absorb shots like a sponge.

There are also many cases where trained officers were in a shootout and point blank range and somehow every shot missed the intended target.

Shoot until threat is gone.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 08, 2026 09:25 AM (/TiS1)

400 Gill: "It's 73% ... What percentage of Somali-headed households are on welfare in general?"

Ballou: "I don't know."

Gill: "It's 81%."


Imagine a political ad...

A bunch of normal Americans asking, "Why is everything so expensive?" in different ways.

Then add this exchange

Then end it with something like, "Representative [Democrat] supports spending your money on Somali welfare...do you?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 09:25 AM (sKqQm)

401 What do you call a perforated lesbo?

A Hole in the Dyke

Posted by: I'll show Myself Out at January 08, 2026 09:25 AM (gtcuf)

402 >> On-site med staff should be capable of removing an appendix.

You're right -- it's the *medical staff* that have to have the appendix removed, not everybody, turns out.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 08, 2026 09:25 AM (w6EFb)

403 Does remind me of a different time.

When movies had cops yelling at fleeing suspects
‘ STOP OR I’LL SHOOT ! BAM! BAM!BAM!

No one blinked an eye.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 08, 2026 09:26 AM (KDPiq)

404 “Stop or I’ll shoot” must have been OK at one time, fleeing felon or not. It is part of every old time movie or radio cop drama.

The really vintage Dragnet is interesting, before search warrants and Miranda. They’d bring a suspect down to the station for 5 or 6 hours of questioning and search his house top to bottom.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 08, 2026 09:26 AM (tXwiM)

405 A lot of foreign money funding this. And, probably, US taxpayer money."

They're likely the same thing.

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 09:26 AM (XuXeR)

406 The lesbos from Lesbos
We’re first to call it
There’s a reason they call it a ham wallet
You can insert your keys
Do as you please
And later put the squeeze on the fob
And just haul it

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 08, 2026 09:27 AM (1HW+a)

407 3,500 LBS at even low speeds such as 5 mph = more force than a human can withstand.

One of the problems I have with criminal apologists is how maimed, wounded and disfigured must someone be before they are permitted to retaliate?

Duty to allow yourself to get fucked-up?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 08, 2026 09:27 AM (/TiS1)

408 What happens when a political party spends a YEAR radicalizing their base against ICE agents with increasingly unhinged rhetoric?

Tragically, I fear we're learning exactly what happens right now in Minneapolis.

Posted by: SMOD at January 08, 2026 09:27 AM (RHGPo)

409 I knew a guy from Lesvos. Was always a fun thing to tease him about...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 09:27 AM (sKqQm)

410 In a long post on X, someone detailed out how organized the anti-ICE operation is in Minneapolis and other blue hellholes. Smartphone apps and scanners, dashmounts for devices, drivers on patrol day and night, all in communication with each other.

In a war zone situation, with the enemy running hit and run guerrilla ops with these comms and tools, what would we do to foul up the ops? Could we jam the comms?

My car has a small dent in it on the top corner of the front right quarter panel, next to the headlight, where a 185 pound buck deer ran from the woods, banging his head on my car, while I was doing about 25 mph on a gravel road, this last September.

The deer went cartwheeling into the woods, was able to crawl away, and was dead after a 150-foot crawl.

My SUV's a lethal weapon!

Posted by: M. Gaga at January 08, 2026 09:28 AM (KiBMU)

411 One of the problems I have with criminal apologists is how maimed, wounded and disfigured must someone be before they are permitted to retaliate?

Depends on the race, sex, religion, and political affiliation of the person who may, or may not, be being harmed. -- Criminal apologists

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 09:29 AM (ExV1e)

412 Yes but not a threat to him but the other officers.

I think the shooting was borderline justified but I I understand the mindset established by other similar actions by protestors thus siding with ICE.
Posted by: Opinion fact


Lethal force is justified in defense of self or others.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 09:29 AM (6mogZ)

413 One of the problems I have with criminal apologists is how maimed, wounded and disfigured must someone be before they are permitted to retaliate?"

One is not permitted to retaliate. Bully a**hole in school? Can't put him in his place. Lady hits the throttle w/nearly 2 tons of mass? Gotta take it. Oh, dead? Too bad.

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 09:29 AM (XuXeR)

414 One of the problems I have with criminal apologists is how maimed, wounded and disfigured must someone be before they are permitted to retaliate?

The emerging consensus I see on the left is that if a cop is in front of your car and you want to leave you have the right to drive over him - its his fault for getting in front of your car.

These are the same people of course the prosecuted Daniel Perry for trying to get out of a leftist flash mob when the leftists started pointing guns at him.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 09:29 AM (sKqQm)

415 Garner only applies to suspects who are unarmed. A 3,000 lb. vehicle is a deadly weapon.
In the Garner case,, an unarmed teenager was shot in the back of the head for trying to run away from a cop.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2026 09:29 AM (ukUWv)

416 281 I was a wee lad when Carter handed over Iran to the Islamists, but I have a fuzzy memory of one of those Saturday morning newsbreaks they used to do, and some CBS reporter telling me the Ayatollah was popular and believed by his people.

Even then the media were the enemy.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 08, 2026 08:54 AM (fElA


10 years earlier:

"This War Is Lost!"

Walter Kronkheit

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 08, 2026 09:29 AM (x0n13)

417 Masks are just for wind pissing.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 08, 2026 09:29 AM (EyfuW)

418 I'm a bit worried about this ICE deal, I understand legally it's what the officer thought was happening that matters. However, visually to a regular person it's not good. Especially when we know what the media will do with it.

Honestly, it was bound to happen sooner or later, I'm a bit surprised it took this long.
I feel bad for the poor idiot who lost her life because she was stupid, and the officer who was compelled to protect himself and other officers because she was an idiot.

Posted by: Inogame at January 08, 2026 09:30 AM (53oGX)

419 But I know I'm pissing into the wind with that view.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 08, 2026 09:24 AM (1Nv0l)

I think it's the opposite. It's politically asinine to concede that. It may be morally or ethically smarter, if we lived in a world where morals and ethics mattered. But we have to win politically first to have any hope of returning to a polity where we have the luxury of considering morals and ethics, and approaching events rationally.

Right now, the only ethically valid stance is, Win. Every issue belched up by events is a battlefield in our new Total Culture War. And the day the revolutionary cultural brutalists start to concede the finer niceties of any hotpoint issue under discussion is the day I start to consider starting to do the same again, too. But that isn't today, and won't be tomorrow.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 09:30 AM (06Hmj)

420 President Trump and NASA Administrator Isaacman: Please Take the Crew Off of Artemis II

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I say replace them with the Hags of The View to test the faulty heat shield.

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Of course, they still wouldn't be the first sub-human monkeys in Space.

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 09:31 AM (IpnJw)

421 someone detailed out how organized the anti-ICE operation "

Yeah. Spend a few minutes perusing the interwebz... the Karens are rampant, all convinced of their moral superiority.

It's sad, really...

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 09:31 AM (XuXeR)

422 The emerging consensus I see on the left is that if a cop is in front of your car and you want to leave you have the right to drive over him - its his fault for getting in front of your car.
____

But if a "Stop Oil" protestor is sitting in the road in front of your car and you need to get your pregnant wife to the hospital, you will just have to the deliver the baby on the side of the road. For the Earth.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 08, 2026 09:31 AM (Dv3i1)

423
One of the problems I have with criminal apologists is how maimed, wounded and disfigured must someone be before they are permitted to retaliate?

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Simple. If you are white or law enforcement you are never, under any circumstances, permitted to defend yourself.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 08, 2026 09:31 AM (p64nT)

424 When the left calls for the arrest and conviction of the agents that murdered Babbitt and Boyd on J6 and follows through on it with their judges I'll listen to complaints about this shooting.

I suspect I'll be waiting a long time...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 09:32 AM (sKqQm)

425
In a war zone situation, with the enemy running hit and run guerrilla ops with these comms and tools, what would we do to foul up the ops? Could we jam the comms?

Posted by: M. Gaga at January 08, 2026 09:28 AM

just tell the local sad hams that the protesters are using Baofeng UV-5Rs without a licence & they'll fox-hunt the protesters for sport & righteousness

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 08, 2026 09:32 AM (tljrc)

426 Art boobs.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2026 09:32 AM (ExV1e)

427 281 I was a wee lad when Carter handed over Iran to the Islamists, but I have a fuzzy memory of one of those Saturday morning newsbreaks they used to do, and some CBS reporter telling me the Ayatollah was popular and believed by his people.

Even then the media were the enemy.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 08, 2026 08:54 AM (fElA


How many divisions, armored or infantry does MN have, and strategic bombers?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 08, 2026 09:32 AM (x0n13)

428 I think it's the opposite. It's politically asinine to concede that. It may be morally or ethically smarter, if we lived in a world where morals and ethics mattered. But we have to win politically first to have any hope of returning to a polity where we have the luxury of considering morals and ethics, and approaching events rationally.

Right now, the only ethically valid stance is, Win. Every issue belched up by events is a battlefield in our new Total Culture War. And the day the revolutionary cultural brutalists start to concede the finer niceties of any hotpoint issue under discussion is the day I start to consider starting to do the same again, too. But that isn't today, and won't be tomorrow.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 09:30 AM (06Hmj)

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Pure poetry.

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 08, 2026 09:32 AM (IpnJw)

429 > 409 I knew a guy from Lesvos. Was always a fun thing to tease him about...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 08, 2026 09:27 AM (sKqQm)

Wasn't that where Micheal Dukakis's family was from?

I seem to recall him being called "the most famous Lesbian in the country".

Heh.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 08, 2026 09:32 AM (IG3/x)

430
nood art

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 08, 2026 09:33 AM (tljrc)

431 A 3,000 lb. vehicle is a deadly weapon."

It's a later gen Pilot AWD - curb weight over 2 tons...

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 09:33 AM (XuXeR)

432 These cops get a lot of too close encounters. All day. By afternoon somebody gets shot.

Fear all day.
Ask Waltz, he knows fear of the guilty.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 08, 2026 09:33 AM (EyfuW)

433 She was stirring up shit.

She had no right to do what she was doing. When the cops, federal or not, go to arrest you - whatever those orders are, you have to comply. You don’t have to like it.

“Get out of the car”. She refused. Then she decided to flee the scene. That’s not how this works.

Then she appeared to be willing to run someone over in this process. It is a split second decision. Cops are on a hair trigger, they have been for many years now.

Only a retard would provoke them in a life or death situation. It is possibe the “wife” was hoping for just a situation? A variant on the “Ghetto Lottery”. Stranger things have happened. Jus Sayin’

“It’s my fault” she says. Charge her with murder, then. Investigate. Follow the Networks.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 08, 2026 09:34 AM (tXwiM)

434 Well, the Bible got things correct again

"The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil" 1st Timothy 6:10. Also, warnings in-among other places Ezekiel 28:5 Ecclesiastes 5:10

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 09:35 AM (8Xy/A)

435 Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 09:29 AM (6mogZ)

The reason I believe it was borderline is I’ve seen dozens of of videos of similar situations where the law enforcement person just side stepped the slow moving vehicle. The reason I think you can argue it’s justified in this situation is because of the officer’s mindset where he did think he and other officers were in danger because of the multiple similar situations where ICE officers were injured and threats to run over ICE personnel.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 08, 2026 09:35 AM (KDPiq)

436 "refrain from celebrating her death. But I know I'm pissing into the wind with that view."
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators

You should go back to whoever sent you here and punch them in the mouth. This is a hardened site, sophisticated cynics all. I've been counter-trolling for almost 30 years now and I couldn't get one past them.

Troll union? Friendly advice - at least be entertaining.

Posted by: Fen at January 08, 2026 09:36 AM (ciYHQ)

437 >>Gill: "It's 73% ... What percentage of Somali-headed households are on welfare in general?"

Ballou: "I don't know."

Gill: "It's 81%."
- - - -
Saw a clip of this, and Gill started by asking the guy if he thought Somali refugees have improved MN or not. The guy immediately said they made MN better. Programmed response.

Did Gill return to that question after all those statistics?
It's fair to ask, after all the facts have been laid out, do you stick with your original response?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 08, 2026 09:36 AM (NuV6c)

438 >>. . . Troll union? Friendly advice - at least be entertaining.
Posted by: Fen


Dang, Fen, that's a thing of beauty!!
Well done.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 08, 2026 09:38 AM (NuV6c)

439 Road was icy.

Officer could easily have slipped and fallen under the car, and run over and killed. Even at very low speed.

Bitch was a domestic terrorist.

Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 09:39 AM (/HZvU)

440 I’ve seen dozens of of videos of similar situations where the law enforcement person just side stepped the slow moving vehicle"

On a slippery surface w/snow & ice piled up around? Sure. Pull the other one, m'kay?

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 09:40 AM (XuXeR)

441 Fun WSJ headline of the morning:

U.S. Trade Deficit Unexpectedly Falls to Lowest Level Since 2009

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 08, 2026 09:40 AM (/16YE)

442 I asked Grok and got this, as re use of a handheld ham radio for tracking law enforcement activity:

"No, FCC rules generally do not permit using an amateur (ham) radio, such as a Baofeng handheld, to communicate law enforcement locations and movements, especially in contexts that could aid criminal activities like evading police."

Posted by: M. Gaga at January 08, 2026 09:40 AM (KiBMU)

443 U.S. Trade Deficit Unexpectedly Falls to Lowest Level Since 2009
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 08, 2026 09:40 AM (/16YE)

That’s a big fucking deal.
- Bidet

Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 09:41 AM (/HZvU)

444
I asked Grok and got this, as re use of a handheld ham radio for tracking law enforcement activity:

"No, FCC rules generally do not permit using an amateur (ham) radio, such as a Baofeng handheld, to communicate law enforcement locations and movements, especially in contexts that could aid criminal activities like evading police."

Posted by: M. Gaga at January 08, 2026 09:40 AM

technically, the sames applies to cell phones

it's not so much the method, but the activity

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 08, 2026 09:42 AM (tljrc)

445 I’ve seen dozens of of videos of similar situations where the law enforcement person just side stepped the slow moving vehicle"

On a slippery surface w/snow & ice piled up around? Sure. Pull the other one, m'kay?
Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 09:40 AM (XuXeR)

He sided stepped her after he first shot so I don’t know what you find hard to believe.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 08, 2026 09:42 AM (KDPiq)

446 Yeah, that felon wasn't operating a vehicle which is classified as a potential deadly weapon.

Garner doesn't apply.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Garner absolutely applies. It's the foundational case that defines the elements you have to prove in order for it to be considered self-defense.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 08, 2026 09:43 AM (1Nv0l)

447 Then I asked Grok about it if the use of the comms was not to evade police but to obstruct them. Here is what Grok said:

"No, FCC rules still do not permit using a handheld ham radio (like a Baofeng) to communicate law enforcement locations and movements if the intent is to coordinate actions that obstruct police operations."

Posted by: M. Gaga at January 08, 2026 09:43 AM (KiBMU)

448 446 Garner absolutely applies. It's the foundational case that defines the elements you have to prove in order for it to be considered self-defense.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 08, 2026 09:43 AM (1Nv0l)

=====

Including whether someone is armed or not.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 08, 2026 09:43 AM (GBKbO)

449 >>On a slippery surface w/snow & ice piled up around? Sure. Pull the other one, m'kay?

Exactly!

As with so many viral videos, we don't see what led up to the confrontation. Reports are that this woman and her team had been harassing ICE all day - stalking, screaming, videoing, blocking. What she did was an escalation, not the beginning of the engagement. Context matters in understanding how each behaved.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 08, 2026 09:48 AM (NuV6c)

450 Needless to say "refus[ing] to stop for the sirens and lights when you run a stop sign" on its own is not one of them. It's very similar to the case that triggered the original SCOTUS decision: felon escaping over a fence.
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Garner is cold comfort when you're dead.

They flip you over in a pit maneuver and kill you? But, but, Garner says they can't use deadly force!

The law is irrelevant when hot lead is flying.
You comply, no hot lead, no dead.
That's what I mean by playing the Death Card.

But, if you want to dodge bullets because the Supreme Court said law enforcement must be reasonable in their use of deadly force, you do you Mr. Flash.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 08, 2026 09:51 AM (HXT0k)

451 He sided stepped her after he first shot so I don’t know what you find hard to believe."

Ah, more magic videos, huh? All of which show every condition, especially the surroundings, all in hi def and slo mo? Sure. He was moving like they show in the movies...

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 09:55 AM (XuXeR)

452 (Hat tip to bothGrumpy/Recalcitrant & Helena Handbasket - jjs)

Appreciate the mention, J.J.! All the best.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 08, 2026 09:56 AM (O7YUW)

453 BTW, said vehicle was accelerating...
F = m x v....

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 09:57 AM (XuXeR)

454 I'm betting they double down."

I hope hellinois triples down. Get chicadishu returned to territory status and seperate the red parts from the progtards. I wanna watch that tat ass pigster frog marched off to gitmo.

Land of New Lincoln indeed.

Posted by: Ouch the Grouch at January 08, 2026 10:04 AM (G+z4C)

455 JJ, you linked an article about private equity messing with oncology. I understand you’re having some personal experience in that system. I received my Oncology Boards about 45 years ago. I had little success in group private practice as I refused to model my treatment plans on economics but on what I considered best for the patient. Clinically I had success as a solo private practice for about 15 years, with many loyal and happy patients and families but I made about 30 k a year for myself. Most oncologists then were making 10 times that. There was no private equity firm involved with the practices around me. It was plain greed. And from what I’ve seen since, the greedy folks sold out to corporations for more money. So it’s not the equity firms at the root of the problem.
I was lucky in that I got out of medical school while Feds still supplemented tuition so I had no debt. So I could concentrate on care not loan repayments. Of course the folks I ended up not being able to work with/for had same background so that was not an excuse for them. Now folks coming out with hundreds of dollars debt, however, do.

Posted by: epador at January 08, 2026 10:37 AM (TRnzq)

456 Good morning, all, and thanks, J.J.

Like the velociraptors in a popular movie, the Lefties run in packs and constantly test fences for weaknesses. Martyrs for their causes are not only desirable, sadly, they're almost necessary. Charlottesville for instance. J6, until it's 'street' effectiveness began waning as acts, or lack thereof, by Pelosi in particular, several others in Congress, and even Pence, were more broadly exposed.

Interests & education in the Posse Comitatus and Insurrection Acts arise whenever DJT is near or in the Presidential office, i.e., Brennan Center Org, Explainer, 'The Insurrection Act, Explained,' published April 21, 2022; updated November 12, 2025.

From above, 'Brace yourselves. The Left Has the ICE Martyr It’s Been Agitating For'

‘She was an amazing human being’: Mother identifies woman shot, killed by ICE agent' Renee Nicole Good, 37, lived in Minneapolis wwith her partner just blocks from where she was shot. By Paul Walsh and Jeff Day, The Minnesota Star Tribune, January 7, 2026

The truth of the matter isn't yet known.

However, it's about time the current 'street' class of potential martyrs catch on they're being used - no better

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 08, 2026 10:40 AM (NFX2v)

457 than being batted back and forth, for political agendas by people who live in comfort, often under security, and who lack little or nothing but maybe their desired political goals.

ABC News: 'Absolutely not': Mark Kelly says he wouldn't change troop message or 'back down' after censure
Sen. Kelly was censured on Monday by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. By Kevin Shalvey, January 6, 2026

'Emmer warns Walz could end up 'in cuffs' amid Minnesota fraud claims' The No. 3 House Republican called on Minnesota Gov Tim Walz to resign, By Elizabeth Elkind Fox News, Published January 7, 2026. (Walz said he would not seek reelection amid the ongoing state fraud scandals.)

Vote & be involved legally. Let the pols duke it out through the Courts, if necessary. That's our system of government.
Win some, lose some. Meh.

Good day. 🤗🙏

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 08, 2026 10:40 AM (NFX2v)

458 Related to prior comments -

Delay in permanent memorial at George Floyd Square costing city millions

WSTP 5 Eyewitness News, YouTube, Sep 4, 2025

There's Frey. Where's the $, where's the build?

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 08, 2026 11:33 AM (NFX2v)

Daily Tech News 8 January 2026

Top Story

  • Bose SoundTouch smart speakers, which cost up to $1500 each, will reach the end of support next month and be dropped from the Bose app, becoming very expensive dumb speakers. In a surprising turn of events, Bose has just announced that they won't be all that dumb either. (Ars Technica)

    Cloud support well end as scheduled, but they will instead work with your own local wifi without need for a cloud app. And Bose has released technical documentation for the SoundTouch APIs, allowing hackers to create open source solutions.

Tech News


Musical Interlude





Disclaimer: Wuf.

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1 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 08, 2026 04:00 AM (gK5jz)

2 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at January 08, 2026 04:00 AM (Ia/+0)

3 Morning all.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 08, 2026 04:02 AM (BLOW1)

4 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 08, 2026 04:03 AM (sAmhv)

5 Things are heating up in Iran - on both sides.

On the one hand, regime forces on motorcycles are firing indiscriminately on protesters (similar to Venezuela).

On the other hand:

https://tinyurl.com/2v77crz8

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 08, 2026 04:04 AM (gK5jz)

6 w00t late

Posted by: m at January 08, 2026 04:21 AM (SSiCQ)

7
Shah, Jr. has called for all protestors to chant the exact same slogan all over the country at 8PM today local time (UTC + 03:30, EST + 08:30).

He also said the mullahs are cutting the internet, and do not be dissuaded by that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 08, 2026 04:22 AM (w6EFb)

8
Time for Elon to air drop some Starlinks all over Iran.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 08, 2026 04:24 AM (w6EFb)

9
Just looking. Elon is providing Starlink to any station in Iran for free. The hardware has been smuggled in. Prices are pretty high, though, but they've got some hardware in there.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 08, 2026 04:25 AM (w6EFb)

10 happy-ish Thursday morning …

Posted by: Adriane the Kewl Yule & Kicking Kwanza Critic . . . at January 08, 2026 04:27 AM (3ZUWJ)

11 I need Wolfus to tell me how accurate that video is.

Posted by: pookysgirl, obviously struggling to sleep at January 08, 2026 04:34 AM (Wt5PA)

12 Evening and morning to all the late toilers and early risers! And insomaniacals, I should say. I went off to sleepy-bye early last night, and (as I should have expected) woke early as well. Grrrr.

Well. There is coffee. It's warmish and unpleasant for the time of year here, but that means I don't have to bundle up for a brisk walk later. And the furry thugs are galloping around as always.

What's buzzin' wit' you?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 08, 2026 04:40 AM (wzUl9)

13
Don't know if you can believe any of this stuff, but some of the anti-regime Iranian sources on X I'm skimming over are claiming that US surveillance planes and other war planes are swarming all over near Iran.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 08, 2026 04:42 AM (w6EFb)

14 I need Wolfus to tell me how accurate that video is.
Posted by: pookysgirl, obviously struggling to sleep at January 08, 2026

***
Morning, Pooksygirl,

Well, aside from the detail that I haven't seen anybody here (let alone a white man) wearing a three-piece suit and fedora in decades, it does look like they filmed it in the French Quarter. The white building at the far end behind the action suggests that they were shooting on one of the two one-block-long streets in the Quarter. The streets don't dead-end, but they run for one block only.

The trumpet player does look like Louis Armstrong, and Scatman John calls him "Satch" (short for "Satchmo") and "Louis." But I have no idea what or where the night shots are supposed to be. What are "Fried Ergs"?

I's fun and energetic, anyway.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 08, 2026 04:51 AM (wzUl9)

15 I looked up Scatman John. He was from El Monte, CA, and became an unlikely pop star, especially in Japan. The Wiki article says about the 1996 album Everybody Jam!: "In October, John prepared a new single called 'Everybody Jam!', inspired by jazz, his love, and a tribute to his childhood idol Louis Armstrong. In a 1996 interview, John explains why he was inspired by Louis:

'Louis was the first and strongest influence on my musical existence. There have been many masters of music, of soul, but for me Louis is the father of them all.' "

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 08, 2026 04:58 AM (wzUl9)

16 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 05:01 AM (KMPdZ)

17 Today is Noir Day on Movies! At five am my time, they are running an early (1937) Henry Fonda flick where he co-stars with Sylvia Sidney, called, get this, You Only Live Once. "An ex-convict tries to live on the straight-and-narrow but finds disaster waiting." I'm tempted to settle down with my coffee and watch the whole thing.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 08, 2026 05:05 AM (wzUl9)

18 So yesterday I had to go to the car shop. This was off a very busy major road, but here's what I saw outside-a beautiful winterberry holly plant:

https://tinyurl.com/2s8wc8zc

In the shop was a very nice men wearing a large cross. It had some words around the cross. I didn't ask him what they were, ( maybe John 3:16) but I did thank him for his witness.

So everyday if we ask I do believe God will show us something of himself/ his love, his creatively in nature, his presence, his work through other people. I am grateful to God for that.

What is a beautiful part of nature where you live?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 05:07 AM (T/n61)

19 Watched 1/2 of Kristi Noam video from last night. She mentions there is a active plot of multiple car ramming going on, lots in Minnesota.

Read a comment this woman who died has been in the front of these protests that day if not other days

Posted by: Skip at January 08, 2026 05:07 AM (Ia/+0)

20 Discouraged college student feels God's presence. Scripture is Hebrews 11:1-16

https://tinyurl.com/3pydxys9

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 05:11 AM (T/n61)

21 on the Minnesota car-ramming and shooting:

Bonchie
@bonchieredstate
As has to explained every time one of these situations come up, law enforcement are not robots. They are not superhuman.

He fires right as she’s hitting him. At that point, the decision is made. There is no time to process, “Oh, she only kind of hit me” in a quarter of a second.

Posted by: m at January 08, 2026 05:11 AM (SSiCQ)

22
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 08, 2026 05:12 AM (tljrc)

23 G'morning, all!

My new phrase of the week....


'Basic Pattern Recognition'

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 08, 2026 05:12 AM (iMotb)

24 20- The title of the devotional is "God is with us."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 05:13 AM (T/n61)

25 heh

@jarvis_best
Jan 5
I can think of exactly zero reasons why Minnesota should continue to be a state it’s been nothing but trouble for us.

Posted by: m at January 08, 2026 05:13 AM (SSiCQ)

26 Not sure why PJ Harvey shorts came up.on my YouTube, new maybe?
Anyway she was exceptionally very good looking , and not sure why she is reminding me of Jessica Donnelley now.

Posted by: Skip at January 08, 2026 05:14 AM (Ia/+0)

27 See if Canada wants to trade for Minnesota

Posted by: Skip at January 08, 2026 05:16 AM (Ia/+0)

28 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at January 08, 2026 05:18 AM (2Ez/1)

29 Above freezing at least
Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at January 08, 2026 05:23 AM (Ia/+0)

30 heh

Stephen L. Miller retweeted
FranksRedHat
@FranksRedHat
4h
why didn't he just shoot the car out her hands??

Posted by: m at January 08, 2026 05:23 AM (SSiCQ)

31 G'morning Horde.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 08, 2026 05:28 AM (O7YUW)

32 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 08, 2026 05:29 AM (bQ4nt)

33 30 heh

Stephen L. Miller retweeted
FranksRedHat
@FranksRedHat
4h
why didn't he just shoot the car out her hands??

Posted by: m at January 08, 2026 05:23 AM (SSiCQ)


Somebody here posted that same line fist on the thread yesterday.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 08, 2026 05:36 AM (6ydKt)

34 33 30 heh

Stephen L. Miller retweeted
FranksRedHat
@FranksRedHat
4h
why didn't he just shoot the car out her hands??

Posted by: m at January 08, 2026 05:23 AM (SSiCQ)

Somebody here posted that same line fi[r]st on the thread yesterday.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 08, 2026 05:36 AM (6ydKt)

Yay, Horde!

Posted by: m at January 08, 2026 05:41 AM (SSiCQ)

35 Nice Christian song. I think it was originally by the Gaither family "Just a little talk with Jesus":

https://tinyurl.com/yc4x5tvv

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 05:42 AM (uPdai)

36 Mother saves dozens from hotel fire

Sunny Skyz site:

https://tinyurl.com/3b82pr4v

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 05:47 AM (uPdai)

37 He fires right as she’s hitting him. At that point, the decision is made. There is no time to process, “Oh, she only kind of hit me” in a quarter of a second.
Posted by: m at January 08, 2026 05:11 AM (SSiCQ)

If someone fires a gun at a cop's feet and shouts "dance, piggy", is the cop expected to return fire, or break into an energetic jig?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 05:49 AM (06Hmj)

38 Stop optimising for the wrong things. (Ties Petersen)
The main example is sweeping a supermarket floor

This looked suspiciously like math.

Posted by: m at January 08, 2026 05:50 AM (SSiCQ)

39 The point of the story is don't math when it's sweep time.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 08, 2026 05:55 AM (BLOW1)

40 Alabama football star gives glory to Jesus, even after crushing loss. Faithpot site:

https://tinyurl.com/23d5xbvz

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 05:57 AM (uPdai)

41 “ But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in God’s love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life.”

Jude 1:20-21

Posted by: Marcus T at January 08, 2026 06:02 AM (XJjDY)

42 Thanks for your witness , Marcus. and for the wonderful Scripture passage,

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 06:04 AM (uPdai)

43 40 Alabama football star gives glory to Jesus, even after crushing loss. Faithpot site:

https://tinyurl.com/23d5xbvz
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 05:57 AM (uPdai)

"We lost; Thank God" and "We lost, thank God" are two very different sentences.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 06:04 AM (06Hmj)

44 Feminism is sweeping the country but not the floor.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 08, 2026 06:05 AM (2Ez/1)

45 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 08, 2026 06:06 AM (Cjt/F)

46 Fen, all glory and honor goes to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. God bless you and all here, especially those in need.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 08, 2026 06:09 AM (XJjDY)

47 Posted by: Marcus T at January 08, 2026 06:09 AM (XJjDY)

Amen!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 06:10 AM (Nx5jP)

48 I think I've used up all the corny tech jokes, so some here might appreciate this mushroom joke instead:

Why is it impossible to have a conversation with a female mushroom?

Because shiitake too much.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 06:13 AM (Nx5jP)

49 What fresh hell this day?

Posted by: Don Black at January 08, 2026 06:15 AM (ZxPkt)

50 Just to babble in general about policing, not this specific case, the root cause of a lot of friction between police and and the people they do their policing at is the erosion and rot of the justice system as a whole.

There should be no real motivator to get violent with a cop who's arresting you, because you'll simply have your day in court and everything will be fine. If the courts are going to railroad you anyway just to make a buck and flex their power, suddenly it's a problem. (And if you are just a straight up criminal trying to get away with something by merking a cop, then you get your ass shot and the world is a better place, which is a victory condition.)

If you're a cop, there should be no real motivator to shake down people who aren't doing anything wrong, because if you do bring in innocent people, and create friction in the community, the DA and the chief of police ought to be firing you, and possibly fining you for it too if it's egregious enough.

This is all super Pollyanna/Pangloss kind of stuff. But fanciful or not, i have to figure it's at least the Platonic Ideal for the foundations of a not effed up society. Part of the "trust" in "high trust society".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 06:15 AM (06Hmj)

51 Let's give Minnesota to Canada for Alberta and Saskatchewon.

Posted by: no one at January 08, 2026 06:15 AM (qFwJc)

52 Morning all. Thx Pixy.
The usual suspects I know on Facebook are screaming "murder". Sanctimony is the rage. Facts, no

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 08, 2026 06:16 AM (ScJGb)

53 But then, if what I see in the Intertoobs is correct, Alberta and Sask. are joining us anyway.

Let's give them Minnesota just to be nice.

Posted by: no one at January 08, 2026 06:17 AM (qFwJc)

54 53 But then, if what I see in the Intertoobs is correct, Alberta and Sask. are joining us anyway.

Let's give them Minnesota just to be nice.
Posted by: no one at January 08, 2026 06:17 AM (qFwJc)

What did those poor little provinces ever do to you do deserve such a thing?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 06:19 AM (06Hmj)

55 Website "Twitchy" take on the shooting:

https://tinyurl.com/2ascb9c6

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 06:21 AM (Nx5jP)

56 Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 08, 2026 06:16 AM (ScJGb)

Makes me glad I do not do FB ( except for church things) or Twitter.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 06:23 AM (Nx5jP)

57 Energetic video this morning. I thought of Cab Calloway.

Posted by: mustbequantum at January 08, 2026 06:23 AM (Of9Lz)

58 Morning peeps.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 08, 2026 06:23 AM (NwnyJ)

59 Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 06:04 AM (06Hmj

Yes; That is very true. I used to know an African American pastor ( who has gone to be with the Lord now you used to say "Thank God anyway") which was his short paraphrase of St Paul.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 06:26 AM (Nx5jP)

60 I can't wait for the Greenland protestors to swarm out with their pre-printed signs saying "No Blood For Whale Oil".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 06:30 AM (06Hmj)

61 I'm hoping they are checking into who's funding these anti ICE protests, because I doubt they're organic. However, some woman shot in MN after antagonizing ICE will probably not have the same resonance with black folks as George Floyd and "Black Lives Matter", which as we all know was a fraudulent group ( funded by Soros, I expect) and only enriched the founders of Big Large Mansions.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 06:30 AM (Nx5jP)

62 How much is the Queers For Greenland protest march paying today?

Posted by: Stoner living in his parents' basement at January 08, 2026 06:35 AM (2Ez/1)

63 If you frame that story as "just a lady in her car getting shot by federal agents", none of it makes sense. If you frame it as "professional agitator spends entire day using her car like some kind of cow catcher on the front of the retard train and finally gets stopped by federal agents", it makes a lot more sense.

The story is never supposed to make sense. That's rule #1 of journalism.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 06:37 AM (06Hmj)

64 “What You Need To Know”

FAFO

Posted by: Common Tater at January 08, 2026 06:39 AM (usFPI)

65 Good morning. Please join me for virtual coffee.

Posted by: Eromero at January 08, 2026 06:40 AM (o2ZRX)

66 65 Good morning. Please join me for virtual coffee.
Posted by: Eromero at January 08, 2026 06:40 AM (o2ZRX)

*looks at empty mug*

Ok.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 06:40 AM (06Hmj)

67 mornin yall. If that cop had just shot her tires out there would not be one less lesbian poet in the world this morning. There probably would be one less cop though.

Posted by: fd at January 08, 2026 06:41 AM (vFG9F)

68 "Please join me for virtual coffee.
Posted by: Eromero"

I don't like those fancy flavored coffees. Make mine virtually black.

Posted by: fd at January 08, 2026 06:43 AM (vFG9F)

69 That agent could have just wrestled the wheel away from her. Trump did it, and he's old!

Posted by: Warai-otoko Cornbread at January 08, 2026 06:43 AM (06Hmj)

70 Good morning morons

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 08, 2026 06:44 AM (RIvkX)

71 One would think that on a Wednesday afternoon most people over the age of, say, 25 would be working somewhere. Not protesting ICE in some random neighborhood in the bitter cold. It was a staged demonstration. The organizers and money-men should be outed and held responsible.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 08, 2026 06:44 AM (NwnyJ)

72 Well, at least the ‘Good morning’ is not virtual, but real.

Posted by: Eromero at January 08, 2026 06:45 AM (o2ZRX)

73 . However, some woman shot in MN after antagonizing ICE will probably not have the same resonance with black folks as George Floyd and "Black Lives Matter"

What you don't think people of colour will totally be into Butch Lives Matter?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 08, 2026 06:45 AM (+n72I)

74 Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 08, 2026 06:44 AM (RIvkX)

Good morning. Why are you up so early? You're in SF now, not on the East Coast? Having insomnia?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 06:46 AM (PFs9e)

75 I accidentally bought vanilla yogurt. Ugh. So I bought strawberry yogurt, which was what I wanted in the first place, and mix them.

It's tolerable.

Supposedly, it's good for gut health.

Posted by: no one at January 08, 2026 06:46 AM (qFwJc)

76 The organizers and money-men should be outed and held responsible.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 08, 2026 06:44 AM (NwnyJ)

Is "accessory to attempted murder" a crime?

I know there's only certain things that "accessory" and "conspiracy" apply to.... not sure of all the legal niceties about when and where it's permissible to pay someone to maybe try to schwack a cop if they happen to get the chance.

Posted by: Warai-otoko Cornbread at January 08, 2026 06:46 AM (06Hmj)

77 (Sockoff)

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 06:47 AM (06Hmj)

78 Suicide by cop.

Posted by: no one at January 08, 2026 06:47 AM (qFwJc)

79 Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 08, 2026 06:45 AM (+n72I

No. It's also not the best time for protests, in frigid weather although the media is evidently all into making it a thing.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 06:48 AM (PFs9e)

80 Commies are red
Democrats are blue
Run over a cop
And you'll get dead too

Posted by: Lesbian Poetry at January 08, 2026 06:48 AM (vFG9F)

81 I’m sure the clown governor admonished residents not to interfere with law enforcement in the conduct of their duties, correct?

He explained you are subject to detention and arrest, right? That you are required to comply with lawful orders, and further blocking the road is not a legitimate or lawful means of protest or free speech.

Right? Modern “leaders” are derelict in their duty. Even Democrats used to understand this. Looters get shot, arsonists get kilt. Keep the peace. You do not have a constitutional right to burn down the neighborhood.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 08, 2026 06:49 AM (Kjgfl)

82 Good morning. Why are you up so early? You're in SF now, not on the East Coast? Having insomnia?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 06:46 AM (PFs9e)
====

Yes Fen thanks. Too anxious.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 08, 2026 06:52 AM (RIvkX)

83 39 The point of the story is don't math when it's sweep time.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 08, 2026 05:55 AM (BLOW1)

Haha! Well, o.k., then.
The writer was exercising multiple brain parts, which is maybe good? Just, didn't need to talk about it.

Posted by: m at January 08, 2026 06:53 AM (SSiCQ)

84 I got a plan.

Buy up four abandoned commercial spaces around an intersection in Minneapolis. Any intersection will do.

Build four nearly identical bars. Make them biker bars. Hand each one over to a different club. Angels, Pagans, Banditos, Vatos, whoever. Step back and let the boys rip.

What? Oh, no, of course that wouldn't fix anything. But it would be fun to watch.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 06:53 AM (06Hmj)

85 If I ran the world both Walz and Frey would already be behind bars.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 08, 2026 06:54 AM (RIvkX)

86 Anxious about what?

Posted by: Your therapist at January 08, 2026 06:55 AM (2Ez/1)

87
*trudges in with coffee*

Good morning, Hordians. Dozed off in my armchair yesterday evening and woke up with my knee hurting, which it continued to do overnight. And this morning. I'm ambulatory, which means it's annoying rather than crippling.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 06:55 AM (tgvbd)

88 Good morning, everyone. In three days, the new dog arrives. Thankfully there won't be much adjustment since he's been to the house before.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 08, 2026 06:55 AM (jjoN6)

89 > I accidentally bought vanilla yogurt. Ugh. So I bought strawberry yogurt, which was what I wanted in the first place, and mix them.
---------
Try blue berries, or other berries in it. Granola is good too. Maybe a bit sweet...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 08, 2026 06:55 AM (NwnyJ)

90 Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 08, 2026 06:52 AM (RIvkX

And is there anything you can do to relieve that? I think you're a very nice guy and am always glad to see you, but I'd like you to be less anxious. My son has over the last week been drinking chamomile tea and taking Saffron extract which has been helping.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 06:57 AM (PFs9e)

91 89 > I accidentally bought vanilla yogurt. Ugh. So I bought strawberry yogurt, which was what I wanted in the first place, and mix them.
---------
Try blue berries, or other berries in it. Granola is good too. Maybe a bit sweet...
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 08, 2026 06:55 AM (NwnyJ)

Sunflower and flax seeds are nice in that sort of thing, too.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 06:57 AM (06Hmj)

92 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 06:55 AM (tgvbd)

Glad to hear that you're doing better.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 06:59 AM (PFs9e)

93 I got a plan.

Buy up four abandoned commercial spaces around an intersection in Minneapolis. Any intersection will do.

Build four nearly identical bars. Make them biker bars. Hand each one over to a different club. Angels, Pagans, Banditos, Vatos, whoever. Step back and let the boys rip.

What? Oh, no, of course that wouldn't fix anything. But it would be fun to watch.
Posted by: Warai-otoko


I got a plan.

Buy up four abandoned commercial spaces around an intersection in Minneapolis. Any intersection will do.

Build four nearly identical child daycare centers.

What? Oh, no, of course that wouldn't fix anything. But it would be fun to watch the money roll in.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 06:59 AM (6mogZ)

94 What? Oh, no, of course that wouldn't fix anything. But it would be fun to watch the money roll in.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 06:59 AM (6mogZ)

Haaaaaa

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 06:59 AM (06Hmj)

95 Stop optimising for the wrong things. (Ties Petersen)

Or maybe stop optimizing some things at all.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 08, 2026 07:00 AM (+n72I)

96
The sad thing is that Minnesota is largely good, solid squareheads who don't happen to live in the Twin Cities. Trump lost the state by 4, so there must have been a lot of people voting for him. Likely he lost the state due to the non-people who "voted" for Kamala.


Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 07:01 AM (tgvbd)

97 Zero coverage of Iran in Russian media

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 08, 2026 07:02 AM (RIvkX)

98 White House Announces Over 1,000,000 New Jobs Were Created In December But They Were All Filled By Marco Rubio

Posted by: no one at January 08, 2026 07:03 AM (qFwJc)

99 96
The sad thing is that Minnesota is largely good, solid squareheads who don't happen to live in the Twin Cities. Trump lost the state by 4, so there must have been a lot of people voting for him. Likely he lost the state due to the non-people who "voted" for Kamala.


Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 07:01 AM (tgvbd)

Given the level of financial fraud, which seems easily detectable (if you want to detect it), I imagine serious electoral fraud, which seems harder to detect, is happening.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 08, 2026 07:04 AM (+n72I)

100 Thank you dear it has improved since I re-retired but being a full time caregiver for a disabled family member has its own stresses.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 08, 2026 07:05 AM (RIvkX)

101 67 mornin yall. If that cop had just shot her tires out there would not be one less lesbian poet in the world this morning. There probably would be one less cop though.
Posted by: fd at January 08, 2026 06:41 AM (vFG9F)

And, in all seriousness, she had already demonstrated an ability to hit people with her car, and letting her go ahead in the car, with or without tires shot out, was not a pro-pedestrian choice.

Posted by: m at January 08, 2026 07:06 AM (SSiCQ)

102 When buying yogurt I try to always get vanilla, a bit more edible to me

Posted by: Skip at January 08, 2026 07:06 AM (0/Fv/)

103 White House Announces Over 1,000,000 New Jobs Were Created In December But They Were All Filled By Marco Rubio
Posted by: no one



*snort

El Jefe Generalissimo Marco Rubio - Gubonor of de Americas and de Caribbean

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2026 07:06 AM (6mogZ)

104 Posted by: NR Pax at January 08, 2026 06:55 AM

That's good.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 07:06 AM (ZeH0U)

105
Her Majesty and The Big Dummy are in Sinton, TX for four days of Corpus Christi KC shows. The town's not much to talk about but the show site is nice and the club is friendly and accommodating to exhibitors.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 07:07 AM (tgvbd)

106 88 Good morning, everyone. In three days, the new dog arrives. Thankfully there won't be much adjustment since he's been to the house before.
Posted by: NR Pax at January 08, 2026 06:55 AM (jjoN6

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Wonderful news! Another dog can add so much to your life. Did you see in an earlier video how these two got along together?
https://tinyurl.com/6w4wkh5m

Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 08, 2026 07:07 AM (kQWle)

107 Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 08, 2026 07:05 AM (RIvkX)

Yes. I'm sure it must . May the Lord give you strength.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 07:08 AM (ZeH0U)

108
Good morning, everyone. In three days, the new dog arrives. Thankfully there won't be much adjustment since he's been to the house before.
Posted by: NR Pax

Rescue boy? Greyhounds are very good house dogs because they're a) lazy and b) graceful.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 07:10 AM (tgvbd)

109 I think the Islamic Republic is now a zombie.

Seeing reports in Indian media that there are now mass gatherings including police almost everywhere and the Shah's orders are being broadcast

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 08, 2026 07:10 AM (RIvkX)

110 That's because there's no such thing as Russian media.

Posted by: Hushed narrator voice at January 08, 2026 07:11 AM (2Ez/1)

111 I hope Marco Rubio finds some humor in these "another job" jokes and memes, because they are very funny, but I also hope that he has good secret service protection and protection from the Lord.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 07:12 AM (ZeH0U)

112 Speaking of dogs, my golden was hacking like she had something caught in her throat so I took her to the vet. Turns out she has kennel cough, even though she was vaccinated for it. I think she caught it a few weeks ago when I boarded her. I am leaving for vacation today so I couldn't board her. Luckily found other arrangements. The vet told me that shot is the least effective of all vaccines for dogs. Also they put her on hydrocodone for cough. I only gave her one of those and pitched the rest. I don't like that kind of stuff in my house

Posted by: Molly k. at January 08, 2026 07:13 AM (j/yko)

113 Welcome back to another episode of Yogurt Talk.

Posted by: Overpaid NPR announcer at January 08, 2026 07:14 AM (2Ez/1)

114 Thank you Fen, if your son got a job I would be a little less anxious

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 08, 2026 07:15 AM (RIvkX)

115 Stop optimising for the wrong things. (Ties Petersen)

There's shortest and then there's fastest - not always the same thing.

Fast, cheap, reliable - pick any two.

Posted by: Halfhand at January 08, 2026 07:15 AM (edbiH)

116 Fast, cheap, reliable - pick any two.
Posted by: Halfhand at January 08, 2026 07:15 AM (edbiH)

Oh so it's a Dating Advice thread, now?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 07:15 AM (06Hmj)

117 Did you see in an earlier video how these two got along together?
https://tinyurl.com/6w4wkh5m

I'll have to see that at home.

Rescue boy? Greyhounds are very good house dogs because they're a) lazy and b) graceful.

He's a rescue that's being returned. And he's been a guest of ours through my wife's babysitting service so there won't be too much of a transition.

And yes, lazy. I like a breed where "Check that he's breathing" is a normal thing to say.

I'll try to get pictures of him on the Saturday Pet Thread.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 08, 2026 07:15 AM (jjoN6)

118 PDT is suing Fulton county to get back $6.2 million in legal fees. Georgia taxpayers get screwed again. They should take it out of Fani's ass.

Posted by: Lesbian Poetry at January 08, 2026 07:16 AM (vFG9F)

119 Why no news from Iran on the so called big news democrat networks and media?

Oh.

Never mind.

Posted by: Zombie Walter Concrete at January 08, 2026 07:17 AM (GlDYx)

120 San Franpsycho at January 08, 2026 07:15 AM (RIvkX

Thanks; That's very kind of you. He continues to look. Winter is not the best time to be looking for jobs in botany, but I know other people whose grandchildren are still looking and they're in entirely different fields .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 07:18 AM (lQ+/f)

121
Fast, cheap, reliable - pick any two.
Posted by: Halfhand at January 08, 2026 07:15 AM (edbiH)

I'm a good fellow, but I'm an 80/20 guy. This often puts my crosswise with Her Majesty, who is not an 80/20 girl.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 07:18 AM (tgvbd)

122 116 Fast, cheap, reliable - pick any two.
Posted by: Halfhand at January 08, 2026 07:15 AM (edbiH)

Oh so it's a Dating Advice thread, now?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 07:15 AM (06Hmj)

ooohhh

Posted by: m at January 08, 2026 07:18 AM (SSiCQ)

123
JJS

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 08, 2026 07:18 AM (gbOdA)

124 Posted by: NR Pax

Thanks. I'd like to see the pictures.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2026 07:19 AM (lQ+/f)

125 I generally dislike re-naming things for political reasons, but if the mullahs fall, I'd be happy to see Iran get called something else.

Even if it just changed to Eran. Doesn't need to be called Persia. Just something to say definitively "we're not that anymore".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2026 07:19 AM (06Hmj)

126
I like a breed where "Check that he's breathing" is a normal thing to say.

Nothing, but nothing, sleeps like a sighthound. When I go down to the kennel in the morning to let everyone out, the question is frequently, "Are you alive?"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2026 07:20 AM (tgvbd)

127
Shah, Jr. has called for everyone to chant the same thing at 8PM local time today. Everyone all over the country. Iran time is UTC+3:30.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 08, 2026 07:22 AM (w6EFb)

128
"Persia" was a xenonym -- from the Greeks, I think.

"Eran" which morphed into Iran was always the endonym. It was the Shah's father who started insisting it be called Iran externally.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 08, 2026 07:24 AM (w6EFb)

129 "One of the world's best wingsuit pilots, 32, is killed in daredevil stunt at Table Mountain"

If he was one of the best I want to see some video of some of the worst.

Posted by: fd at January 08, 2026 07:24 AM (vFG9F)

130 Parthia has been out of use long enough not to offend anyone (or to appeal to anyone, I suppose).

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 08, 2026 07:29 AM (+n72I)

131 129 "One of the world's best wingsuit pilots, 32, is killed in daredevil stunt at Table Mountain"

If he was one of the best I want to see some video of some of the worst.
Posted by: fd at January 08, 2026 07:24 AM (vFG9F)

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Daredevils doing free climbing or wingsuits: it's only a matter of time.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 08, 2026 07:33 AM (8f4kX)

132 Bose has released technical documentation for the SoundTouch APIs, allowing hackers to create open source solutions.
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Kudos to Bose. INMSHO, they're overpriced and overhyped, slightly above middlin' quality gear, but this, this they done good.

The reflex, of course, is to demand that "the government" do something. Write regs, create commissions etc. No, what we need is a couple of class action suits with multi-million payouts against the likes of John Deere.

Posted by: buddhaha at January 08, 2026 09:18 AM (B50Ud)

Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - January 7, 2026 [Apollo Rex]

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Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the post-cafe overnight variety.

Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another edition of random overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and sit a spell. Good will offerings of amusing puns are happily accepted. Pants are optional. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors.

***

Results of the Official 2025 Wednesday ONT Prediction Challenge

Did the predicting moose out front already tell ya the winners?

Thank you for those who participated. The challenge had two parts - financial data and events. The financial predictions attracted 19 participants. The event predictions attracted 37 participants.

Financial metrics: cost of gasoline, S&P 500, dollar to Euro exchange rate, 2x4 lumber, Ford F-150 MSRP, Bitcoin, share price of Smith & Wesson, Home Depot and Tesla.

The winner of the financial metrics challenge is: Publius Redux. Blaster was a very close second place and Pennsyltucky was close behind in third.

The rest of the rankings:
Dave H
Grateful
Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK)
Gouverneur Morris
pookysgirl
no one of any consequence
Luca I
Mikeski
PaleRider
lin-duh
tankdemon
Jimmy Doolittle
scampydog
SPinRH_F-16
jimmy mcnulty
Methos

The ten event predictions included elimination of Daylight time, departures of Supreme Court justice, Iran's Khamanei, and Canada's Trudeau, declassification of JFK files, Epstein client list, and Diddy client list, SpaceX Starship launches, defunding of NPR and PBS, and RFK remaining in office at HHS.

The clear winner of the event prediction challenge is PaleRider who guessed ALL ten correctly. Impressive. Nobody else was close. Several guessed seven but nobody guessed eight or nine.

The rest of the rankings:
Dr Claw - 7
Dirk Manly - 7
Methos - 7
Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) - 7
Durak Kazyol - 7
SPinRH_F-16 - 7
no one of any consequence - 7
Luca I - 7
SanFranpsycho - 6
scampydog - 6
Mikeski - 6
MammaB - 6
Jimmy Doolittle - 6
Clovis Sangrail - 6
Gouverneur Morris - 6
Lin-duh - 5
AOP - 5
gilbar - 5
Moonbeam - 5
Iris - 5
Pennsyltucky - 5
blaster - 5
Lola - 5
Puddlegum - 5
Nemo- 5
Publius Redux - 5
Dave H - 5
Grateful - 5
deplorable Ian Galt - 4
Sal - 4
pookysgirl - 4
tankdemon - 4
BourbonChicken - 4
jimmy mcnulty - 4
Piper - 3
ScaryMary - 3

Congratulations!! Well done!

Winners can pick up their prizes on Saturday in the form of drink tickets in Club ONT.

Should we do a 2026 prediction challenge?

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Variations on a theme:

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Headline from 2014:

The Sean O'Casey Bridge is operated via remote control - but officials apparently lost the device in an office move. It's now operational again...

Dublin's Sean O'Casey Bridge, which has been unable to open to shipping for the past four years, was finally re-opened in the past few weeks after experts created a new remote control for the structure.

Spanning the Liffey between the IFSC and City Quay, it's designed to swing apart to allow sail-craft upriver as far as the Talbot Memorial Bridge.

The design includes two 44-metre-long arms, capable of swinging open when required. That operation is controlled by a hand-held remote device - that device went missing some years ago, meaning openings were no longer possible.

Speaking to this website, Financial Advisor to the Authority John Crawley confirmed that it was once again possible to open the structure to shipping, following an engineering review. A lack of funding meant the process couldn't happen until recently, he said.

As part of the overhaul, work has been carried out on the bridge itself, and contractors were tasked with "reprogramming an opening device," Crawley said.

"Its not like a Sky box remote control. You have to make sure that it's a secure system, so there are layers of security."

An Irish-based firm carried out the reprogramming, and that aspect of the work cost around €1,800, Crawley said.

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Easy to laugh, but who among us hasn't lost a remote control to something we own?

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The Pittsburgh police scanner keeps giving. Thank you people of Pittsburgh!

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And for the grand finale...

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The Harlem Globetrotters played their first game on this date in 1927. Sweet Georgia Brown in their honor for the big ONT finish.

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Written correspondence can be sent to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Are you lurking ?? Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 10:00 PM




Comments

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1 "His winnowing fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor, and gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire."

Be like wheat.

Posted by: mindful webworker - goes by fast at January 07, 2026 10:00 PM (dESj/)

2 Ding a ling

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 10:00 PM (xvXg6)

3 Now we know how the moose out front can tell us all that stuff.

Posted by: mikeski at January 07, 2026 10:01 PM (nhCoE)

4 Shenanigans!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 07, 2026 10:01 PM (5hqcu)

5 Be like wheat.
Posted by: mindful webworker

Oblivion is looking pretty good to me.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 07, 2026 10:02 PM (gKWVE)

6 I think that moose is AI.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 10:03 PM (ExV1e)

7 Good evening good people.

Anything of note happen today?

My prediction for 2026 is that PDJT will keep up the pressure in all areas. Areas we haven't even considered yet.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 07, 2026 10:03 PM (cYBz/)

8 It's a nice day
For a white wedding...

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 07, 2026 10:03 PM (JkO4W)

9 How exactly do you get so stuck in a recliner that it needs the fire department?

Posted by: Ian S. at January 07, 2026 10:04 PM (P9pDS)

10 I got to see the REAL Harlem Globetrotters as a 7 year-old. Meadowlark Lemon was the MC and Curly Neel was the dribbling machine. As a 11-year old, I got to see the other version with Goose Tatum as MC. Fun times!

Posted by: Crusader at January 07, 2026 10:04 PM (Cjcf6)

11 Now we know how the moose out front can tell us all that stuff.
Posted by: mikeski at January 07, 2026 10:01 PM (nhCoE)

Can he tell us whether we should try to buy land in Greenland?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 07, 2026 10:04 PM (uQesX)

12 Easy to laugh, but who among us hasn't lost a remote control to something we own?
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I need a minimum of three remote controls to watch a television show in my office.

1. Turn on sound bar.
2. Turn on television.
3. Use Roku remote or Blu-Ray remote, depending on what I'm watching.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 07, 2026 10:04 PM (ESVrU)

13 Did The Grateful get you a Tacosaurus Rex for Tacosaurus Tuesdays, TRex? It would certainly be less of a headache than an animatronic of any size.

If not, Amazon has them in stock.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 07, 2026 10:05 PM (S/Y4j)

14 Sorry I'm late, I was having my crystal ball defragmented.

Posted by: tankdemon at January 07, 2026 10:05 PM (ZoXoN)

15 My prediction for 2026 is that PDJT will keep up the pressure in all areas. Areas we haven't even considered yet.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 07, 2026 10:03 PM (cYBz/)

Pretty stoked about the directive to stop these corporations from buying single family homes!

That horseshit should have never been allowed.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 07, 2026 10:05 PM (5hqcu)

16

in lieu of recent US Conquest of c-list countries.
1. Venezula
2. greenlnd

Trump should announce next on the list :

3. Ukraine

what is the Mockingbird reaction ?

Posted by: shitzenKane at January 07, 2026 10:06 PM (5LiC7)

17 How exactly do you get so stuck in a recliner that it needs the fire department?
Posted by: Ian S. at January 07, 2026 10:04 PM (P9pDS)

My 600 pound life.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 07, 2026 10:06 PM (uQesX)

18 I got to see the REAL Harlem Globetrotters as a 7 year-old. Meadowlark Lemon was the MC and Curly Neel was the dribbling machine.

I met Curly Neal in the mid 90s after he'd retired. Super nice guy.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 07, 2026 10:06 PM (P9pDS)

19 How exactly do you get so stuck in a recliner that it needs the fire department?
Posted by: Ian S. at January 07, 2026 10:04 PM (P9pDS)

My 600 pound life.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 07, 2026 10:06 PM (uQesX)
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Yep. I weigh less than a third of that and I find it a bit of a chore to get out my recliner when I'm stretched out to the full extent.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 07, 2026 10:07 PM (ESVrU)

20 Seen on sign:

Boris and Natasha say Russian Collusion work of Moose and Squirrel.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 07, 2026 10:07 PM (S/Y4j)

21 Push the lever forward.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 10:07 PM (IGnEY)

22 14 Sorry I'm late, I was having my crystal ball defragmented.
Posted by: tankdemon at January 07, 2026 10:05 PM (ZoXoN)

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No. De-cohered.

Posted by: Hugh Everett at January 07, 2026 10:07 PM (JkO4W)

23 >>> 7 Good evening good people.

Anything of note happen today?

My prediction for 2026 is that PDJT will keep up the pressure in all areas. Areas we haven't even considered yet.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 07, 2026 10:03 PM (cYBz/)

I want to see the next WEF meeting in Davos attacked by 50-foot chickens.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 07, 2026 10:07 PM (ULPxl)

24 Can he tell us whether we should try to buy land in Greenland?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 07, 2026 10:04 PM (uQesX)

Send Delta to snatch the Danish PM and force her to listen to speeches by Kamala Harris until she signs over ownership to Greenland. -- The Moose

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 10:07 PM (ExV1e)

25 Just under average on the finance quiz, and part of the giant tie for third on the events quiz. Time to send the Magic 8-Ball in for a tune-up.

And my financial decision to just own big funds and not try to pick individual stocks seems sound.

Posted by: mikeski at January 07, 2026 10:07 PM (nhCoE)

26 Yep. I weigh less than a third of that and I find it a bit of a chore to get out my recliner when I'm stretched out to the full extent.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 07, 2026 10:07 PM (ESVrU)

Get one with a remote.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 07, 2026 10:07 PM (uQesX)

27 Thanks for the mighty Wednesday Night ONT, T-Rex!

And thank you for compiling the list of prediction winners. This is, after all, a smart military blog!

And once again the Pittsburgh scanner does not fail to entertain. Hope the recliner dude/'ette was able to be freed from the chair.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at January 07, 2026 10:08 PM (kB9dk)

28 How exactly do you get so stuck in a recliner that it needs the fire department?
Posted by: Ian S.

My 600 pound life.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

An old EMT buddy of mine told the tale of a callout whereby an amorous couple, grossly obese, became stuck by suction in a bathtub.

It wasn't pretty for any one.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 07, 2026 10:08 PM (cYBz/)

29 Perhaps if Walz actually does activate the Guard and orders them to impede ICE we will find out what I have wondered for years...will rank and file military actually follow orders from people they probably don't identify with to attack people they probably do identify with. We have already learned that big city cops follow the orders of whoever controls their pension...

Posted by: Azjaeger at January 07, 2026 10:08 PM (3/XaG)

30 >>> 24 Can he tell us whether we should try to buy land in Greenland?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 07, 2026 10:04 PM (uQesX)

Send Delta to snatch the Danish PM and force her to listen to speeches by Kamala Harris until she signs over ownership to Greenland. -- The Moose
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 10:07 PM (ExV1e)

She would probably enjoy that.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 07, 2026 10:08 PM (ULPxl)

31 I want to see the next WEF meeting in Davos attacked by 50-foot chickens.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 07, 2026 10:07 PM (ULPxl)

I'd like to see them attacked by 30 foot ants, from the movie "Them!".

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 07, 2026 10:09 PM (S/Y4j)

32 I want to see the next WEF meeting in Davos attacked by 50-foot chickens.

I'd settle for Hellfire missiles.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 07, 2026 10:09 PM (P9pDS)

33 Welcome To The Future - good start for the night (along with the moose out front). Hard to believe that song was posted 16 years ago.

Posted by: mindful webworker - goes by fast at January 07, 2026 10:09 PM (dESj/)

34 She would probably enjoy that.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 07, 2026 10:08 PM (ULPxl)

Danish PM snatch?

Does she look anything like Sanna Marin?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 07, 2026 10:10 PM (uQesX)

35 9 How exactly do you get so stuck in a recliner that it needs the fire department?
Posted by: Ian S. at January 07, 2026 10:04 PM (P9pDS)

I'm thinking the guy's favorite food is "another serving, please."

Posted by: tankdemon at January 07, 2026 10:10 PM (ZoXoN)

36 I’m going to predict that if the riots get going in MN that a lot of Somali daycare centers will be burnt down in all of the chaos.

This unfortunate incident is too good to pass up when you can never let a good crisis go to waste.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 07, 2026 10:11 PM (6ydKt)

37 32 I want to see the next WEF meeting in Davos attacked by 50-foot chickens.

I'd settle for Hellfire missiles.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 07, 2026 10:09 PM (P9pDS)

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Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 07, 2026 10:11 PM (JkO4W)

38 You know, Tampon Tim really is an idiot. Trump is gonna stomp his stupid ass.

In other thoughts, nature is amazing. I was watching that liberty mutual commercial where Lemu emu and Doug are sky diving. Emus haven't flown in a million plus years, let Limu still tucks the landing gear when his feet leave the ground. He is, after all, still a bird.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at January 07, 2026 10:11 PM (PV3WW)

39 I'd settle for Hellfire missiles.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 07, 2026 10:09 PM (P9pDS)

Bayoneting.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 07, 2026 10:11 PM (uQesX)

40 My crystal ball doesn't work well. But guessing popcorn won't be a bad investment for 2026.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 07, 2026 10:11 PM (Cw/ar)

41 13 Did The Grateful get you a Tacosaurus Rex for Tacosaurus Tuesdays, TRex? It would certainly be less of a headache than an animatronic of any size.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 07, 2026 10:05 PM
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Everyone needs a good nachosaurus in the house! But I'm not giving up on the large scale dino. fwiw, the nachosaurus featured in the Dec 20 ONT!

Posted by: TRex - nacho dino at January 07, 2026 10:11 PM (IQ6Gq)

42 How exactly do you get so stuck in a recliner that it needs the fire department?
Posted by: Ian S.

I do not know.

On an unrelated note, anyone got some Listerine?

Posted by: The Jaws of Life at January 07, 2026 10:11 PM (nhCoE)

43 Military Firepower Analysis: Texas National Guard vs. Venezuelan Army
By Antonio Graceffo Jan. 7, 2026 9:30 am
https://shorturl.at/4bXPM
Gateway Pundit

This guy is a Moron in spirit... if he were a lurker he'd know the TX Horde probably outguns the VZ army.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 07, 2026 10:12 PM (ULPxl)

44 Danish PM snatch?

Does she look anything like Sanna Marin?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 07, 2026 10:10 PM (uQesX)

Imma go with no on that.

https://tinyurl.com/ycvtcdcw

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 10:12 PM (ExV1e)

45 My crystal ball doesn't work well. But guessing popcorn won't be a bad investment for 2026.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 07, 2026 10:11 PM (Cw/ar)

There is a kernel of truth there.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 07, 2026 10:12 PM (uQesX)

46

Emergency! had an episode with a guy stuck in a recliner.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 07, 2026 10:12 PM (pkeXY)

47 Yeah, Captain Custard is really hoping this shooting takes the focus on his historic fraud.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 07, 2026 10:12 PM (5hqcu)

48 Apollo Rex, thank you for the Wednesday ONT!! I look forward each week to the Pittsburgh scanner news - it's a lovely little amuse bouche for the count down to the weekend!!

Posted by: moki at January 07, 2026 10:13 PM (wLjpr)

49 Send Delta to snatch the Danish PM and force her to listen to speeches by Kamala Harris until she signs over ownership to Greenland. -- The Moose

Someone on X suggested that Princess Isabella of Denmark should marry Barron, and then Greenland would be the dowry. I don't think she's hawt enough for Barron though.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 07, 2026 10:13 PM (P9pDS)

50 Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 07, 2026 10:13 PM (zZu0s)

51 in lieu of recent US Conquest of c-list countries.
1. Venezula
2. greenlnd

Trump should announce next on the list :

3. Ukraine

what is the Mockingbird reaction ?

I'd say we just leave #3 on the list temporarily vacant, but intimate that we're considering France, Belgium, and the UK.

Posted by: Crusader at January 07, 2026 10:13 PM (Cjcf6)

52 31 I want to see the next WEF meeting in Davos attacked by 50-foot chickens.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 07, 2026 10:07 PM (ULPxl)

I'd like to see them attacked by 30 foot ants, from the movie "Them!".


They never did make a sequel to that..love to see that storyline, with the ants not being defeated til well after that

Posted by: Azjaeger at January 07, 2026 10:14 PM (3/XaG)

53 22 14 Sorry I'm late, I was having my crystal ball defragmented.
Posted by: tankdemon at January 07, 2026 10:05 PM (ZoXoN)

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No. De-cohered.
Posted by: Hugh Everett at January 07, 2026 10:07 PM (JkO4W)

I meant defragmented, as in, i smashed it into itty-bitty fragments after the terrible job it did in my 2025 predictions, so now somebody has to put it back together.

Posted by: tankdemon at January 07, 2026 10:14 PM (ZoXoN)

54 What is a moose douch? Amuse abuse? A moose boosh?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 07, 2026 10:14 PM (5hqcu)

55 Those poor guys on Emergency! Every time they sat down to eat or do some ironing, the alarm went off.

Posted by: PA Dutchman at January 07, 2026 10:14 PM (h/O4U)

56 Imma go with no on that.

https://tinyurl.com/ycvtcdcw
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 10:12 PM (ExV1e)

Looks like her embrace would be Iceland, not Denmark.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 07, 2026 10:15 PM (uQesX)

57 Moose Knuckles.

Now you know.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 07, 2026 10:15 PM (/lPRQ)

58 Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Gibson played for the Globetrotters in 1956 before deciding on baseball. He was an amazing physical specimen.

Posted by: Cardinal Great at January 07, 2026 10:16 PM (oftw2)

59 /willpower

But the most important reason to let the Left go violent (instead of trying to reason with them) is you guys.

If we postpone Civil War 2, and the walls come down after you're gone, do you really trust the next generation to defend the Republic from the Marxists? They'll make a hash of it, either Surrender Gracefully or go too far in the other direction by installing a 4th Reich or some other nonsense. Nope sorry, this has to go down on your watch

Posted by: Fen at January 07, 2026 10:16 PM (ciYHQ)

60 I meant defragmented, as in, i smashed it into itty-bitty fragments after the terrible job it did in my 2025 predictions, so now somebody has to put it back together.
Posted by: tankdemon at January 07, 2026 10:14 PM (ZoXoN)

Don't look at us.

Posted by: All Tankdemon's Horses and All Tankdemon's Men at January 07, 2026 10:16 PM (uQesX)

61 Does this guy Walz have ANY sane advisors? Seems like we had a national tussle about 160 years ago about the relative forces of states and the federal government. The states, unfortunately, lost. I really do not know what he thinks can happen here that MIGHT turn out good.

Posted by: LRob in OK at January 07, 2026 10:16 PM (47diA)

62 Send Delta to snatch the Danish PM and force her to listen to speeches by Kamala Harris until she signs over ownership to Greenland.

I bet Denmark isn't even going to be consulted. And Trump will bring ice cream to the head Eskimo in the luxurious Capitol Igloo.

Posted by: t-bird at January 07, 2026 10:17 PM (3arSl)

63 In other news, Bluebell the Hen is preening over the much more appropriate place for the delicious, nutritious egg in the new food pyramid.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 07, 2026 10:17 PM (ULPxl)

64 52 31 I want to see the next WEF meeting in Davos attacked by 50-foot chickens.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 07, 2026 10:07 PM (ULPxl)

I'd like to see them attacked by 30 foot ants, from the movie "Them!".


They never did make a sequel to that..love to see that storyline, with the ants not being defeated til well after that
Posted by: Azjaeger at January 07, 2026 10:14 PM (3/XaG)

I just like the poetic justice of this proclaiming "You will eat ze bugs" eaten by bugs.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 07, 2026 10:17 PM (S/Y4j)

65 If we postpone Civil War 2, and the walls come down after you're gone, do you really trust the next generation to defend the Republic from the Marxists? They'll make a hash of it, either Surrender Gracefully or go too far in the other direction by installing a 4th Reich or some other nonsense. Nope sorry, this has to go down on your watch
Posted by: Fen at January 07, 2026 10:16 PM (ciYHQ)


Well, get on with it then. Matlock starts at 9.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 07, 2026 10:17 PM (5hqcu)

66 54 What is a moose douch? Amuse abuse? A moose boosh?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 07, 2026 10:14 PM (5hqcu)

lol

It's a fancy word for a small hors d'oeuvres. I'm trying to be classy!

Posted by: moki at January 07, 2026 10:17 PM (wLjpr)

67 Congrats Publius Redux and PaleRider. Thanks for putting it together, Dino.

Posted by: scampydog at January 07, 2026 10:18 PM (41CYW)

68 It's a fancy word for a small hors d'oeuvres. I'm trying to be classy!
Posted by: moki at January 07, 2026 10:17 PM (wLjpr)

So, classy Moose Munch?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 07, 2026 10:18 PM (uQesX)

69 I will not shed a tear if the protesters in Minneapolis burn what's left of that shithole to the ground tonight.
Then we can salt the earth where the city once stood and leave no trace.
Like Carthage.

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at January 07, 2026 10:18 PM (MNCvZ)

70 Pittsburgh Scanner @pgh_scanner • Dec 23, 2025
Shadyside. 715 North Highland Avenue - Perfect Smile Dental. Caller said that some angry patient is threatening to beat up the dentist for doing a bad job.

That dentist sets expectations too high. Was the patient's smile perfect? No? Bad job, then.

Posted by: Pretty Decent Smile Dental at January 07, 2026 10:19 PM (nhCoE)

71 62 Send Delta to snatch the Danish PM and force her to listen to speeches by Kamala Harris until she signs over ownership to Greenland.

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Did you say "snatch"? Have you seen a picture of her?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 07, 2026 10:19 PM (JkO4W)

72 It's a fancy word for a small hors d'oeuvres. I'm trying to be classy!

Posted by: moki at January 07, 2026 10:17 PM (wLjpr)

It's wasted. No one here is wearing pants.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 07, 2026 10:19 PM (5hqcu)

73 You know who else had a crystal ball?

Posted by: Lalique Glass Art Co. at January 07, 2026 10:19 PM (oftw2)

74 the protesters in Minneapolis

Do they have their professionally prepared signs deployed?

Posted by: LRob in OK at January 07, 2026 10:19 PM (47diA)

75
So, classy Moose Munch?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 07, 2026 10:18 PM (uQesX)

The kind with dark chocolate and macadamia nuts!!

Posted by: moki at January 07, 2026 10:20 PM (wLjpr)

76 I got to see the REAL Harlem Globetrotters as a 7 year-old. Meadowlark Lemon was the MC and Curly Neel was the dribbling machine. As a 11-year old, I got to see the other version with Goose Tatum as MC. Fun times!
Posted by: Crusader at January 07, 2026 10:04 PM (Cjcf6)

Pretty sure that I got to see them in the early '60's, and Meadowlark Lemon was on the court.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 07, 2026 10:20 PM (8zz6B)

77 Congrats Publius Redux and PaleRider. Thanks for putting it together, Dino.

Posted by: scampydog at January 07, 2026 10:18 PM (41CYW)

+1
And a 2026 challenge would be fun, Mr. Dino. It looks to be quite a year.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 07, 2026 10:20 PM (Cw/ar)

78 10 I got to see the REAL Harlem Globetrotters as a 7 year-old. Meadowlark Lemon was the MC and Curly Neel was the dribbling machine. As a 11-year old, I got to see the other version with Goose Tatum as MC. Fun times!
Posted by: Crusader at January 07, 2026 10:04 PM (Cjcf6)

Probably the first or second sporting event I ever went to, or in this case, was taken to ...

Saw the Globetrotters at the old Cleveland Arena on Euclid Ave. in the early 60's.

Posted by: browndog goes for the ball fake at January 07, 2026 10:20 PM (3sXRv)

79 After watching the Left meltdown today for the thousandth time, I was reminded that it's 13 day until we complete the first year of Trump's second term. If he keeps bringing the hammer and tongs to the Left for the next 3 years that he has for the last 1, we may actually see substantive, lasting change for the better after just one term. Amazing.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 07, 2026 10:20 PM (ycI94)

80 27 Thanks for the mighty Wednesday Night ONT, T-Rex!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at January 07, 2026 10:08 PM
***
You are very welcome. Thanks for being here!

Posted by: TRex - tacosaurus dino at January 07, 2026 10:21 PM (IQ6Gq)

81 Does this guy Walz have ANY sane advisors?

One of the biggest problems in the modern world is... THE ALGORITHM.

The MSM, of course, has long said what the left wants it to say but social media... social media tries to give you content which will keep you engaged. So, particularly if you're on the left, it also tells you what you already think. And it never tells you anything else.

It's not that his advisors are insane. It's that, literally, everything they see, or hear, anywhere, tells them that EVERYONE supports them and that they're totally right.

Now, an intelligent person would question that, if for no other reason than the 2024 election results. But, while they may be sane, they're also stupid.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 10:21 PM (ExV1e)

82 Oh, snap! My keyboard has been conquered by the Typosaurus Maximus!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 07, 2026 10:21 PM (S/Y4j)

83 Willowed not willpower. Sheesh.

See what I mean?

Posted by: Fen at January 07, 2026 10:21 PM (ciYHQ)

84
Princess Noor is more than hot enough for Barron.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 07, 2026 10:22 PM (w6EFb)

85 On an Oklahoma note, Geese Ausbie was a Globetrotter from Crescent, Oklahoma. Just information.

Posted by: LRob in OK at January 07, 2026 10:22 PM (47diA)

86 *Rolls over *. Meow, purr purt

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at January 07, 2026 10:22 PM (w3u3d)

87 The Harlem Globetrotters first game was played in my town. They've been back a couple times to play on anniversary dates. Very cool to see them play in a small high school gym; they had to adjust their show to allow for the smaller venue. Shorter court and shorter ceiling screwed up a bunch of their trick plays.

Posted by: Baron Munchausen at January 07, 2026 10:22 PM (C1NyB)

88 Perhaps tankdemon's tardiness is reflected in his poor prediction results. Son, you're only cheating yourself.

Posted by: Johnny On The Spot at January 07, 2026 10:22 PM (oftw2)

89 Did you say "snatch"? Have you seen a picture of her?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 07, 2026 10:19 PM (JkO4W)

I have, albeit after I posted, and I will confess that it turned out to be a poor word choice.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 10:22 PM (ExV1e)

90 This Somali shit is apparently an iceberg.

Libs of TikTok:

BREAKING: Somalia’s Ambassador to the UN just DELETED his Linkedin after HHS confirmed my reporting that he was involved in a taxpayer funded healthcare company convicted of Medicaid fraud.

What else is he hiding??

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 07, 2026 10:23 PM (5hqcu)

91 48 Apollo Rex, thank you for the Wednesday ONT!! I look forward each week to the Pittsburgh scanner news - it's a lovely little amuse bouche for the count down to the weekend!!

Posted by: moki at January 07, 2026 10:13 PM
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Thank you! Non-fiction continues to outpace fiction for entertainment value.

Posted by: TRex - amused dino at January 07, 2026 10:24 PM (IQ6Gq)

92 Princess Noor is more than hot enough for Barron.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 07, 2026 10:22 PM (w6EFb)

She may be a bit long in the tooth, though, at 33. She is also unmarried, no known 'boyfriend', and a history of supporting LGBT causes.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 10:24 PM (ExV1e)

93 Forgot! Thanks for the ONT, TRex.

Posted by: LRob in OK at January 07, 2026 10:24 PM (47diA)

94 The MSM, of course, has long said what the left wants it to say but social media... social media tries to give you content which will keep you engaged. So, particularly if you're on the left, it also tells you what you already think. And it never tells you anything else.

That's not actually always true. It is known that view time and engagement goes up if you show people things they violently disagree with because it triggers the "someone is wrong on the Internet" reflex everyone has. X's algorithm definitely works that way if you switch from "Following" to "For You", although Elon says they're trying to make it l less contentious.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 07, 2026 10:24 PM (P9pDS)

95 I'm starting to think Somalis aren't on the up and up.

Posted by: Nigerian Prince at January 07, 2026 10:24 PM (2QL9g)

96 I will not shed a tear if the protesters in Minneapolis burn what's left of that shithole to the ground tonight.
Then we can salt the earth where the city once stood and leave no trace.
Like Carthage.
----

Yep. And ditto for NYC...and LA. "Sure", your votes were rigged and you didn't have a "fair fight". But you sure stuck around and posed and preened for a very, very long time. So you get to taste the suck. You should have stood up. You didn't. Sucks to be you.

Posted by: Crusader at January 07, 2026 10:25 PM (Cjcf6)

97 58 Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Gibson played for the Globetrotters in 1956 before deciding on baseball. He was an amazing physical specimen.

Posted by: Cardinal Great at January 07, 2026 10:16 PM
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Wow. Excellent trivia nugget.

Posted by: TRex - hoopster dino at January 07, 2026 10:25 PM (IQ6Gq)

98 That Pittsburgh deer was faking the injury to get drugs.

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 07, 2026 10:25 PM (0Htd1)

99 It's Shaboink Day!

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 07, 2026 10:25 PM (wVcYX)

100 I got to see the REAL Harlem Globetrotters as a 7 year-old. Meadowlark Lemon was the MC and Curly Neel was the dribbling machine.
Posted by: Crusader

The Harlem Globetrotters aren't real. They were on Scooby-Doo, fer cryin' out loud.

Posted by: mikeski at January 07, 2026 10:26 PM (nhCoE)

101 93 Forgot! Thanks for the ONT, TRex.

Posted by: LRob in OK at January 07, 2026 10:24 PM
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Yessir. How's the truck running these days?

Posted by: TRex - chief mechanic dino at January 07, 2026 10:26 PM (IQ6Gq)

102 Well, get on with it then. Matlock starts at 9
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Awesome. I'll start ammo drops ASAP.

What's 7.62 in old-timer speak?

Posted by: Fen at January 07, 2026 10:26 PM (ciYHQ)

103 The Harlem Globetrotters aren't real. They were on Scooby-Doo, fer cryin' out loud.
Posted by: mikeski

=====

And Gilligan's island

Posted by: 2009Refugee at January 07, 2026 10:27 PM (8AONa)

104 92 Princess Noor is more than hot enough for Barron.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 07, 2026 10:22 PM (w6EFb)

She may be a bit long in the tooth, though, at 33. She is also unmarried, no known 'boyfriend', and a history of supporting LGBT causes.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 10:24 PM (ExV1e)

Smart kid, I mean what's wrong with older women ... ???

Posted by: Emmanuel Macron at January 07, 2026 10:27 PM (3sXRv)

105 Insanity or evil, you make the call!
DUH-DUH-DUH~

@WesternLensman
Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey: “We as Democrats are anti-crime."

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 07, 2026 10:27 PM (mlg/3)

106 Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Gibson played for the Globetrotters in 1956 before deciding on baseball. He was an amazing physical specimen.
Posted by: Cardinal Great
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Wow. Excellent trivia nugget.
Posted by: TRex - hoopster dino

The reverse Michael Jordan. Neat.

Posted by: mikeski at January 07, 2026 10:27 PM (nhCoE)

107 It makes me smile knowing a bunch of idiots are marching in the freezing cold in Minnesota for something that will never happen. Ever.

At least some of them will get some much needed exercise.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 07, 2026 10:27 PM (5hqcu)

108 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Don't know if it's the Christmas Crud that the grandsons "gifted" us over the holidays or the new chemo that I am on, or a combination of both which made me sleep ALL DAY today, but that's what I did! Yesterday, I was up and doing things - not a lot, but maybe I did too much. I keep forgetting that I am only 4 weeks out from pretty major surgery...

Hubby says if I need to sleep, I should sleep. He's such a wonderful guy - I am so very lucky to have him 💕💕💕

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 07, 2026 10:27 PM (SRRAx)

109 Truck runs fine. I almost never park it on private property!

Posted by: LRob in OK at January 07, 2026 10:28 PM (47diA)

110 Napoleon Bonaparte got his start by being the military officer who brought rioters under control when the civil authorities were unable to do so.

"History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes."

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 07, 2026 10:28 PM (fQkFf)

111 Mmmm. Princess Noor.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 07, 2026 10:28 PM (JkO4W)

112 The Harlem Globetrotters aren't real. They were on Scooby-Doo, fer cryin' out loud.

Posted by: mikeski at January 07, 2026 10:26 PM (nhCoE)

Scooby Doo wasn't real? What you talkin' about, Willis?

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 07, 2026 10:28 PM (Cw/ar)

113 What else is he hiding??
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 07, 2026 10:23 PM (5hqcu)

Just going by recent precedent, I’m going to say about $25 million.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 07, 2026 10:29 PM (6ydKt)

114 Get one with a remote.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 07, 2026 10:07 PM (uQesX)

Just get any body part stuck in the mechanism before activating.

Posted by: javems at January 07, 2026 10:29 PM (IOi0I)

115 What's 7.62 in old-timer speak?
Posted by: Fen at January 07, 2026 10:26 PM (ciYHQ

Commie rounds?

I need Murica .308 please.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 07, 2026 10:29 PM (5hqcu)

116 Napoleon Bonaparte got his start by being the military officer who brought rioters under control

In the US, see Dwight D. Eisenhower c.1932 or so.

Posted by: LRob in OK at January 07, 2026 10:29 PM (47diA)

117 It is known that view time and engagement goes up if you show people things they violently disagree with because it triggers the "someone is wrong on the Internet" reflex everyone has.
Posted by: Ian S.

Obligatory:

https://xkcd.com/386/

Posted by: mikeski at January 07, 2026 10:30 PM (nhCoE)

118 @39/OrangeEnt: "Bayoneting."

I've got a whole bunch of sharpened stakes that are desperately in need of adornment.

Posted by: Vlad III at January 07, 2026 10:31 PM (O7YUW)

119 unstuck that is. Oh forget it.

Posted by: javems at January 07, 2026 10:31 PM (IOi0I)

120 88 Perhaps tankdemon's tardiness is reflected in his poor prediction results. Son, you're only cheating yourself.
Posted by: Johnny On The Spot at January 07, 2026 10:22 PM (oftw2)

I hate to admit it, but Inactually got all my predictions from the local palm reader, Claire Vuyenns.

Posted by: tankdemon at January 07, 2026 10:31 PM (ZoXoN)

121 Seems like a dream now, it was so long ago, but in High School, the coaches played the Globetrotters. It was truly amazing how, with all their skills and tricks, they kept letting the coaches score, so the game stayed close. The Globetrotters won, of course. Great entertainment.

Posted by: mindful webworker - sometimes I wonder if I really remember something or just dreamed it at January 07, 2026 10:31 PM (dESj/)

122 Should we do a 2026 prediction challenge?
=
Sure.

I *might* be more optimistic this year.

Posted by: Methos at January 07, 2026 10:32 PM (vSvIl)

123 > I need a minimum of three remote controls to watch a television show in my office.

I need one. HDMI can carry control signals. So the remote for the Apple TV (and presumably other devices) will also turn on the television it is attached to and the stereo the television is attached to (or possibly the other way around, I set it up several years ago). That remote also controls volume.

Since I watch television through a DVR, which uses an app on the Apple TV box, the one remote also controls changing channels.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 07, 2026 10:32 PM (EXyHK)

124 Barron, by some accounts, is the real life Paolo since he hit college. I guess they're willing to give up liberalism for a real 6-6-6, LOL.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 07, 2026 10:32 PM (P9pDS)

125 “It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy.”
—George Orwell, 1984

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 07, 2026 10:32 PM (5hqcu)

126 121 Seems like a dream now, it was so long ago, but in High School, the coaches played the Globetrotters. It was truly amazing how, with all their skills and tricks, they kept letting the coaches score, so the game stayed close. The Globetrotters won, of course. Great entertainment.
Posted by: mindful webworker - sometimes I wonder if I really remember something or just dreamed it at January 07, 2026 10:31 PM (dESj/)

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You said it, Sparky.

Posted by: The GOPe at January 07, 2026 10:33 PM (JkO4W)

127 >>>My prediction for 2026 is that PDJT will keep up the pressure in all areas. Areas we haven't even considered yet.
Posted by: Tonypete
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The man has got a plan and he is executing it
with precision.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 10:33 PM (xvXg6)

128 No Harlem Globetrotters at my high school. We only got Donkey Basketball put on by the Jaycees, and the resulting Donkey doody.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 07, 2026 10:33 PM (Cw/ar)

129 Last time the Gl9betrotters "came home:"

https://hinckleyhistoricalsociety.org/harlem-globetrotters/

Posted by: Baron Munchausen at January 07, 2026 10:33 PM (C1NyB)

130 Obligatory:

https://xkcd.com/386/
Posted by: mikeski at January 07, 2026 10:30 PM (nhCoE)

Sadly, they also did this:

https://xkcd.com/1732/

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 10:33 PM (ExV1e)

131 Teresa, praying for good rest and healing for you.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at January 07, 2026 10:34 PM (nz1sK)

132 No Harlem Globetrotters at my high school.

Me neither, but we did get President Reagan at my high school and that definitely didn't suck.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 07, 2026 10:34 PM (P9pDS)

133 Predictions: Iran’s government will fall within days, military caretaker govt first, then the return of the Shah with a constitutional monarchy.

Cuba will take about 2 months to fall. Unknown how messy it will be. The remnants of Maduro’s regime will give up any opposition to the US after that, Cuba’s fall will suck the spirit out of them.

Under that pressure Columbias president should be replaced by the end of the year, and the narco traffic in the gulf should be markedly reduced.

A consequence of Iran’s fall is the life will be sucked out of Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthi. They may still exist but will have far less power and influence.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 07, 2026 10:34 PM (ukUWv)

134 TiFW, recovery happens while you rest. Rest away, all day if needed!

Posted by: LRob in OK at January 07, 2026 10:34 PM (47diA)

135 116 Napoleon Bonaparte got his start by being the military officer who brought rioters under control

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A whiff of grapeshot, mon frere.

Posted by: Bonaparte at January 07, 2026 10:35 PM (JkO4W)

136 I know what that Moose out front is thinking.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 10:35 PM (xvXg6)

137 That Pittsburgh caller who thinks that everyone should know that her boss is boinking a co-worker is delusional. EVERYONE knows, and they're all laughing about it. Principal doing a teacher. School system superintendent doing the secretary. Dentist doing the receptionist. Insurance agency manager doing a secretary. One lesbian principal doing another lesbian principal. Have I sat at many a Happy Hour listening to friends talking about the goings on at their workplaces? Why, yes I have.

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 07, 2026 10:35 PM (0Htd1)

138 Barron, by some accounts, is the real life Paolo since he hit college. I guess they're willing to give up liberalism for a real 6-6-6, LOL.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 07, 2026 10:32 PM (P9pDS)

Tall, good looking, rich, politically connected... yeah, they'd give up a lot for that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 10:35 PM (ExV1e)

139 Did The Grateful get you a Tacosaurus Rex for Tacosaurus Tuesdays, TRex? It would certainly be less of a headache than an animatronic of any size.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 07, 2026 10:05 PM
***
Everyone needs a good nachosaurus in the house! But I'm not giving up on the large scale dino. fwiw, the nachosaurus featured in the Dec 20 ONT!
Posted by: TRex - nacho dino
*******
And where do I see acknowledgement that I got TRex a
TRex dino like he asked? No, not a Tacosaurus Rex, but one for property like he requested.
And no, he is not getting a different one for each day of the week....seriously....

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at January 07, 2026 10:36 PM (IQ6Gq)

140 Napolean was an artillerist.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 10:36 PM (IGnEY)

141 Tall, good looking, rich, politically connected... yeah, they'd give up a lot for that.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 10:35 PM (ExV1e)

So would I ...

Posted by: Emmanuel Macron at January 07, 2026 10:36 PM (3sXRv)

142 The all the Pahlavi ladies are cute:

https://farahpahlavi.org/
princess-noor-pahlavi/

I’m thinking Princess Noor is married with two (cute) daughters and all, though.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 07, 2026 10:37 PM (6ydKt)

143 9 How exactly do you get so stuck in a recliner that it needs the fire department?
Posted by: Ian S.
Probably weighs in at about 400 lbs.

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 07, 2026 10:37 PM (0Htd1)

144 @130/I used to have a different nic: "Sadly, they also did this:"

Ah yes. That was about the time I removed that bookmark.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 07, 2026 10:37 PM (O7YUW)

145 140 Napolean was an artillerist.
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 10:36 PM (IGnEY)

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Amateurs talk tactics. Professionals talk logistics.

Posted by: Bonaparte at January 07, 2026 10:37 PM (JkO4W)

146 ...with all their skills and tricks, they kept letting the coaches score, so the game stayed close. The Globetrotters won, of course. Great entertainment.

Posted by: mindful webworker - sometimes I wonder if I really remember something or just dreamed it at January 07, 2026 10:31 PM (dESj/)
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And the coaches went home with big glowies.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 10:37 PM (xvXg6)

147 I hate to admit it, but Inactually got all my predictions from the local palm reader, Claire Vuyenns.
Posted by: tankdemon

You need a full-time psychic, not one who moonlights in a band.

https://youtu.be/nRkqZB0NgDo

Posted by: mikeski at January 07, 2026 10:38 PM (nhCoE)

148 TIFW, rest is your body's best friend. All you have to do is listen to what your body says and then act accordingly - you will not regret it.

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at January 07, 2026 10:38 PM (IQ6Gq)

149 Congratulations,Teresa. Sleep the deep sleep of little children.


Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 07, 2026 10:38 PM (vmHN+)

150 No Harlem Globetrotters at my high school.

Me neither, but we did get President Reagan at my high school and that definitely didn't suck.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 07, 2026 10:34 PM (P9pDS)

How cool is that?

We were too insignificant to get big names. We got prisoners from the state pen in the "Scared Straight" program. They were there to discourage budding felons. I never got a parking ticket, so they were effective.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 07, 2026 10:38 PM (Cw/ar)

151 110 Napoleon Bonaparte got his start by being the military officer who brought rioters under control when the civil authorities were unable to do so.”

I was always a bit amused by the next step. 2 senior politicians thought they should run things, and invited Napoleon to be the muscle in their new Triumvirate. They greatly underestimated him - within a year, they were both gone , and he wasn’t.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 07, 2026 10:40 PM (ukUWv)

152 Alright, Scarymary! Team Tres! Woo woo!

Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 10:40 PM (p4NUW)

153 "History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes."

“History, we know, is apt to repeat herself, and to foist very old incidents upon us with only a slight change of costume.” — George Eliot (Scenes of Clerical Life)

“It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man’s character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.” — Mark Twain (Eruption: Hitherto Unpublished Pages About Men and Events)

“If you learn only one lesson of history, make it this one: history repeats itself until it doesn’t.” — Mark Steyn, The Face of the Tiger

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 07, 2026 10:40 PM (EXyHK)

154 Big congrats to Pale Rider.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at January 07, 2026 10:40 PM (xcxpd)

155 >> ’m thinking Princess Noor is married with two (cute) daughters and all, though.

It's the middle daughter that's married. Princess Noor isn't. Don't know about the youngest.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 07, 2026 10:41 PM (w6EFb)

156 How exactly do you get so stuck in a recliner that it needs the fire department?
Posted by: Ian S.
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Be almost 80, about 70# overweight, a double mastectomy survivor with a myriad of other health issue, primarily sedentary, and the power fails while you are in an electric recliner.

A relative.

Posted by: buddhaha at January 07, 2026 10:41 PM (B50Ud)

157 Alright, Scarymary! Team Tres! Woo woo!

Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 10:40 PM (p4NUW)

*fistbump*

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 07, 2026 10:41 PM (Cw/ar)

158 Another baseball/basketball trivia item, not Globetrotters, but NBA. Actor Chuck Connors played in both MLB and NBA before going into acting. About a dozen people have done that.

Posted by: Spouting Off at January 07, 2026 10:42 PM (oftw2)

159 We were too insignificant to get big names. We got prisoners from the state pen in the "Scared Straight" program. They were there to discourage budding felons.
-----

We were the high school on the "right" side of town, where we'd turn ourselves in if we dropped chewed gum in the parking lot. The "Scared Straight" program would have been highly entertaining. We knew we were unusual, and were still capable of a sense of humor.

Posted by: Crusader at January 07, 2026 10:42 PM (Cjcf6)

160
Middle daughter wedding:
https://is.gd/hrJzYX

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 07, 2026 10:42 PM (w6EFb)

161 Another baseball/basketball trivia item, not Globetrotters, but NBA. Actor Chuck Connors played in both MLB and NBA before going into acting. About a dozen people have done that.
Posted by: Spouting Off at January 07, 2026 10:42 PM (oftw2)

Guy couldn't keep a job for nothing.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 07, 2026 10:42 PM (uQesX)

162 The Shah has no male heir.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 10:43 PM (IGnEY)

163
I'm trying not to get my hopes up too much about Iran. But it's hard not to now. Please, please, please.....

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 07, 2026 10:43 PM (w6EFb)

164 The Shah has no male heir.

He should try some of that stuff advertised on TV. Results within days. Or an implant!

Posted by: LRob in OK at January 07, 2026 10:44 PM (47diA)

165 Don't know the sequence but he's got a plan for hemispherical independence with no foreign, IE Russian, Chinese, or communist, interference.

helicópteros en el aire



Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 10:44 PM (xvXg6)

166 I was always a bit amused by the next step. 2 senior politicians thought they should run things, and invited Napoleon to be the muscle in their new Triumvirate. They greatly underestimated him - within a year, they were both gone , and he wasn’t.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 07, 2026 10:40 PM (ukUWv)

That is sort of how Pinochet came to power

Posted by: Kindltot at January 07, 2026 10:44 PM (rbvCR)

167 Lurkers?

https://tinyurl.com/26ecjvdj

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 07, 2026 10:44 PM (CHHv1)

168 162 The Shah has no male heir.
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 10:43 PM (IGnEY)

---------

Does Salic law apply here? The frogs were big into Salic law.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 07, 2026 10:44 PM (JkO4W)

169 >> The Shah has no male heir.

That's why Noor is the crown princess. She's next in line after Shah, Jr.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 07, 2026 10:44 PM (w6EFb)

170 The Mullahs have been in charge of Iran since I was a kid. I wish the best for those who want free of them.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 07, 2026 10:44 PM (Cw/ar)

171 Teresa, yes, a good sleep reset with all the work your body is doing right now makes sense. I am glad you rested.

Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 10:45 PM (p4NUW)

172 Congrats to Publius and to PaleRider, those are impressive wins.

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at January 07, 2026 10:45 PM (IQ6Gq)

173 An old EMT buddy of mine told the tale of a callout whereby an amorous couple, grossly obese, became stuck by suction in a bathtub.

It wasn't pretty for any one.
Posted by: Tonypete

I'm going to assume they put on gloves for the job.

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 07, 2026 10:45 PM (0Htd1)

174 more correctly

helicópteros arriba

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 10:45 PM (xvXg6)

175 151 110
I was always a bit amused by the next step. 2 senior politicians thought they should run things, and invited Napoleon to be the muscle in their new Triumvirate. They greatly underestimated him - within a year, they were both gone , and he wasn’t.
Posted by: Tom Servo

This is becoming the story of the Saturday ONT Former Troika. I predicted Sept. 24 as the day of the Immolation, but was off by several months.

Posted by: (Doof Is Napoleon) at January 07, 2026 10:45 PM (oftw2)

176 I need a minimum of three remote controls to watch a television show in my office.
1. Turn on sound bar.
2. Turn on television.
3. Use Roku remote or Blu-Ray remote, depending on what I'm watching.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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Get a "universal" remote, one that programs by pointing the "original" remote at it, get it set up, remove the batteries from the other three remote, store them in a zip lock bag someplace col and dry and secure. That's for when the programmable fails.
Oh, yeah... write down where you stored them.

Posted by: buddhaha at January 07, 2026 10:47 PM (B50Ud)

177 In the US, see Dwight D. Eisenhower c.1932 or so.
Posted by: LRob in OK at January 07, 2026 10:29 PM

Oh yeah! The clearing out of the "Bonus Army" encampment. Major Eisenhower was there, along with Major Patton, and the commander was General Douglas MacArthur.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 07, 2026 10:48 PM (fQkFf)

178 An old EMT buddy of mine told the tale of a callout whereby an amorous couple, grossly obese, became stuck by suction in a bathtub.

It wasn't pretty for any one.
Posted by: Tonypete

I'm going to assume they put on gloves for the job.
Posted by: nerdygirl

Full hazmat suits, I hope.

Which were later burned.

By a guy in yet another hazmat suit.

Posted by: mikeski readies his ten-foot pole at January 07, 2026 10:48 PM (nhCoE)

179
I was just reading. The Shah succession was supposed to be male only per the last rules in effect before the revolution. But something about a woman could be regent if the heir was too young.

So, naming Noor as Crown Princess may just be something Shah Jr did on his own.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 07, 2026 10:49 PM (w6EFb)

180 When the time comes, obviously it will be Marco Rubio,

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 07, 2026 10:50 PM (ukUWv)

181 How exactly do you get so stuck in a recliner that it needs the fire department?
Posted by: Ian S. at January 07, 2026 10:04 PM (P9pDS)

Electricity goes out? (ask me how I know - at 5'0", the legs are too short to get down to the ground)

Picture an upside-down turtle with all 4 appendages waving in the air, and you have a pretty good idea of what I looked like the last time we temporarily lost power. And it was in the middle of a workday, so Mr. TiFW wasn't around to help me get out...

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 07, 2026 10:51 PM (SRRAx)

182 This just in: Jodie Foster is weird.

Some bullshit internet entity had the nerve to present an article I was supposed to take seriously. I tried. I couldn't. All I could take from her "out" bullshit is that Jodie Foster is a weird person. Jodie, you've been out for longer than most of us have worn long pants.

Can all of the lesbians and fags just quietly go about their business and leave the rest of us alone?

Posted by: Crusader at January 07, 2026 10:51 PM (Cjcf6)

183 When the time comes, obviously it will be Marco Rubio,
Posted by: Tom Servo

Ol' Marco is going to be mighty busy!

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at January 07, 2026 10:51 PM (IQ6Gq)

184 >>I want to see the next WEF meeting in Davos attacked by 50-foot chickens.

Probably want to hold off on the chickens. Trump is going to Davos and bringing the whole team.

Sounds like he's to shock and awe the globalists.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 07, 2026 10:51 PM (viF8m)

185 It would have been funny if someone would have walked up to that Irish bridge with a universal remote and opened it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 07, 2026 10:51 PM (ukUWv)

186 What else is he hiding??
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 07, 2026 10:23 PM (5hqcu

----

Possibly was one of the Somali pirates that captured the huge Saudi oil tanker, MV Sirius Star in 2008. Well, maybe, he could've been... Or some other nefarious pirate s***
.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 07, 2026 10:52 PM (23TAa)

187 Pity cops or rescue called out for a deceased person not found for days or weeks. The smell of human decomp is like no other, you will never forget it once you experience it. Large animal decomp is very nasty, but humans are much worse.

Posted by: Been There at January 07, 2026 10:52 PM (oftw2)

188 All you have to do is listen to what your body says
——

Now that’s BS, because my body says “You should really eat that 2nd candy bar” after inhaling a whole Pizza and wiping out the Ice Cream.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 07, 2026 10:53 PM (ZSOHG)

189 Excerpt from John Carter's Substack Blog Postcards from Barsoom:

Canadian liberals, for example, are not actually worried that a Delta Force team will rappel down from an MH-47G Chinook Special Operations Helicopter to blackbag Prime Minister Mark Carney from 24 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1M 1M4, and not only because the inadequate security of the traditional prime minister’s domicile has motivated Carney to instead take up residence at Rideau Cottage, 1 Sussex Drive, where he is usually home by 9 pm with his wife Diana. The concern is much more general: that the beleaguered Canadian people, along with those of the rest of the rotting West, will look at the remarkable results obtained by regime decapitation in the United States, and start getting ideas.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 07, 2026 10:53 PM (rbvCR)

190 How exactly do you get so stuck in a recliner that it needs the fire department?
Posted by: Ian S. at January 07, 2026 10:04 PM (P9pDS)

Electricity goes out? (ask me how I know - at 5'0", the legs are too short to get down to the ground)

Picture an upside-down turtle with all 4 appendages waving in the air, and you have a pretty good idea of what I looked like the last time we temporarily lost power. And it was in the middle of a workday, so Mr. TiFW wasn't around to help me get out...

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 07, 2026 10:51 PM (SRRAx)

I was going to guess someone getting stuck when a power recliner failed. Sorry it happened to you, Teresa!

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 07, 2026 10:53 PM (Cw/ar)

191 When the time comes, obviously it will be Marco Rubio,
----

I suppose Marco may have a few windows on his calendar where he could devote....6?....8? hours a week to running Iran? As long as the US is providing military cover, that sounds about right--6 or 8 hours a week, for Shah Rubio.

Posted by: Crusader at January 07, 2026 10:54 PM (Cjcf6)

192 Spudboy, I think MacArthur was the Army Chief of Staff at the time. Later, he called Eisenhower the "best clerk" in his staff.

Posted by: LRob in OK at January 07, 2026 10:54 PM (47diA)

193 Pity cops or rescue called out for a deceased person not found for days or weeks. The smell of human decomp is like no other, you will never forget it once you experience it. Large animal decomp is very nasty, but humans are much worse.
Posted by: Been There
********
This x1000%

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at January 07, 2026 10:54 PM (IQ6Gq)

194 184 >>I want to see the next WEF meeting in Davos attacked by 50-foot chickens.

Probably want to hold off on the chickens. Trump is going to Davos and bringing the whole team.

Sounds like he's to shock and awe the globalists.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 07, 2026 10:51 PM (viF8m)

It moved

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at January 07, 2026 10:55 PM (xcxpd)

195 Can all of the lesbians and fags just quietly go about their business and leave the rest of us alone?
Posted by: Crusader

....."rhetorical questions" for $300, Alex.

Posted by: mikeski at January 07, 2026 10:56 PM (nhCoE)

196 And where do I see acknowledgement that I got TRex a
TRex dino like he asked? No, not a Tacosaurus Rex, but one for property like he requested.
And no, he is not getting a different one for each day of the week....seriously....
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at January 07, 2026 10:36 PM (IQ6Gq)

This is what happens when I miss a few ONTs. I miss all the important news.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 07, 2026 10:56 PM (S/Y4j)

197 ——

Now that’s BS, because my body says “You should really eat that 2nd candy bar” after inhaling a whole Pizza and wiping out the Ice Cream.
Posted by: Common Tater
------

Whitman's Sampler's are so much fun. But.
I can only eat one. Box that is.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 10:56 PM (xvXg6)

198 Been thinking lately… kind of a butterfly effect thing.

You know how, if you see an asteroid pointed at earth, and you want to send nukes to change its trajectory, the further out you hit it, the less force it takes to change its course.

The Angels, natural super mathematicians that they are (they're the ones who guesstimate the number of hairs on your head), would know exactly how far back you have to intervene to change the course of events.

So, for example, they only need to tilt Donald Trump's head ever so slightly so the bullet only nicks his ear… and the entire subsequent course of human events we're seeing now results.

Pretty nifty.

https://www.mindfulwebworks.com/
best-of-spirits/kreml-shampoo-ad-249x480.jpg

Posted by: mindful webworker - ping at January 07, 2026 10:56 PM (dESj/)

199 192 Spudboy, I think MacArthur was the Army Chief of Staff at the time. Later, he called Eisenhower the "best clerk" in his staff.
Posted by: LRob in OK at January 07, 2026 10:54 PM (47diA)

MacArthur had a real eye for talent. He didn't want said talent to ever rival him, but he knew how to find good men and promote them.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at January 07, 2026 10:56 PM (xcxpd)

200 Chuck Norris has decided to run for Congress in Texas' 43rd Congressional District.

The area is heavily Democrat and hasn't had a Republican representative in more than 30 years.

Norris is already ahead of incumbent Jon Raebro by 11 points.

That's yet another seat from the Lone Star State as they do their best to save American democracy from the communists.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 10:57 PM (KMPdZ)

201 We have our Boston massacre/KENT STATE! Time to wave the bloody shirt! As Malcolm X said "by any means necessary!" This is why we have a second amendment that the democrat party's corporate establishment masters keeps trying to disarm the proletariat! Throwing snowballs and yelling shame! Don't get it

Posted by: raimondo at January 07, 2026 10:58 PM (/tlXn)

202 How exactly do you get so stuck in a recliner that it needs the fire department?
Posted by: Ian S.

Electricity goes out? (ask me how I know - at 5'0", the legs are too short to get down to the ground)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth

That's a reason to be stuck in a recliner.

It's not a reason for the cop who shows up to help you get out needing to call for backup with specialized equipment.

Posted by: mikeski at January 07, 2026 10:59 PM (nhCoE)

203 200 Chuck Norris has decided to run for Congress in Texas' 43rd Congressional District.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 10:57 PM
***
Chuck Norris doesn't run for office. The office runs to attract Chuck Norris.

Posted by: TRex - political consultant dino at January 07, 2026 10:59 PM (IQ6Gq)

204 And Ike said MacArthur was the best actor he ever knew.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 10:59 PM (xvXg6)

205 And where do I see acknowledgement that I got TRex a
TRex dino like he asked? No, not a Tacosaurus Rex, but one for property like he requested.
And no, he is not getting a different one for each day of the week....seriously....
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at January 07, 2026 10:36 PM (IQ6Gq)

I must have missed seeing this! Details/pics, please 😊😊😊

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 07, 2026 11:00 PM (SRRAx)

206 Rainmandodo is a tween girl, right?

Posted by: JQ at January 07, 2026 11:00 PM (rdVOm)

207 Night all. 3:30 is coming quick.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 11:01 PM (KMPdZ)

208 Evenin’, All.

Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2026 11:01 PM (77rzZ)

209 Chuck Norris is 85 friggin' years old. All the cool stuff aside, he is 85.

Jeeze, just enjoy the grandkids and a nice rocking chair.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at January 07, 2026 11:02 PM (0aYVJ)

210 205 I must have missed seeing this! Details/pics, please 😊😊😊

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 07, 2026 11:00 PM
***
Its a long story and a very tall tale but need to honor Operational Security. Maybe some day...

Posted by: TRex - low profile dino at January 07, 2026 11:02 PM (IQ6Gq)

211 Someone on X suggested that Princess Isabella of Denmark should marry Barron, and then Greenland would be the dowry. I don't think she's hawt enough for Barron though.
Posted by: Ian S
-----
Sacrifices must be made.
Lie back and think of England.
European royalty has a much more... relaxed... attitude toward a discreet mistress or two.
There! That settles it. Get Rubio busy.

Posted by: buddhaha at January 07, 2026 11:02 PM (B50Ud)

212 Not getting much attention, but there is a trial of a cop going on in Texas, and I hope he’s found guilty as hell. One of the first responders to the Uvalde School massacre a couple years ago. Even though he had the opportunity to do something early, he hid out for an hour and a half while the shooter killed all those kids.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 07, 2026 11:02 PM (ukUWv)

213 Whitman's Sampler's are so much fun. But.
I can only eat one. Box that is.

--------

*eyeroll*

*SNORT*

Posted by: See's Candy at January 07, 2026 11:03 PM (nWPIJ)

214 This just in: Jodie Foster is weird.

True, but she looked damn fine in the movie Maverick.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 07, 2026 11:03 PM (ycI94)

215 Sometimes I wake up screaming, “Papa, papa!” but he’s not there.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 07, 2026 11:03 PM (Ouxay)

216 JQ, he has the emotions and lack of logic of a tween girl, but claims to be a Nascar fan. Who knows.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 07, 2026 11:03 PM (Cw/ar)

217 FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 47 YEARS, IRAN'S REGIME HAS LOST CONTROL ⚠

https://tinyurl.com/4nvar8fr

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 11:03 PM (xvXg6)

218 217 FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 47 YEARS, IRAN'S REGIME HAS LOST CONTROL ⚠

https://tinyurl.com/4nvar8fr

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 11:03 PM (xvXg6)

They keep eating, and eating...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at January 07, 2026 11:04 PM (xcxpd)

219 You haven't heard Sweet Georgia Brown until you hear Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown, and NHOP.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ypd1YGW5Huw

Posted by: Otto Zilch at January 07, 2026 11:04 PM (Ws2ua)

220 126 121 Seems like a dream now, it was so long ago, but in High School, the coaches played the Globetrotters. It was truly amazing how, with all their skills and tricks, they kept letting the coaches score, so the game stayed close. The Globetrotters won, of course. Great entertainment.
Posted by: mindful webworker - sometimes I wonder if I really remember something or just dreamed it at January 07, 2026 10:31 PM (dESj/)

--- The faculty at my high school played an annual basketball exhibition game against Notre Dame football players. ND went easy on them. Somebody had a good network to make it happen , but my high school is now gone.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 07, 2026 11:04 PM (FJh8P)

221 Its a long story and a very tall tale but need to honor Operational Security. Maybe some day...
Posted by: TRex
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Oh, phooey. Was looking forward to pics!

Please tell us you were able to order one of those Christmas Dino inflatables for the yard.

Btw, was going to ask *that one house* owners, if I could take a picture of their yard full of dino's-- but their decorations were all different this year! Bummer. Should've sneaked a picture last Christmas.

Posted by: JQ at January 07, 2026 11:06 PM (rdVOm)

222 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 07, 2026 11:09 PM (sAmhv)

223 I have to admit I thought Rubio was kind of a RINO when he was a Senator. I am truly amazed by his performance as SoS. I won't live long enough to see it, but I have high hopes for both Rubio and Vance once Trump's second term is completed.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at January 07, 2026 11:10 PM (DK5Sh)

224 Electricity goes out? (ask me how I know - at 5'0", the legs are too short to get down to the ground)

I get that. I got semi-stuck in a power recliner when Sandy hit in 2013. Had no power for a week afterwards. Fortunately I'm tall enough that I could get out, but it was awkward.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 07, 2026 11:10 PM (AIhUY)

225 "Should we do a 2026 prediction challenge?"
------------------------------------------

YES!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 07, 2026 11:12 PM (QGaXH)

226 I hope you have all learned a lesson about powered recliners! Don't buy them! Stay with yer tried-and-true mechanical devices just like we had back in my youth!

Posted by: LRob in OK at January 07, 2026 11:13 PM (47diA)

227 I have fallen in love with Goldie Ghamari.
Been watching her for 2 hours.
Off to content.

Posted by: Reforger at January 07, 2026 11:13 PM (/DVTj)

228 Chuck Norris has decided to run for Congress in Texas' 43rd Congressional District.
----

I kid you not, THIS is the kind of *sacrifice* that I wish others would embrace. Chuck could just sit on the sideline. But he's out there. He'll take *ridiculous* questions. And somebody somewhere will pop up out of nowhere and claim he was "handsy" when he 16-years old and took them to the movies. But he's out there nonetheless, to give the Rs another vote they've done little to nothing to deserve. The Republicans would have 100 seats in the house and 30 in the Senate if it weren't for President Trump. My brother-in-law is loosely affiliated with the state Republican party. I remind him about once a month "Make sure they know we hate them."

Posted by: Crusader at January 07, 2026 11:15 PM (Cjcf6)

229 I hope you have all learned a lesson about powered recliners! Don't buy them! Stay with yer tried-and-true mechanical devices just like we had back in my youth!

I'm actually having a propane generator installed this month. That's the other way to never get stuck.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 07, 2026 11:16 PM (AIhUY)

230 It seems to me that Walz is doing his best to trade a normal, run-of-the-mill felony (fraud) for a capital felony (treason).

Well, no one ever accused him of being bright.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 07, 2026 11:17 PM (IG3/x)

231 Yay, I wasn't completely off in my predictions!

Camped out on the couch so I can bolt to the bathroom if needed. Tomorrow's going to suuuuuuuck: 1.5 hr car ride (Pooky's going to drive and bring along gallon ziplock bags), ultrasound to confirm that Lil Pookette is up in heaven, then an utterly miserable car ride back home. I just want it over with.

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day...

Posted by: pookysgirl was an English major, obviously at January 07, 2026 11:18 PM (Wt5PA)

232 @visegrad24 . 2h

An important message from Crown Prince @PahlaviReza to the Iranian soldiers and security forces currently serving the Islamic Regime in Iran.

It’s time to switch sides and join the people…
_Pahlavi Reza

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 11:19 PM (xvXg6)

233 @216 I am a fan of certain drivers not the organization. The arca girls will be out racing this weekend at daytona in a test. (Arca RoY) Isabella Robusto, Jade Avedisian, Amber Balcaen and Taylor Reimer. Hopefully Kaylee Bryson and Lanie Buice. You can watch their races on youtube. Natalie Decker will race in what ever Xfinity is called now if she can get a ride. Toni Breidinger will try and drive in trucks. Katherine Legge will try and get rides to do the double at phoenix.

Posted by: raimondo at January 07, 2026 11:19 PM (/tlXn)

234 Posted by: Kindltot at January 07, 2026 10:53 PM (rbvCR)

Clearly US Special Forces who have spent the last 30 years running Covert Combat Operations all over the world, would be no match for 3 Canadian Mounties!

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 11:20 PM (mP0Kj)

235 Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day...
Posted by: pookysgirl was an English

I am so sorry. I hate you have to travel so far for this.

Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 11:20 PM (p4NUW)

236 {{{pookysgirl}}}

Posted by: JQ at January 07, 2026 11:21 PM (rdVOm)

237 The Horde has spoken. There is interest in a 2026 prediction challenge. I will get to work.

Is a week enough for tankdemon to repair his crystal ball?

Posted by: TRex - Chuck Norris campaign manager dino at January 07, 2026 11:23 PM (IQ6Gq)

238 Hmmm,

@Breaking911 34m
BREAKING: At least 8 shot, 2 fatally, in shooting at Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, police say

A funeral was taking place at the time.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 07, 2026 11:23 PM (mlg/3)

239 It's interesting that after Kent State, after the war protests, after the media beating the drums for the Democrats, Nixon won in a landslide in '72.
Just a history lesson for you, Raimondo.

Posted by: Wally at January 07, 2026 11:23 PM (0e5Te)

240 > Does Salic law apply here? The frogs were big into Salic law.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 07, 2026 10:44 PM (JkO4W)

I don't think they have a hard-and-fast rule. Remember, the Pahlavi family has only been Shahs since 1925, and the the first one wasn't even a noble, just a soldier that the Brits put in charge.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 07, 2026 11:23 PM (IG3/x)

241 236 {{{pookysgirl}}}
Posted by: JQ at January 07, 2026 11:21 PM
***
Ditto.

Prayers for all.

Posted by: TRex at January 07, 2026 11:25 PM (IQ6Gq)

242
The era that began in Iran in 1979 has ended, and the ‘Counter-Revolution’ began in 2026! Despite Khamenei's declaration of ‘war,’ the nation of 92 million people is not leaving the streets. From Tehran to Tabriz, police stations are falling, women are burning their mandatory veils, and most importantly, signals of a coup are emerging from within the Iranian Army, under the banner of ‘Lion and Sun.’

In this video, we analyse how the theocratic regime collapsed after 47 years and the footsteps of the Shah:

youtu.be/jqYQVtiqW5g

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 11:26 PM (xvXg6)

243 I appreciate her beauty, but I'm not sure Pahlavi should be out front on this. People may question putting their lives on the line if the result is to become a puppet state of the West. Not saying that's what they'd be, but there is a certain feel of that among some Iranians.

Posted by: Wally at January 07, 2026 11:28 PM (0e5Te)

244 238 Hmmm,

@Breaking911 34m
BREAKING: At least 8 shot, 2 fatally, in shooting at Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, police say

A funeral was taking place at the time.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 07, 2026 11:23 PM (mlg/3)

Carry everywhere.
Yes, even at church.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at January 07, 2026 11:29 PM (xcxpd)

245 The era that began in Iran in 1979 has ended, and the ‘Counter-Revolution’ began in 2026! Despite Khamenei's declaration of ‘war,’ the nation of 92 million people is not leaving the streets. From Tehran to Tabriz, police stations are falling, women are burning their mandatory veils, and most importantly, signals of a coup are emerging from within the Iranian Army, under the banner of ‘Lion and Sun.’

In this video, we analyse how the theocratic regime collapsed after 47 years and the footsteps of the Shah:

youtu.be/jqYQVtiqW5g

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 11:26 PM (xvXg6)

Too bad The Iron Sheik didn't live to see it.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 07, 2026 11:29 PM (uQesX)

246 Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day...
Posted by: pookysgirl was an English major, obviously

Prayers for continued strength, sweet sister...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 07, 2026 11:30 PM (nbLIj)

247 @239 None the less Saigon is now called Ho Chi Minh city. PS Don't give me an excuse to talk about my girls in auto racing as I will go on for ever! I don't know what Haile Deegan is doing. I don't think she knows either. see what I mean.

Posted by: raimondo at January 07, 2026 11:30 PM (/tlXn)

248 Carry everywhere.
Yes, even at church.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

Especially at church.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 07, 2026 11:30 PM (cYBz/)

249 The era that began in Iran in 1979 has ended, and the ‘Counter-Revolution’ began in 2026! Despite Khamenei's declaration of ‘war,’ the nation of 92 million people is not leaving the streets. From Tehran to Tabriz, police stations are falling, women are burning their mandatory veils, and most importantly, signals of a coup are emerging from within the Iranian Army, under the banner of ‘Lion and Sun.’
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I hope its true.

And I hope the Mullahs hang from the lamp posts.

And that afterwards their bodies are fed to hogs.

Posted by: Crusader at January 07, 2026 11:30 PM (Cjcf6)

250 I have fallen in love with Goldie Ghamari.
Been watching her for 2 hours.
Off to content.
Posted by: Reforger


Linky?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 07, 2026 11:30 PM (/lPRQ)

251 223 I have to admit I thought Rubio was kind of a RINO when he was a Senator. I am truly amazed by his performance as SoS. I won't live long enough to see it, but I have high hopes for both Rubio and Vance once Trump's second term is completed.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at January 07, 2026 11:10 PM (DK5Sh)

Hey now.
Ace said no more dying.
And yes, me too.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at January 07, 2026 11:31 PM (xcxpd)

252 Let’s hope those cocksuckers in Iran get what they deserve. Free Persia now!

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 07, 2026 11:32 PM (Ouxay)

253 So sorry for you pookysgirl.

Btw who socked Raimondo? That post is a topic out of left field, but it was surprisingly coherent.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 07, 2026 11:32 PM (ukUWv)

254 Thanks for the hugs and prayers, guys. I know I've been kind of depressing these last few weeks, but I'm pretty isolated, especially during the holidays and now being sick (no Bible Study for me today).

E-hugs back, guaranteed to be germ-free!

Posted by: pookysgirl, posting on a seies of tubes at January 07, 2026 11:32 PM (Wt5PA)

255 It seems to me that Walz is doing his best to trade a normal, run-of-the-mill felony (fraud) for a capital felony (treason).

Well, no one ever accused him of being bright.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Not even me myself!

Posted by: Timmy "Knucklehead" Walz at January 07, 2026 11:32 PM (nhCoE)

256 @GrageDustin
·
1h
🚨 BREAKING: Minneapolis Public Schools just CANCELED school for the remainder of the week, citing safety concerns.

They will not even be allowing E-learning.

Posted by: Don Black at January 07, 2026 11:33 PM (ZxPkt)

257 I hope its true.

And I hope the Mullahs hang from the lamp posts.

And that afterwards their bodies are fed to hogs.
Posted by: Crusader at January 07, 2026 11:30 PM (Cjcf6)

According to that Goldie, most people in Iran aren't Muslim anymore. Mosques are closing at a fast rate. Wouldn't be surprised if the whole thing gets overthrown.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 07, 2026 11:33 PM (uQesX)

258 250 I have fallen in love with Goldie Ghamari.
Been watching her for 2 hours.
Off to content.
Posted by: Reforger


Linky?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 07, 2026 11:30 PM (/lPRQ)

She's a hot brunette. She has an Instagram but it's not sexy.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at January 07, 2026 11:33 PM (xcxpd)

259 🚨 BREAKING: Minneapolis Public Schools just CANCELED school for the remainder of the week, citing safety concerns.

They will not even be allowing E-learning.

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Of course not--posting an E-learning class would require *work*, and union/communist teachers despise work.

Posted by: Crusader at January 07, 2026 11:35 PM (Cjcf6)

260 @FoxNews . 7:00

'DECISIVE RESPONSE': Iran's military chief threatens preemptive action after Trump warns the U.S. is "locked and loaded" if the regime kills protesters amid massive unrest.
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Is he saying that we should, ah, unlock the safe?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 11:35 PM (xvXg6)

261 @GrageDustin 1h
🚨 BREAKING: Minneapolis Public Schools just CANCELED school for the remainder of the week, citing safety concerns.

They will not even be allowing E-learning.
Posted by: Don Black

Well, yeah, the teachers all have protests to attend. If they had to record e-learning videos, too, they'd have to be paid overtime. Union rules.

Posted by: mikeski at January 07, 2026 11:36 PM (nhCoE)

262 No problem, pookysgirl. Life ain't always rosy. Sorry you're going through a wringer lately!

We're here for ya.

Posted by: JQ at January 07, 2026 11:37 PM (rdVOm)

263 Btw who socked Raimondo? That post is a topic out of left field, but it was surprisingly coherent.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 07, 2026 11:32 PM (ukUWv)

I mentioned upthread recalling Raimondo (or someone socking him) liking Nascar. He chimed in rather pleasantly for a change.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 07, 2026 11:37 PM (Cw/ar)

264 Too bad The Iron Sheik didn't live to see it.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

The Iron Sheik (pretended to be) on the side of the Mullahs right after the 1979 Revolution. It helped make people hate him, which is the goal of any heel. I remember him saying "the Ayatollah Khomeini is behind us, the Ayatollah Beheshti is behind us"....

Then he teamed with Nikolai Volkov, the Russian, to win the tag-team belt. They were HATED!!

Posted by: WWF Follies at January 07, 2026 11:38 PM (oftw2)

265 According to that Goldie, most people in Iran aren't Muslim anymore. Mosques are closing at a fast rate. Wouldn't be surprised if the whole thing gets overthrown.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

This gives me hope that one day, the same can happen to New York. And Texas.

Posted by: mindful webworker - mullahing it over at January 07, 2026 11:39 PM (dESj/)

266 Linky?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 07, 2026 11:30 PM (/lPRQ)

Here's one: https://tinyurl.com/ms64yx4r

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 07, 2026 11:39 PM (uQesX)

267 It's 8:00 AM in Tehran.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 11:41 PM (xvXg6)

268 "Lion and Sun". That was the emblem of the old Shah era Iranian flag. The mullahs replaced it with some Islamic symbol.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 07, 2026 11:41 PM (w6EFb)

269 @GrageDustin 1h
BREAKING: Minneapolis Public Schools just CANCELED school for the remainder of the week, citing safety concerns.

They will not even be allowing E-learning.
Posted by: Don Black

Oh, no. How will dem kids lear?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 07, 2026 11:41 PM (mlg/3)

270 Then he teamed with Nikolai Volkov, the Russian, to win the tag-team belt. They were HATED!!
Posted by: WWF Follies at January 07, 2026 11:38 PM (oftw2)

I remember that.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 07, 2026 11:41 PM (uQesX)

271 I want to know what country those goat-fucking mullahs land in. I want the screws placed upon them immediately. "Yes", I get it we won't go to war to demand their turnover. But I want the country that gives them asylum to feel the heat.

Posted by: Crusader at January 07, 2026 11:42 PM (Cjcf6)

272 Linky?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 07, 2026 11:30 PM (/lPRQ)

Here's one: https://tinyurl.com/ms64yx4r
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Thanks

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 07, 2026 11:43 PM (/lPRQ)

273 @GrageDustin 1h
BREAKING: Minneapolis Public Schools just CANCELED school for the remainder of the week, citing safety concerns.

They will not even be allowing E-learning.
Posted by: Don Black

Will E-learing be allowed? Think of the children.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 07, 2026 11:43 PM (Cw/ar)

274 Well, I guess I missed this earlier in the day, but Alan Jackson, the $2000/hr defense attorney, resigned as Nick Reiner's lawyer today: the accused killer is going to be represented by a public defender.

His siblings made a statement, but didn't mention his name. Apparently, they aren't paying Jackson's fee after all.

(The New York Post has the story up, plus a Page Six article.)

Posted by: Beverly at January 07, 2026 11:44 PM (reMys)

275 All 78,000 Somali daycares in the Twin Cities have also announced they would be closed for the rest of the week, leaving almost a billion kids with no place to go.
This is all on you, Trump.

Posted by: Wally at January 07, 2026 11:44 PM (0e5Te)

276 I want to know what country those goat-fucking mullahs land in. I want the screws placed upon them immediately. "Yes", I get it we won't go to war to demand their turnover. But I want the country that gives them asylum to feel the heat.
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Perhaps we should announce there will be no air traffic in our out of Iranian airspace for the next 72 hours?

Posted by: Crusader at January 07, 2026 11:45 PM (Cjcf6)

277 JD Vance:

Around 85% of the Somali population, legal and illegal, in the United States is receiving benefits. This is not to disparage the other 15% . . .

Posted by: Kindltot at January 07, 2026 11:47 PM (rbvCR)

278 Trump warns the U.S. is "locked and loaded"

"Lock and load" is the command given to shooters on a firing range. At the command, the shooter inserts a magazine into the firearm until it locks into place, and then operates the action, loading a cartridge into the firearm. The shooter is now prepared to immediately commence firing upon the command to do so.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 07, 2026 11:47 PM (fQkFf)

279 Perhaps we should announce there will be no air traffic in our out of Iranian airspace for the next 72 hours?
Posted by: Crusader at January 07, 2026 11:45 PM (Cjcf6)

If one of the air force leaders changes sides, and if they have a couple of working fighters, they can just shoot down any plane heading toward Russia if they wanted to.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 07, 2026 11:47 PM (uQesX)

280 271 I want to know what country those goat-fucking mullahs land in. I want the screws placed upon them immediately. "Yes", I get it we won't go to war to demand their turnover. But I want the country that gives them asylum to feel the heat.
Posted by: Crusader at January 07, 2026 11:42 PM (Cjcf6)

Reportedly Putin has offered them refuge. They can move on down the street from their old buddy Assad.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 07, 2026 11:48 PM (ukUWv)

281 @laderechadiario 5:00

An armed group entered and attacked the main headquarters of Iran's Revolutionary Guard in the city of Borujerd, amid massive protests against the terrorist regime

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 11:48 PM (xvXg6)

282 Per the NY Post, it's likely that Atty. Jackson pulled out of the Nick Reiner case because "Mr Green didn't show up": https://tinyurl.com/mpw2y5jr

He charges "at least a 7-figure retainer" for high-profile cases.

Posted by: Beverly at January 07, 2026 11:49 PM (reMys)

283 276 I want to know what country those goat-fucking mullahs land in.
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No wondering to it, the land of festering fools, France.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 11:49 PM (xvXg6)

284 The shooter is now prepared to immediately commence firing upon the command to do so.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy

Good to know. I thought they had to fish out their keys out of their jeans and lock the guns.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 07, 2026 11:49 PM (mlg/3)

285 Good evening morons e grazie Dino

Thanks for the predictions contest quite the data project, Bravo!

6/10 My forecasting professor would kick my butt.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 07, 2026 11:50 PM (RIvkX)

286 274 Posted by: Beverly at January 07, 2026 11:44 PM (reMys)

I suspect STRONGLY the executor of the estate (who is likely NOT one of the kids) made it clear they take their oath to protect the estate through probate and distribute it per the will made it plain there would be no "save Nicky!" 10 million buck payday.

Reiner is going for a simple not guilty would be my guess and Jackson blinked at doing it pro-bono.

I also think the initial evaluation came back not as Schizophrenia, nor Schizo-affective but simply psychopathy.

Nicky may get the hospital but he is not walking free.

Posted by: sven at January 07, 2026 11:50 PM (MUJd1)

287 >>> Dead Body Found at Disney World is SIXTH ONE in Just Three Months

And I thought the food was bad last time I was there about 20 years ago.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 07, 2026 11:51 PM (/lPRQ)

288 I want to know what country those goat-fucking mullahs land in.
---

No wondering to it, the land of festering fools, France.
-----

How long until one of them is eligible to run for President of France?

Posted by: Crusader at January 07, 2026 11:52 PM (Cjcf6)

289
1h
🚨 BREAKING: Minneapolis Public Schools just CANCELED school for the remainder of the week, citing safety concerns.

They will not even be allowing E-learning.

--------

Wait. That's E-Learing, isn't it?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 07, 2026 11:52 PM (JkO4W)

290 @laderechadiario 5:00

An armed group entered and attacked the main headquarters of Iran's Revolutionary Guard in the city of Borujerd, amid massive protests against the terrorist regime
Posted by: Braenyard

Good. I hope the protestors have competent fighters on their side taking over all of the armories right now.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 07, 2026 11:53 PM (mlg/3)

291 287 >>> Dead Body Found at Disney World is SIXTH ONE in Just Three Months

And I thought the food was bad last time I was there about 20 years ago.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 07, 2026 11:51 PM (/lPRQ)

---------

Poisoned apple aficionados hardest hit.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 07, 2026 11:53 PM (JkO4W)

292 I'm wondering if Putin is coming to the realization that he should have taken the deal that Trump offered him.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 07, 2026 11:53 PM (XV/Pl)

293 I grew up in a black neighborhood and had a basketball goal set up in our driveway. It was not unusual for different people in the neighborhood to just join in and even sometimes play when we weren’t home. While playing with a couple of friends a group of guys walked by and decided to join in. One of the guys was Edmund Lawrence , a current Harlem Globetrotter at the time.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 07, 2026 11:54 PM (KDPiq)

294 This one is for Eromero.
And for the bay fishers, that ain't choppy water.

https://tinyurl.com/2ayr94fn

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 11:54 PM (xvXg6)

295 Reportedly Putin has offered them refuge. They can move on down the street from their old buddy Assad.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 07, 2026 11:48 PM (ukUWv)

Sounds sensible to me. Keep them handy and let them plot and scheme to take Iran back, to be under the Russian umbrella.

Of course, if the exiled mullahs start fomenting rebellion within the New Russian Empire they will all suffer suddenly fatal accidents.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 07, 2026 11:54 PM (fQkFf)

296 Hey, horde! Just popping in to say I love ya'll keeping me sane these days.

Posted by: kalneva at January 07, 2026 11:55 PM (vHn9h)

297 The leftoids really do think they can kill the Feds...they are gonna need housebroken.

Posted by: sven at January 07, 2026 11:55 PM (MUJd1)

298 Diversity is our strength. I welcome the mullahs into Britain (formerly Great Britain, now Increasingly Shitty Britain)

Posted by: Keir Starmer at January 07, 2026 11:56 PM (0e5Te)

299 292 I'm wondering if Putin is coming to the realization that he should have taken the deal that Trump offered him.

Posted by: Thomas Bender
-------

What deal did he offer Putin that Zelensky was compliant with?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 11:56 PM (xvXg6)

300 I grew up in a black neighborhood and had a basketball goal set up in our driveway. It was not unusual for different people in the neighborhood to just join in and even sometimes play when we weren’t home.
----

Yes! That's the right situation! It occurs naturally when we have a "high trust society".

Democrats and weak-ass Republicans no longer believe in "high trust societies". Those politicians should be walked to the nearest rivers or ponds and then dealt with.

Posted by: Crusader at January 07, 2026 11:57 PM (Cjcf6)

301 Bingo Cards or Drinking game for State of the Union speech scheduled for Feb 24?

Take a drink every time he says:

the most beautiful you ever saw

the most in history

The best ever

the biggest ever

our beautiful military

Other suggestions?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 07, 2026 11:57 PM (QGaXH)

302 Wow. ewetub is going hard on the hagiography on the woman who tried to kill the ICE guys with her car.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 07, 2026 11:57 PM (bss/y)

303 {pookysgirl}

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 07, 2026 11:57 PM (RIvkX)

304
At this point, I don't care where the mullahs go, just so long as they go.

They all ought to hang, or suffer worse fates, but I think point, as long as they're out and I'm good.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 07, 2026 11:59 PM (w6EFb)

305 ARiK, add "Tremendous" and "yuge" to your bingo card, lol.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 07, 2026 11:59 PM (Cw/ar)

306 This is the Final Battle - The Shah Will Return!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 07, 2026 11:59 PM (RIvkX)

307 MN Somali cop shoots and kills an innocent white woman for no reason and you got crickets.

ICE in MN shoots white woman who tried to run them over. Nationwide protests.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 07, 2026 11:59 PM (KDPiq)

308 Not all of the mullahs will escape, it is not possible.

Justice is coming.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 08, 2026 12:01 AM (RIvkX)

309 Somewhere deep in a bunker in Iran is a pallet of currency earmarked for the Obamas.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 08, 2026 12:01 AM (Ouxay)

310 At this point, I don't care where the mullahs go, just so long as they go.

They all ought to hang, or suffer worse fates, but I think point, as long as they're out and I'm good.

------

All the same, I hope Israeli assassins track them each down one by one.

Posted by: Crusader at January 08, 2026 12:01 AM (Cjcf6)

311 @299

>>What deal did he offer Putin that Zelensky was compliant with?

Zelensky is a non-factor, Trump basically told Putin you can keep what the territory you've taken, but you can't take any more and basically don't think about pushing your luck in Ukraine.

It seems Putin is going to learn the hard way that you don't f**k with the Don after he has offered his hand in friendship.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 08, 2026 12:01 AM (XV/Pl)

312 Electricity goes out? (ask me how I know - at 5'0", the legs are too short to get down to the ground)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth
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Check the cha!it manufacturer's website. AFAIK, all of the offer a rechargeable battery backup that is available as a retrofit. Some of the more popular chairs have third-party kits available. Check your search-engine-of-choice (hopefully not Google).

Posted by: buddhaha at January 08, 2026 12:01 AM (B50Ud)

313 MN Somali cop shoots and kills an innocent white woman for no reason and you got crickets.

ICE in MN shoots white woman who tried to run them over. Nationwide protests.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 07, 2026 11:59 PM (KDPiq)


Yet it was big news on Oz. My buddies down there were pissed, and not in the typical Aussie way.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 08, 2026 12:02 AM (2WIwB)

314
I learned a new word: "synecdoche".

That's the term, or as close as exists for using "mullahs" to refer to the Iranian regime. It's different from a metonym, like "The White House did so and so"

So the mullahs are synec-douches.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 08, 2026 12:03 AM (w6EFb)

315
Other suggestions?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan

============

"THAT I can tell you. "

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at January 08, 2026 12:03 AM (lCaJd)

316
The Lion and Sun flag and the logo itself is strictly banned in Iran, I see. So using that is a big deal.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 08, 2026 12:03 AM (w6EFb)

317 Somewhere deep in a bunker in Iran is a pallet of currency earmarked for the Obamas.
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That Kenyan muslim fag was never legally qualified to be our President, and I hope President JD Vance bulldozes that abomination of a building.

Posted by: Crusader at January 08, 2026 12:03 AM (Cjcf6)

318 What deal did he offer Putin that Zelensky was compliant with?

Zelensky is a non-factor, Trump basically told Putin you can keep what the territory you've taken, but you can't take any more and basically don't think about pushing your luck in Ukraine.

It seems Putin is going to learn the hard way that you don't f**k with the Don after he has offered his hand in friendship.
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Given current events, I wonder if EITHER side is going to WAKE UP and realize that they're going to be forgotten entirely if they don't take advantage of something (anything) before current events change again?

Posted by: Crusader at January 08, 2026 12:06 AM (Cjcf6)

319
Shah, Jr's statements to the people of Iran are being broadcast via loudspeakers in cities all over, I'm reading.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 08, 2026 12:07 AM (w6EFb)

320 Has any Democrat come out against Trump’s support of the Iranian opposition? They sure did when Trump bombed their nuke production facilities.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 08, 2026 12:09 AM (KDPiq)

321 Somewhere deep in a bunker in Iran is a pallet of currency earmarked for the Obamas.
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That Kenyan muslim fag was never legally qualified to be our President, and I hope President JD Vance bulldozes that abomination of a building.
Posted by: Crusader at January 08, 2026 12:03 AM (Cjcf6)

So, you're saying the pallet is full of three dollar bills?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 08, 2026 12:10 AM (uQesX)

322 79 After watching the Left meltdown today for the thousandth time, I was reminded that it's 13 day until we complete the first year of Trump's second term. If he keeps bringing the hammer and tongs to the Left for the next 3 years that he has for the last 1, we may actually see substantive, lasting change for the better after just one term. Amazing.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 07, 2026 10:20 PM (ycI94)

I want a 7-2 conservative supreme court

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 08, 2026 12:11 AM (QGaXH)

323 Has Trump guaranteed Putin that Ukraine won’t become a NATO member ? I think that’s non-negotiable for Putin.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 08, 2026 12:12 AM (KDPiq)

324 Has anybody else noticed that Maduro's wife resembles Odo from Deep Space Nine...?

Posted by: As not seen on TV at January 08, 2026 12:12 AM (AZzSg)

325 All the same, I hope Israeli assassins track them each down one by one.
Posted by: Crusader


Maybe point out their safe houses to angry mobs.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 08, 2026 12:13 AM (/lPRQ)

326 Given current events, I wonder if EITHER side is going to WAKE UP and realize that they're going to be forgotten entirely if they don't take advantage of something (anything) before current events change again?
Posted by: Crusader at January 08, 2026 12:06 AM (Cjcf6)

The second there is a ceasefire, the Euros are going to plop their troops down and prepare to restart the war at any pretext. Part of the problem is preventing that.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 08, 2026 12:14 AM (rbvCR)

327 Has anybody else noticed that Maduro's wife resembles Odo from Deep Space Nine...?
Posted by: As not seen on TV at January 08, 2026 12:12 AM (AZzSg)

She was a cutie when she was young. There was a chick from Costa Rica I trying to be close to who looked just like her when I was 18.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 08, 2026 12:16 AM (rbvCR)

328 One year since the Los Angeles fires.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 08, 2026 12:17 AM (QGaXH)

329 >>What deal did he offer Putin that Zelensky was compliant with?

Zelensky is a non-factor, Trump basically told Putin you can keep what the territory you've taken, but you can't take any more and basically don't think about pushing your luck in Ukraine.

It seems Putin is going to learn the hard way that you don't f**k with the Don after he has offered his hand in friendship.
Posted by: Thomas Bender


Damn solid offer - keep what you took and stop now, z-man has no choice if you do.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 08, 2026 12:17 AM (/lPRQ)

330 307 MN Somali cop shoots and kills an innocent white woman for no reason and you got crickets.

ICE in MN shoots white woman who tried to run them over. Nationwide protests.
Posted by: Opinion fact
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Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 08, 2026 12:19 AM (xvXg6)

331 Methinks the proggies that call for armed uprisings really really dont get it. Reminds me of the Imperial Japanese thinking it was a good idea to attack the US.

Posted by: Azjaeger at January 08, 2026 12:20 AM (3/XaG)

332 saw this on X and I'm stealing it
you can too

'Lesbian Floyd'

Posted by: Don Black at January 08, 2026 12:21 AM (ZxPkt)

333 "I want to see the next WEF meeting in Davos attacked by 50-foot chickens."


ME TOO!!!

That is awesome!!!!

Posted by: pawn at January 08, 2026 12:22 AM (Rmqfl)

334 This is the darkest day for poets since the creation of the word orange.

Posted by: Wally at January 08, 2026 12:25 AM (0e5Te)

335
Just read that the "wife" of the woman killed today is saying it is her fault the woman was shot. Says she brought the woman down there.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 08, 2026 12:30 AM (3ek7K)

336 329 >>What deal did he offer Putin that Zelensky was compliant with?

Zelensky is a non-factor, Trump basically told Putin you can keep what the territory you've taken, but you can't take any more and basically don't think about pushing your luck in Ukraine.

It seems Putin is going to learn the hard way that you don't f**k with the Don after he has offered his hand in friendship.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
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... proposals aligned broadly with Russian positions but were rejected by Ukraine, and Putin reportedly refused some offers, seeking further concessions.
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It's debatable which of the two, Putin or Zelensky, was the biggest dumbass.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 08, 2026 12:31 AM (xvXg6)

337 None the less Saigon is now called Ho Chi Minh city.
Posted by: raimondo
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I'm betting not forever.
See St. Petersburg/ Lennigrad/ St. Petersburg

Posted by: buddhaha at January 08, 2026 12:34 AM (B50Ud)

338 By the way, let's discuss Cea Weaver.

IF you pretended not to know how she is, and hired her to run the local YMCA, you'd want to give her time to adapt to her new role. I bet you dollars to donuts that Cea, at the end of a month long evaluation, would be found "deficient" in her performance. She's clearly too *stupid* and *immature* to run the YMCA in Pampa, TX, or in Salina, KS.

But don't worry. She's not in charge of either of those places.

She's merely in charge of public rental housing in...New York City.

Posted by: Crusader at January 08, 2026 12:36 AM (Cjcf6)

339 fourseasons, how are you doing? I read your news about Chris. May he rest in peace.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 08, 2026 12:37 AM (Cw/ar)

340 335 Posted by: fourseasons at January 08, 2026 12:30 AM (3ek7K)

They allegedly played tag with ICE all day, she finally "got bracve"...further there is an entire class of "legal observers" who take a 4 hour class and think they are "immune bystanders" this idiot was killed by her own choices and the noise machine

Posted by: sven at January 08, 2026 12:38 AM (MUJd1)

341 It's debatable which of the two, Putin or Zelensky, was the biggest dumbass.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 08, 2026 12:31 AM (xvXg6)

or us for being involved at all.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 08, 2026 12:38 AM (mP0Kj)

342 *brave...almost voluntary coma time

Posted by: sven at January 08, 2026 12:40 AM (MUJd1)

343 279 Perhaps we should announce there will be no air traffic in our out of Iranian airspace for the next 72 hours?
Posted by: Crusader at January 07, 2026 11:45 PM (Cjcf6)

If one of the air force leaders changes sides, and if they have a couple of working fighters, they can just shoot down any plane heading toward Russia if they wanted to.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 07, 2026 11:47 PM (uQesX)

Maybe the Israelis could intercept and force them to land in Israel.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 08, 2026 12:42 AM (QGaXH)

344
Hi Mary!

I'm okay, thanks.

My husband is flying out tomorrow for Chris's funeral.

I'm home with the dogs.

I hope you are well.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 08, 2026 12:42 AM (3ek7K)

345 Crusader,
Point well taken, but you'd need to explain to New Yorkers what a "YMCA" is. They've rebranded as "The Y" because 2 of those letters in the original name are just so horrifying and non-inclusive for superior big city people.

Posted by: Wally at January 08, 2026 12:46 AM (0e5Te)

346 344 Posted by: fourseasons at January 08, 2026 12:42 AM (3ek7K)

Sorry for your loss.

Posted by: sven at January 08, 2026 12:47 AM (MUJd1)

347 Haven't heard about this

Richard Miriti@miriti55453 . 23h

U.S. COMMANDOS JUST HIT IRAN’S MISSILE SUPPLY LINE — AT SEA.

In a rare high-seas raid, U.S. special operations forces boarded a cargo ship in the Indian Ocean and seized $5 MILLION worth of Chinese-origin missile components headed for Iran.

The operation happened off Sri Lanka, under cover of darkness.

The cargo was confiscated and destroyed on site.
No arrests. No injuries. The ship was released.
This wasn’t symbolic.
It was a direct strike on Iran’s rearmament pipeline — and a warning to suppliers enabling it.

Sanctions aren’t just paperwork anymore.
They’re being enforced with boarding teams

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 08, 2026 12:47 AM (xvXg6)

348 fourseasons, safe travels to your hubby.

I am well. Hubby's about to have shoulder surgery. It will be a relief for him to finally have it repaired, but the next couple of months will not be a bundle of fun, lol.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 08, 2026 12:47 AM (Cw/ar)

349
That will be a trying time Mary.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 08, 2026 12:48 AM (3ek7K)

350

Braenyard,

Wow, that is awesome.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 08, 2026 12:50 AM (3ek7K)

351 2 feet of snow and just now it is 17 below zero. I guess we are doing winter this year. Fucking hell. Guess I should knit something until it warms up!

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 08, 2026 12:50 AM (6Bc88)

352 Duck AI

In November 2025, U.S. forces boarded the vessel several hundred miles off the coast of Sri Lanka. The ship, traveling from China to Iran, was carrying dual-use items*—materials that have both civilian and military applications. The specific cargo included components that could support Iran's conventional weapons program. Following the boarding, the U.S. forces destroyed the seized cargo but allowed the ship to proceed on its journey.

*Seized Cargo: Components potentially linked to Iran’s missile program.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 08, 2026 12:52 AM (xvXg6)

353 348 fourseasons, safe travels to your hubby.

I am well. Hubby's about to have shoulder surgery. It will be a relief for him to finally have it repaired, but the next couple of months will not be a bundle of fun, lol.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 08, 2026 12:47 AM (Cw/ar)

It will be trying, but after six weeks or so it will improve. It is remarkable how slow it seems but then it has passed and it is so much better. Be brave and press on. Prayers up.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 08, 2026 12:53 AM (6Bc88)

354 351 2 feet of snow and just now it is 17 below zero. I guess we are doing winter this year. Fucking hell. Guess I should knit something until it warms up!
Posted by: tcn in AK at January 08, 2026 12:50 AM (6Bc8

55 and clear here. Going down to 49 - brrrrr!

Turned the heat up a notch and got the extra blanket out....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 08, 2026 12:53 AM (QGaXH)

355 55 and clear here. Going down to 49 - brrrrr!

Turned the heat up a notch and got the extra blanket out....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 08, 2026 12:53 AM (QGaXH)

Weiner.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 08, 2026 12:54 AM (6Bc88)

356

28 here in Wyoming and we haven't had snow yet. We need lots of snow as the reservoir here is very low.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 08, 2026 12:56 AM (3ek7K)

357 32F here. Rain & snow mix just ended. Everything has a thin coating of clear ice now.

Will be sunny and breezy tomorrow. I'm not driving anywhere until the slippery stuff is gone!

Posted by: JQ at January 08, 2026 12:57 AM (rdVOm)

358 350
Braenyard,
Wow, that is awesome.
Posted by: fourseasons
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It was. Had to cross check and the Data is a couple of months old but the feat remains.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 08, 2026 12:57 AM (xvXg6)

359
I'm trying to see where all our carriers are out there? Sort of hard to find. Are there any in the Middle East? I think something may be up with the carriers.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 08, 2026 12:58 AM (w6EFb)

360 356

28 here in Wyoming and we haven't had snow yet. We need lots of snow as the reservoir here is very low.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 08, 2026 12:56 AM (3ek7K)

Which part? My daddy grew up on a farm in Laramie. They had a cabin in the Snowy Range. Lovely country.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 08, 2026 12:59 AM (6Bc88)

361 It will be trying, but after six weeks or so it will improve. It is remarkable how slow it seems but then it has passed and it is so much better. Be brave and press on. Prayers up.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 08, 2026 12:53 AM (6Bc8

Thank you, tcn for the prayers. This shoulder has been bothering him for a while. He delayed surgery for a work project, and is now really ready to have it. I've planned a week at a lake in April. Thinking he will feel better and we will be ready for some fun.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 08, 2026 12:59 AM (Cw/ar)

362
Braenyard,

I think Trump has more stuff going on that we don't know about.

He isn't taking any shit from people.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 08, 2026 12:59 AM (3ek7K)

363


tcn,

We are in SW Wyoming near Utah.


Posted by: fourseasons at January 08, 2026 01:01 AM (3ek7K)

364 355 55 and clear here. Going down to 49 - brrrrr!

Turned the heat up a notch and got the extra blanket out....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 08, 2026 12:53 AM (QGaXH)

Weiner.
Posted by: tcn in AK at January 08, 2026 12:54 AM (6Bc8

LOL! I rebuke myself. Besides you probably wake up to beautiful mountain views or something, I wake up to see a homeless bum pissing on my driveway....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 08, 2026 01:01 AM (QGaXH)

365 tcn, didn't you have shoulder surgery recently? Are you feeling better?

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 08, 2026 01:02 AM (Cw/ar)

366 356

28 here in Wyoming and we haven't had snow yet. We need lots of snow as the reservoir here is very low.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 08, 2026 12:56 AM (3ek7K)

Sometime I'd like to discuss life in SW Wyoming with you. We're considering it as a second home.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 08, 2026 01:04 AM (QGaXH)

367 Appears that Colin Rugg is verifing CNN's misreporting of the MN shooting.

https://tinyurl.com/mrydpnsz

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 08, 2026 01:06 AM (xvXg6)

368 Scary, best of luck to you and your husband with the upcoming surgery.

tcn, I think that I would knit myself a cocoon!

Hey Horde, read the content and a few recent comments, I hope that you are all well tonight.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 08, 2026 01:07 AM (0nHVk)

369 A lot of people seem yo be getting moist panties over the Pahlavis. If they do sorta take over I expect more stuff under drag than if, say, a military junta did.
It's been a long time, but there are still a lot of Iranians who remember Savak.

Posted by: buddhaha at January 08, 2026 01:10 AM (B50Ud)

370 Hilton cuts ties with Lakeville hotel for refusing to give rooms to DHS agents

A video published Tuesday by Nick Sortor captured a front desk worker saying, "We’re not accepting people from immigration, ICE agents, DHS into our property."
&
The Hilton's were out there today taking down the Hotel signs.
Smartass Indians

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 08, 2026 01:10 AM (xvXg6)

371
ARIK,

Where are is very rural. No Starbucks, no fast food places, etc.

Have you looked at Green River, Rock Springs and Evanston?

Posted by: fourseasons at January 08, 2026 01:10 AM (3ek7K)

372 Hi Debby. I hope you are enjoying the New Year.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 08, 2026 01:11 AM (Cw/ar)

373 I gotta remember to proof read, dammit.
Storm and drang , auto cucumber, not "stuff under drag".

Posted by: buddhaha at January 08, 2026 01:12 AM (B50Ud)

374 Hi, Debby. Hope you're staying warm. Doing ok here.

Posted by: JQ at January 08, 2026 01:13 AM (rdVOm)

375 Today striping it of the Hilton branding – EVERYTHING. Every sign, pamphlet, pencil, notepad, uniform, keycard, napkin, stationary, and roadway directional with Hilton name or logo.
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I think the Hilton’s were somewhat displeased with the smarmy anti-American Indians.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 08, 2026 01:15 AM (xvXg6)

376 371
ARIK,

Where are is very rural. No Starbucks, no fast food places, etc.

Have you looked at Green River, Rock Springs and Evanston?

Posted by: fourseasons at January 08, 2026 01:10 AM (3ek7K)

Evanston I've looked at on-line. I'd like to be near an airport with non-stop service to John Wayne (OC Airport). Fort Bridger might work too.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 08, 2026 01:15 AM (QGaXH)

377 I predict Trump will invoke the insurrection act, and it will stick. When and where depend on circumstances, but I do believe it is coming.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 08, 2026 01:16 AM (ZVgZ4)

378 373 I gotta remember to proof read, dammit.
Storm and drang , auto cucumber, not "stuff under drag".
Posted by: buddhaha at January 08, 2026 01:12 AM (B50Ud)

I was wondering.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 08, 2026 01:16 AM (QGaXH)

379
If Walz and that fag Frey let Minneapolis burn (again), Trump will invoke the IA, I'm certain.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 08, 2026 01:17 AM (w6EFb)

380 People say it's not big love for Pahlavis but desire for 21st Century vs 7th and the Pahlavis represent that.


Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 08, 2026 01:18 AM (xvXg6)

381
ARIK,

Salt Lake City Airport is the closest for nonstop flights.

Rock Springs has a very small Airport but i don't know where they fly to.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 08, 2026 01:19 AM (3ek7K)

382 Hi Scary, Hi JQ, it is kind of mild here tonight, it rained for most of the day, and it is lightly frozen and crunchy underfoot
I am having a good new year so far, living up to promises that I made to myself. The desk that I am sitting at is cleaner than it has been in a long while. A son of mine gave me a new laser printer for Christmas and it is hopefully being installed tomorrow. Progress, I guess.

JQ, you keep on hanging in there.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 08, 2026 01:20 AM (0nHVk)

383 Hilton cuts ties with Lakeville hotel for refusing to give rooms to DHS agents.
Posted by: Braenyard
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Just the one? From what I read, the 4 Indians run 3 other hotels.
Only one, if true, tells me that Hilton is doing a CYA publicity operation, and, corporately, doesn't really give a shit about Everpeak Hospitaity's actions. If they did, all 4 hotels would be out of the Hilton infrastructure.

Posted by: buddhaha at January 08, 2026 01:20 AM (B50Ud)

384 Did you mean: Sturm und Drang? Autocucumber is the pits.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 08, 2026 01:20 AM (ZVgZ4)

385
They are shouting "Long live the Shah" in the protests. And that's punishable by death.

Shah Jr is the symbol of resistance to the mullahs.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 08, 2026 01:21 AM (w6EFb)

386
Have a great night 🌙

Posted by: fourseasons at January 08, 2026 01:23 AM (3ek7K)

387 Is Walz really going to war with the federal govt? Boy’s more regarded than any of us thought.

Posted by: Really?? at January 08, 2026 01:23 AM (/HZvU)

388 381
ARIK,

Salt Lake City Airport is the closest for nonstop flights.

Rock Springs has a very small Airport but i don't know where they fly to.
Posted by: fourseasons at January 08, 2026 01:19 AM (3ek7K)

I think you've written you relocated to be closer to Grands. Did you come from a larger city or did you exchange one rural for another?

I'm not sure this is even a plan - as always it's what the wife wants to do but she has expressed an interest in getting away from here at least part of the year. We can pretty much go where we want and for as long as we want....so we'd probably be sno-birds and keep the California house for winter and stay in Wyoming enough of the year to qualify as residents.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 08, 2026 01:24 AM (QGaXH)

389
They're also waving the old flag of Iran, the one with Lion and Sun. That's also punishable by death.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 08, 2026 01:24 AM (w6EFb)

390 Our latest vid kick has been re-watching Eureka. Now we're alternating that with Warehouse 13, in broadcast order, since there will be crossovers. Nerdy, but thar 'tis.

Warehouse 13 - an entire series based on the final scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Saw the doc today who had reamed out the blood clots in me. He said I'm fine, don't come back (unless I need to, I guess). So, that was good.

Prayers for, I hardly know what; God's Will; and profound peace for pookysgirl tomorrow.

The garbage can has been wheeled out to the street for morning pickup. The dog has had her backyard run. Tomorrow morning's tasks lie ahead, so I'm going to rest up now.

To sleep, perchance to nightmare.

https://youtu.be/O5_GxRi9jKM

G'nite, y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - Be good, y'all. Love one another. Spiritually at January 08, 2026 01:25 AM (dESj/)

391 Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 08, 2026 01:24 AM (w6EFb)

Publius:

Are you the winner of the financial predictions? Or is publius redux someone else?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 08, 2026 01:27 AM (QGaXH)

392 And their socks are mismatched. Also punishable by death. And they're playing that Mariah Carey Christmas song, which isn't punishable by death, but should be.

Posted by: Wally at January 08, 2026 01:27 AM (0e5Te)

393 A video published Tuesday by Nick Sortor captured a front desk worker saying, "We’re not accepting people from immigration, ICE agents, DHS into our property."
&
The Hilton's were out there today taking down the Hotel signs.
Smartass Indians
Posted by: Braenyard

Hindians.
They prefer to be called Hindians.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 08, 2026 01:28 AM (/lPRQ)

394 392 And their socks are mismatched. Also punishable by death. And they're playing that Mariah Carey Christmas song, which isn't punishable by death, but should be.
Posted by: Wally at January 08, 2026 01:27 AM (0e5Te)

and their mama's dress them funny...also punishable by death....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 08, 2026 01:29 AM (QGaXH)

395 Appears that Colin Rugg is verifing CNN's misreporting of the MN shooting.
https://tinyurl.com/mrydpnsz
Posted by: Braenyard
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The veracity of this "witness" is completely blown by the quote at the bottom:
"And then that's when she got spooked, and she reversed her vehicle."
Every video clearly shows the vehicle going forward to "brush"/" hit"/"attempt to run over" (depending on commentator) the agent.

Posted by: buddhaha at January 08, 2026 01:29 AM (B50Ud)

396 >> Or is publius redux someone else?

That's not me. That's the other Publius, Publius Redux. No relation. :-)

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 08, 2026 01:29 AM (w6EFb)

397 396 >> Or is publius redux someone else?

That's not me. That's the other Publius, Publius Redux. No relation. :-)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 08, 2026 01:29 AM (w6EFb)

An imposter!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 08, 2026 01:30 AM (QGaXH)

398 >> An imposter!

He's been here a long time. Maybe even before me, actually.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 08, 2026 01:32 AM (w6EFb)

399 I predict Trump will invoke the insurrection act, and it will stick. When and where depend on circumstances, but I do believe it is coming.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

Was not the insurrection act one of the few not subject to judicial review. IOW - martial law by another name and anyone taking exception is subject to being bagged and tagged?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 08, 2026 01:34 AM (/lPRQ)

400 Publius Redux is in Asia somewhere, if I'm not mistaken.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 08, 2026 01:35 AM (Cw/ar)

401 Land sakes! Look at the time

Good Night everyone...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 08, 2026 01:35 AM (QGaXH)

402
Previous Supreme Court rulings indeed old the decision to invoke the IA is entirely up to the President and not subject to judicial review.

Now, they added some caveats that once invoked, he still has to act lawfully and consitutionally.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 08, 2026 01:36 AM (w6EFb)

403 People say it's not big love for Pahlavis but desire for 21st Century vs 7th and the Pahlavis represent that.


Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 08, 2026 01:18 AM (xvXg6)

SAVAK's main role was whacking Commies, so needless to say, the Left were butthurt about them. Shah should have used them to whack more muzzies, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 08, 2026 01:37 AM (8zz6B)

404 365 tcn, didn't you have shoulder surgery recently? Are you feeling better?
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 08, 2026 01:02 AM (Cw/ar)

Yep. I am three weeks in for the second time. This is a bit easier since I know what to expect. But it still makes me crazy.😂

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 08, 2026 01:39 AM (6Bc88)

405 398 >> An imposter!

He's been here a long time. Maybe even before me, actually.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 08, 2026 01:32 AM (w6EFb)

A preposterous preposter?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon, on a beach, earning 20% at January 08, 2026 01:40 AM (3l9FQ)

406 The veracity of this "witness" is completely blown by the quote at the bottom:
"And then that's when she got spooked, and she reversed her vehicle."
Every video clearly shows the vehicle going forward to "brush"/" hit"/"attempt to run over" (depending on commentator) the agent.
Posted by: buddhaha at January 08, 2026 01:29 AM (B50Ud)

Judging by the flannel shirt, that "witness" may be the dead dyke's "wife", and scarcely impartial.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 08, 2026 01:40 AM (8zz6B)

407 Been puttering around this evening. Finally read the content. I'm surprised I got 5 predictions right. Can't remember any of them. Probably for the best.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 08, 2026 01:41 AM (sAmhv)

408 399 I predict Trump will invoke the insurrection act, and it will stick. When and where depend on circumstances, but I do believe it is coming.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit preposterous?

Dude should have done it in 2017 with BLM. Missed opportunity. I understand he was busy fending off a coup and everything, but sane sentiment.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon, on a beach, earning 20% at January 08, 2026 01:42 AM (3l9FQ)

409 I'm trying not to get my hopes up too much about Iran. But it's hard not to now. Please, please, please.....
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 07, 2026 10:43

Agreed publius. I think we are seeing history being made on the net while the fossil media ignores Iran.

Have you heard the rebels song? Something like...

This is the final battle, Pahlavi is king.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at January 08, 2026 01:42 AM (55Qr6)

410
It's hard to see from some angles of the video. There was an agent right on the side, ordering her out of the car. Another agent ran up in front, and she clearly drove the car toward him. He's the one who fired.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 08, 2026 01:43 AM (w6EFb)

411 I went back and looked at that weird old hi-fi in the thrift shop. It is a Packard Bell, and is marked "solid state", so likely late '60's to early '70's. So not of any further interest to me,

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 08, 2026 01:44 AM (8zz6B)

412
The Shah's job was indeed to keep the commies at bay and prevent the Soviets from getting at the oil fields. With the "Nixon Doctrine" they called it at the time, he was pretty much given a free hand, and he got pretty brutal.

The history of this going back to the Brits and the oil is interesting, and lot of lesson to be learned there about what mistakes not to make again if we get Shah, Jr in there.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 08, 2026 01:46 AM (w6EFb)

413 389
They're also waving the old flag of Iran, the one with Lion and Sun. That's also punishable by death.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (
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Women are pulling off their burkas. Woo hoo.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 08, 2026 01:49 AM (xvXg6)

414 Like the Darwin Awards, we should start a FAFO Award.

I nominate this idiot for the FAFO Award of the week.

She thought she could just drive away from the situation she caused.

Ooops.

A preventable tragedy. Things happen fast. Consequences are irreversible. How could she have thought she was going to get away?

Some people take their personal safety seriously.

Posted by: pawn at January 08, 2026 01:51 AM (Rmqfl)

415 If I’m honest with myself the shooting looked questionable. I need to see another angle in front of the vehicle if there is one. The officer who shot was more on the side of the vehicle.

But this is not a video game. This is real life that has consequences for your actions.

The guy in Charlottesville was also ‘just trying to flee’ and he’s in prison for murder.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 08, 2026 01:51 AM (KDPiq)

416 Previous Supreme Court rulings indeed old the decision to invoke the IA is entirely up to the President and not subject to judicial review.

Now, they added some caveats that once invoked, he still has to act lawfully and consitutionally.
Posted by: publius


So SCROTUS has maintained the only constitutional stopper to the IA is impeachment, conviction, and removal.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 08, 2026 01:52 AM (/lPRQ)

417 Things happen fast. Consequences are irreversible.

Posted by: pawn at January 08, 2026 01:51 AM (Rmqfl)

Never go full retard.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon, on a beach, earning 20% at January 08, 2026 01:53 AM (3l9FQ)

418 Well, it would not bother me much if the new Shah had friendly relations with Russia, as long as he does not become actively hostile to the USA or to Israel. Russia is no longer Communist, so unlikely to sending hundreds of subversives into Iran.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 08, 2026 01:53 AM (8zz6B)

419
See the 1953 coup in Iran. That was CIA and MI6, approved by Ike and Churchill. The Shah was technically monarch, but the PM had the power. Shah didn't have much actual power. The PM nationalized the oil industry, which pissed the Brits off.

The coup put the Shah in real power.

The Shah's father came to power years before, ousting some other dynasty, with the Brits involved. Now, right before WWII, the father starting getting friendly with the Germans. He was trying to play all the great powers against each other for his own advantages.

Brits and Soviets invaded Iran in 1941 to protect the oil and supply lines, and removed the Shah's father from power, and put the son, who became The Shah as we think of it in power as the monarch.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 08, 2026 01:54 AM (w6EFb)

420 Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 08, 2026 01:46 AM (w6EF

He got brutal mostly with those who were trying to get him. Unfortunately paranoia sets in and innocent people get swept up in it.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 08, 2026 01:54 AM (KDPiq)

421 we'd probably be sno-birds and keep the California house for winter and stay in Wyoming enough of the year to qualify as residents.
Posted by: ARIK
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If you do that, keep real good records.
The CA Franchise Tax Board came after me for "unpaid income taxes" - they actually got a copy of my 1040, and helpfully calculated my "tax" and penalties - 10 years after I left the state. It was an obvious clerical error at corporate (CA domiciled) about tax data for my division (OR domiciled) that 30 seconds of thought would have shown, but it took three letters from me -last if which was, essentially, fuck off, sue me - and two from corporate accounting to get them to go away.
CA is going to be desperate for revenue, and you'd look like an easy target.

Posted by: buddhaha at January 08, 2026 01:55 AM (B50Ud)

422 After the AWFLs reaction to Charlie Kirk's assassination, I'm not shedding tears over this chick.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 08, 2026 01:55 AM (Cw/ar)

423 Women are pulling off their burkas. Woo hoo.

Posted by: Braenyard


They wear nothing under there.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 08, 2026 01:56 AM (/lPRQ)

424 If I’m honest with myself the shooting looked questionable. I need to see another angle in front of the vehicle if there is one. The officer who shot was more on the side of the vehicle.

But this is not a video game. This is real life that has consequences for your actions.

The guy in Charlottesville was also ‘just trying to flee’ and he’s in prison for murder.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 08, 2026 01:51 AM (KDPiq)

In the video I saw, the officer who shot was in front of the car, and she drove at him. That's when he drew and fired through the windshield, then she turned a little to the right, and he got off two more rounds through the open side window.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 08, 2026 01:57 AM (8zz6B)

425 415 If I’m honest with myself the shooting looked questionable. I need to see another angle in front of the vehicle if there is one. The officer who shot was more on the side of the vehicle.

But this is not a video game. This is real life that has consequences for your actions.

The guy in Charlottesville was also ‘just trying to flee’ and he’s in prison for murder.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 08, 2026 01:51 AM (KDPiq)

In the video I viewed, ICE guy appeared from front vehicle as vehicle accelerated in a right turn. That puts ICE guy, the presumptive shooter, in front of an accelerating vehicle. Whether she saw ICE guy or not, that's on her. He gets benefit of doubt.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon, on a beach, earning 20% at January 08, 2026 01:58 AM (3l9FQ)

426 Horde mind.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon, on a beach, earning 20% at January 08, 2026 01:58 AM (3l9FQ)

427 410
It's hard to see from some angles of the video. There was an agent right on the side, ordering her out of the car. Another agent ran up in front, and she clearly drove the car toward him. He's the one who fired.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
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I saw a perfect vid. ace or someone posted it here.
He reduced it to slo-mo and I cut that speed in half.
The cop was quick but facts: She had shifted into a forward gear, the wheels were pointed directly at the shooter cop and were turning.
Justified self defense.
Refusing to halt aforehand is legally enough.
Knocking the other cop with the vehicle, no matter how slight, is enough.

This is a wakeup call to the sillies. Playtime is over.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 08, 2026 01:59 AM (xvXg6)

428 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 08, 2026 01:57 AM (8zz6B)

I saw him on the front side of the vehicle and he drew his gun early.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 08, 2026 01:59 AM (KDPiq)

429
Also see the "White Revolution" started by the Shah in the early '60s. That was a big modernization program to bring Iran into the 20th Century. That pissed of a lot people, including the Islamic nutjobs, Khomeini being the main one.

Before that there was sort of feudal like system in the country. Piss poor peasant serfs and all that. Shah did away with that, and that pissed others off. But it really pissed off the mullahs.

And then the Rooskies were trying to infiltrate.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 08, 2026 02:00 AM (w6EFb)

430 This is a wakeup call to the sillies. Playtime is over.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 08, 2026 01:59 AM (xvXg6)

She wasn't some innocent wine mom heading home from Aldis with a sack of organically-grown tofu cakes. She was a demonstrator and shit-disturber from out of state. She fucked around, and she found out. Sucks to be her, but then, it always did, didn't it?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 08, 2026 02:02 AM (8zz6B)

431 Well now - have been busy at work most of today and just took a break to see I won the Ace International Silver String Submarine Band award for my financial predictions of 2025. I would just like to give a brief speech to thank all of the people who made this possible - Ace, the Mac Daddy of this great site and its community, JJ, CBD, Joe Mannix, Doof, The other Publius, and all the CoB's! How could we exist without al you guys! Also I would like to thank our trolls (some of the finest low grade retarded ones you will ever find anywhere!) and of course the Trump administration and Trump whose fine, luxurious and big league golden pate has been a beacon of light in these dark times. I await the actual trophy to put in my case next to my copy of the Deplorable cookbook. You love me, you really love me (*cries slightly, wipes tear as music starts to play and evening gown wearing models pull me away from podium*)

Posted by: Publius Redux at January 08, 2026 02:03 AM (/aZwr)

432 You love me, you really love me (*cries slightly, wipes tear as music starts to play and evening gown wearing models pull me away from podium*)
Posted by: Publius Redux at January 08, 2026 02:03 AM (/aZwr)

(sings) "For he's a jolly good fellow."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 08, 2026 02:05 AM (8zz6B)

433 Posted by: Publius Redux at January 08, 2026 02:03

A truly great acceptance speech. You could have added an Indian to accept for you, maybe Liawatha.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at January 08, 2026 02:08 AM (55Qr6)

434 Well, past midnight here. I am going to call it a night. Be well, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 08, 2026 02:08 AM (8zz6B)

435 Here it is, ace posted it. It's the best angle I've seen.

https://tinyurl.com/mvwwpt64

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 08, 2026 02:09 AM (xvXg6)

436 400 Publius Redux is in Asia somewhere, if I'm not mistaken.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 08, 2026 01:35 AM (Cw/ar)

Hey Gang - I am in Singapore (was previously in Hong Kong for 7 years) so all on the site can consider me your Old Asia Hand and please do reach out if you are thinking of travelling to this side of the globe. US citizen living the ExPat lifestyle and engaging in tax minimization strategies. When in the US my home is in Spring, Texas. I do mean to go to one of the MoMe's one of these days if I can swing the travel.

Posted by: Publius Redux at January 08, 2026 02:10 AM (/aZwr)

437 @ShirionOrg . 10h

Muslim goes to Iran and is disappointed to find that most people aren’t actually Muslim.
Says he feels judged when he prays in front of locals.
Remember that most Iranians DO NOT SUPPORT ISLAM.
They are occupied by terrorists and trying to be free from this barbaric ideology.
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I don't know that.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 08, 2026 02:12 AM (xvXg6)

438 432 You love me, you really love me (*cries slightly, wipes tear as music starts to play and evening gown wearing models pull me away from podium*)
Posted by: Publius Redux at January 08, 2026 02:03 AM (/aZwr)

(sings) "For he's a jolly good fellow."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 08, 2026 02:05 AM (8zz6B)

Hey AOP - apologies for leaving you out of my acceptance speech. Actually I was thinking about you as I may be in Alberta this summer!

Posted by: Publius Redux at January 08, 2026 02:13 AM (/aZwr)

439 Nice speech, but no land acknowledgement. Straight to PC jail.

Posted by: Wally at January 08, 2026 02:13 AM (0e5Te)

440 >>When in the US my home is in Spring, Texas. I do mean to go to one of the MoMe's one of these days if I can swing the travel.
Posted by: Publius Redux
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Good to see you're enjoying the good life.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 08, 2026 02:14 AM (xvXg6)

441 This is a wakeup call to the sillies. Playtime is over.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 08, 2026 01:59 AM (xvXg6)

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 08, 2026 02:17 AM (snZF9)

442 How long before the Democrats start defending the Iranian mullahs?

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 08, 2026 02:24 AM (Cw/ar)

443 How long before the Democrats start defending the Iranian mullahs?

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 08, 2026 02:24 AM (Cw/ar)

The better question is did they ever stop?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 08, 2026 02:25 AM (snZF9)

444
In hindsight, the Shah should've just executed Khomeini back in the '60s when he had the chance rather than exiling him. They figured the didn't want to make a big martyr out of him, but in hindsight, it wouldn't have made it any worse.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 08, 2026 02:29 AM (w6EFb)

445
Another funny one. In the '70s, Khomeini was holed up in Iraq. A young Saddam Hussein, the vice president I think, offered to whack Khomeini for the Shah. I'll kill him for you, just say the word.

The Shah again turned it down.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 08, 2026 02:31 AM (w6EFb)

446 Rep. Brandon Gill goes off BRUTALLY EXPOSING the taxpayer drain they really are.

“Do you know how many Somalis In Minnesota are on food stamps? 54%”

“What percentage of Somali headed households in Minnesota are on Medicaid? 73%”

“What percentage of Somali-headed households are on welfare in general? 81%”

“After 10 years of being in the United States, what percentage of Somali immigrant households continue to be on welfare? 78%”

“I’m going to ask again, does that make Minnesota stronger or weaker?

https://tinyurl.com/5n8wjjra

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 08, 2026 02:31 AM (xvXg6)

447 The left chimping out over this MN shooting is a really bad idea given the 90ish billion in somali style fraud they've dug up in 4-5 states the last week and a half, and ICE being there specifically due to the fraud.

People are kinda pissed. If things actually got out of hand we'd jump right past helicopter rides, because those have too little bandwidth.

Posted by: heya at January 08, 2026 02:38 AM (7X7ea)

448 We voted for this:

US to withdraw from 66 international organizations deemed 'contrary to US interests'

https://tinyurl.com/3vusyryc

Actually we voted for more than 66. So I'll remain grouchy about it.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 08, 2026 02:43 AM (gK5jz)

449 US to withdraw from 66 international organizations deemed 'contrary to US interests'

Yay! But...
I'll be happy when we have an "old Vegas hotel" style demolition at 405 East 42nd Street.
Televised.

Posted by: buddhaha at January 08, 2026 02:53 AM (B50Ud)

450 The Shah CIA again turned it down.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 08, 2026 02:31 AM (w6EFb)
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I'm guessing that's most probably more accurate.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 08, 2026 03:00 AM (gK5jz)

451 Yay! But...
I'll be happy when we have an "old Vegas hotel" style demolition at 405 East 42nd Street.
Televised.

Posted by: buddhaha at January 08, 2026 02:53 AM (B50Ud)
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With a countdown and fireworks!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 08, 2026 03:01 AM (gK5jz)

452 I saw him on the front side of the vehicle and he drew his gun early.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 08, 2026 01:59 AM (KDPiq)

Why, look, folks, there's an asshole. Out of his native territory, but still, a perfect asshole. Completely full of shit, too.

You don't often see those here.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 08, 2026 03:10 AM (6Bc88)

453 WTH? LauraW comes in here, drops a couple of stinkbombs and then splits. Something isn’t right here.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 08, 2026 03:11 AM (Ouxay)

454 I am deeply and profoundly grateful to God for the love of my life. We don't often say this, but it is important to acknowledge when we are given the gift of perfect and immortal love. My soul is entwined in bliss with my perfect love, and I can't imagine any life without him, ever. We just celebrated 28 years of married bliss, but beyond that, I would not like to live without him, ever. I think my cells are in sync with his, we are so close.

I'm not sure we are supposed to have this sort of connection on earth. I think some of this should have been saved for heaven, when I am entwined likewise with Jesus. But for some reason I may never know, God sent me the perfect mate.

If you are similarly blessed, don't ever take it for granted. The greatest gift is love.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 08, 2026 03:38 AM (6Bc88)

455 When in the US my home is in Spring, Texas"

Hey, that's right over there! *points to the other side of Kuykendal *

Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 03:41 AM (XuXeR)

456 455 When in the US my home is in Spring, Texas"

Hey, that's right over there! *points to the other side of Kuykendal *
Posted by: man at January 08, 2026 03:41 AM (XuXeR)

Just a few blocks away from Louetta, near where it intersects TJ Jester my friend, when I am there, which is, unfortunately, rarely. Kuykendal is just hop, skip and a jump away, in Texas terms.

Posted by: Publius Redux at January 08, 2026 03:50 AM (Gu66x)

457 Good, another reason for rage the Leftists needed.
Keep em coming President DJT

Posted by: Skip at January 08, 2026 03:50 AM (Ia/+0)

458 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at January 08, 2026 04:22 AM (SSiCQ)

Corporate Pranks Cafe

wolffamily.jpg

Dog is jealous of a man's sleeping pillow.

Kind of hard to believe but I'll allow it.

Panda going HAM on a slide.

Was I adopted?

Golden is mesmerized by her first snow.

Sharing some food with beggars.

This thief is going to be disappointed when he opens up the package.

Excellent prancing.

Dog appoints himself protector over a little lamb.

If you don't nip Evil in the bud, it's your fault.


Posted by: Ace at 07:26 PM




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1 Foist.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 07, 2026 07:28 PM (0sNs1)

2 1st

Posted by: Rex B at January 07, 2026 07:28 PM (OdypD)

3 Smarter animals here than in Minneapolis!

Posted by: mikeski at January 07, 2026 07:28 PM (nhCoE)

4 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at January 07, 2026 07:28 PM (Ia/+0)

5 Damn. I watched the snow dog video too.

Posted by: Rex B at January 07, 2026 07:28 PM (OdypD)

6 Well, well, well

@lizcollin 53m
Signs removed today after Hilton cut ties with this Hampton Inn for refusing DHS agents rooms in Lakeville

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 07, 2026 07:29 PM (mlg/3)

7 The Golden looking up at snow...I do that. I don't jump up and try to bit it (yet). As we've had very little this winter it could happen.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 07, 2026 07:29 PM (WONhk)

8 This thief is going to be disappointed when he opens up the package.

Cats don't like hot dogs? Isn't that a jumbo pack of footlongs?

I don't think it's carrots; too cylindrical. Carrots have a pointy end.

Or maybe I just missed the joke.

Posted by: mikeski at January 07, 2026 07:32 PM (nhCoE)

9 Prank is funny or mean, but if you saw that your done for so sit back and watch it

Posted by: Skip at January 07, 2026 07:32 PM (Ia/+0)

10 We all appreciate the mephitic-free bouquet of the Café tonight, Ace!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 07, 2026 07:33 PM (0sNs1)

11 >>> 6 Well, well, well

@lizcollin 53m
Signs removed today after Hilton cut ties with this Hampton Inn for refusing DHS agents rooms in Lakeville
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 07, 2026 07:29 PM (mlg/3)

HA HA!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 07, 2026 07:33 PM (ULPxl)

12 >>The Golden looking up at snow...I do that. I don't jump up and try to bit it (yet). As we've had very little this winter it could happen.


Ex-Wife had an English Setter that would do that with Snowflakes and Butterflies.

He was a goofball.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 07:33 PM (ddphe)

13 help me out. The ICE/MN tragedy: appropriate response from the Mockingbirdmedia and our 'Public servents' should be 'Tone down the rhetoric' , right ?? i am not hearing that . Does anybody know what characteritics of an event warrant the 'Tone down the Rhetoric' template ? thanks in advance.

Posted by: shitizenCane at January 07, 2026 07:34 PM (5LiC7)

14 Prayers and best wishes to all Monors for safety and health tonight. Been a blast reading you all day.

Don't let your meatloaf.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 07, 2026 07:35 PM (oJkoy)

15 I would pay good money to hang out with a panda for an afternoon, they're so silly I can't believe they live in the wild. They look like they smell like a wet dog though.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 07, 2026 07:35 PM (AywZy)

16 @lizcollin 53m
Signs removed today after Hilton cut ties with this Hampton Inn for refusing DHS agents rooms in Lakeville
Posted by: weft cut-loop

That was in Lakeville? That's the outer-ring suburbs. Probably wasn't even considered a suburb 20 years ago, more of an exurb or "bedroom community." That shouldn't be crazy democrat land. Maybe the hotel really was full of illegal employees.

Posted by: mikeski at January 07, 2026 07:35 PM (nhCoE)

17 Top photo reminded me of this song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTmatjyd4KM

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 07, 2026 07:35 PM (2GVsD)

18 Does anybody know what characteritics of an event warrant the 'Tone down the Rhetoric' template ? thanks in advance.
Posted by: shitizenCane

When something could trigger normies to violence.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 07, 2026 07:36 PM (iW7pR)

19 Declare rebellion.

Burn home base to the ground.

Profit?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 07, 2026 07:36 PM (zZu0s)

20 A pet rock is smarter than most MN politicians.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 07, 2026 07:37 PM (2GVsD)

21 I think the dog stealing the pillow is a little sus but who the hell points a camera at their bed?

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 07, 2026 07:38 PM (AywZy)

22 Signs removed today after Hilton cut ties with this Hampton Inn for refusing DHS agents rooms in Lakeville
Posted by: weft cut-loop
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New name, "Illegal Inn" Our border, er door is always open!!!!

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 07:38 PM (WDjG6)

23 Dogs. I miss having a doggeh.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 07, 2026 07:39 PM (Cw/ar)

24 I think the dog stealing the pillow is a little sus but who the hell points a camera at their bed?
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 07, 2026 07:38 PM (AywZy)

David French.

Jonah.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 07, 2026 07:39 PM (zZu0s)

25 Was I adopted?

You haz a flavor.

Posted by: The Dog at January 07, 2026 07:40 PM (nhCoE)

26 Trumpenfuhrer reports amicable convo with Colombian president, who's a bit of a clown and has been a big trash-talker both before/after the little Caracas thing. Petro coming to meet at the WH.

Haven't seen anything specific since, but the first public statement by the acting prez of Venezuela following her promotion by Delta Force was extremely conciliatory.

As with many past applications of US power (many of them wildly mischaracterized by people who apparently didn't understand them at the time), bold action can create leverage, and many pretensions and public postures by adversaries ..... simply evaporate.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 07, 2026 07:41 PM (U/Byj)

27 I think the dog stealing the pillow is a little sus but who the hell points a camera at their bed?
Posted by: CaliGirl

The OnlyFans shows are on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays.

Posted by: The Dog at January 07, 2026 07:41 PM (nhCoE)

28 I think the dog stealing the pillow is a little sus but who the hell points a camera at their bed?
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 07, 2026 07:38 PM (AywZy)

People in them Paranormal Activity movies.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 07, 2026 07:41 PM (u1qVW)

29 It seems that the victim's "wife" was outside the vehicle filming, when all this happened.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 07, 2026 07:41 PM (+mUZM)

30 The top photo may be AI. Would it matter?

Posted by: fd at January 07, 2026 07:42 PM (vFG9F)

31 20 A pet rock is smarter than most MN politicians.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Let' check that hypothesis
Sen. Klobachar, salad with a comb, check,
Lt. Gov., wears a hijab, check
Mayor eats Somali food and nearly throws up on camera, check
Gov Timmy, a war evader, possible groomer, and about as manly as Dylan Mulvaney, check,
AG Ellison, "Critics have said the state officials, including you and the governor, did not act fast enough or quickly enough to investigate charges of fraud against the Feeding Our Future and did little to flag their allegations to federal authorities. I know you said it was the federal government that didn’t move fast enough. Is there any — is there something you wish you had done differently?

KEITH ELLISON: No." Checkmate.

Hypothesis confirmed and you have unlocked the next level.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 07:43 PM (WDjG6)

32 Sharing some food with beggars.

Smart horse. That keeps the bird crap out of his food bucket.

Posted by: mikeski at January 07, 2026 07:43 PM (nhCoE)

33
The ICE/MN tragedy: appropriate response from the Mockingbirdmedia and our 'Public servents' should be 'Tone down the rhetoric' , right ??

Instead it's Pump Up the Volume Pump Up the Volume.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 07, 2026 07:43 PM (pkeXY)

34 I was hoping Ace would find Tweaker Geographic and work it into the Cafe lineup.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 07:43 PM (ddphe)

35 It seems that the victim's "wife" was outside the vehicle filming, when all this happened.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 07, 2026 07:41 PM

Will no one think of us?

Posted by: Karen's Cats at January 07, 2026 07:44 PM (Wnv9h)

36 29 It seems that the victim's "wife" was outside the vehicle filming, when all this happened.
Posted by: Notsothoreau
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Bonus points if the driver said to her, "Hold Muh Beer and Watch This!!!!"

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 07:44 PM (WDjG6)

37 They say tone down ghe rhetoric yet they keep cranking it up and their people act on it.

Posted by: Skip at January 07, 2026 07:44 PM (Ia/+0)

38 It seems that the victim's "wife" was outside the vehicle filming, when all this happened.
Posted by: Notsothoreau

Apparently, the child of the deadee lost his father some time ago. I wonder what will become of this part of this?

Posted by: Tonypete at January 07, 2026 07:45 PM (cYBz/)

39 Pet rocks have intelligence on par with cats in that they are able to trick humans into taking them into their homes and taking care of them.

Posted by: fd at January 07, 2026 07:45 PM (vFG9F)

40 Bat-free in 2026 so far. Thanks Ace!

Posted by: Penguin Promotion Board at January 07, 2026 07:47 PM (oftw2)

41 37 They say tone down ghe rhetoric yet they keep cranking it up and their people act on it.
Posted by: Skip

They mean for the Right and Normies to notice what despicable people the Left are. Thieves, coddling criminals, hatred of faith, hatred of cis-normal, hatred of law, of Israel, etc.

By their fruits, ye shall know them.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 07:47 PM (WDjG6)

42 An excellent news reporting day overall, but I would like to give extra kudos to Ace on the Planet Fitness feel-o-rama and to the Horde for Zaprudering the bishop-flogging.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 07, 2026 07:47 PM (kpS4V)

43 It's only turn down the rhetoric when it's a white normie.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 07, 2026 07:47 PM (Cw/ar)

44 Instead it's Pump Up the Volume Pump Up the Volume.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
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Since the Democrats are a Crime Syndicate, they are going Joker because their money is going to be taken away.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 07:48 PM (WDjG6)

45 Theory:

Walz knows he's fucked in the DOJ investigation of the welfare fraud in the state. He's received a targeting letter and sees his subservients testifying to Congress that he knew.

What does he have to lose to lead the Second Civil War?

I imagine MN state lawyers are screaming at his staff right now. "Do not do this!!!! Insurrection Act! The US military!"

Posted by: TJM's phone at January 07, 2026 07:49 PM (GBKbO)

46 Signs, signs, Hampton Inn signs.
Coming off the portico, and the roof line.
FA'd and found out.
Goodbye to those signs

Posted by: 5 Man Electrical Band at January 07, 2026 07:49 PM (8JzZF)

47 I will repeat this

Leftists think International Law is scared text.

But US law is open to negotiation.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 07, 2026 07:49 PM (2GVsD)

48 LG�s elevator prank that made everyone scream😱
— internet archiva (@internetarchiva)

I'm old enough to remember when they did that.

OK, that's not very old, it was only 13 years ago.

Here's the original:
https://youtu.be/NeXMxuNNlE8

Posted by: mikeski at January 07, 2026 07:49 PM (nhCoE)

49 Just got home. Now to cook dinner.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 07:50 PM (KMPdZ)

50 By their fruits, ye shall know them.
Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 07:47 PM

Isn't it fabulous?

Posted by: San Francisco at January 07, 2026 07:50 PM (0sNs1)

51
As with many past applications of US power (many of them wildly mischaracterized by people who apparently didn't understand them at the time), bold action can create leverage, and many pretensions and public postures by adversaries ..... simply evaporate.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 07, 2026 07:41 PM (U/Byj)

Any thoughts on Iran?

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 07, 2026 07:50 PM (AywZy)

52 Apparently, the child of the deadee lost his father some time ago. I wonder what will become of this part of this?

Posted by: Tonypete at January 07, 2026 07:45 PM (cYBz/)

Poor kid. I am sorry his mother didn't put him first.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 07, 2026 07:51 PM (Cw/ar)

53 Walz knows he's fucked in the DOJ investigation of the welfare fraud in the state. He's received a targeting letter and sees his subservients testifying to Congress that he knew.

What does he have to lose to lead the Second Civil War?

I imagine MN state lawyers are screaming at his staff right now. "Do not do this!!!! Insurrection Act! The US military!"
Posted by: TJM's phone


Do it Timmy! You don't have a hair on your ass if you don't!

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 07:51 PM (KMPdZ)

54 They know their psychos will still commit acts of violence. When they say to tone down the rhetoric, they mean "Normies, you should go in public unarmed."

Posted by: Wally at January 07, 2026 07:52 PM (DEw/K)

55 Walz knows he's fucked in the DOJ investigation of the welfare fraud in the state. He's received a targeting letter and sees his subservients testifying to Congress that he knew.

*looks around*
To me! Liberty!!

Posted by: Aristagoras of Miletus (tyrant) at January 07, 2026 07:52 PM (gKWVE)

56 Armories and air bases across MN are probably right now receiving Title 10 activation orders to quell civil unrest.

Lloyd and Whig, IIRC Guard O-6s and above have to be approved by Congress correct?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 07, 2026 07:52 PM (2GVsD)

57 What does he have to lose to lead the Second Civil War?

I imagine MN state lawyers are screaming at his staff right now. "Do not do this!!!! Insurrection Act! The US military!"
Posted by: TJM's phone

=====
Just open the indictment on that dirtbag and Ellison.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 07:52 PM (WDjG6)

58 49 Just got home. Now to cook dinner.
Posted by: rickb223

You go out? There's...people...out there...

Posted by: Hirsute and Hisute at January 07, 2026 07:52 PM (oftw2)

59 There are clips on YT of a Brazilian show that did some crazy elevator pranks. Some of the reactions make me wonder if any of the victims ever set foot in an elevator again.

Posted by: PA Dutchman at January 07, 2026 07:52 PM (h/O4U)

60 Lloyd and Whig, IIRC Guard O-6s and above have to be approved by Congress correct?
Posted by: Anna Puma
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Yep. Promotion List. The exception to the rule is the Adjutant General of the State who is often a political crony.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 07:53 PM (WDjG6)

61 Dang. Trump's Folly may turn out to be a real thing. He is serious about buying Greenland. That would be hugely historic. I say go for it.

Posted by: fd at January 07, 2026 07:53 PM (vFG9F)

62 The ICE/MN tragedy: appropriate response from the Mockingbirdmedia and our 'Public servents' should be 'Tone down the rhetoric' , right ??


Some lady died on an ICE-y road.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 07:53 PM (KMPdZ)

63 Snow zoomies.. 😂

Puppies have two speeds: Ludicrous and Asleep.

Posted by: mikeski at January 07, 2026 07:53 PM (nhCoE)

64 This is kinda tasty:
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NYC mayoral aide who says whites owning homes is racist bursts into TEARS when asked about her mother's $1.4m home
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Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 07:53 PM (krQz2)

65 Willowed but so good I had to put it here:
358 309 Her occupation is (err was ) poet.


Posted by: Really??
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She has now joined the Dead Poet's Society.
Posted by: whig

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 07, 2026 07:54 PM (fd80v)

66 Dead Poet Society

Her prose is now decomposing.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 07, 2026 07:55 PM (2GVsD)

67 Do it Timmy! You don't have a hair on your ass if you don't!
Posted by: rickb223
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Only in Africa can Sgt Majors end up running countries. In the Civilized World, not so much. Even in Greece, you had to be a colonel.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 07:55 PM (WDjG6)

68 NYC mayoral aide who says whites owning homes is racist bursts into TEARS when asked about her mother's $1.4m home
---

Posted by: Axeman

But she's an adult, correct?

Posted by: Tonypete at January 07, 2026 07:55 PM (cYBz/)

69 You go out? There's...people...out there...
Posted by: Hirsute and Hisute


Unfortunately, 3 days a week.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 07:55 PM (KMPdZ)

70
What does he have to lose to lead the Second Civil War?

I imagine MN state lawyers are screaming at his staff right now. "Do not do this!!!! Insurrection Act! The US military!"
Posted by: TJM's phone at January 07

His wife, Gwen, screeching in the background “you better get your name in the history books, Timothy! You better do something big and important, Timothy. We deserve this!”

Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 07:55 PM (pZEOD)

71 His wife, Gwen, screeching in the background “you better get your name in the history books, Timothy! You better do something big and important, Timothy. We deserve this!”
Posted by: Piper
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Which one of that couple is Thelma and which is Louise?

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 07:56 PM (WDjG6)

72 Unfortunately, 3 days a week.
Posted by: rickb223
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Slacker, the Beatles did Eight Days a Week and made it a hit.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 07:57 PM (WDjG6)

73 LG’s elevator prank that made everyone scream

Ok, that's pretty good. Heart attacks aren't always fatal, right?

Posted by: t-bird at January 07, 2026 07:57 PM (3arSl)

74 Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at January 07, 2026 07:57 PM (Ia/+0)

75 61 Dang. Trump's Folly may turn out to be a real thing. He is serious about buying Greenland. That would be hugely historic. I say go for it.
Posted by: fd at January 07, 2026 07:53 PM (vFG9F)
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Trump and Melania on narwhal tusk thrones!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 07, 2026 07:57 PM (kpS4V)

76 But she's an adult, correct?
Posted by: Tonypete

On the left, you are not an adult. Full stop. Mebbe when dead.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 07:58 PM (WDjG6)

77 NYC mayoral aide who says whites owning homes is racist bursts into TEARS when asked about her mother's $1.4m home
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Posted by: Axeman

But she's an adult, correct?
Posted by: Tonypete at January 07, 2026 07:55 PM (cYBz/)
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She has some of the stats for one.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 07:58 PM (krQz2)

78 On the left, you are not an adult. Full stop. Mebbe when dead.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 07:58 PM (WDjG6)
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Weird, because when you're a dead conservative, you start voting Democrat.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 07:59 PM (krQz2)

79 There's so much stuff going on it's almost going without notice that Iran is teetering on the brink. In normal times that would be the lead story everywhere.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 07, 2026 07:59 PM (viF8m)

80 75 61 Dang. Trump's Folly may turn out to be a real thing. He is serious about buying Greenland. That would be hugely historic. I say go for it.
Posted by: fd at January 07, 2026 07:53 PM (vFG9F)
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Trump and Melania on narwhal tusk thrones!
Posted by: All Hail Eris
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One thing AI is good for is visualizing this image.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 07:59 PM (WDjG6)

81 You'd think if a poet wanted to experience somewhere it would be Nantucket.

Posted by: Wally at January 07, 2026 07:59 PM (DEw/K)

82 79 There's so much stuff going on it's almost going without notice that Iran is teetering on the brink. In normal times that would be the lead story everywhere.
Posted by: JackStraw
==========
We are inside a Looney Toons bubble world. Trump is Road Runner and Democrats as Wile E. Coyote. Supergenius.

Meep Meep mother fckers.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 08:00 PM (WDjG6)

83 So what are the odds of Iran's regime lasting until Friday prayers?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 07, 2026 08:00 PM (2GVsD)

84 I imagine MN state lawyers are screaming at his staff right now. "Do not do this!!!! Insurrection Act! The US military!"
Posted by: TJM's phone at January 07

His wife, Gwen, screeching in the background “you better get your name in the history books, Timothy! You better do something big and important, Timothy. We deserve this!”
Posted by: Piper


I would love to be able to tap phones. The convos would be hilarious.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 08:01 PM (KMPdZ)

85 If the Greenland deal goes through, I want Trump to land there with the Immigrant Song blaring.

Posted by: PA Dutchman at January 07, 2026 08:01 PM (h/O4U)

86 81 You'd think if a poet wanted to experience somewhere it would be Nantucket.
Posted by: Wally

Coming soon,
"Things to do when you are dead in Nantucket. "

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 08:01 PM (WDjG6)

87 >>There's so much stuff going on it's almost going without notice that Iran is teetering on the brink.


Slowly...then all at once.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 08:02 PM (ddphe)

88 I would love to be able to tap phones. The convos would be hilarious.
Posted by: rickb223
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Ask Bob from NSA for the transcripts.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 08:02 PM (WDjG6)

89 The new food pyramid looks like pizza.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 08:02 PM (krQz2)

90 I experienced New Jersey a couple of times.

Posted by: fd at January 07, 2026 08:03 PM (vFG9F)

91 85 If the Greenland deal goes through, I want Trump to land there with the Immigrant Song blaring.
Posted by: PA Dutchman
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LOL.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 08:03 PM (WDjG6)

92 If the Greenland deal goes through, I want Trump to land there with the Immigrant Song blaring.

Posted by: PA Dutchman at January 07, 2026 08:01 PM (h/O4U)

Imagining the Don with Robert Plant hair. It would be a great AI video.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 07, 2026 08:03 PM (Cw/ar)

93 I think we just bought Greenland.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 07, 2026 08:04 PM (cxFcK)

94 90 I experienced New Jersey a couple of times.
Posted by: fd
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I smelled it from another state's waterfront. That was enough.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 08:04 PM (WDjG6)

95 There's so much stuff going on it's almost going without notice that Iran is teetering on the brink. In normal times that would be the lead story everywhere.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 07, 2026 07:59 PM (viF8m)
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The Chinese curse.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 08:04 PM (krQz2)

96 If the Greenland deal goes through, I want Trump to land there with the Immigrant Song blaring.
Posted by: PA Dutchman at January 07, 2026 08:01 PM (h/O4U)

With kittens wearing tiny Viking helmets sticking out of his pockets.

Posted by: Jill Biden at January 07, 2026 08:04 PM (aBOIP)

97 *watches last video*

"Honey, we need a sled!"

"But JT doesn't run in a straight line!"

"HONEY WE NEED A SLED!"

Posted by: pookysgirl's son would love this at January 07, 2026 08:05 PM (Wt5PA)

98 Off, Fashion Disaster sock!

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 07, 2026 08:05 PM (aBOIP)

99 imagine MN state lawyers are screaming at his staff right now. "Do not do this!!!! Insurrection Act! The US military!"
Posted by: TJM's phone at January 07

Considering what Minnisomolia has become over the past 10 years, I doubt there are none but only true believers left in the state government. They're probably crafting defenses for Dim Balz' behavior.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 07, 2026 08:05 PM (mlg/3)

100 There is another angle now being shown where the officer looks like he is trying to get out of being in front on the vehicle, but she keeps heading towards him and hits him with her car.

She had been following and harassing ICE agents multiple times today, per x- maybe Kristi Noem said it in her presser, but I didn’t watch the whole thing.

Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 08:06 PM (p4NUW)

101 The Chinese curse.
Posted by: Axeman

In internet time, it becomes "May you live in VERY interesting times."

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 08:06 PM (WDjG6)

102 >I smelled it from another state's waterfront. That was enough.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 08:04 PM (WDjG6)

North Jersey is a whole different animal from South Jersey. We are have a place in Cape May. It's an awesome town.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 07, 2026 08:06 PM (GTqXr)

103 Dead poet wasn't even mentioned in her husband's obit.

Posted by: NCKate at January 07, 2026 08:06 PM (uQzkA)

104 Coming soon,
"Things to do when you are dead in Nantucket. "
Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 08:01 PM (WDjG6)
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"Go to the polls" is obviously on there.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 08:07 PM (krQz2)

105 Who else saw "Excellent prancing" and assumed it linked to a Tim Walz video?

Posted by: tankdemon at January 07, 2026 08:07 PM (ZoXoN)

106 100 There is another angle now being shown where the officer looks like he is trying to get out of being in front on the vehicle, but she keeps heading towards him and hits him with her car.

She had been following and harassing ICE agents multiple times today, per x- maybe Kristi Noem said it in her presser, but I didn’t watch the whole thing.
Posted by: Piper
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Yep. I think Jackstraw posted one of those. This is going to backfire on the left because now all her actions as a transient for the left are going to be scrutinized.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 08:07 PM (WDjG6)

107 She is an ex-poet.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 08:07 PM (krQz2)

108 Lots of protesters in the streets and GOV Walz asking people to rise up throughout the country - y’all, he really does think he is capable of doing something here that doesn’t result in him being thrown in the basement, doesn’t he?

Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 08:07 PM (p4NUW)

109 AI video of Trump as Superman, capture of Maduro, Winnie the Xi hiding in a bear costume, and Rocket Man getting nervous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTovfz3w_hs

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 07, 2026 08:07 PM (2GVsD)

110 Whoa! Some hot shit Iranian general just defected.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 07, 2026 08:08 PM (cxFcK)

111 Whoa! Some hot shit Iranian general just defected.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 07, 2026 08:08 PM (cxFcK)
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Take him back. He's defective.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 08:09 PM (krQz2)

112 Trump announces "ban" on large institutional investors buying any more single-family homes, although he did seem to acknowledge that this will require Congressional approval.

Hmmm... is preventing you from buying something a "taking" under the Fifth Amendment, or is that limited to actual, you know, taking?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 07, 2026 08:09 PM (IG3/x)

113 South Jersey is Delmarva sand.
North Jersey is Appalachian rock.
The North ends at the Delaware Memorial Bridge.

Posted by: Accomack at January 07, 2026 08:10 PM (8jVAy)

114 "Go to the polls" is obviously on there.
Posted by: Axeman
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Decomposing is another.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 08:10 PM (WDjG6)

115 10 We all appreciate the mephitic-free bouquet of the Café tonight, Ace!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 07, 2026 07:33 PM (0sNs1)

Speak for yourself.

Posted by: Hungry Leopard Seal at January 07, 2026 08:11 PM (ZoXoN)

116 Hmmm... is preventing you from buying something a "taking" under the Fifth Amendment, or is that limited to actual, you know, taking?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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Nope. It is not. Ironically, you have a property right to something you already have but not the right to acquire future property. Bill of Rights is a negative check, not a grant of positive rights.

Zoning cases are classic examples where a seller does not have the right to demand changing of zoning so the property would bring a higher price from buyers. Not a taking.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 08:12 PM (WDjG6)

117 The ex-poet will be an afterthought. If she'd killed the ICE agent, she'd be another Luigi Mangione to the left. But she didn't and she's dead.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 07, 2026 08:13 PM (Cw/ar)

118 One thing I noticed about NJ is they have a lot of Brunswicks but no Brunswick stew.

Posted by: fd at January 07, 2026 08:13 PM (vFG9F)

119 107 She is an ex-poet.
Posted by: Axeman
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Beautiful plumage, Norwegian Blue.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 08:14 PM (WDjG6)

120 The Union North, to be more clear.
IMO, corporations are contrivances with no inherent legal standing.

Posted by: Accomack at January 07, 2026 08:14 PM (8jVAy)

121 Brunswick stew.
Posted by: fd
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Go to the better Brunswick in GA for that.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 08:14 PM (WDjG6)

122 > Trump announces "ban" on large institutional investors buying any more single-family homes

Blackstone is down 5% just today, around $10 billion in market cap.

That will leave a mark.


Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 07, 2026 08:14 PM (IG3/x)

123 Whoa! Some hot shit Iranian general just defected.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly

Another one got whacked today.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 07, 2026 08:15 PM (+YoHw)

124 > Zoning cases are classic examples where a seller does not have the right to demand changing of zoning so the property would bring a higher price from buyers. Not a taking.
Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 08:12 PM (WDjG6)

Thanks.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 07, 2026 08:15 PM (IG3/x)

125 Yep. I think Jackstraw posted one of those. This is going to backfire on the left because now all her actions as a transient for the left are going to be scrutinized.
Posted by: whig at

Oops! Sorry Jackstraw for reposting like it’s new news!

Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 08:16 PM (pZEOD)

126 She has some of the stats for one.
Posted by: Axeman

being able to PMS and cry isn't the stat for an adult, it's the stat for a teenager

Posted by: gKWVE at January 07, 2026 08:16 PM (gKWVE)

127 Did Brunswick stew originate in Georgia? I recall eating it in SC as a child. So good.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 07, 2026 08:16 PM (Cw/ar)

128 The ex-poet will be an afterthought. If she'd killed the ICE agent, she'd be another Luigi Mangione to the left. But she didn't and she's dead.

Her namesake, St. Rachel the Flat-Hearted, was also unclear on the deadliness of vehicles.

Posted by: t-bird at January 07, 2026 08:16 PM (3arSl)

129 Here's one of the dead poet's works, which actually one a prize! https://tinyurl.com/5yftpazy

Posted by: lizabth at January 07, 2026 08:16 PM (Jfw7U)

130 122 > Trump announces "ban" on large institutional investors buying any more single-family homes

Blackstone is down 5% just today, around $10 billion in market cap.

That will leave a mark.


Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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They have no one to blame but themselves. They are around a metro area near me and the horror stories of them as a landlord and their maintenance practices are enough that local governments are restricting them from buying whole subdivisions due to the ill effects on housing and other problems.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 08:16 PM (WDjG6)

131 Lovely picture up top.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 07, 2026 08:18 PM (ITut0)

132 Trump announces "ban" on large institutional investors buying any more single-family homes, although he did seem to acknowledge that this will require Congressional approval.

Hmmm... is preventing you from buying something a "taking" under the Fifth Amendment, or is that limited to actual, you know, taking?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 07, 2026 08:09 PM (IG3/x)

Intent is sound, might be hard to accomplish. Perhaps a Federal "absentee owner" tax on real property? If an entity owns a piece of habitable residential property, and does not occupy it personally, or place family in it, they are assessed a tax of 0.5% of market value per year. Tax rate to rise commensurate with the number of properties owned.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 07, 2026 08:18 PM (8zz6B)

133 127 Did Brunswick stew originate in Georgia? I recall eating it in SC as a child. So good.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary

Georgia and Virginia claim it as their own. Some speculate, however, it was German in origin and part of teh Germans settling in the New World.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 08:18 PM (WDjG6)

134 > Her namesake, St. Rachel the Flat-Hearted, was also unclear on the deadliness of vehicles.

Not to be confused with me, a common mistake.

Posted by: St. Greta the Flat-Chested at January 07, 2026 08:19 PM (IG3/x)

135 64 This is kinda tasty:
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NYC mayoral aide who says whites owning homes is racist bursts into TEARS when asked about her mother's $1.4m home
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Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 07:53 PM (krQz2)

I watched her statement on Tic/Toc, or wherever. She is a lunatic. Certifiable.

Posted by: javems at January 07, 2026 08:19 PM (IOi0I)

136 help me out. The ICE/MN tragedy: appropriate response from the Mockingbirdmedia and our 'Public servents' should be 'Tone down the rhetoric' , right ?? i am not hearing that . Does anybody know what characteritics of an event warrant the 'Tone down the Rhetoric' template ? thanks in advance.
Posted by: shitizenCane at January 07, 2026 07:34 PM (5LiC7)

for Dems: "Tone down the Rhetoric" means "We are guilty and your attacks are hurting us"

Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2026 08:19 PM (8avO+)

137 Trump announces "ban" on large institutional investors buying any more single-family homes, although he did seem to acknowledge that this will require Congressional approval.

Hmmm... is preventing you from buying something a "taking" under the Fifth Amendment, or is that limited to actual, you know, taking?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia


I don't think cock blocking is taking.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 08:20 PM (KMPdZ)

138 Hmmm... is preventing you from buying something a "taking" under the Fifth Amendment, or is that limited to actual, you know, taking?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 07, 2026 08:09 PM (IG3/x)

Given that the courts have permitted the government to forbid company x from buying company y, I'd assume that it isn't a taking but for the fact that Trump is doing it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 08:20 PM (ExV1e)

139 Intent is sound, might be hard to accomplish. Perhaps a Federal "absentee owner" tax on real property? If an entity owns a piece of habitable residential property, and does not occupy it personally, or place family in it, they are assessed a tax of 0.5% of market value per year. Tax rate to rise commensurate with the number of properties owned.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

That would probably be considered a direct tax and thus unconstitutional. My guess though is Congress might actually move on that as popular. Then again, Orangemanbad.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 08:20 PM (WDjG6)

140 79
' Iran is teetering on the brink. '

Oh Hell. They're always teetering.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 07, 2026 08:21 PM (fd80v)

141 127 Did Brunswick stew originate in Georgia? I recall eating it in SC as a child. So good.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary

Georgia and Virginia claim it as their own. Some speculate, however, it was German in origin and part of teh Germans settling in the New World.
Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 08:18 PM (WDjG6)

I'd guess the origin was Brunswick Germans settling in the new world unsettled areas, hence the traditional use of wild game shot or trapped for the pot for the stew. In Germany that would be less common.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2026 08:22 PM (8avO+)

142 Haven't seen much MSM in forever, so dunno, but imagine they're downplaying Iran anyway - not really very happy about an incredibly vile dangerous regime slipping into the trash.

ICE has arrested several people for obstruction (one was just convicted in LA) the last several months. They generally avoid/outmaneuver them, but eventually get fed up and arrest them.

The dead poet was apparently one of these types.

You can see one agent approaching her open window, presumably telling her to exit the vehicle (this was said by somebody, maybe Kristi herself). This was going to be another obstruction arrest.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 07, 2026 08:22 PM (U/Byj)

143 That lead photo has to be AI ...

Wolves don't whelp in the middle of winter

Posted by: browndog biting ankles at January 07, 2026 08:23 PM (3sXRv)

144 68
'NYC mayoral aide who says whites owning homes is racist bursts into TEARS when asked about her mother's $1.4m home'

I never would have guessed she would be emotionally unstable.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 07, 2026 08:23 PM (fd80v)

145 "Iranian protesters rename Tehran street after Trump, plead 'don't let them kill us' amid crackdown"
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Headline at Fox. Things are moving very rapidly there.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 08:23 PM (WDjG6)

146 Sheinbaum is taking up the slack from Venezuela by shipping Mexican to Cuber. Mexicans are pissed.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 07, 2026 08:23 PM (cxFcK)

147 “Ny’ers were shocked about the aide to mayor isis being a I hate white white girl? Nah. We’ve been living under what is basically a Caribbean government , state and city, for the last 15 years. It makes perfect sense.

Posted by: front towards enemy at January 07, 2026 08:23 PM (TIizU)

148 Not to be confused with me, a common mistake.
Posted by: St. Greta the Flat-Chested at January 07, 2026 08:19 PM (IG3/x)

Ah, but recent photos dating to your Gaza Flotilla adventures suggest the lung warts are beginning to assert themselves.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 07, 2026 08:23 PM (8zz6B)

149 Actually weft, the first, already prosecuted MN fraud case (Feeding our Future) relied on state guvamint whistleblowers, I think, for some of the evidence.

I know that fed and state investigators have cited whistleblowers in these cases.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 07, 2026 08:24 PM (U/Byj)

150 Dead poet's mom said dead poet would never be involved in any of this craziness. Um, ok. She dead.

Posted by: NCKate at January 07, 2026 08:24 PM (uQzkA)

151 You can see one agent approaching her open window, presumably telling her to exit the vehicle (this was said by somebody, maybe Kristi herself). This was going to be another obstruction arrest.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 07, 2026 08:22 PM (U/Byj)

They need to start setting the bail high on these types and slow walking the process. Its not supposed to be a fun time.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2026 08:24 PM (8avO+)

152 > If an entity owns a piece of habitable residential property, and does not occupy it personally, or place family in it, they are assessed a tax of 0.5% of market value per year. Tax rate to rise commensurate with the number of properties owned.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 07, 2026 08:18 PM (8zz6B)


Good point.

My local government already has different property tax rates for different classes. Owner-occupied dwellings get an exemption of 40% off the assessed value. There are others (most notably, senior citizens and disabled veterans pay half the tax as whippersnappers.... thanks, kids!)

As far as I know, no one has ever challenged this.

Posted by: St. Greta the Flat-Chested at January 07, 2026 08:24 PM (IG3/x)

153 >>Oops! Sorry Jackstraw for reposting like it’s new news!

No apology necessary. The more information the better.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 07, 2026 08:24 PM (viF8m)

154 Trump withdraws US from participation/$$ in 66 international organizations. Nice.

Trumpmas, so close to the holidays.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 07, 2026 08:25 PM (U/Byj)

155 122 > Trump announces "ban" on large institutional investors buying any more single-family homes

Blackstone is down 5% just today, around $10 billion in market cap.

That will leave a mark
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

----

They were trying this stunt in Florida again, same as after the 2008 meltdown.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 07, 2026 08:26 PM (mnLCl)

156 Which politician's daughter owns the epi pen company that jacked prices up sky high?

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 08:27 PM (KMPdZ)

157 Who else saw "Excellent prancing" and assumed it linked to a Tim Walz video?
Posted by: tankdemon

* raises hand *

Posted by: mikeski at January 07, 2026 08:27 PM (nhCoE)

158
36F in Minneapolis now, low of 27 predicted, wind 8 mph. I like the idea of cooling off rioters with water.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 07, 2026 08:27 PM (VWtfl)

159 150 Dead poet's mom said dead poet would never be involved in any of this craziness. Um, ok. She dead.
Posted by: NCKate
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She was a good girl, turning her life around, dindu nuffin. I've heard all that before.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 08:28 PM (WDjG6)

160 30 The top photo may be AI. Would it matter?
Posted by: fd at January 07, 2026 07:42 PM (vFG9F)

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No. But all the AI slop videos on Youtube are ruining the viewing experience for me

Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 07, 2026 08:28 PM (mnLCl)

161 156 Which politician's daughter owns the epi pen company that jacked prices up sky high?
Posted by: rickb223
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That was former WV Senator Manchin's daughter.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 08:28 PM (WDjG6)

162 Here's a clip of the "wife" filming the whole thing:

https://tinyurl.com/4yve7ck6

Posted by: IrishEi at January 07, 2026 08:29 PM (3ImbR)

163 KMBC 9 News has confirmed the vehicle involved in the fatal shooting involving an ICE officer is linked to Kansas City.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 08:29 PM (KMPdZ)

164 > Its not supposed to be a fun time.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2026 08:24 PM (8avO+)


Heh... remember a few years back when some Greenpeace asswipes "occupied" a Russian offshore drilling rig?

The Russkis charged them with piracy, which, guess what kids, is still a capital crime. Then they left them in a nasty Russian jail for several months, before springing them and PNG'ing them out of the country.

By sheer coincidence, the Greenpeacers haven't fucked with any Russian stuff since then.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 07, 2026 08:29 PM (IG3/x)

165 That was former WV Senator Manchin's daughter.
Posted by: whig


That's it! Thank you. I couldn't remember.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 08:30 PM (KMPdZ)

166 Water cannons?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 08:30 PM (IGnEY)

167 "'NYC mayoral aide who says whites owning homes is racist bursts into TEARS when asked about her mother's $1.4m home'"

Ya know, something like this deserves a link so the rest of us can enjoy.

Posted by: Ouch the Grouch at January 07, 2026 08:30 PM (G+z4C)

168 107
'She is an ex-poet.'
Bereft of life, she rests in peace, joined the choir invisible and gone to meet her maker.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 07, 2026 08:30 PM (fd80v)

169 how many MN housewives have to die so that Undocumented Guests are free to explore the vast Northern Plains in search of a better life and Somialians can have fake child care fully-funded by US citizens ?

Posted by: shitizenCane at January 07, 2026 08:30 PM (5LiC7)

170 "Dead poet's mom said dead poet would never be involved in any of this craziness. Um, ok. "

Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies

Posted by: gKWVE at January 07, 2026 08:30 PM (gKWVE)

171 129 Here's one of the dead poet's works, which actually one a prize! https://tinyurl.com/5yftpazy
Posted by: lizabth at January 07, 2026 08:16 PM (Jfw7U)

Ewwwww.

Posted by: Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings at January 07, 2026 08:31 PM (OUMOu)

172 No. But all the AI slop videos on Youtube are ruining the viewing experience for me
Posted by: JM in Illinois
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Yep. The percentage of AI on new videos is approaching 50 percent or more. Nasty slop.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 08:31 PM (WDjG6)

173 Drad Poets Society.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 08:31 PM (IGnEY)

174 Interesting, there is a small soda surcharge of 1.50 at McDonald's.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 07, 2026 08:32 PM (wch7m)

175 > 171 129 Here's one of the dead poet's works, which actually one a prize! https://tinyurl.com/5yftpazy
Posted by: lizabth at January 07, 2026 08:16 PM (Jfw7U)


Needs more fig-stomping apes.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 07, 2026 08:32 PM (IG3/x)

176 Ex poet forgot
Don't run away from the cops
Ex poet is dead

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 07, 2026 08:32 PM (Cw/ar)

177 >>>Sharing is caring..

Yeah, but that's not what happened. The horse was just kicking the nasty pigeon out of his feed bucket and spilled a little in the process.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 07, 2026 08:32 PM (syz1S)

178 171 129 Here's one of the dead poet's works, which actually one a prize! https://tinyurl.com/5yftpazy
Posted by: lizabth
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Perfect example of nihilist mindset.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 08:33 PM (WDjG6)

179 Water cannons would be interesting but it's always fun to see rubber bullets to the dick.

Posted by: NCKate at January 07, 2026 08:33 PM (uQzkA)

180 Life funnier than any (comical) art.

Danish defense ministry reportedly confirms that Denmark will "shoot first, ask questions later" if US invades Greenland.

Leaving aside how absurd it is for these idiots (sadly, most of Europe) to take the bellicose talk on Greenland seriously, and not as haggling behavior, it is beyond hilarious.

First of all of course, the US already has bases in Greenland. But the idea that Denmark (or any NATO member, or all of them together) could/would resist any US military operation, anywhere, LOL.

I prefer the early 80s Denmark where an opposition politician said if his party were in power he would close the defense ministry and replace it with an answering machine that said "we surrender, in Russian".

Posted by: rhomboid at January 07, 2026 08:33 PM (U/Byj)

181 >>>Dog appoints himself protector over a little lamb.

That's all well and good, but where's the milk?

--Little Lamb

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 07, 2026 08:34 PM (syz1S)

182 176 Ex poet forgot
Don't run away from the cops
Ex poet is dead
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
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It is a change I guess from a budding rap star. I guess White Lesbian Leftist Women write bad poetry instead.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 08:34 PM (WDjG6)

183 @172 -- Not to mention the AI narration with the incorrect pronunciations, incoherent pauses, and outright fabrication.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 07, 2026 08:34 PM (XMwZJ)

184 We all appreciate the mephitic-free bouquet of the Café tonight, Ace! - Duncanthrax

Probably due to an absence of bat-related material.

Posted by: Paco at January 07, 2026 08:34 PM (2L+MU)

185 "'NYC mayoral aide who says whites owning homes is racist bursts into TEARS when asked about her mother's $1.4m home'"

Ya know, something like this deserves a link so the rest of us can enjoy.
Posted by: Ouch the Grouch



https://tinyurl.com/4xxfr2je

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 08:35 PM (KMPdZ)

186 Water cannons would be interesting but it's always fun to see rubber bullets to the dick.
You know the drill--embrace the power of "and."

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 07, 2026 08:35 PM (XMwZJ)

187 We all appreciate the mephitic-free bouquet of the Café tonight, Ace! - Duncanthrax

Probably due to an absence of bat-related material.
Posted by: Paco at January 07, 2026 08:34 PM (2L+MU)

bat, or penguin?

Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2026 08:36 PM (8avO+)

188 183 @172 -- Not to mention the AI narration with the incorrect pronunciations, incoherent pauses, and outright fabrication.
Posted by: Angzarr
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And bad AI art, idiotic pictures to go with the story, bad music, etc.

One AI channel does nothing but puts out Ghibli AI animation of pron songs using AI simulations of famous singers' voices to do them.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 08:37 PM (WDjG6)

189 186 Water cannons would be interesting but it's always fun to see rubber bullets to the dick.
You know the drill--embrace the power of "and."
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent
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Video today has an ICE agent firing a pepperball to teh face of an idiot protester getting too close to actions.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 08:37 PM (WDjG6)

190 Its not supposed to be a fun time.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2026 08:24 PM (8avO+)

Well, then they need to rename it, because Super Happy Fun Detention is very misleading in that case.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 07, 2026 08:38 PM (u1qVW)

191 180 Life funnier than any (comical) art.

Danish defense ministry reportedly confirms that Denmark will "shoot first, ask questions later" if US invades Greenland.

Leaving aside how absurd it is for these idiots (sadly, most of Europe) to take the bellicose talk on Greenland seriously, and not as haggling behavior, it is beyond hilarious.

First of all of course, the US already has bases in Greenland. But the idea that Denmark (or any NATO member, or all of them together) could/would resist any US military operation, anywhere, LOL.

I prefer the early 80s Denmark where an opposition politician said if his party were in power he would close the defense ministry and replace it with an answering machine that said "we surrender, in Russian".

Posted by: rhomboid
========
The Mouse that Roared.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 08:38 PM (WDjG6)

192
KMBC 9 News has confirmed the vehicle involved in the fatal shooting involving an ICE officer is linked to Kansas City.
Posted by: rickb223

They got some crazy little women there.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 07, 2026 08:38 PM (pkeXY)

193 More housing czar crying.


Read more: https://trib.al/IfOLnMD

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 08:38 PM (KMPdZ)

194 Honda.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 08:39 PM (IGnEY)

195 It is a change I guess from a budding rap star. I guess White Lesbian Leftist Women write bad poetry instead.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 08:34 PM (WDjG6)

She could have been a trending Only Fans influencer. We would never hear the end of it.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 07, 2026 08:39 PM (Cw/ar)

196 Never mind Google, it’s LG that’s evil!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 07, 2026 08:39 PM (ZVgZ4)

197 My furnace broke; today the limit switch was replaced. I told the repairman "A furnace needs to know its limitations." I crack me up. I was paying the guy $140 for the job so I figured I could subject him to some lame humor, and I find they usually work faster when I do it.

Posted by: gp at January 07, 2026 08:40 PM (GHIyr)

198 Ex poet forgot
Don't run away from the cops
Ex poet is dead
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary

[This Haiku inspected by #575]

Posted by: Haiku Inspector at January 07, 2026 08:40 PM (nhCoE)

199 193
'More housing czar crying.'

Poor little princess. She didn't realize her words would make people be mean to her.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 07, 2026 08:41 PM (fd80v)

200 They got some crazy little women there.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot
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The dead poet was a professional protester and the car is likely a rental by some NGO. She was reportedly from Virginia and the 'wife' was from Colorado. Neither apparently had ties to MN.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 08:41 PM (WDjG6)

201 It reads differently now:

They got some crazy little women there, and I’m going to get me one.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 07, 2026 08:41 PM (ZVgZ4)

202 I think the mullahs might be falling tonight guys.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 07, 2026 08:42 PM (cxFcK)

203 She could have been a trending Only Fans influencer. We would never hear the end of it.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
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Most probably. The sheer number of youngsters putting that on the internet is amazing and most get peanuts.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 08:42 PM (WDjG6)

204 202 I think the mullahs might be falling tonight guys.
Posted by: Blutarski
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From your lips to the Lord's ears.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 08:43 PM (WDjG6)

205 I think the mullahs might be falling tonight guys.
Hopefully out of a helicopter.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 07, 2026 08:43 PM (XMwZJ)

206
Ex poet forgot
Don't run away from the cops
Ex poet is dead

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary

Is that a high coo?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 07, 2026 08:43 PM (pkeXY)

207 Someone on X: "The answer is to have Barron Trump marry Princess Isabella ( she's a 1) and we're given Greenland as dowry. Heh.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 07, 2026 08:44 PM (cxFcK)

208 More crying

Read more: https://trib.al/8NwAPZo

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 08:44 PM (KMPdZ)

209 So a Kansas City she-faggot

Posted by: gKWVE at January 07, 2026 08:44 PM (gKWVE)

210 Life funnier than any (comical) art.

Danish defense ministry reportedly confirms that Denmark will "shoot first, ask questions later" if US invades Greenland.
Posted by: rhomboid

Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time!

Posted by: Danish Minister of Defense at January 07, 2026 08:45 PM (nhCoE)

211 Was it's biatch taken into custody?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 08:45 PM (IGnEY)

212 A headline I'd love to see tomorrow -

"Stealth fighter drops bomb, craters runway, prevents mullahs' departure"

Posted by: 2009Refugee at January 07, 2026 08:46 PM (8AONa)

213 Minneapolis ICE Protest NYC Chicago Sacramento Columbus
Portland Andy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sneuc23rIg4

Breakdown of the "Russian" tanker saga:
Sanctioned Tanker Marinera (the former Bella 1) - Russian-flagged and Heading Eastbound and Down!
What's Going on With Shipping?
4 days ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-XPJsB53CU

US Seizes 'Russian' Russian Tanker Marinera (ex-Bella 1) | How Was it Seized? | Other Tanker Seized
What's Going on With Shipping?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kksU9eqUcOM

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at January 07, 2026 08:46 PM (9aVck)

214 Do we have s plan to defend against a Danish invasion?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 08:47 PM (IGnEY)

215 I prefer the early 80s Denmark where an opposition politician said if his party were in power he would close the defense ministry and replace it with an answering machine that said "we surrender, in Russian".
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That's what they did in 1940. Different language though.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 07, 2026 08:47 PM (RIvkX)

216 187 bat, or penguin? - Oldcat

If there is a "mephitic-free bouquet", it is because of the absence of those Nosferatu-faced flying rats of the order Chiroptera.

Posted by: Paco at January 07, 2026 08:47 PM (2L+MU)

217 Like we are worried about a country named after a pastry.

Posted by: fd at January 07, 2026 08:47 PM (vFG9F)

218 Yep, Iran getting spicier. Extent and intensity of protests and violent confrontations increasing, not fading. A few police killed in the west (the hottest region). Protests and attacks on facilities even in Qom and other Shi'a heartland towns. Today Soleimani monuments across the country were getting the antifa/Churchill treatment. Commemorative banners to that POS have been getting burned for days.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 07, 2026 08:48 PM (U/Byj)

219 I hate Kansas City she-faggots.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 07, 2026 08:48 PM (RIvkX)

220 Wait. Trump hasn't imposed restrictions on the import of Danish cookies, has he?

Posted by: Paco at January 07, 2026 08:48 PM (2L+MU)

221 Do we have s plan to defend against a Danish invasion?
Posted by: Boss Moss

Us donuts will not take this laying down!!

Posted by: Tonypete at January 07, 2026 08:48 PM (cYBz/)

222 Lego my Greenland.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 08:48 PM (IGnEY)

223 The problem with paying the Danegeld, is you never get rid of the Dane.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 07, 2026 08:48 PM (cxFcK)

224 217 Ha!

Posted by: gp at January 07, 2026 08:49 PM (GHIyr)

225 In Iran video I am seeing a lot of the Lion and Sun flag being flown.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 07, 2026 08:49 PM (RIvkX)

226 Do we have s plan to defend against a Danish invasion?

Posted by: Boss Moss

You are low carb, right? You can lead us.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 07, 2026 08:50 PM (Cw/ar)

227 Tousi says Russian media reporting the Iranians are coming and it's over but I haven't checked those at RT yet

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 07, 2026 08:50 PM (RIvkX)

228 The badass Mayor of Minneapolis held a press conference and said, "To ICE, get the f*** out of Minneapolis."

A real tough guy.



Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 07, 2026 08:50 PM (oMW+j)

229 220 Wait. Trump hasn't imposed restrictions on the import of Danish cookies, has he?
Posted by: Paco at January 07, 2026 08:48 PM
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I saw a YouTube video showing that a lot of those blue-tinned "Danish" cookies are actually made in India under very unsanitary conditions. Check the label.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 07, 2026 08:51 PM (kpS4V)

230 Slowly...then all at once.
Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 08:02 PM (ddphe)

The problem is that "slowly" has been going on for 30 years.

We will see if they really were surviving on banking for corrupt governments and terrorists, I guess.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 07, 2026 08:51 PM (rbvCR)

231 Actually Franpsycho the Danes were among the more exemplary of the countries receiving uninvited German visitors. Compare their % of surviving Jews to the Netherlands'.

Also recommend the movie "April 9".

Posted by: rhomboid at January 07, 2026 08:51 PM (U/Byj)

232 Shoot first and ask questions later!

Posted by: Dirty Hamlet at January 07, 2026 08:51 PM (vFG9F)

233 >>They got some crazy little women there, and I’m going to get me one.

When I was living in PR we used to go to an ex-pat bar, mostly British merchant marines, that had a house band. Not a good house band. Every single night they played that song at least once.

We begged them to learn a new song.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 07, 2026 08:51 PM (viF8m)

234 204 202 I think the mullahs might be falling tonight guys.
Posted by: Blutarski
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From your lips to the Lord's ears.
Posted by: whig at January 07

May the people of Iran get to return to their freedom.

Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 08:51 PM (p4NUW)

235 They're probably crafting defenses for Dim Balz' behavior.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 07, 2026 08:05 PM (mlg/3)

Or building him a bunker

Posted by: Kindltot at January 07, 2026 08:52 PM (rbvCR)

236 If they overthrow the government it will cost them $28.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 08:53 PM (IGnEY)

237 228
'The badass Mayor of Minneapolis held a press conference and said, "To ICE, get the f*** out of Minneapolis."'

Charge him as an accessory for the attempted murder of a federal agent.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 07, 2026 08:53 PM (fd80v)

238
The badass Mayor of Minneapolis held a press conference and said, "To ICE, get the f*** out of Minneapolis."

A real tough guy.



Posted by: JM in Illinois

=============

I think Scott Adams gets it right when he says the left is trying to Trump, but they can't. They don't understand that Making Profanity Great Again doesn't mean random droppings of the F-bomb.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 07, 2026 08:54 PM (Uo+RY)

239 Something is rotten in Denmark.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 08:54 PM (IGnEY)

240 Ex poet forgot
Don't run away from the cops
Ex poet is dead
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary

Poet f--ked around
Midwinter ICE takes no s--t
Ex-poet found out.

Posted by: mikeski haikus, too at January 07, 2026 08:54 PM (nhCoE)

241 Mexicans are claiming Trump will prove Sheinbaum achieved office through Venezuelan vote fraud. Marco should prepare accordingly.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 07, 2026 08:54 PM (cxFcK)

242 I saw a YouTube video showing that a lot of those blue-tinned "Danish" cookies are actually made in India under very unsanitary conditions. Check the label.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes

I saw that, too, but everyone I saw was made in Denmark. The Royal Dansk blue tin ones. Heck, even the off brand ones in Rouses were from Denmark, so now I wonder if it was The anti- Danish Cookie League propaganda!

Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 08:55 PM (p4NUW)

243 Yeah, I seen her poetry. It's aiight, but it ain't C-i-l-l my Landlord.

Posted by: Tyrone Green at January 07, 2026 08:55 PM (0e5Te)

244 The Danish Defense Minister just released a brief statement:

"By yimminy, ve ain't a-goin' to poot up vit none-a President Trump's hi-yinks, no sirree bob! Ve vill oppose Yew Ess aggression vit all our strenk. Unless de Americans start shootin', in vich case ve yust shake hands and call it a day."

Posted by: Paco at January 07, 2026 08:55 PM (2L+MU)

245 Wow. RT is total blackout on Iran in both English and Russian.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 07, 2026 08:55 PM (RIvkX)

246 Dead Poets Society? No takers?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 08:55 PM (IGnEY)

247 Looks like Tulsi has the intelligence people toeing the line.

Posted by: Accomack at January 07, 2026 08:56 PM (GbONR)

248 "Something is rotten in Denmark.
Posted by: Boss Moss"

Alas, poor Yorick.

Posted by: Dirty Hamlet at January 07, 2026 08:56 PM (vFG9F)

249 Another police official killed in town near Tehran. Huge crowds pulls down/burns current national flag in Mashad (cradle of the Islamic revolution).

The president (Pezeshkian) has been making conciliatory noises, acknowledging regime failures on the economy. Impossible to know but likely just a good cop/bad cop routine, with Khamenei (who has only been trash-talking) and the Guard playing the bad cop (and actual authority) part. The regime has done versions of this in the past in response to widespread protests.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 07, 2026 08:56 PM (U/Byj)

250
234 204 202 I think the mullahs might be falling tonight guys.
Posted by: Blutarski
=======
From your lips to the Lord's ears.
Posted by: whig at January 07

May the people of Iran get to return to their freedom.
Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 08:51 PM (p4NUW)”

I was just watching video on X of protestors tearing down regime statues across the country. And a huge flag that they pulled down and ripped apart.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 07, 2026 08:57 PM (ukUWv)

251 Didja see this?

BREAKING: The wife of Renee Nicole Good—the 37-year-old Minneapolis shooting victim who attempted to run over an ICE officer—appears to have been outside the vehicle filming as her wife blocked ICE vehicles.
She is seen wearing a flannel shirt, walking around the vehicle and recording ICE officers.
She later runs back to the vehicle to check on Renee.
Afterward, she tells a nearby man, “That’s my wife.”
When he asks if she knows any of her wife’s relatives she could call, she responds, “We're new here. I don't have people... I can’t even breathe right now.”
Why was she outside the vehicle filming while her wife was blocking ICE officers?
Terrible.

-
That's right. She's a flannel shirt wearer.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at January 07, 2026 08:57 PM (L/fGl)

252 229 I saw a YouTube video showing that a lot of those blue-tinned "Danish" cookies are actually made in India under very unsanitary conditions. Check the label. - All hail Eris

No problem. I give them to the neighbors for Christmas.

Posted by: Paco at January 07, 2026 08:57 PM (2L+MU)

253 245 Wow. RT is total blackout on Iran in both English and Russian.
Posted by: San Franpsycho
=========
Russian allies are getting a bit scarce nowadays.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 08:57 PM (WDjG6)

254 I am not black pilled, but the democrat party is leaving fewer and fewer options to Sherman's "hard hand of war." As a Southerner, I dislike Sherman, but as an American, I appreciate him as among the best soldiers this great nation has produced. There is very little difference between the Democrats of 1860 and 2026. The effective remedies remain similar as well.

Posted by: ErikInTexas at January 07, 2026 08:57 PM (4b7CV)

255 royal-dansk.com for those dry-as-dust brittle neutral-tasting cookies.

Posted by: gp at January 07, 2026 08:58 PM (GHIyr)

256 > First of all of course, the US already has bases in Greenland.

Nothing like the height of the Cold War, though.

However, if they're anything like the dozens of mothballed bases here in Alaska, the Air Force has kept the runways in perfect repair.

The thing is, if you've got a good runway and modern equipment, you can spin up a full-blown base pretty damned quick.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 07, 2026 08:58 PM (IG3/x)

257 245 Wow. RT is total blackout on Iran in both English and Russian.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 07, 2026 08:55 PM (RIvkX)

Not too different from our own media. X is the only place I can get an idea of what’s actually happening.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 07, 2026 08:58 PM (ukUWv)

258 243
'it ain't C-i-l-l my Landlord.
Posted by: Tyrone Green'

The dog do bark but do he bite?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 07, 2026 08:58 PM (fd80v)

259 I saw that, too, but everyone I saw was made in Denmark. The Royal Dansk blue tin ones. Heck, even the off brand ones in Rouses were from Denmark, so now I wonder if it was The anti- Danish Cookie League propaganda!
Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 08:55 PM (p4NUW)

I would have assumed that you were the Anti-Danish Cookie League, nefariously convincing people to snack only on Kale Croissants.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 08:59 PM (ExV1e)

260
251

BREAKING: The wife of Renee Nicole Good—the 37-year-old Minneapolis shooting victim who attempted to run over an ICE officer—appears to have been outside the vehicle filming as her wife blocked ICE vehicles.
She is seen wearing a flannel shirt, walking around the vehicle and recording ICE officers.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at January 07, 2026 08:57 PM

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Was the car a Subaru?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 07, 2026 08:59 PM (VWtfl)

261 True the Danes were exemplary in that regard,, transferring virtually every Danish Jew to Sweden overnight a la but they negotiated themselves a very soft occupation, the king never left Copenhagen, and the Danish government was not deposed.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 07, 2026 08:59 PM (RIvkX)

262 Alas, poor Yorick.
Posted by: Dirty Hamlet

Did you know him?

Posted by: Tonypete at January 07, 2026 08:59 PM (cYBz/)

263 I was just watching video on X of protestors tearing down regime statues across the country. And a huge flag that they pulled down and ripped apart.
Posted by: Tom Servo
======
X is the place to go now for news. Things are moving so fast now that all the usual media are operating on a slow schedule and still focusing on the dead poet society member getting shot.

Even Israeli papers are behind the curve.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 09:00 PM (WDjG6)

264 Assault Honda.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 09:00 PM (IGnEY)

265 Were they able to retrieve the softball equipment from the back of the car?

Posted by: Wally at January 07, 2026 09:01 PM (0e5Te)

266 263 Concur.

Posted by: gp at January 07, 2026 09:01 PM (GHIyr)

267 "Did you know him?
Posted by: Tonypete"

Well...

Posted by: Dirty Hamlet at January 07, 2026 09:01 PM (vFG9F)

268 There is very little difference between the Democrats of 1860 and 2026. The effective remedies remain similar as well.
Posted by: ErikInTexas at January 07, 2026 08:57 PM (4b7CV)

The one big difference is that the average Confederate of 1860 could snap a pathetic creature like Tim Walz in half over his knees, and use his shinbones for toothpicks.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 07, 2026 09:01 PM (ukUWv)

269 "I can’t even breathe right now.”
Why was she outside the vehicle filming while her wife was blocking ICE officers?
Terrible.

-
That's right. She's a flannel shirt wearer.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at January 07, 2026 08:57 PM

"I can't breathe" is a BLM dog whistle. She should check her privilege.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 07, 2026 09:02 PM (Cw/ar)

270 '"I can't breathe" is a BLM dog whistle.'

It used to be. As an avid bodycam fan, I can report that every race uses it now.

Posted by: gp at January 07, 2026 09:03 PM (GHIyr)

271 You have to breathe to talk.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 09:04 PM (IGnEY)

272 Trump demanded Venezuela close the Helicoid, the secret police HQ and jail and torture chamber. They're doing it.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 07, 2026 09:05 PM (cxFcK)

273 So, is the phrase of the day, "Play stupid games, win stupid prizes," or are we going with the more modern (and lazy) "FAFO"?
Please let me know so I can update my e-mail signature.

Posted by: tankdemon at January 07, 2026 09:06 PM (ZoXoN)

274 Venezuela isn't Hellacold.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 09:06 PM (IGnEY)

275 Franpsycho yes the Danes managed a better deal, but of course they had that advantage of being "racially" acceptable to their visitors. Quite a bit of interesting and brave shenanigans pulled by their government.

And I checked Ria Novosti, couldn't believe it - not a mention of Iran. To Russians who consume only the pathetic official media, this will perhaps be similar to how many Japanese felt in June '44 - "we're winning, our fighting spirit cannot be matched by the foreign devils .... oh, and BTW, we just lost the Marianas".

Though many russkis won't care, and the loss of one more "ally" of some convenience won't change much.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 07, 2026 09:06 PM (U/Byj)

276 >>>It seems that the victim's "wife
---

She wasn't a victim.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 09:07 PM (xvXg6)

277 FAFO. Or Darwin Award Nominee is always in style.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 07, 2026 09:07 PM (Cw/ar)

278 Copenhagen!? Keep it away from me. Hillbilly cocaine.

Posted by: Eromero at January 07, 2026 09:07 PM (LHPAg)

279 🚨 STAGGERING: 129,000 MISSING CHILDREN FOUND — AND THE HORROR STORIES ARE REAL 🚨
Tom Homan just dropped one of the most disturbing updates yet on what happened to children smuggled into the U.S. under the last administration.
According to Homan, nearly half a million children were brought into the country, separated from families, and released to sponsors who were not properly vetted. Of those, the government lost track of roughly 300,000 kids.
And for years — no one was even looking.
That changed under Donald Trump.
Homan says that since January, a joint operation involving ICE, FBI, and Department of Health and Human Services has already located over 129,000 of these children.
Let that sink in.
129,000 kids who were essentially written off before.
And what they’re finding is horrific.
Homan says many children were:
released to fake or unverified addresses
assigned to “sponsors” holding up to 16 kids at once
sent to parking lots, hotels, or addresses where they never lived
forced into labor
kept out of school
sexually abused or trafficked
living in what he described as “atrocious” conditions

Some, he confirmed, have already died.
(Cont)

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 09:08 PM (KMPdZ)

280 Even more chilling — many of these children had no digital footprint, making them nearly impossible to trace. Investigators instead had to track down the sponsors, many of whom were never properly screened in the first place.

Homan says one of President Trump’s first phone calls after taking office made this a top priority:

“I want you to create a secure border.
I want you to oversee a massive deportation operation.
And I want you to find these kids.”

Some of the children have now aged out — over 18 — but Homan says that does not end the search, because adults can still be victims of forced labor and sex trafficking.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 09:08 PM (KMPdZ)

281 169 how many MN housewives have to die so that Undocumented Guests are free to explore the vast Northern Plains in search of a better life and Somialians can have fake child care fully-funded by US citizens ?  
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*updated*

how many MN housewives and/or NGO(taxpayer-funded) Professional Activists that 'Crossed the Border' from Kansas City have to die so that Undocumented Guests are free to explore the vast Northern Plains in search of a better life and Somialians can have fake child care fully-funded by US citizens ?

Posted by: shitizenCane at January 07, 2026 09:08 PM (5LiC7)

282 This plan of running Venezuela without taking it over is really high risk, but I think Trump and Rubio might pull it off.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 07, 2026 09:08 PM (ukUWv)

283 We often hear the euphemism "Is this really the hill you want to die on?" but now we need to literally ask the Left, "Is the Somali fraud machine and the invasion of unemployable Guatemalans really the hill you want to die on?"

Posted by: Wally at January 07, 2026 09:08 PM (0e5Te)

284 The downside of bodycams is that detainees know they can sling any kind of shit at the cops, and the cops can't beat the crap out of them on cam. There's an emerging culture of performative defiance where the same set of delay and abuse tactics is crystallizing. 'I can't breathe. I need to call my mommy. No, I'm not under arrest. I'm looking at my phone now, I can't hear you. I don't feel safe with that officer. That officer touched my junk.' etc.

Posted by: gp at January 07, 2026 09:09 PM (GHIyr)

285 Not too different from our own media. X is the only place I can get an idea of what’s actually happening.
Posted by: Tom Servo

I finally signed up for X tonight. I will resist posting there.

But this little nugget in feed,

"REPORTER: Dems say you're WINGING Venezuela, you have no plan!

SEC. MARCO RUBIO: "Yeah, I know. They're gonna say that. I used to be a senator too! That's what you ALWAYS say!"

"It's not just speculating what's gonna happen - IT'S ALREADY HAPPENING."

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 09:10 PM (WDjG6)

286 Like we are worried about a country named after a pastry.
Posted by: fd at January 07, 2026 08:47 PM (vFG9F)

I dunno, Bismarck was a pretty tough character

Posted by: Kindltot at January 07, 2026 09:11 PM (rbvCR)

287 So, is the phrase of the day, "Play stupid games, win stupid prizes," or are we going with the more modern (and lazy) "FAFO"?
Please let me know so I can update my e-mail signature.
Posted by: tankdemon

FAFO. Or Darwin Award Nominee is always in style.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary

Be inclusive! All three are good.

Posted by: mikeski at January 07, 2026 09:11 PM (nhCoE)

288 >> The answer is to have Barron Trump marry Princess Isabella ( she's a 1) and we're given Greenland as dowry. Heh.

Okay, but who is going to marry Crown Princess Noor Pahlavi, future Padishah Empress of Iran?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 07, 2026 09:11 PM (w6EFb)

289 Erf.

I thought this was the Cafe.

Yeeeesh. Have at it, folks.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 07, 2026 09:12 PM (m+Iyu)

290 Okay, but who is going to marry Crown Princess Noor Pahlavi, future Padishah Empress of Iran?
Posted by: publius


Oh my.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 07, 2026 09:13 PM (cYBz/)

291 It says Cafe.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 09:13 PM (IGnEY)

292 Thanks rickb. The whole child trafficking atrocity, which was always part of mass illegal migration and became a holocaust under the vegetable's vile regime, is among the most heinous of the crimes that vapid moral narcissistic open-borders cretins simply don't care about.

The conference of bishops will vomit up some idiotic incitement about illegals who lower wages, take American jobs, and overwhelm/degrade school districts. Don't recall them ever sullying themselves by mentioning the mass trafficking of children they (in effect) actively support.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 07, 2026 09:14 PM (U/Byj)

293 Okay, but who is going to marry Crown Princess Noor Pahlavi, future Padishah Empress of Iran?
Posted by: publius


I'll take one for the team.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 09:14 PM (KMPdZ)

294 Okay, but who is going to marry Crown Princess Noor Pahlavi, future Padishah Empress of Iran?
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 07, 2026 09:11 PM (w6EFb)
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I suppose I could take one for the team.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 07, 2026 09:14 PM (ESVrU)

295 Mexicans are claiming Trump will prove Sheinbaum achieved office through Venezuelan vote fraud. Marco should prepare accordingly.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 07, 2026 08:54 PM (cxFcK)

Elon said that "The most entertaining outcome is the most likely."

Posted by: Kindltot at January 07, 2026 09:14 PM (rbvCR)

296 Hi, Nurse!

*pats chair*

Have a seat next to me, and let me buy you a drink... We can lurk n listen from here.

Posted by: JQ at January 07, 2026 09:15 PM (rdVOm)

297 Goldie Ghamari - YouTube

Live updates on Iranian Revolution.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 09:15 PM (KMPdZ)

298 I canceled my X account months ago because the news tempo was winding me up too much. I didn't sign up for news stuff, but it came to obsess me. So true the other media just can't keep up, which ain't surprising seeing how the other media is shrinking both viewership and workers.

Posted by: gp at January 07, 2026 09:15 PM (GHIyr)

299 Okay, but who is going to marry Crown Princess Noor Pahlavi, future Padishah Empress of Iran?
After careful consideration, I'll make the sacrifice. I'll be in my bunk...contact me if she accepts.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 07, 2026 09:16 PM (XMwZJ)

300 Has the WNBA season started yet?

Posted by: Green Dildo Manufacturers of America at January 07, 2026 09:19 PM (Q+gd/)

301 Did Mike Pence really take $430,000 from Islammic Jihad?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 09:19 PM (IGnEY)

302 Holy shit. Goldie is ripping ass.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 09:20 PM (KMPdZ)

303
Some of the children have now aged out — over 18 — but Homan says that does not end the search, because adults can still be victims of forced labor and sex trafficking.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 09:08 PM (KMPdZ)


Another timely reminder of just how evil and decadent these people are. Thank you.

Posted by: ErikInTexas at January 07, 2026 09:20 PM (4b7CV)

304 Did Mike Pence really take $430,000 from Islammic Jihad?
Posted by: Boss Moss


That's what Laura Loomer claims.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 09:20 PM (KMPdZ)

305 🥒

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 09:21 PM (IGnEY)

306 There's a dead poet who won't be needing her wnba season tickets now

Posted by: NCKate at January 07, 2026 09:22 PM (uQzkA)

307 So much is going on that it’s starting to feel like WW3 - and yet we’re winning. Winning easily, even.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 07, 2026 09:22 PM (ukUWv)

308 Islamic Jihad is designated as a terrorist organization.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 09:22 PM (IGnEY)

309
The Shah had some good genes. Or married into some.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 07, 2026 09:23 PM (w6EFb)

310 They're just sexually trafficking the children Americans won't sexually traffic.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at January 07, 2026 09:24 PM (L/fGl)

311 It seems Dead Karen was a Colorado native

Posted by: Don Black at January 07, 2026 09:24 PM (ZxPkt)

312 Homan says one of President Trump’s first phone calls after taking office made this a top priority:

“I want you to create a secure border.
I want you to oversee a massive deportation operation.
And I want you to find these kids.”

God bless them both for this. No child deserves that kind of treatment.

Posted by: moki at January 07, 2026 09:26 PM (wLjpr)

313 JQ!

Woof. It’s a date.
I’m needing three fingers of bourbon after today.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 07, 2026 09:26 PM (hjMYN)

314 "Do we have s plan to defend against a Danish invasion?"

Yes and it involves hookers

Posted by: Fen at January 07, 2026 09:28 PM (ciYHQ)

315 winning strategy : Trump suspends all Federal Income Tax until there is closure on Fraud investigations. even the most looney of the lunatics (that pay income tax) would be on board ? whats the downside ? Certainly the recovery of these funds can replace lost tax *revenue* .

Posted by: shitizenCane at January 07, 2026 09:28 PM (5LiC7)

316 Thanks for that Goldie link. She is saying something big is going to go down at about noon tomorrow.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 07, 2026 09:28 PM (ukUWv)

317
Shah, Jr. and his family:
https://is.gd/9k84HM

From the left of Shah Jr, his wife, three daughters, and his mother, wife of the Shah, who is still alive, but she's getting on up there in age now. Don't know when that photo was taken.

Princess Noor is the one right next to grandma.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 07, 2026 09:28 PM (w6EFb)

318 *3 fingers of Buffalo Trace*

Here ya go, Nurse!

Posted by: JQ at January 07, 2026 09:28 PM (rdVOm)

319 281
'how many MN housewives and/or NGO(taxpayer-funded) Professional Activists that 'Crossed the Border' from Kansas City have to die so that Undocumented Guests are free to explore the vast Northern Plains in search of a better life and Somialians can have fake child care fully-funded by US citizens ?

All of them.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 07, 2026 09:29 PM (fd80v)

320 It is foggy out there!

Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 09:29 PM (p4NUW)

321 Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 07, 2026 08:54 PM (cxFcK)

Elon said that "The most entertaining outcome is the most likely."
Posted by: Kindltot
------------------

La cucaracha, la cucaracha
ya no puede caminar

porque le falta, porque no tiene
una pata para andar.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 09:30 PM (xvXg6)

322 Bad news, guys. The invasion is off.

.@RepTedLieu: "If any military member, including the generals on down...participate in the use of military force against Greenland without congressional authorization, they are following illegal orders."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at January 07, 2026 09:31 PM (L/fGl)

323 Goldie Hawn?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 07, 2026 09:31 PM (zZu0s)

324 Y'all have fun this evening. I'm gonna watch Doc Martin.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 09:31 PM (WDjG6)

325 "but now we need to literally ask the Left, "Is the Somali fraud machine and the invasion of unemployable Guatemalans really the hill you want to die on?"

Disagree. We cannot share this country with people who celebrate our murder (Charlie Kirk) but the Right lacks the Will to act. So don't cool the Left, let them come.

Posted by: Fen at January 07, 2026 09:32 PM (ciYHQ)

326 Shah, Jr. and his family:
https://is.gd/9k84HM

From the left of Shah Jr, his wife, three daughters, and his mother, wife of the Shah, who is still alive, but she's getting on up there in age now. Don't know when that photo was taken.

Princess Noor is the one right next to grandma.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
----

Shah asked Carter for sanctuary but jackass turned him away.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 09:32 PM (xvXg6)

327 Actually moving against child trafficking was a (quiet) priority in Trump's first term, something AG Sessions was equally focused on (until, well, you know).

Aha. Earlier this week there was a huge fire at a major Iranian dairy products factory up north near the Caspian. Now, locals are being evacuated. Ammonia. Not ice cream.

Turns out Iran has been building missile production infrastructure up there (some of it was hit in June). Chy-nah provides a key component for rocket fuel (perchlorate). Some may recall the big fire down in Bandar Abbas earlier last year (perchlorate from Chy-nah, most likely).

Not *quite* "baby milk factory!!", but still good.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 07, 2026 09:32 PM (U/Byj)

328 Goldie Ghamari - YouTube

Live updates on Iranian Revolution.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 09:15 PM

There's another guy who's been giving her a shout out. TousiTV (I think?). He's been roasting the crap out out of American leftists at the same time. Definitely a Moron emeritus.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 07, 2026 09:33 PM (Wnv9h)

329 325 "but now we need to literally ask the Left, "Is ...
---

We ask them if they prefer to live in Ukraine or Iran; their choice.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 09:34 PM (xvXg6)

330 ----
I suppose I could take one for the team.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 07

You seem the most likely candidate for such a sacrifice as you have the most practice wearing pants.

Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 09:34 PM (p4NUW)

331 Do lounge pants count?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 09:34 PM (IGnEY)

332 Bad news, guys. The invasion is off.

.@RepTedLieu: "If any military member, including the generals on down...participate in the use of military force against Greenland without congressional authorization, they are following illegal orders."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at January 07, 2026 09:31 PM

He was dropped on his head as a baby, wasn't he?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 07, 2026 09:35 PM (Wnv9h)

333 A masked Iranian poilce officer (police, basij, not sure, probably not Guard) did a masked video about how he would not attack the people, and referred to something happening tomorrow and Friday.

These kinds of videos are now becoming more common. They seem legit, and are believable.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 07, 2026 09:36 PM (U/Byj)

334 Prayer request: few months ago I added a coworker and his wife to the prayer list because of a slightly complicated pregnancy. Today they went for their 2x/week pregnancy exam and the baby had stopped growing so they're inducing right now. They're at about 36 or 37 weeks so it all should be good. Still, if anyone wants to add Grant and his wife and little girl to their Prayers I'd be most appreciative

Posted by: 496 at January 07, 2026 09:36 PM (JT+vB)

335 200 airforce personell. 450 Canadians and Danes.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 09:37 PM (IGnEY)

336 334 Prayer request: few months ago I added a coworker and his wife to the prayer list because of a slightly complicated pregnancy. Today they went for their 2x/week pregnancy exam and the baby had stopped growing so they're inducing right now. They're at about 36 or 37 weeks so it all should be good. Still, if anyone wants to add Grant and his wife and little girl to their Prayers I'd be most appreciative
Posted by: 496 at January 07, 2026 09:36 PM (JT+vB)

Absolutely- immediately.

Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 09:38 PM (p4NUW)

337
Hannity had Shah, Jr. on last night. He also wrote an op-ed in the WaPo yesterday.

Constitutional monarchy is the way to go for Iran. Get the history book out of British and later our meddling and screwing up with Iran through the 20th century, and try to make the same mistakes the second time.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 07, 2026 09:39 PM (w6EFb)

338 I finally signed up for X tonight. I will resist posting there.

The first post is free. You'll feel so high. It'll be unreal. You don't want to be a square, do you? -- Elon

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 09:39 PM (ExV1e)

339 Life during wartime, Iran

https://x.com/JewsFightBack/status/
2008968343752216764

Posted by: Don Black at January 07, 2026 09:39 PM (ZxPkt)

340 322 Bad news, guys. The invasion is off.

.@RepTedLieu: "If any military member, including the generals on down...participate in the use of military force against Greenland without congressional authorization, they are following illegal orders."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at January 07, 2026 09:31 PM (L/fGl)

Does he think he is in the chain of command? Or is he just an idiot?

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 07, 2026 09:40 PM (6Bc88)

341 Bad news, guys. The invasion is off.

.@RepTedLieu: "If any military member, including the generals on down...participate in the use of military force against Greenland without congressional authorization, they are following illegal orders."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at January 07, 2026 09:31 PM (L/fGl)

Does he think he is in the chain of command? Or is he just an idiot?
Posted by: tcn in AK

Yes.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 09:42 PM (KMPdZ)

342 Old and busted: The Longest Day

New and cool: The Pastriest Day

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at January 07, 2026 09:42 PM (L/fGl)

343 332 Bad news, guys. The invasion is off.

.@RepTedLieu: "If any military member, including the generals on down...participate in the use of military force against Greenland without congressional authorization, they are following illegal orders."

-----------------------------
stay out of my lane.

Posted by: JudgeSupremeOverlordOfDemocracyBoasberg at January 07, 2026 09:42 PM (5LiC7)

344 45 Theory:

Walz knows he's fucked in the DOJ investigation of the welfare fraud in the state. He's received a targeting letter and sees his subservients testifying to Congress that he knew.

What does he have to lose to lead the Second Civil War?

I imagine MN state lawyers are screaming at his staff right now. "Do not do this!!!! Insurrection Act! The US military!"

Posted by: TJM's phone at January 07, 2026 07:49 PM (GBKbO)

Elmer Fraud isn't an inspiring enough figure to have people willing to die for him.

Posted by: XTC at January 07, 2026 09:44 PM (6Uni8)

345 Elmer Fraud isn't an inspiring enough figure to have people willing to die for him.
Posted by: XTC at January 07, 2026 09:44 PM (6Uni
----
Is he inspiring enough to have people willing to kill for him?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 07, 2026 09:46 PM (ESVrU)

346 Elmer Fraud isn't an inspiring enough figure to have people willing to die for him.
Posted by: XTC at January 07, 2026 09:44 PM (6Uni

I thought he was dreamy. -- Renee Good

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 09:46 PM (ExV1e)

347 Trump stole a ship loaded with marinara sauce to provide for his hotels on the cheap. Nothing he does is a surprise anymore. Won't Presdnent Obama stop this man?

Posted by: Mary Of Brattleboro at January 07, 2026 09:46 PM (oftw2)

348 Shah, Jr. and his family:
https://is.gd/9k84HM

From the left of Shah Jr, his wife, three daughters, and his mother, wife of the Shah, who is still alive, but she's getting on up there in age now. Don't know when that photo was taken.

Princess Noor is the one right next to grandma.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 07, 2026 09:28 PM (w6EFb)

***

The Shah, the Shah Na, and the Shah Na Nas.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 07, 2026 09:47 PM (2WIwB)

349 Still, if anyone wants to add Grant and his wife and little girl to their Prayers I'd be most appreciative
Posted by: 496 at January 07, 2026 09:36 PM (JT+vB)

Absolutely- immediately.
Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 09:38 PM (p4NUW)

Done. Baby girl should be ok (former NICU step down RN). Prayers for good health and a strong baby girl and Mama.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 07, 2026 09:47 PM (WONhk)

350 I'm out of Marinara sauce and cheese.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 09:48 PM (IGnEY)

351 I'm very disappointed that Trump has not declared a crusade against mountain cedar in central Texas.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 09:48 PM (ExV1e)

352 Ted Lieu is the kind of guy who buys a two-way dildo in the hopes of making a friend.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 07, 2026 09:48 PM (u1qVW)

353
The MN National Guard can refuse illegal orders from the governor. Even if there are leftists in the chain of command, throwing their lot in with this desperate little man is a bad bet. He's lost his mojo.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 07, 2026 09:49 PM (azNOR)

354 However, if they're anything like the dozens of mothballed bases here in Alaska, the Air Force has kept the runways in perfect repair.

The thing is, if you've got a good runway and modern equipment, you can spin up a full-blown base pretty damned quick.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 07, 2026 08:58 PM (IG3/x)

Thule AFB is still operational, and it is extensive, although a lot of it has been mothballed. I think they call it an airfield now instead of an air base, but it is all still there. USACE takes care of anything that has to come out of mothballs, and can do so right quick. It's all Air Force, but some of it will be Space Force, just because.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 07, 2026 09:49 PM (6Bc88)

355 Will Canada protect Walz? I heard he may head for the border.

Posted by: Case at January 07, 2026 09:49 PM (4rWc3)

356 Trump stole a ship loaded with marinara sauce

-
It was medical marinara.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at January 07, 2026 09:50 PM (L/fGl)

357 I see they list Thule as some other name, and call it all Space Force, but the difference is minimal. Anyway, it only takes one call to USACE HQ and it will be a full air base in no time.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 07, 2026 09:50 PM (6Bc88)

358 >>> 355 Will Canada protect Walz? I heard he may head for the border.
Posted by: Case at January 07, 2026 09:49 PM (4rWc3)

If timmeh runs for Canadia he's really expecting CHYna to cover his ass.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 07, 2026 09:51 PM (ULPxl)

359 Elmer Fraud isn't an inspiring enough figure to have people willing to die for him.
Posted by: XTC at January 07, 2026 09:44 PM (6Uni

Are you kidding? He's the liberals wet dream of a general. Soft vanilla pudding.

He's Custard.

Custards Last Stand will be awesome to watch.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 07, 2026 09:51 PM (5hqcu)

360 Where are people getting the idea that we're gonna go all D-Day on Greenland? It's preposterous. President Two Scoops will finesse the Danes out of the island.

Posted by: Don Black at January 07, 2026 09:51 PM (ZxPkt)

361 I'm very disappointed that Trump has not declared a crusade against mountain cedar in central Texas.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic

I got cedar fever and the only prescription is more cowbell.

Posted by: BareleyScaryMary at January 07, 2026 09:52 PM (Cw/ar)

362 Are you kidding? He's the liberals wet dream of a general. Soft vanilla pudding.

He's Custard.

Custards Last Stand will be awesome to watch.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 07, 2026 09:51 PM (5hqcu)

Custard is his White Supremacy Slave Name. He prefers Flan.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 09:52 PM (ExV1e)

363 Timmeh!!

Posted by: South Park at January 07, 2026 09:53 PM (Q+gd/)

364 >>> 360 Where are people getting the idea that we're gonna go all D-Day on Greenland? It's preposterous. President Two Scoops will finesse the Danes out of the island.
Posted by: Don Black at January 07, 2026 09:51 PM (ZxPkt)

Sure, but the Danish PM throwing a hissy fit and threatening to take her NATO and go home is funny.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 07, 2026 09:53 PM (ULPxl)

365 350 I'm out of Marinara sauce and cheese.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Quick, open a daycare!

Posted by: Learing Center of Excellence at January 07, 2026 09:53 PM (oftw2)

366 >>> 365 350 I'm out of Marinara sauce and cheese.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Quick, open a daycare!
Posted by: Learing Center of Excellence at January 07, 2026 09:53 PM (oftw2)

That's what I did! It works great!!!

Posted by: Michael Byrd at January 07, 2026 09:54 PM (ULPxl)

367 Bad news, guys. The invasion is off.

.@RepTedLieu: "If any military member,...

Five-Star Minnesota Governor Tim Walz will defend Greenland with his National Guard.

Posted by: t-bird at January 07, 2026 09:54 PM (3arSl)

368 I got cedar fever and the only prescription is more cowbell.
Posted by: BareleyScaryMary at January 07, 2026 09:52 PM (Cw/ar)

Hear me out here... napalm. Napalm beats cowbell where cedar is concerned.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 09:54 PM (ExV1e)

369 I'll laugh my balls off if we get kicked out of NATO.

Trump, you magnificent bastard!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 07, 2026 09:54 PM (5hqcu)

370
I just read the Supreme Court ruling on the Illinois National Guard (which ruled Trump couldn't federalize them).

The way I read it, to do it, Trump must invoke the Insurrection Act, or any other statute (if it exists) that suspends Posse Comitatus.

Balz to the Walz sounds like he's given the perfect opportunity for that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 07, 2026 09:55 PM (w6EFb)

371 Screw you guys I'm going home.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 09:55 PM (IGnEY)

372 And I'm all out of marinara sauce.

Posted by: Roddy Piper at January 07, 2026 09:56 PM (Q+gd/)

373 496
Oh my. Done.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 07, 2026 09:56 PM (7b2l4)

374 I'd be careful. I smell a trap with the insurrection act.

Walz could be bait'n on behalf of Soros and Obama to try and tank the GOP with horrible optics of Federal occupation.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 07, 2026 09:56 PM (5hqcu)

375 I'll laugh my balls off if we get kicked out of NATO.

Trump, you magnificent bastard!
Posted by: AlaBAMA


Hahahahha

Even better if we get sanctioned by the UN!

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 07, 2026 09:56 PM (7b2l4)

376
360 Where are people getting the idea that we're gonna go all D-Day on Greenland? It's preposterous. President Two Scoops will finesse the Danes out of the island.
Posted by: Don Black at January 07, 2026 09:51 PM

---------

It's Trump's opening bid. They never learn.

And I'm sure the necessary supplies of canned ham have been acquired by the State Department.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 07, 2026 09:57 PM (azNOR)

377 Hahahahha

Even better if we get sanctioned by the UN!
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 07, 2026 09:56 PM (7b2l4)

Yes. Just like Russia we can veto our sanction and laugh as we vote no.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 07, 2026 09:58 PM (5hqcu)

378 Wasn't Ted Lieu the twink who dressed like a Tiger?

Posted by: steevy at January 07, 2026 09:58 PM (YwEeS)

379 Hear me out here... napalm. Napalm beats cowbell where cedar is concerned.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 09:54 PM (ExV1e)

I'm with you. Crazy how the cedar pollen hangs in the air some days. There's a spot on the road where you can see for miles. On cedar days, it is hazy and dirty. No wonder everyone has allergies.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 07, 2026 09:58 PM (Cw/ar)

380 winning strategy II :

in lieu of recent US Conquest of c-list countries.
1. Venezula
2. greenlnd

announce next on the list :

3. Ukraine

what is the mockingbird reaction ?

Posted by: shitzenKane at January 07, 2026 09:58 PM (5LiC7)

381 I just read the Supreme Court ruling on the Illinois National Guard (which ruled Trump couldn't federalize them).

The way I read it, to do it, Trump must invoke the Insurrection Act, or any other statute (if it exists) that suspends Posse Comitatus.

Balz to the Walz sounds like he's given the perfect opportunity for that.
Posted by: publius


Did Ike invoke the Insurrection Act with the Little Rock 9?

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 09:58 PM (KMPdZ)

382 Trump stole a ship loaded with marinara sauce
-
It was medical marinara.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Wait, it really was oregano?

Posted by: mikeski at January 07, 2026 09:58 PM (nhCoE)

383 How about no?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 09:58 PM (IGnEY)

384 Another day, another cafe. Yay.

Posted by: mindful webworker - goes by fast at January 07, 2026 09:58 PM (dESj/)

385 Elmer Fraud isn't an inspiring enough figure to have people willing to die for him.
Posted by: XTC
---

His best play is to send all of his money, accounts, family and himself to France. Macron would love to have another hated ex-pat in his fold.
He's prepping feather beds for the Ayatollahs now.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 09:59 PM (xvXg6)

386 The Iranians are all wee weed up.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 09:59 PM (IGnEY)

387 >> Did Ike invoke the Insurrection Act with the Little Rock 9?

Yes. Johnson invoked it a time or two as well. The "involuntary" sections.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 07, 2026 09:59 PM (w6EFb)

388 Yeah, him and Clooney can lunch under the Eifel.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 07, 2026 10:00 PM (5hqcu)

389 Hoping that Noem has managed to move all involved ICE personnel to anywhere but there. Area 51 seems appropriate.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at January 07, 2026 10:00 PM (peE7B)

390 NOOD ONT time. Go get 'em, tigers.

https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=418000

Posted by: mindful webworker - zip at January 07, 2026 10:01 PM (dESj/)

391
Was I adopted?



That's cute. The dog's friend needs a name.

I dub thee: Venison

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 07, 2026 10:02 PM (y9nCu)

392 Bad news, guys. The invasion is off.

.@RepTedLieu: "If any military member, including the generals on down...participate in the use of military force against Greenland without congressional authorization, they are following illegal orders."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at January 07, 2026 09:31 PM

Who does he think he is, a judge? What arrogance.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 07, 2026 10:16 PM (rbvCR)

393 Where are people getting the idea that we're gonna go all D-Day on Greenland? It's preposterous. President Two Scoops will finesse the Danes out of the island.
Posted by: Don Black at January 07, 2026 09:51 PM (ZxPkt)

Midwinter is a terrible time to invade Greenland, it would be easier to take Moscow.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 07, 2026 10:19 PM (rbvCR)

Governor Ron DeSantis Announces Special Session to Redistrict Florida
Tim Walz Activates National Guard -- Hinting He'll Use It to Fight FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT

This is still my guy. And he doesn't play footsie with Nazis just to keep Tucker Carlson on his side.

This is a small surprise, because while DeSantis talked about doing this, he mostly talked about doing this after the Supreme Court rendered judgment on the Democrat-fabricated "rule" that legislative districts must be drawn to elect as many minorities as mathematically possible. The Supreme Court hasn't ruled on that yet, but DeSantis is going ahead with the redistricting plan.

lorida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Wednesday that he will convene a special legislative session for redistricting.

"Today, I announced that I will be convening a Special Session of the Legislature focused on redistricting to ensure that Florida's congressional maps accurately reflect the population of our state," he posted on X.

"Every Florida resident deserves to be represented fairly and constitutionally. This Special Session will take place after the regular legislative session, which will allow the Legislature to first focus on the pressing issues facing Floridians before devoting its full attention to congressional redistricting in April."

Meanwhile, potty-mouthed pork-chop Jasmine Ratchet erupted into a, get this, profane tirade over the Supreme Court refusing to step in and save her own racially-contrived district.

Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett erupted into a profanity-laced tirade this week after the Supreme Court declined to step in and block Texas's newly drawn congressional maps, a ruling that clears the way for Republicans to gain as many as five additional House seats in 2026.

In a video posted to her YouTube channel, Crockett blasted the Court, President Trump, and GOP-controlled state governments, accusing them of "rigging the system" ahead of the midterms. "Obviously, Trump is still doing his bidding with these state Houses and state Senates and governors' mansions to try to rig the system," she said, before praising states she claims are resisting Republicans. "Kudos to Indiana for saying f*** you. Kudos to California for saying we're going to fight back." Crockett then aimed her anger directly at the justices, exclaiming, "And f*** you to the Supreme Court for what they did."

She then ate the microphone and took a selfie with her backfat.


Update to previous story:


@chiIIum

WITNESS to deadly I.C.E. Incident: "She was the main car leading the protest."

"She was very successful in what she was set to do."

So it looked like she was impeding federal officers?

"Definitely, yeah. That was her goal."


The DHS agent only draws his gun when the terrorist turns her car on him and jams down the accelerator.

Governor Uptwinkles has given a "warning" to the National Guard to be ready to deploy, once his antifa and illegal supporters start rioting. He's also demanded Trump and Noem go home. He sounds like he's mobilizing the National Guard as an insurrection against the federal government.

Arrest him. Hang him.

That's what they told us we do with insurrectionists, right? That's what they demanded after January 6.

Posted by: Ace at 06:35 PM




Comments

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1 Jasmine Crockett is embarrassing.

Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 06:35 PM (GMx4K)

2 Also, things are getting spicy in MN

https://tinyurl.com/ys3v4mpr

Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 06:36 PM (GMx4K)

3 How many seats will switch in Florida? I know here in Texas they are talking 5 seats switching from democrat to republican but I am not clear on how Florida will shake out.


One thing that is a blessing here in Texas is that crockett has been gerrymandered out of her made up congress seat.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 07, 2026 06:37 PM (0N4FZ)

4 Not just an innocent bystander

@chiIIum
WITNESS to deadly I.C.E. Incident: “She was the main car leading the protest.”

“She was very successful in what she was set to do.”

So it looked like she was impeding federal officers?

“Definitely, yeah. That was her goal.”

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 07, 2026 06:38 PM (mlg/3)

5 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at January 07, 2026 06:38 PM (LdBR/)

6 Tim Walz Activates National Guard -- Hinting He'll Use It to Fight FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT
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"Everybody was Kung-fu fighting."

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 06:38 PM (krQz2)

7 I could hear Bigfoot in the Minnesota video.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 06:39 PM (IGnEY)

8 Hanging him would be cruel and unusual because his head will come off.

Posted by: steevy at January 07, 2026 06:39 PM (YwEeS)

9 In Ohio they prosecuted the Officer that was run over and on the Hood of the car and shot the driver. He was found not guilty but never should have been a trial to begin with.

They are going to do everything they can to this guy and his family

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 07, 2026 06:39 PM (FCrpy)

10 Does anyone want to tell Pedo Mouth Walz that the National Guard are both state and federal?

I may be blonde but I think federal !TRUMPS! state.

Regardless, wag that doggie, Pedo Mouth. He probably has all the missing (from daycares) Somoli children in his basement.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 07, 2026 06:40 PM (WONhk)

11 Ft. Sumter 2026

Let's get some shirts printed up.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 07, 2026 06:40 PM (GeSNl)

12 Walz also claimed the US gov is at war with Minnesolalia. He said that.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 07, 2026 06:40 PM (cxFcK)

13 I'm going to enjoy seeing Walz arrested by his own troops.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 07, 2026 06:40 PM (ZOv7s)

14 Jasmine Crockett is embarrassing.
Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 06:35 PM (GMx4K)

She's not to me, she's not on my side.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2026 06:40 PM (8avO+)

15 That's what they told us we do with insurrectionists, right? That's what they demanded after January 6.

Posted by: Ace at 06:35 PM

Its what Miss Lindsey demanded, yes.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 07, 2026 06:41 PM (zZu0s)

16 Civil War 2.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 06:41 PM (IGnEY)

17 Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) says “f*** you” to the Supreme Court for basically ending her political career by allowing Texas redistricting to go forward.
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Such an eloquent servant of the people needs to be heard!

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 06:41 PM (krQz2)

18 2026 hasn't been boring.

You have to give it that.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 07, 2026 06:41 PM (zZu0s)

19 Walz knows his career is dead.

But as a good communist he has one last duty. Drag the country into civil war.

Posted by: DoctorMew at January 07, 2026 06:41 PM (XodLO)

20 17.

She a sa-wich ar-ist.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 07, 2026 06:42 PM (ssLGl)

21 Remember, those cops next to the car can hear the engine as well as the transmission shifting from Reverse to Drive.

The video doesn't tell the entire story.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 06:42 PM (ddphe)

22 Walz also claimed the US gov is at war with Minnesolalia. He said that.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 07, 2026 06:40 PM (cxFcK)
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Congress has the power to declare war.

Tim Walz does not.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 06:42 PM (krQz2)

23 Looks like a clear cut case of self defense. Was he supposed to allow himself to be crushed by an SUV?

Posted by: steevy at January 07, 2026 06:42 PM (YwEeS)

24
9 In Ohio they prosecuted the Officer that was run over and on the Hood of the car and shot the driver. He was found not guilty but never should have been a trial to begin with.

They are going to do everything they can to this guy and his family
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio

Well if Walz calls the National Guard and tried to get them to do ANYTHING against federal officers, this whole thing is going to be mute. And Walz is very, very dumb.

Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 06:42 PM (d2kuJ)

25 Yup this woman has been photographed at other Anti ICE protests. Her mother said she probably got "scared _. Horse hockey and she wasn't"experiencing " Minnesota. Dollars to donuts she a paid travelling leftist protester

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 07, 2026 06:42 PM (ScJGb)

26 People were worried Walz might commit suicide. Then they realized he couldn't load a shotgun.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 07, 2026 06:42 PM (cxFcK)

27 I'm also going to enjoy the Sedition 6 try to explain that Walz isn't issuing unlawful orders.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 07, 2026 06:42 PM (ZOv7s)

28 Blackhawk Bored: The Fight for Minneapolis

Posted by: sifty boones at January 07, 2026 06:42 PM (ssLGl)

29 I have 2 questions:

1) Does invoking the Insurrection Act permit the military to arrest the judges as well as the local elected officials?
2) Does it permit them to be tried by a military tribunal?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 07, 2026 06:43 PM (HXT0k)

30 Has Mark Kelly told MN National Guard not to obey Walz's illegal orders?

Posted by: Mark1971 at January 07, 2026 06:43 PM (CNl8/)

31 If Minneapolis burns again, what exactly would be lost at this point?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 07, 2026 06:43 PM (mlg/3)

32 Shouldn’t have read all that content and watched all those videos! But Walz really is retarded, isn’t he?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 07, 2026 06:43 PM (ZVgZ4)

33 Delta Force should snatch his ass

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 06:43 PM (IGnEY)

34 >2026 hasn't been boring.


It has definitely hit the ground running.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 06:43 PM (ddphe)

35 4 Not just an innocent bystander

@chiIIum
WITNESS to deadly I.C.E. Incident: “She was the main car leading the protest.”

“She was very successful in what she was set to do.”

So it looked like she was impeding federal officers?

“Definitely, yeah. That was her goal.”
Posted by: weft cut-loop
==========
That means a full anal probe into the ngos funding her arrival and activities in Minnesota. Felony murder rule bitchez.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 06:43 PM (WDjG6)

36 I guess it's time for General Sherman to do some marching.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 07, 2026 06:43 PM (3uBP9)

37 I'm also going to enjoy the Sedition 6 try to explain that Walz isn't issuing unlawful orders.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 07, 2026 06:42 PM (ZOv7s)
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They just need a "side" of the story to tell.

They're totally going to do "Well this is different".

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 06:43 PM (krQz2)

38 Minnesota demoted to territory status for rebellion

Wave good bye to 10 blue electoral college votes

* Scott Johnson named Ubee Baron

Posted by: Fen at January 07, 2026 06:43 PM (ciYHQ)

39 12 Walz also claimed the US gov is at war with Minnesolalia. He said that.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 07, 2026 06:40 PM (cxFcK)

We've always been at war with East Minnesolalia...

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 06:43 PM (mP0Kj)

40 This is what happens when the left gets control. I wonder how many of the 7800 will turn up if called? And if called, how many will take up arms against the Feds?
I'm thinking not many.

Meanwhile, how many of the protestors, especially the violent ones, are actually from Minnesota? Does the NG have the authority to protect them?

Posted by: Diogenes at January 07, 2026 06:44 PM (2WIwB)

41 steevy @8.
You say that like it's a bad thing.

Posted by: Winston AKA Pops at January 07, 2026 06:44 PM (1whRW)

42 33 Delta Force should snatch his ass
Posted by: Boss Moss
========
Meal Team Six could take Pedo Timmy. Timmy is probably down in his bunker yelling like Shitler in Downfall.

Newsome will come!!!!

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 06:44 PM (WDjG6)

43 1 Jasmine Crockett is embarrassing.
Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 06:35 PM (GMx4K)

It's Texas Democrats that are so embarrassing. You think she is the worst they could do for a Senate candidate? You'd think this would be a time for some reasonable Dem to step up and run against her, but oh no, they have this liberal wannabe preacher Talerico. Talerico says that it would have been just fine if Mary would have aborted Jesus, because his god loves abortion. Yep.

The democrats this year have gone way above and beyond themselves in finding the two most loathsome figures in the entire state, and that's all they can find to run for a senate seat.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 07, 2026 06:44 PM (uWKK8)

44 oh please tampon timmy, send your troops against the feds, please please please!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 07, 2026 06:45 PM (Cjt/F)

45 Walz is the Retarded Jefferson Davis.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 07, 2026 06:45 PM (ssLGl)

46 That means a full anal probe into the ngos funding her arrival and activities in Minnesota. Felony murder rule bitchez.
Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 06:43 PM (WDjG6)

Car had Missouri plates... but was not a rental based on the stickers on the back window... sooo...

Conspiracy that crossed State Lines at the very least.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 06:45 PM (mP0Kj)

47 While I attended the University of Minnesota more than thirty years ago, one of my favorite memories was having to take a dump in one of the buildings near Northrop Hall and, after looking at one of the stall's wall, seeing a slogan scraped into the paint that had originally stated "CIA out of USA" changed to "CLA out of USA" (College of Liberal Arts).

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at January 07, 2026 06:46 PM (kfDTc)

48
Who could imagine
That they would freak out in Minnesota
Ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma
Mama Minnesota

Posted by: Guy who relates everything to a Zappa song at January 07, 2026 06:46 PM (vFG9F)

49 Assemble the package from Fort Riley.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 06:46 PM (IGnEY)

50 Dollars to donuts she a paid travelling leftist protester
Posted by: Smell the Glove

She was. Someone on X posted her deets. Appears to be a lipstick lesbian, but oddly a 1.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 07, 2026 06:46 PM (cxFcK)

51 Jasmine Crockett has a future scamming white leftards to donate to her campaign. She won't win a statewide election in Texas.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 07, 2026 06:46 PM (Cw/ar)

52
Conspiracy that crossed State Lines at the very least.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07

But she lived in MN? Not sure when she moved, though.

Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 06:46 PM (e8mjv)

53 ** overthrown by Paul Mirengoff

And so begins the Powerline Wars

Posted by: Fen at January 07, 2026 06:46 PM (ciYHQ)

54 Ashley Babbitt didn't try to run anyone over with an SUV and that officer was cleared and commended...

Posted by: steevy at January 07, 2026 06:46 PM (YwEeS)

55 Ok, who put the drugs in the shredded carrot & jello salad?

Posted by: Adriane the Kewl Yule & Kicking Kwanza Critic . . . at January 07, 2026 06:47 PM (3ZUWJ)

56 >>The democrats this year have gone way above and beyond themselves in finding the two most loathsome figures in the entire state, and that's all they can find to run for a senate seat.


The Dems only had to pretend to moderate to sweep up the Mid Terms.

Instead, Chuck Schumer and Co have run as far to the left as possible to keep their craziest constituents placated.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 06:47 PM (ddphe)

57 Isn't Jasmine a first choice for a stripper name?

Posted by: Tonypete at January 07, 2026 06:47 PM (cYBz/)

58 We've always been at war with East Minnesolalia...
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 06:43 PM (mP0Kj)

Suggest we rename it Somalisota...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 07, 2026 06:47 PM (QGaXH)

59 Heh.

Walz needs to listen to The Wolf by Whiskey Meyers and sit his fat ass down before he gets himself hanged.

He is dog paddling way way out of his depth.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 07, 2026 06:47 PM (ssLGl)

60 nice shot. I hope it hurt.

Posted by: JROD at January 07, 2026 06:47 PM (IlL6s)

61 "" Arrest him. Hang him.

That's what they told us we do with insurrectionists, right? That's what they demanded after January 6.""



Send in delta, let them mag dump him.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 07, 2026 06:47 PM (snZF9)

62 Whig posted earlier about a case where a gal tried to flee from cops on an icy road.
The conviction for assault with a deadly weapon was upheld.
Which opinion noted the officer could have easily slipped and fallen under the vehicle.

I note, in this clip, you see the officer at the door slip as he tries to avoid that fate.

BTW, so was her lesbo wife with her?
I suspect she was shouting at the driver to flee.

So she's gonna get some felony charges herself.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 07, 2026 06:47 PM (HXT0k)

63 "Jasmine Crockett is embarrassing.
Posted by: Piper"

Certainly not to herself. The shame aint in 'er.

Posted by: fd at January 07, 2026 06:47 PM (vFG9F)

64 Delta Force should snatch his ass
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 06:43 PM (IGnEY)


Naaa.
They are off doing real shit.
Besides, Walz is so stupid the best he can be is a training exercise for the next Delta class.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 07, 2026 06:48 PM (2WIwB)

65 7 I could hear Bigfoot in the Minnesota video.
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 06:39 PM (IGnEY)

***********

You did. We thought they were offering free lice-removal services.

Imagine our disappointment to learn otherwise.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at January 07, 2026 06:48 PM (kfDTc)

66 In all of my imagination, I would have never thought that it would be in Minnesota that the Second American Civil War would start. But Tampon Tim is running squarely into that brick wall.
Good God is that man stupid. He actually believes his own bullshit, and believes the bubble he lives in actually exists.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 07, 2026 06:48 PM (4nEGa)

67 29 I have 2 questions:

1) Does invoking the Insurrection Act permit the military to arrest the judges as well as the local elected officials?
2) Does it permit them to be tried by a military tribunal?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
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Yes. If the courts in an insurrection area are no longer in session due to unrest, that means martial law can be invoked with all trials as military tribunals.

But before that, it is clear, trying to interfere with federal law enforcement of a delegated national power in the Constitution, means Gov. Timmy the Pedo is the new Orval Faubus. And Ike nationalized the Arkansas National Guard specifically to keep Orval from using them any further. They were federalized for about one year.

FIL actually guarded students at LR Central and he was from outside the LR area. They used the 101st Airborne outside and federalized Nat. Guard troops inside.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 06:48 PM (WDjG6)

68 So.

Do national guardsmen know that they can and should disobey illegal, unconstitutional orders?

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at January 07, 2026 06:48 PM (FMtrg)

69 Arrest him. Hang him.

That's what they told us we do with insurrectionists, right? That's what they demanded after January 6.""

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 07, 2026 06:47 PM (snZF9)
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To paraphrase Lindsay: They have guns for a reason.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 06:48 PM (krQz2)

70 52
Conspiracy that crossed State Lines at the very least.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07

But she lived in MN? Not sure when she moved, though.
Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 06:46 PM (e8mjv)

If that is not her car, the insurance company report would be... interesting.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 06:49 PM (mP0Kj)

71 51 Jasmine Crockett has a future scamming white leftards to donate to her campaign. She won't win a statewide election in Texas.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 07, 2026 06:46 PM (Cw/ar)

What really will kill her chances is that she's taken on the persona of the Loud Mouthy Ghetto Black Bitch, which is the act she puts on in every public appearance lately. Hispanics hate that type even more than anglos do, they've got way too much day to day experience with them in places like South Dallas and Houston.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 07, 2026 06:49 PM (uWKK8)

72 My comment was in reference to one guy on death row who got himself fattened up and had his lawyers make that claim.

Posted by: steevy at January 07, 2026 06:49 PM (YwEeS)

73 I looked at the ususal suspects at the MN Federal Courthouse. A black guy stops further breakage of glass...he's the smart one.

I see blacks,bald homos, colored-haired lesbos...with one waving a sad home-made, ragged, rainbow pom-pom instead of the rainbow flag. I don't see any Somolians in the crowd.

This has the LBGQT crowd outraged. That a lesbo was killed as she led the car parade to block ICE with her SUV.

It's cold or more would be activated. Normal rioters don't riot if it's below 50 degrees and/or in June. We'll see tonight!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 07, 2026 06:49 PM (WONhk)

74 I'm just glad we'll finally get the skinny on what has been going on there in MN.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 07, 2026 06:50 PM (ssLGl)

75 Good God is that man stupid. He actually believes his own bullshit, and believes the bubble he lives in actually exists.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg

Like the stupid woman in the car, doubling down with the Feds is never a smart idea. Timmy is panicking because it is likely that he is going to be indicted out of the fraud. Ellison may be too as there is a 2021 recording last week that has Ellison commenting in a meeting with Somalis where they specifically raised a quid pro quo on grants in return for campaign funding. Ellison indicated agreement.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 06:50 PM (WDjG6)

76 Walz...

I was about to say he has to be bluffing but wtf knows now.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 07, 2026 06:50 PM (zZu0s)

77 Walz declares war against the Federal government?
The Confederacy of Minnesota

Stop all fund payments to Minnesota

Posted by: Skip at January 07, 2026 06:50 PM (Ia/+0)

78 Somebody sure wants to hide something.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 07, 2026 06:50 PM (ULPxl)

79 I looked at the ususal suspects at the MN Federal Courthouse. A black guy stops further breakage of glass...he's the smart one.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 07, 2026 06:49 PM (WONhk)
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I thought breaking a federal window was a death sentence rightfully carried out by the closest cop.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 06:51 PM (krQz2)

80
Tampon Tim's AG is further left than he is, if possible.

Interesting to see if any state law enforcement personnel stands with them when the Feds arrive to take them into custody.

Posted by: Auspex at January 07, 2026 06:51 PM (Y8DZL)

81 Conspiracy that crossed State Lines at the very least.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07

But she lived in MN? Not sure when she moved, though.
Posted by: Piper

If that is not her car, the insurance company report would be... interesting.
Posted by: Romeo13

Safelight Glass will not be paying THAT claim.

Just saying.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 07, 2026 06:51 PM (cYBz/)

82 That means a full anal probe into the ngos funding her arrival and activities in Minnesota. Felony murder rule bitchez.
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Oh how delicious.

And in whatever jurisdiction the DOJ chooses, since the entity likely has a presence in every state.

If this rolls up Perkin Coie into this ....

Like hot cinnamon rolls fresh out the oven on Christmas morning.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 07, 2026 06:51 PM (HXT0k)

83 It's cold or more would be activated. Normal rioters don't riot if it's below 50 degrees and/or in June. We'll see tonight!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
======
Spraying down the crowd with water works great in such situations. Water seems to take all the courage out of assholes even in warm areas.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 06:51 PM (WDjG6)

84 This all happened the same day that a congressional committee stripped the bark off of Walz Somali corruption. Whistleblowers and everything. Wagging a dog?

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 07, 2026 06:51 PM (cxFcK)

85 Inevitable that it would come to this. Swinishly corrupt and incompetent radical Leftist maniacs cornered by their own perfidy with nowhere to turn but insurrection. This vile infection of a human being passing as a governor facing his own likely prosecution now seeks the ultimate diversion by exploiting the basest urges of his base to completely destroy what's left of his state. He doesn't care what burns, who dies, how many are defrauded -- nothing. Just power.

#War. They brought it on.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 07, 2026 06:51 PM (b4LBp)

86 Somebody sure wants to hide something.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 07, 2026 06:50 PM (ULPxl)
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There you go.

I hadn't even thought of that.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 06:51 PM (krQz2)

87 That lady shot in MN… total FAFO situation. Just consult Chris Rock on the rules for how to to get your ass kicked (or get shot) when interacting with law enforcement. This lady obviously thought she was entitled to block the road, make a scene, ignore law enforcement orders then speed away (and at an officer no less) when she felt like it. It is sad she was killed… but FAFO

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 07, 2026 06:51 PM (xT8gx)

88 Bonk bonk on the head

Posted by: Dr. Varno at January 07, 2026 06:51 PM (x9FYe)

89
That's what they told us we do with insurrectionists, right? That's what they demanded after January 6.
Posted by: Ace

Its what Miss Lindsey demanded, yes.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Send in that Byrd guy.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 07, 2026 06:51 PM (pkeXY)

90 >>> 76 Walz...

I was about to say he has to be bluffing but wtf knows now.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 07, 2026 06:50 PM (zZu0s)

Who's pushing that sniveling little pedo POS into being the test case / scapegoat? Does CHYna *really* pay that good?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 07, 2026 06:52 PM (ULPxl)

91 58 We've always been at war with East Minnesolalia...
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 06:43 PM (mP0Kj)

Suggest we rename it Somalisota...
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 07, 2026 06:47 PM (QGaXH)

Back when I first moved to Colorado, late 90's, before it went totally nutso... I used to say the Boulder was Eastern California...

Somehow it infected the whole State.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 06:52 PM (mP0Kj)

92 Didn't realize governors could declare war against other countries, such as the USA.

Bold move, Cotton...

Posted by: t-bird at January 07, 2026 06:52 PM (GQhg+)

93 From Oregon, Missouri plates lives in Minnesota.

Some shady shit going on with that terrorist.

Posted by: Really?? at January 07, 2026 06:52 PM (/HZvU)

94 Jasmine has really let herself go--she looks like shit in that video. Of course, she is a POS.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 07, 2026 06:52 PM (XMwZJ)

95 25 Yup this woman has been photographed at other Anti ICE protests. Her mother said she probably got "scared _. Horse hockey and she wasn't"experiencing " Minnesota. Dollars to donuts she a paid travelling leftist protester
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 07, 2026 06:42 PM (ScJGb)

Have the provided a bio of the attempted murderer?

Posted by: Joemarine at January 07, 2026 06:52 PM (y171U)

96 The Last Walz.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 06:52 PM (IGnEY)

97 When does the HQ here start getting credit for all the shit the commentators predict correctly?

Y'all need fat gummit checks.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 07, 2026 06:52 PM (ssLGl)

98 Correction from Colorado not Oregon.

Posted by: Really?? at January 07, 2026 06:52 PM (/HZvU)

99 Honest question: Is "Minnesota Nice" just a cute way of saying "passive-aggressive"?

Posted by: Dr. Varno at January 07, 2026 06:53 PM (x9FYe)

100 66 In all of my imagination, I would have never thought that it would be in Minnesota that the Second American Civil War would start. But Tampon Tim is running squarely into that brick wall.
Good God is that man stupid. He actually believes his own bullshit, and believes the bubble he lives in actually exists.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 07, 2026 06:48 PM (4nEGa)

this is reminding me of one of Karl Marx's most famous quotations; he wasn't always wrong. loosely paraphrased, "Of course history repeats - but the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce."

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 07, 2026 06:53 PM (uWKK8)

101 39 12 Walz also claimed the US gov is at war with Minnesolalia. He said that.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 07, 2026 06:40 PM (cxFcK)

We've always been at war with East Minnesolalia...
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 06:43 PM (mP0Kj)
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The wit and creativity of Morons cannot be overstated.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 07, 2026 06:53 PM (4nEGa)

102 What really will kill her chances is that she's taken on the persona of the Loud Mouthy Ghetto Black Bitch, which is the act she puts on in every public appearance lately. Hispanics hate that type even more than anglos do, they've got way too much day to day experience with them in places like South Dallas and Houston.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 07, 2026 06:49 PM (uWKK


Yes. Exactly.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 07, 2026 06:53 PM (Cw/ar)

103 ...potty-mouthed pork-chop Jasmine Ratchet...

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Beautiful.

In the 4th grade my buddy behind me in line said to one of the lunch ladies, "make it snappy, pork chop" and then all I remember is he disappeared into the sky like a Saturn V

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 07, 2026 06:53 PM (RIvkX)

104 Do Walz or Frey actually think that the Somalis won't throw them under the bus the minute that ngs get real hot? Leftist white people are seriously delusional

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 07, 2026 06:53 PM (ScJGb)

105 It is sad she was killed...
Opinions vary.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 07, 2026 06:54 PM (XMwZJ)

106 Didn't realize governors could declare war against other countries, such as the USA.

Bold move, Cotton...
Posted by: t-bird at January 07, 2026 06:52 PM (GQhg+)
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I didn't know that if the feds shot a person while in your state who was trying to run them over it was "declaring war".

But I'm not special like Tim.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 06:54 PM (krQz2)

107 I guarantee that the National Guard Bureau is on the phone with the TAG in Minn and discussing how to handle things.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 07, 2026 06:54 PM (ZOv7s)

108 Might make everything easier if Walz did.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at January 07, 2026 06:54 PM (okun6)

109 Can aircraft carrier battlegroups get to the Great Lakes?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 06:54 PM (IGnEY)

110 "lead car in a protest"

I'd ask "Don't these people have jobs?!" but she probably works for some "N"GO subsidized almost entirely by tax dollars and whatever she can grift from her AWFL friends.

Posted by: pookysgirl, doing her job while sick at January 07, 2026 06:54 PM (Wt5PA)

111 95 25 Yup this woman has been photographed at other Anti ICE protests. Her mother said she probably got "scared _. Horse hockey and she wasn't"experiencing " Minnesota. Dollars to donuts she a paid travelling leftist protester
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 07, 2026 06:42 PM (ScJGb)

Supposedly she was leading this "protest ". Why would she be scared ?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2026 06:54 PM (VE6XX)

112 Walz declares war against the Federal government?
The Confederacy of Minnesota
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Too small to be a country, too large to be an insane asylum.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 07, 2026 06:55 PM (X4XpB)

113 Jasmine is on the ballot for a chair at an HBC.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 06:55 PM (xvXg6)

114 It is sad she was killed...
Opinions vary.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 07, 2026 06:54 PM (XMwZJ)

I chuckled. I condemn myself!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 07, 2026 06:55 PM (xT8gx)

115 That makes it even clearer all three shots were when she was turning away. The cop panicked and committed. He thought she was trying to run him down.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 07, 2026 06:55 PM (1Nv0l)

116 Okay...all I need is...

Hillary revealed to be a Salem Witch

...and Bingo

Posted by: Fen at January 07, 2026 06:55 PM (ciYHQ)

117 It's 43 degrees in Minneapolis right now. That's very warm for sundown in January.

Posted by: Riot Going On at January 07, 2026 06:55 PM (oftw2)

118 When does the HQ here start getting credit for all the shit the commentators predict correctly?

Y'all need fat gummit checks.
Posted by: sifty boones at January 07, 2026 06:52 PM (ssLGl)
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Mannix did a great job forecasting 2025

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 07, 2026 06:55 PM (RIvkX)

119 3 most famous Minnesotans

A domestic terrorist, a drug addict and a wrestler turned governor turned retard

Posted by: Really?? at January 07, 2026 06:56 PM (/HZvU)

120 Is she still dead?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 06:56 PM (IGnEY)

121 Step 1. Obey the law. - Dave Chappelle

Posted by: sifty boones at January 07, 2026 06:56 PM (ssLGl)

122 66 In all of my imagination, I would have never thought that it would be in Minnesota that the Second American Civil War would start.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 07, 2026 06:48 PM (4nEGa)

Minnesota has always been a hotbed of Socialists.

Posted by: Joemarine at January 07, 2026 06:57 PM (y171U)

123 Trump can federalize the National Guard under the Insurrection Act.

Thanks for getting all their gear together, Timmeh!

Posted by: t-bird at January 07, 2026 06:57 PM (GQhg+)

124 Yup this woman has been photographed at other Anti ICE protests. Her mother said she probably got "scared _. Horse hockey and she wasn't"experiencing " Minnesota. Dollars to donuts she a paid travelling leftist protester
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 07, 2026 06:42 PM (ScJGb)
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Well you should be scared when you're obstructing law enforcement and an LEO knocks on your window to talk to you.

You should be.

Hell, I want her to be.

People who have cause to be should be scared around law enforcement. It's not like the agent said "And now we have to shoot you."

Can I just start moving my car toward an officer because I'm "scared" he's going to give me a ticket?!

Fuck them and their ever-reinvention of "cultural norms"!

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 06:57 PM (krQz2)

125 116 Okay...all I need is...

Hillary revealed to be a Salem Witch


we're gonna need a bigger duck

Posted by: sir bedavere at January 07, 2026 06:57 PM (oY6Yp)

126 Walzing Matilda.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 07, 2026 06:57 PM (iW7pR)

127 Have Minnesotans triggered section 334?

See this fellow’s musings:

http://alturl.com/b7hgy

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 07, 2026 06:57 PM (ZVgZ4)

128 Honest question: Is "Minnesota Nice" just a cute way of saying "passive-aggressive"?
Posted by: Dr. Varno at January 07, 2026 06:53 PM (x9FYe)

That's my take. Kinda like a lot of Canadians.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at January 07, 2026 06:58 PM (0aYVJ)

129 Hmmm. Insty is surprisingly quiet on Minnesota.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 07, 2026 06:58 PM (zZu0s)

130 Greenland is like "Whoa. Let's tap the brakes here."

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 07, 2026 06:58 PM (cxFcK)

131 Whatever the law is, I can't say I love that shooting. But if you set out to have a confrontation with law enforcement because you disagree with them enforcing the law, and you get an actual confrontation, well, you bought your ticket. Death is a possibility in that kind of interaction with the police, and I'm not going to go full Zapruder film looking for meticulous compliance with the law.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 07, 2026 06:58 PM (u1qVW)

132 Noteworthy, to me at least, is that our Fed agents clearly have been instructed that they have the backing of the Executive branch and the appropriate Secretaries.

It was not so in the recent past if one remembers.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 07, 2026 06:58 PM (cYBz/)

133 Federalize and deploy to California.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 06:58 PM (IGnEY)

134 Federal officers enforcing federal law and the governor of a state taking the sides of the criminals.

This is a cause for insurrection? Madness on the face of it.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 07, 2026 06:58 PM (b4LBp)

135 Someone like Whig would know… when it comes to a states national guard, I’ve always assumed that though the governor can mobilize them that ultimately they’re in the US armed forces and the prez is the commander in chief so if Walz gives them a stupid order Trump can lawfully countermand that order… no?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 07, 2026 06:58 PM (xT8gx)

136 so we're up to 3 shots now?

any news from the grassy knoll?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 07, 2026 06:58 PM (Cjt/F)

137 If I were Trump I’d send 5k more ice agents to mn tonight and tomorrow run the biggest illegal alien sweep ever.

Posted by: Really?? at January 07, 2026 06:58 PM (/HZvU)

138 Article Five?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 06:59 PM (IGnEY)

139 Hillary revealed to be a Salem Witch


we're gonna need a bigger duck
Posted by: sir bedavere at January 07, 2026 06:57 PM (oY6Yp)

She would make a heckuva large bridge, though.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at January 07, 2026 06:59 PM (0aYVJ)

140 Walz needs to tell the National Guard to Arrest and detain all ICE employees in the state and deport them back to Alabama with Tubi.

I think Walz is making an effort to not normalize shooting civilians because Trump and Miller have a fever dream. I hope all of the governors stand up to him. It is just a matter of time. Gauge the spine of your Governor, MAGA. Ask more of them.

The Minneapolis police should have done that already. The deportation will occur after they have served their sentences in Minnesota state prison.

The National Guard will gladly harm protesters alongside the rest of the goons when it comes down to it. They aren't your friends either.

The people saying the ice agent acted in self defense are the same people who truly believe Ashli Babbitt was murdered for doing no wrong

Her name was Renee Nicole Good. She did not deserve to be murdered by ICE. Say her name.

Ice cannot be allowed to continue. People across the country need to stand up to ICE. Block them. Fight them. And stand up to company’s like “Hilton” who enable and sponsor them.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 07, 2026 06:59 PM (ycI94)

141 Trump can federalize the National Guard under the Insurrection Act.

Thanks for getting all their gear together, Timmeh!
Posted by: t-bird at January 07, 2026 06:57 PM (GQhg+)
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It's a dumb move, and Walz allegedly was in the Guard for decades and should know this. Who is the Lt. Gov.?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 07, 2026 06:59 PM (ZOv7s)

142 Went back to look...the glass breaker is wearing his sad keffiyeh for extra protest cred.

I have gotten nothing done today due to spying on these wackos. I was going to take the 1000 ornaments off the tree and dance to rock and roll. Instead I am watching MN.

I never much thought about MN in the past. A state I'd never been to nor knew anybody from there. Thought nice people from Scandinavia ancestry who ate cheese with Wisconsin. And ice fished. I'd say ICE Fishing's name will now be changed? Hole fishing? Throw a Somolian in a hole sport deport?

Regardless, tomorrow is another day and tonight I enjoy our tree one more night. It is my rules and I decided who cares if I break them inside my own livingroom? My husband did take down the wreaths and lit garlands off the porch, so he made an effort that we don't look like "those people." We have neighbors who leave up their lit snowflakes all winter and I am all for it.

I think Walz is on Xanax as he looked subdued for him vs his usual tantrum. In all honesty I only watched 2 seconds, so maybe he outbursted later.

Love the Gov. Uptwinkles name, Ace!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 07, 2026 06:59 PM (WONhk)

143 The cop panicked and committed. He thought she was trying to run him down.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators

Bullshit. You have no grounds to assume the ICE agent "panicked"

Argument by assertion is a southpaw tactic BTW.
My my grandma what big teeth you have

Posted by: Fen at January 07, 2026 06:59 PM (ciYHQ)

144 Scheduled activities
9am - Noon: Battle of St. Paul
Noon-1pm: Light lunch
1-4pm: Ice Fishing 101
4pm-Close: Cocoa for All mixer event.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 07, 2026 07:00 PM (ssLGl)

145 Someone like Whig would know… when it comes to a states national guard, I’ve always assumed that though the governor can mobilize them that ultimately they’re in the US armed forces and the prez is the commander in chief so if Walz gives them a stupid order Trump can lawfully countermand that order… no?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 07, 2026 06:58 PM (xT8gx)
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I would think so.

It's the courtesy that he's not supposed to commandeer them without the governor's approval. But ordering them to "stand down", isn't mobilizing them.

... but probably is by strange Dem word-inversion "logic" ...

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 07:00 PM (krQz2)

146 The people saying the ice agent acted in self defense are the same people who truly believe Ashli Babbitt was murdered for doing no wrong

Yup.... And we're right

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2026 07:00 PM (VE6XX)

147 This alligator agitator troll is starting to bore me.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 07, 2026 07:00 PM (WONhk)

148 Arrest him. Hang him.


Sure looks he is the head of an insurrection.
Doesn't matter if it never had an effect.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 07, 2026 07:00 PM (/lPRQ)

149 Scheduled activities
9am - Noon: Battle of St. Paul
Noon-1pm: Light lunch
1-4pm: Ice Fishing 101
4pm-Close: Cocoa for All mixer event.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 07, 2026 07:00 PM (ssLGl)
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Where's Marco's coronation?

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 07:00 PM (krQz2)

150 137 If I were Trump I’d send 5k more ice agents to mn tonight and tomorrow run the biggest illegal alien sweep ever.
Posted by: Really?? at January 07, 2026 06:58 PM (/HZvU)

Exactly. Glad to see his response was swift and decisive. Noem's press briefing was also effective.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 07, 2026 07:01 PM (b4LBp)

151 Hmmm. Insty is surprisingly quiet on Minnesota.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone

I noticed that too. Not a peep all day.

Posted by: Tuna at January 07, 2026 07:01 PM (lJ0H4)

152
Interesting to see if any state law enforcement personnel stands with them when the Feds arrive to take them into custody.
Posted by: Auspex at January 07, 2026 06:51 PM (Y8DZL)

Their oath is to the US Constitution. Timmy and Ellison have forgotten that. Sometimes, education can be a bitch.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 07, 2026 07:01 PM (4nEGa)

153
Jasmine Crockett has a future scamming white leftards to donate to her campaign.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary

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So, the Kamala Strategy.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 07, 2026 07:01 PM (Uo+RY)

154 Southpaw? What does being left-handed have to do with not arguing in good faith?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 07, 2026 07:01 PM (zZu0s)

155
Stripper naming protocol uses a spice for given name, combined with some form of candy as a surname.

Always remember to tip your server for the $15 warm beer she brought you; she's probably the performer's mom.

Posted by: Auspex at January 07, 2026 07:01 PM (Y8DZL)

156 In all of my imagination, I would have never thought that it would be in Minnesota that the Second American Civil War would start.

Yeah, I was just telling my friend in Minneapolis that. If it was going to break out in a coffeehouse-liberal town, my money would have been on Portland, but they've gone dormant. Seattle's been out of the picture for even longer.

Posted by: t-bird at January 07, 2026 07:02 PM (GQhg+)

157
Scheduled activities
9am - Noon: Battle of St. Paul
Noon-1pm: Light lunch
1-4pm: Ice Fishing 101
4pm-Close: Cocoa for All mixer event.
Posted by: sifty boones

===============

lol, what's on for tomorrow?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 07, 2026 07:02 PM (Uo+RY)

158 135 Someone like Whig would know… when it comes to a states national guard, I’ve always assumed that though the governor can mobilize them that ultimately they’re in the US armed forces and the prez is the commander in chief so if Walz gives them a stupid order Trump can lawfully countermand that order… no?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

Law is clear dating back to the Fugitive Slave Laws, states cannot interfere or impede federal law enforcement. After the Civil War, even more power has been taken from states including the Dick Act (really of 1903) and the Militia Act of 1908.

Then you have the precedent of Orval Faubus trying to stop a federal court order to integrate Little Rock Central High School by using the guard. Ike federalized the whole lot to keep Faubus from messing with them. He also sent the 101 Airborne down to manage periphery security.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 07:02 PM (WDjG6)

159 Can aircraft carrier battlegroups get to the Great Lakes?
Posted by: Boss Moss

Somewhere in the bowels of the DOW there has to be a plan for building ships for the Lakes in case Canuckistan went full commie.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 07, 2026 07:02 PM (mlg/3)

160 "When does the HQ here start getting credit for all the shit the commentators predict correctly?

Y'all need fat gummit checks.
Posted by: sifty boones"

Nothing will happen.

Posted by: guy who always says nothing will happen and is usually right at January 07, 2026 07:02 PM (vFG9F)

161 That they see no difference between Ashley babbit and this bitch is very telling.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 07, 2026 07:02 PM (zZu0s)

162 31 If Minneapolis burns again, what exactly would be lost at this point?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 07, 2026 06:43 PM (mlg/3)

Probably financial records and email servers.

"You mean immolated? Like with a cloth?"

Posted by: 29Victor at January 07, 2026 07:02 PM (0MjtC)

163 Gun free zone?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 07:02 PM (IGnEY)

164 Is it possible she was just a typical woman driver?

I want to send this question to MSNBC, just to give Madcow an aneurysm

Posted by: Wally at January 07, 2026 07:03 PM (0e5Te)

165 Southpaw? What does being left-handed have to do with not arguing in good faith?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 07, 2026 07:01 PM (zZu0s)

We lefties are always in our right mind!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 07, 2026 07:03 PM (xT8gx)

166 Walz needs to tell the National Guard to Arrest and detain all ICE employees in the state and deport them back to Alabama with Tubi.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 07, 2026 06:59 PM (ycI94)
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Wow. Tell me you don't know anything about the balance of powers without telling me.

"Deport"?! In a fucking country??!!

Too many asshole pills.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 07:03 PM (krQz2)

167 149.

Right after the Whiskey Meyers concert at the gallows festivities on Friday.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 07, 2026 07:03 PM (ssLGl)

168 When does the HQ here start getting credit for all the shit the commentators predict correctly?
by: San Franpsycho

Predicting? No, I'm pretty sure you guys are running the Sim

I'm not crazy. Mostly.

Posted by: Fen at January 07, 2026 07:04 PM (ciYHQ)

169 Saffron Nougat?
Paprika Skittles?

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at January 07, 2026 07:04 PM (0aYVJ)

170 Trump can federalize the National Guard under the Insurrection Act.

Lol no. Denied.

Posted by: Hawaiian Judge at January 07, 2026 07:04 PM (ycI94)

171 Thanks Whig

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 07, 2026 07:04 PM (xT8gx)

172 The people saying the ice agent acted in self defense are the same people who truly believe Ashli Babbitt was murdered for doing no wrong

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Uhm yeah. Because it’s accurate.

Posted by: Really?? at January 07, 2026 07:04 PM (/HZvU)

173 Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 07, 2026 06:59 PM (ycI94)

We need a couple of these around to remember how badly TDS has infected a sizeable portion of the population. After 10 years of brainwashing, the damage is severe.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 07, 2026 07:04 PM (4nEGa)

174 143 The cop panicked and committed. He thought she was trying to run him down.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators

Bullshit. You have no grounds to assume the ICE agent "panicked"

Argument by assertion is a southpaw tactic BTW.
My my grandma what big teeth you have
Posted by: Fen
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It looks to me like the cop panicked and committed. He thought she was trying to run him down.

Happy now?

It's called an opinion. I guess I missed the part in the rule book where we are forbidden from opining on the content of other's minds. And the meeting where you were elected the enforcer of said rule.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 07, 2026 07:04 PM (1Nv0l)

175 Her name was Renee Nicole Good. She did not deserve to be murdered by ICE. Say her name.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 07, 2026 06:59 PM (ycI94)

They misspelled Ashley Babbit, and DC Police.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 07:04 PM (mP0Kj)

176 In all of my imagination, I would have never thought that it would be in Minnesota that the Second American Civil War would start.
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I take it you didn't have Minnesota on your Civil War II Bingo card....

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 07:05 PM (krQz2)

177 159.

Bass Tracker makes a hell of a light pontoon cruiser.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 07, 2026 07:05 PM (ssLGl)

178 'Jasmine Ratchet erupted into a, get this, profane tirade'

Ignorant, worthless hood rat.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 07, 2026 07:05 PM (fd80v)

179 I think all of us are gobsmacked at watching the dems go from "Trump supported Insurrection! He should be in jail!" to "YES! INSURRECTION!!! NOW!!!"

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 07, 2026 07:06 PM (uWKK8)

180 Jasmine Crockett could try out for MTV videos.

Posted by: wth at January 07, 2026 07:06 PM (v0R5T)

181 172 The people saying the ice agent acted in self defense are the same people who truly believe Ashli Babbitt was murdered for doing no wrong

Correct. Both true.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 07, 2026 07:06 PM (b4LBp)

182 Begun the Gitchugumee Wars have.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 07:06 PM (IGnEY)

183 Walz' wife might be opening her windows soon so she can enjoy the smoke from more riots.

The idiots running Minnesota really seem to want more violence.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 07, 2026 07:06 PM (viF8m)

184 164 Is it possible she was just a typical woman driver?

I want to send this question to MSNBC, just to give Madcow an aneurysm
Posted by: Wally at January 07, 2026 07:03 PM (0e5Te)

Yeah, that parallel parking can be a Killer!

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 07:06 PM (mP0Kj)

185 Their oath is to the US Constitution. Timmy and Ellison have forgotten that. Sometimes, education can be a bitch.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 07, 2026 07:01 PM (4nEGa)
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The National Guard oath of enlistment is longer than the regular services because it includes both the state and federal authorities, but explicit in the law organizing the National Guard is federal supremecy.

Back in the 1980s, National Guard troops were being sent to Central America for training, and leftist governors tried to stop it, filed suit and lost. For Title 32 training, there is boilerplate about "with the consent of the governor" but it isn't needed for Title 10, which is federal duty.

Trump can just order them placed under Title 10 authority and that's it. Game over.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 07, 2026 07:06 PM (ZOv7s)

186 I want to see the Learing Center burn in the riots please.

Posted by: Luis Denard at January 07, 2026 07:07 PM (qUkBO)

187 Proud to call DeSantis my governor. Thanks to Gavin Assclown, California is a great place to be from, and I'll never go back...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 07, 2026 07:07 PM (nbLIj)

188 Here are two links. I neither endorse or promote...

https://tinyurl.com/y82bje8c
> A synopsis of insurrection

https://tinyurl.com/s38rdxry
> A legal brief

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 07, 2026 07:07 PM (NwnyJ)

189 That video's going to keep that cop out of jail.
He was fast. Probably being there and on cue it wasn't but in retro it was.
I put the slo-mo clip on & cut it to half speed.
Good work cop. Everyone follows the rules that makes a high trust society.

He didn't pull the weapon until the wheels were turned toward him, he didn't fire until the car was in a forward gear and the wheels were turning.

Theire is going to be more (hello Tim) FO in MN.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 07:07 PM (xvXg6)

190 I have 1 person I follow on Twitch for various gaming stuffz. I hopped on to see if he was streaming and noticed a channel with 15K people watching, showing the news, with the headline:

"ICE Shoots bystander in MN US..." streamed by someone with the handle HasanAbi.

Posted by: Steve Martin at January 07, 2026 07:07 PM (AUB4U)

191 Tampon Tim and Small Frey are no Brutus and Cassius.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 07, 2026 07:07 PM (oJkoy)

192 The people saying the ice agent acted in self defense are the same people who truly believe Ashli Babbitt was murdered for doing no wrong
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Who was Ashli Babbitt trying to run down?

Is climbing through a window kinda-sorta along the same lines as as moving a large vehicle toward a person?

Was Babbitt even resisting at all?!

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 07:07 PM (krQz2)

193 Insurrection Act:

"...and to federalize the National Guard units of the individual states in specific circumstances, such as the suppression of civil disorder, of insurrection, and of armed rebellion against the federal government...

How many boxes can Timmy tick?

Posted by: t-bird at January 07, 2026 07:07 PM (GQhg+)

194 Her name was Renee Nicole Good. She did not deserve to be murdered by ICE. Say her name.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 07, 2026 06:59 PM (ycI94)

WTH epic stupidity…. This isn’t an episode of Breaking Bad with Walt demanding “say my name”… she wasn’t a bad ass like Heisenberg anyway…. Sheesh

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 07, 2026 07:07 PM (xT8gx)

195 Tampon Timmy is going YOLO over Kamikaze Karen?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 07, 2026 07:08 PM (2GVsD)

196 185 Their oath is to the US Constitution. Timmy and Ellison have forgotten that. Sometimes, education can be a bitch.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg
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or the lack of it

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 07:08 PM (xvXg6)

197 179 I think all of us are gobsmacked at watching the dems go from "Trump supported Insurrection! He should be in jail!" to "YES! INSURRECTION!!! NOW!!!"
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 07, 2026 07:06 PM (uWKK

Not at all. They have no higher guiding principles other than tribalism and will to power.

Posted by: It's all quite consistent at January 07, 2026 07:08 PM (TbWk/)

198 I don't have to listen to Crockett to know she's dumb. It's in her eyes behind the nerd glasses.

Also, and beside the point, her fake fingernails are hideous. As are her eyebrows. She got Sharpie eyebrow lessons from Pelousi, I reckon.

It is currently 36 degrees in Minneapolis with poor air quality (due to dust and dander...which makes sense arising from the rioters). Will their numbers increase as the temps go lower? Will they defy the usual June Riot Month rulez for agitators? Where are the Somoli rioters...one would think self-deporting to Canada.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 07, 2026 07:09 PM (WONhk)

199 Self defense.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 07:09 PM (IGnEY)

200 My favorite joke about the Minnesota thing so far is "She wasn't trying to hit the ICE officers, she's just a woman driver".

Posted by: Ian S. at January 07, 2026 07:09 PM (NztoB)

201 8
'Hanging him would be cruel and unusual because his head will come off.'

If it does that means we get to make a wish!

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 07, 2026 07:09 PM (fd80v)

202 Was Babbitt even resisting at all?!
Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 07:07 PM (krQz2)

Important to note that she was shot in the back of the head with no warning. She was murdered.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 07, 2026 07:09 PM (b4LBp)

203 See you around Max. You were hoping to be the next AOC but you don't have that juicey bootie, just an oversized head, a Tim Walz vacant look in your eyes and the compulsion of a scripted call center cold-caller offering free cruises.

Posted by: pawn at January 07, 2026 07:09 PM (Rmqfl)

204 I think all of us are gobsmacked at watching the dems go from "Trump supported Insurrection! He should be in jail!" to "YES! INSURRECTION!!! NOW!!!"

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 07, 2026 07:06 PM (uWKK
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"It's (D)ifferent because it's not about elections!"

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 07:09 PM (krQz2)

205 Are we really going to have a White Lives Matter movement? I damn sure did not have that on my bingo card.

Posted by: fd at January 07, 2026 07:09 PM (vFG9F)

206 Skeevy! Skeevy Crockett! Queen of the Wild Frontier!

Posted by: sifty boones at January 07, 2026 07:09 PM (oJkoy)

207 I have gotten nothing done today due to spying on these wackos. I was going to take the 1000 ornaments off the tree and dance to rock and roll. Instead I am watching MN.

I never much thought about MN in the past. A state I'd never been to nor knew anybody from there. Thought nice people from Scandinavia ancestry who ate cheese with Wisconsin. And ice fished. I'd say ICE Fishing's name will now be changed? Hole fishing? Throw a Somolian in a hole sport deport?
====

You're scandi-curious.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 07, 2026 07:10 PM (RIvkX)

208 Walz displays the unique ability to piss up a rope and stand under under the downpour.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 07, 2026 07:10 PM (sDNVV)

209 Her name was Renee Nicole Good. She did not deserve to be murdered by ICE. Say her name.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 07, 2026 06:59 PM (ycI94)

Renee Nicole Good was no Rachel Corrie. That is the nicest thing I can say.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 07, 2026 07:10 PM (Cw/ar)

210 How many boxes can Timmy tick?
Posted by: t-bird at January 07, 2026 07:07 PM (GQhg+)
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I'd love to see the Walz trying to describe their activation orders and the TAG shaking his head. "Nope, can't do that. Nope, can't do that, either."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 07, 2026 07:10 PM (ZOv7s)

211 Totally fine with the shooting. The left has set the rules they can f'ing live by them too. This wasn't someone climbing up on a roof and shooting this person in the neck or "there's a Trump supporter, get him" then shot in the f'ing head in cold blood. This person got killed for their emotional reaction due to their politics. That reaction was gunning their vehicle(a deadly weapon) towards a cop.

Civility was shot in the neck last September at a college campus. This person can roast in hell right next to Rob Reiner.

Posted by: JROD at January 07, 2026 07:11 PM (IlL6s)

212 That Fed will never have to buy his own drinks again.

So he's got that going for him.


Which is nice.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 07, 2026 07:11 PM (oJkoy)

213 I think all of us are gobsmacked at watching the dems go from "Trump supported Insurrection! He should be in jail!" to "YES! INSURRECTION!!! NOW!!!"

As Kurt Schlichter pointed out:
Dems, January 5th: "The Feds are the Gestapo"
Dems, January 6th: "The Feds are the best of us and they were cruelly murdered by the J6ers"
Dems, January 7th: "The Feds are the Gestapo"

Posted by: Ian S. at January 07, 2026 07:11 PM (NztoB)

214 190 Hasan is Cenk Ugurs nephew and a big commie streamer, he used to get 3 times that many viewers but he has fallen on hard times...

Posted by: steevy at January 07, 2026 07:11 PM (YwEeS)

215 The people saying the ice agent acted in self defense are the same people who truly believe Ashli Babbitt was murdered for doing no wrong

--

Climbing through a window is a tad different than driving a 2-ton SUV toward a federal law enforcement agent.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 07, 2026 07:11 PM (qBdHI)

216 Is St. Paul a sane city in MN, or have a really good press agent?

Or step-child?

Posted by: connected and litigious at January 07, 2026 07:11 PM (cS1cw)

217 Her name was Renee Nicole Good. She did not deserve to be murdered by ICE. Say her name.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 07, 2026 06:59 PM (ycI94)
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Renee Nicole Good did not deserve to die.

But she was asshoe.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 07:11 PM (krQz2)

218 Remember this:

To Leftists, International Law is scared text.

US law is open to negotiation.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 07, 2026 07:11 PM (2GVsD)

219 ...They have no higher guiding principles other than tribalism and will to power.
Posted by: It's all quite consistent at January 07, 2026 07:08 PM (TbWk/)
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No one remembers the logical conclusion of all that.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 07, 2026 07:11 PM (RIvkX)

220 >>Was Babbitt even resisting at all?!


IF she was the Threat, How?

IF she was not the Threat, Why stop shooting?

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 07:11 PM (ddphe)

221 "Renee Nicole Good was no Rachel Corrie. That is the nicest thing I can say.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary"

Let's see if they can make her a George Floyd.

Posted by: fd at January 07, 2026 07:11 PM (vFG9F)

222 People too fucking stupid to realize they're just cannon fodder.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 07, 2026 07:12 PM (iW7pR)

223
It's a dumb move, and Walz allegedly was in the Guard for decades and should know this. Who is the Lt. Gov.?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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The ditz that appeared in a hijab to speak to Somalis. She may end up governor of MN before Timmy finishes spazzing out about impending charges.

BTW, AH, we were discussing Chicoms and Taiwan this morning. Might be worth asking a cob to let you post a presentation on that topic at length.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 07:12 PM (WDjG6)

224 /steps up to podium

Uh. On behalf of the Tim Continuum, I would like to remind all in attendance that Mr. Walz is not a member in good standing, on account of persistent and extraordinary levels of douchebaggery above and beyond the call of WTFness.

Thank you, and God bless.

/departs podium

Posted by: Brother Tim, still standing at January 07, 2026 07:12 PM (FIwBs)

225 ...she's just a woman driver...
To be fair, lots of women drivers deserve the death penalty for the utter mayhem, property damage, and general carnage they inflict on a daily basis.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 07, 2026 07:12 PM (XMwZJ)

226 Retard Timmy Activates The Minnesota National Guard...

Killers, huh? I'd trade the bunch of 'em for a good Camp Fire girl.

Posted by: Sgt. Warden at January 07, 2026 07:12 PM (R/m4+)

227 Southpaw? What does being left-handed have to do with not arguing in good faith?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

Ah hell, Grok says I committed handism. I would like to express my deepest regret if I in any way offended you people. Some of my best friends are left-handed, truly. I will now retire from public life and pursue my Restoration of 3rd Edition AD&D. Be kind to each other (especially the Lefties, they already suck)

Posted by: Fen at January 07, 2026 07:12 PM (ciYHQ)

228 >>Renee Nicole Good did not deserve to die.

Once she put the car in Drive and attempted to accelerate, she did in fact deserve it.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 07:12 PM (ddphe)

229 How many boxes can Timmy tick?
Posted by: t-bird at January 07, 2026 07:07 PM (GQhg+)
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Does he have a box?

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 07:12 PM (krQz2)

230 I guess repeatedly screaming obscenities' and Ron DeSantis on a public stage does have consequences.

Consequences to your parents who have to get your room ready for you to move back in.

Hope Max enjoyed his 15 minutes of free weed.

Posted by: pawn at January 07, 2026 07:13 PM (Rmqfl)

231 Walz is a cup overflowing with the cream of human goodness.

Posted by: Hanover Fiste at January 07, 2026 07:13 PM (gKWVE)

232 Let's see if they can make her a George Floyd.
Posted by: fd
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Nope. Normal People know intrinsically that trying to run over cops will get you shot.

And most of the blacks don't give a shit about a white woman getting shot, even Somalis.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 07:13 PM (WDjG6)

233 Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 07, 2026 06:59 PM (ZOv7s)

Minnesota L.G. is some Irish broad that wears a hijab. She'll get it all straightened out for sure.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at January 07, 2026 07:13 PM (R86kT)

234 Is St. Paul a sane city in MN, or have a really good press agent?

Or step-child?
Posted by: connected and litigious

Having resided there during my college years...no. It just gets forgotten with Minneapolis just across the river.

Posted by: Brother Tim, still standing at January 07, 2026 07:14 PM (FIwBs)

235 "Was Babbitt even resisting at all?!"

No, she was shot in the back (neck)

Posted by: Fen at January 07, 2026 07:14 PM (ciYHQ)

236 BTW, AH, we were discussing Chicoms and Taiwan this morning. Might be worth asking a cob to let you post a presentation on that topic at length.
Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 07:12 PM (WDjG6)
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At this point, I think Trump is rendering the question moot by strangling China's fuel supply. I think this was by design.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 07, 2026 07:14 PM (ZOv7s)

237 When Renee puts the car in gear, attempted felony flight.

Renee put it in drive with a police officer in front of her, that is attempted murder.

So yes Renee played stupid games and bought a plot.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 07, 2026 07:14 PM (2GVsD)

238 Renee Nicole should have done good and not do what she did

Posted by: Skip at January 07, 2026 07:15 PM (Ia/+0)

239 This person can roast in hell right next to Rob Reiner.
Posted by: JROD

Hey, didn't Reiner say he was going to set himself on fire? I guess it's done now.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 07, 2026 07:15 PM (cxFcK)

240 Bullshit. You have no grounds to assume the ICE agent "panicked"

True. From the video, he looked pretty calm and collected as he was legitimately in fear of a deadly force threat he neutralized. It doesn't really matter what he thought at this point...the video proves he was fully justified in his use of force per the law.

Also, Whig's analysis is pretty good, and any minor quibbles I'd add wouldn't make a substantial difference. I was originally active duty, and have served in the guard now for around 20 years, several of which were in the State Joint Operation Center dispatching troops to state emergencies and Federal requests. The only recent hiccup I'm seeing is the courts getting involved and staying Presidential call-ups to title X service. That is very unusual.

Posted by: Military Moron at January 07, 2026 07:15 PM (ycI94)

241 220 >>Was Babbitt even resisting at all?!


IF she was the Threat, How?

IF she was not the Threat, Why stop shooting?
Posted by: garrett
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I musta missed the part where Ashley Babbitt was driving a car into the House Chamber trying to run over hero Cap'n Byrd.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 07:15 PM (WDjG6)

242 Are we really going to have a White Lives Matter movement? I damn sure did not have that on my bingo card.

It would be hilarious beyond any reason if we did, but I don't think it's gonna happen. It's a lot harder to spin a lesbian trying to run over cops as police brutality.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 07, 2026 07:15 PM (NztoB)

243 I have watched the videos of the shooting incident in MN. I don't like that the agent placed himself in front of a vehicle driven by someone who was already agitated and dangerous. Better to have let her go. But she's the one who accelerated towards the officer and posed the threat. She was encouraged and enabled by the nasty little thugs who run Miinneapolis. If they burn the effing place to the ground, well, they will jave done it to themselves.

And, Tim, like the man said - If they mean to have war, let it begin here.

Posted by: ErikInTexas at January 07, 2026 07:15 PM (4b7CV)

244 Minnesota L.G. is some Irish broad that wears a hijab. She'll get it all straightened out for sure.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at January 07, 2026 07:13 PM (R86kT)
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It doesn't matter how competent she is, she's next in the line of succession after Timmeh gets arrested by his own troops.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 07, 2026 07:15 PM (ZOv7s)

245 194 Her name was Renee Nicole Good. She did not deserve to be murdered by ICE. Say her name.
.................................

I went further and looked her up. Her last 3 addresses are from Virginia, not a MN resident.

Driving a SUV with Missouri tags and many National Park stickers (I can't read the others, probably, pride stuff). Was married to a male comic I'd never heard of, and he died in 2023. She's a poet and unsure about her status. Now with a super butch "wife," who is rumored to be a "professional agigator." Whatever that is, I guess a special ed branch of feminist studies.

One rumor said HER SUV was the lead of the parade to block ICE vehicles. So put that in your pipe and smoke it, reddit, and ghey pride rioters who will get cold tonight unless they burn stuff. Walz and the cussin' mayor will probably help supply the fuel to burn down the city.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 07, 2026 07:15 PM (WONhk)

246 She was. Someone on X posted her deets. Appears to be a lipstick lesbian, but oddly a 1.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 07, 2026 06:46 PM (cxFcK)

But only to necrophiliacs, now.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 07, 2026 07:15 PM (8zz6B)

247 Renee Nicole Good was no Rachel Corrie. That is the nicest thing I can say.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary"

Let's see if they can make her a George Floyd.
Posted by: fd at January 07, 2026 07:11 PM (vFG9F)

I’m trying to think of a way to include Michelle Fields in this thread…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 07, 2026 07:15 PM (xT8gx)

248 ...They have no higher guiding principles other than tribalism and will to power.
Posted by: It's all quite consistent at January 07, 2026 07:08 PM (TbWk/)
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No one remembers the logical conclusion of all that.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 07, 2026 07:11 PM (RIvkX)
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They're narcissists. They would never believe that about themselves.

Democrats can travel between states to cause trouble.

non-Democrats cannot travel ~10 miles between states to help prevent a gas station from being ignited by people who would just like to see gas tanks explode because Black Lives Matter.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 07:15 PM (krQz2)

249 I joke about it, but I don't believe the commies realize how ready Gen X has been for this shit to kick off.

We have had to sit quietly and watch things go to Hell since Reagan left office.

We're at the perfect age to have reproduced, not give a shit, and still be able to climb a rooftop with the Koreans.

And we have the 80's soundtrack all picked out.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 07, 2026 07:16 PM (oJkoy)

250
https://tinyurl.com/s38rdxry
> A legal brief
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 07, 2026 07:07 PM (NwnyJ)

Not finished reading but interesting.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 07, 2026 07:16 PM (AywZy)

251 25 Yup this woman has been photographed at other Anti ICE protests. Her mother said she probably got "scared _. Horse hockey and she wasn't"experiencing " Minnesota. Dollars to donuts she a paid travelling leftist protester
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 07, 2026 06:42 PM (ScJ


Ten to one she figured her white female privilege allowed her to do anything she wanted with no bad consequences. Leftists deploying suburban females with zero street smarts againt LEO is a recipe for bad shit going down.

Posted by: Gref at January 07, 2026 07:16 PM (5rh/l)

252 Renee Good did not deserve to be murdered by ICE. That's correct she wasn't murdered she was shot in the head in self defense

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 07, 2026 07:16 PM (ScJGb)

253 That makes it even clearer all three shots were when she was turning away. The cop panicked and committed. He thought she was trying to run him down.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 07, 2026 06:55 PM


She hit the cop with her car, that is crystal clear from the second video, that makes it an instant felony and creates a weapons free environment with deadly force authorized.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 07, 2026 07:16 PM (0N4FZ)

254 Her name was Renee Nicole Good. She did not deserve to be murdered by ICE. Say her name.

Yes, yes she did. I am happy she is dead and good riddance. No one will miss the whore or remember her name.

Posted by: FAFO at January 07, 2026 07:16 PM (R/m4+)

255 Stupid bitch tried to drive off with an ICE officer's hand inside her car and telling her to stop.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 07, 2026 07:16 PM (sDNVV)

256 Hey, didn't Reiner say he was going to set himself on fire? I guess it's done now.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 07, 2026 07:15 PM (cxFcK)

The cruelty of this place sustains me some days.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 07, 2026 07:17 PM (Cw/ar)

257 Hasan is Cenk Ugurs nephew and a big commie streamer, he used to get 3 times that many viewers but he has fallen on hard times...
Posted by: steevy at January 07, 2026 07:11 PM (YwEeS)


Torturing a dog live seems to be a bridge too far even for leftists.

Posted by: Really?? at January 07, 2026 07:17 PM (/HZvU)

258 "And most of the blacks don't give a shit about a white woman getting shot, even Somalis.
Posted by: whig"

Politics makes for strange bedfellows. And the Left has got some really really strange ones.

Posted by: fd at January 07, 2026 07:17 PM (vFG9F)

259 Incidentally, the same people defending her tried to get Glenn Reynolds fired for advocating running over Antifa if they surround your car.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 07, 2026 07:17 PM (NztoB)

260 Allow me to introduce you to the year 2026!

Posted by: Max Power at January 07, 2026 07:17 PM (SwyyQ)

261 >>Appears to be a lipstick lesbian


Those are the Best Lesbians.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 07:17 PM (ddphe)

262 At this point, I think Trump is rendering the question moot by strangling China's fuel supply. I think this was by design.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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My thoughts were that Ukraine-Russia have demonstrated that drones changed the whole calculus for a confrontation between China and Taiwan.

Add in better missile defenses including lasers, and the uncertainties add up. Plus the whole buildup of troops would be apparent even on google earth. No Overlord Tactical Surprise on the actual invasion.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 07:17 PM (WDjG6)

263 I musta missed the part where Ashley Babbitt was driving a car into the House Chamber trying to run over hero Cap'n Byrd.
Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 07:15 PM (WDjG6)
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A lot of us did, Whig.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 07:17 PM (krQz2)

264 Her name was Renee Nicole Good. She did not deserve to be murdered by ICE

"Deserve" got nothin' to do with it, kid.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 07, 2026 07:17 PM (gKWVE)

265 Is alligators , go time donnie, rebranded? Thats the impression I get.

Posted by: Ouch the Grouch at January 07, 2026 07:18 PM (G+z4C)

266 231 Walz is a cup overflowing with the cream of human goodness.
Posted by: Hanover Fiste

I wish he'd fill me up, too!

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at January 07, 2026 07:18 PM (ycI94)

267 I’m trying to think of a way to include Michelle Fields in this thread…
I try to stay at arm's length from the topic of Michelle Fields.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 07, 2026 07:18 PM (XMwZJ)

268 step 1 create an incident

step 2 start riots based on that incident

step 3 use the national guard to stop ICE, because they are "inciting the rioters"

Imaginary step 4 profit!

Real step 4 - The gallows.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 07, 2026 07:19 PM (C3IAS)

269 I’m trying to think of a way to include Michelle Fields in this thread…
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But you were disarmed?

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 07:19 PM (krQz2)

270 255 Stupid bitch tried to drive off with an ICE officer's hand inside her car and telling her to stop.
Posted by: Ben Had

I analyzed it in another thread and the count of crimes was something to be seen in a few seconds. Using the car made it into a fatal error as federal code considers that to be a lethal weapon.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 07:19 PM (WDjG6)

271 I went further and looked her up. Her last 3 addresses are from Virginia, not a MN resident.

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Last addresses in VA, From. Virginia, lives in Minnesota and has MO plates.

I’d bet $100 there’s some kind of fraud happening as well in her orbit.

Posted by: Really?? at January 07, 2026 07:19 PM (/HZvU)

272 We're at the perfect age to have reproduced, not give a shit, and still be able to climb a rooftop with the Koreans.

And we have the 80's soundtrack all picked out.

I have it on good authority that only Fortunate Son is an acceptable soundtrack for imminent confrontations.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2026 07:19 PM (Riz8t)

273 Walz...

I was about to say he has to be bluffing but wtf knows now.
Posted by: Aetius451AD



IIRC he used to be a sergeant major.
Bluffing don'tean shit, like yelling bomb in an airport, I was joking won't cut it and what he said was far far worse.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 07, 2026 07:19 PM (/lPRQ)

274 Walz would be more Cataline than Brutus or Cassius.

Although that also says some bad things about where we are.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 07, 2026 07:19 PM (zZu0s)

275 Funny how Sarah Palin was blamed for inciting a shooting completely unrelated to her because one of her campaign websites featured a generic political targeting image but no mention of how the focused, relentlessly vicious blood-libel aimed at ICE by democrats has clearly provoked violence with no other possible outcome than what we saw today.

Hold them to it.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 07, 2026 07:19 PM (b4LBp)

276 My thoughts were that Ukraine-Russia have demonstrated that drones changed the whole calculus for a confrontation between China and Taiwan.

Add in better missile defenses including lasers, and the uncertainties add up. Plus the whole buildup of troops would be apparent even on google earth. No Overlord Tactical Surprise on the actual invasion.
Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 07:17 PM (WDjG6)

Somewhere I saw today talk about China building some huge troop transports in preparation for taking Taiwan, and I immediately thought "wow what magnificently huge targets!"

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 07, 2026 07:19 PM (uWKK8)

277 It's a dumb move, and Walz allegedly was in the Guard for decades and should know this. Who is the Lt. Gov.?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

If Trump does not respond to Timmay's Illegal Order with the video from the Seditious Six advising soldiers of their right to refuse illegal orders, it will be like I never knew the man...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 07, 2026 07:19 PM (nbLIj)

278 Yes, yes she did. I am happy she is dead and good riddance. No one will miss the whore or remember her name.

Posted by: FAFO

Harsh, but fair hilarious.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 07, 2026 07:20 PM (ycI94)

279 269 I’m trying to think of a way to include Michelle Fields in this thread…
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But you were disarmed?
Posted by: Axeman
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She would give a hand to that protester.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 07:20 PM (WDjG6)

280 This is the kind of incident that makes them reduce the bag limit on hippies every damn year. Next year we might not even be able to get a tag.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 07, 2026 07:20 PM (oJkoy)

281 Now with a super butch "wife," who is rumored to be a "professional agigator." Whatever that is, I guess a special ed branch of feminist studies.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 07, 2026 07:15 PM (WONhk)

So, a conspiracy that at the very least crossed State Lines... and there is money involved...

So, Conspiracy, Aiding and abetting, Obstruction of Justice, assault on a Federal Officer..

and someone funded this... follow the money...

/drops into Montgomery Burns voice...

Release the Hounds...

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 07:20 PM (mP0Kj)

282 Today, Trump took steps to reduce unemployment among lesbian poets.
Winning!

Posted by: Wally at January 07, 2026 07:20 PM (0e5Te)

283 Walz needs to tell the National Guard to Arrest and detain all ICE employees in the state and deport them back to Alabama with Tubi.

>>>I don't get the AL or Tubi reference.

Posted by: pookysgirl, still playing The Nutcracker for Lil Pooky at January 07, 2026 07:20 PM (Wt5PA)

284 I think all of us are gobsmacked at watching the dems go from "Trump supported Insurrection! He should be in jail!" to "YES! INSURRECTION!!! NOW!!


——-

No, they absolutely do not have standards. This is par for the course.

Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 07:20 PM (GMx4K)

285 262 At this point, I think Trump is rendering the question moot by strangling China's fuel supply. I think this was by design. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Thing is, he isn't strangling it, he's making them pay market prices for their oil. Iran and Venezuela were short selling their oil because nobody wanted it.

Plenty of oil on the market, it'll just cost them more.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 07, 2026 07:20 PM (C3IAS)

286
If Trump does not respond to Timmay's Illegal Order with the video from the Seditious Six advising soldiers of their right to refuse illegal orders, it will be like I never knew the man...
Posted by: Joe Kidd
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Eh, he will probably just retweet someone else's remarks. Just to troll them.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 07:21 PM (WDjG6)

287 272.

Van Halen - Mean Streets

Posted by: sifty boones at January 07, 2026 07:21 PM (oJkoy)

288 Add in better missile defenses including lasers, and the uncertainties add up. Plus the whole buildup of troops would be apparent even on google earth. No Overlord Tactical Surprise on the actual invasion.
Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 07:17 PM (WDjG6)
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Edward Luttwak addressed this issue a while ago, noting that by the time D-Day rolled around, the US had done multiple, massive and complex opposed invasions, learning each time, refining the technique, gear and planning.

China is going to try something far more difficult without any operational experience whatsoever. One cannot help but be skeptical of their chances at success.

More likely Dieppe than D-Day.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 07, 2026 07:21 PM (ZOv7s)

289 274 Walz would be more Cataline than Brutus or Cassius.

Although that also says some bad things about where we are.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

I'm more catamite than Cataline.

Posted by: Tim Walz at January 07, 2026 07:21 PM (ycI94)

290 71
'he's taken on the persona of the Loud Mouthy Ghetto Black Bitch, which is the act she puts on in every public appearance lately. Hispanics hate that type even more than anglos do'

Impossible.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 07, 2026 07:21 PM (fd80v)

291 Incidentally, the same people defending her tried to get Glenn Reynolds fired for advocating running over Antifa if they surround your car.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 07, 2026 07:17 PM (NztoB)
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That's what I was saying.

The opposition is so erratic that they flip-flop on what is proper simply by partisanship.

I thought if you move your car toward a person on foot you were supposed to think of the damage it could do.

Now, they are trying to defend somebody because of what side she was on.

It's the end result of taking brains out of your politics, I think.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 07:21 PM (krQz2)

292 Leftist scum mourning her celebrated Charlie Kirk’s death.

I’m not going to even pretend I’m sad she died or whatever. Nah fuck it. She was a vile piece of shit the world is better off without her.

Fuck you, war.

Posted by: Really?? at January 07, 2026 07:22 PM (/HZvU)

293 Considering cars kill way more people than firearms

Posted by: Skip at January 07, 2026 07:22 PM (Ia/+0)

294 "Can aircraft carrier battlegroups get to the Great Lakes?"

No need, a fighter group out of Burlington Air National Guard Base (Vermont, home to the 158th Fighter Wing with F-35A jets) is about 15 minutes away from Ottawa.

Posted by: pawn at January 07, 2026 07:22 PM (Rmqfl)

295 >>Somewhere I saw today talk about China building some huge troop transports in preparation for taking Taiwan, and I immediately thought "wow what magnificently huge targets!"

Not this boat...
You go on 'Ark B', Comrade.



Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 07:22 PM (ddphe)

296 BUT @Tom Servo, someone should go pull all the “Reeeeeee! Trump is going to call the national guard out on CITIZENS!” Posts. At least the ones from Gov. Newsome.

Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 07:22 PM (GMx4K)

297 I have watched the videos of the shooting incident in MN. I don't like that the agent placed himself in front of a vehicle driven by someone who was already agitated and dangerous. Better to have let her go.

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My sibling ICE agent brother said they're supposed to get out of the way in situations like this. Who knows when this agent realized she was headed right toward him, however. He also said that DHS is going pedal to the metal and overworking the agents at present. Also that the hiring blitz going on now is bringing on people who are not being properly screened for suitability for the role, and not enough time in training. He's not too thrilled at the moment.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 07, 2026 07:22 PM (qBdHI)

298 Can aircraft carrier battlegroups get to the Great Lakes?
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 06:54 PM (IGnEY)

No, modern aircraft carrier battlegroups cannot reach the Great Lakes due to size restrictions of the locks and canals, particularly the St. Lawrence Seaway, which is too small for them. But we did have aircraft carriers in the Great Lakes in WWII for pilots to practice carrier landspings without fear of surprise attacks. Carriers were smaller in those days.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 07, 2026 07:22 PM (ZVgZ4)

299 What's been happening in Minnesota the last week or more is a precursor to what will be happening in California later this year.

Advice: stock up on popcorn NOW!

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 07, 2026 07:22 PM (4nEGa)

300 CoalPEC needs to be a thing.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 07:22 PM (IGnEY)

301 My thoughts were that Ukraine-Russia have demonstrated that drones changed the whole calculus for a confrontation between China and Taiwan.

Add in better missile defenses including lasers, and the uncertainties add up. Plus the whole buildup of troops would be apparent even on google earth. No Overlord Tactical Surprise on the actual invasion.

I agree with whoever said the complete and total failure of the surface-to-air defenses in VZ probably means Xi doesn't dare stick his nose out, because it means blowing up Three Gorges with no KIAs is on the menu.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 07, 2026 07:23 PM (oyazo)

302 The Minnesota Lt. Gov just before (or just after? I can't remember which) one of the tranny shootings:

https://tinyurl.com/56tmp3cu

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at January 07, 2026 07:23 PM (kfDTc)

303 194 Her name was Renee Nicole Good. She did not deserve to be murdered by ICE. Say her name.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 07, 2026 06:59 PM (ycI94)

WTH epic stupidity…. This isn’t an episode of Breaking Bad with Walt demanding “say my name”… she wasn’t a bad ass like Heisenberg anyway…. Sheesh

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 07, 2026 07:07 PM (xT8gx)

That particular dimwit is masturbating to Fight Club, not Breaking Bad. They think they are the heroes in all of this.

Posted by: Croaker at January 07, 2026 07:23 PM (AUB4U)

304 Sec of War at the behest of President Trump places the whole MN National guard on Title 10 orders.

Next move Timmy.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 07, 2026 07:23 PM (2GVsD)

305 I imagine Timmy is going to find out soon that not everyone, and especially not all NG types, considers him to be the emperor of MN.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2026 07:23 PM (Riz8t)

306 >>Van Halen - Mean Streets


WAR ENSEMBLE - SLAYER

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=jqnC54vbUbU

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 07:23 PM (ddphe)

307 So, Conspiracy, Aiding and abetting, Obstruction of Justice, assault on a Federal Officer..

and someone funded this... follow the money...

/drops into Montgomery Burns voice...

Release the Hounds...
Posted by: Romeo13
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Felony murder rule. Co conspirators to the dead woman's felonious actions are now on the hook for it. There will an anal probing including funders.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 07:23 PM (WDjG6)

308 If Trump does not respond to Timmay's Illegal Order with the video from the Seditious Six advising soldiers of their right to refuse illegal orders, it will be like I never knew the man...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 07, 2026 07:19 PM (nbLIj)
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I know, right? He has to put that out and then issue his order warning National Guardsmen that they are under federal jurisdiction now.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 07, 2026 07:24 PM (ZOv7s)

309 Her occupation is (err was ) poet.

Is that what they call unemployed these days?

I’ll bet any money she was as on many government programs. It’s not just Somalis who scam.

Posted by: Really?? at January 07, 2026 07:24 PM (/HZvU)

310 Felony murder rule. Co conspirators to the dead woman's felonious actions are now on the hook for it. There will an anal probing including funders.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 07:23 PM (WDjG6)
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Trump's been talking about RICO suave....

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 07:24 PM (krQz2)

311 306.

Respect.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 07, 2026 07:24 PM (oJkoy)

312 That particular dimwit is masturbating to Fight Club, not Breaking Bad. They think they are the heroes in all of this.
Posted by: Croaker
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She's no John Brown.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 07:24 PM (WDjG6)

313 "40 This is what happens when the left gets control. I wonder how many of the 7800 will turn up if called? And if called, how many will take up arms against the Feds?
I'm thinking not many."

If they are smart, after Walz gives orders, they'd immediately contact The Secretary of War and ask what their actual orders are.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 07, 2026 07:25 PM (C3IAS)

314 I hope all our Minnesota Morons stay safe. I'm thinking particularly of thathalfrican and I know we have someone else in Minneapolis but I can't remember who it is right now.

Posted by: bluebell at January 07, 2026 07:25 PM (79pEw)

315 I'm sick of this. 10 years of freaking the fuck out is enough.

Move on, left. .... Or be moved along.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 07:25 PM (krQz2)

316 No, modern aircraft carrier battlegroups cannot reach the Great Lakes due to size restrictions of the locks and canals, particularly the St. Lawrence Seaway, which is too small for them. But we did have aircraft carriers in the Great Lakes in WWII for pilots to practice carrier landspings without fear of surprise attacks. Carriers were smaller in those days.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 07, 2026 07:22 PM (ZVgZ4)
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They cut a ferry down and added a flight deck. Paddle wheel aircraft carrier.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 07, 2026 07:26 PM (ZOv7s)

317 Maybe we'll have Ensign Mark Kelly going to Minnesota and informing the National Guard there that they should not follow illegal orders.

Posted by: Raoul Ortega at January 07, 2026 07:26 PM (j7INY)

318
Thanks to Gavin Assclown, California is a great place to be from, and I'll never go back...
Posted by: Joe Kidd

=============

I dream of moving to Coral Gables. I've got ancient relatives who moved to California when it was golden, however, and I can't get away. Alas.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 07, 2026 07:26 PM (Uo+RY)

319 Somewhere I saw today talk about China building some huge troop transports in preparation for taking Taiwan, and I immediately thought "wow what magnificently huge targets!"

I'm listening to Palmer Luckey on Rogan from a few months back and he talks about that. China in is having civilian roll-on boats made to be used as car ferries overbuilt so they can also be used as tank ferries for a Taiwan (or Japan, if Xi gets *really* sporty) invasion.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 07, 2026 07:26 PM (oyazo)

320 "I guess I missed the part in the rule book where we are forbidden from opining on the content of other's minds."

Obviously. Turn to Chapter 3. It's chickensht to assume another man's motive. Unless you're his wife, or you're a mind reader.

'"And the meeting where you were elected the enforcer of said rule"

No election. It was Manhood 101. Under "General obligations and responsibilities". Maybe someone will let you copy their notes.

Posted by: Fen at January 07, 2026 07:26 PM (ciYHQ)

321 225 ...she's just a woman driver...
To be fair, lots of women drivers deserve the death penalty for the utter mayhem, property damage, and general carnage they inflict on a daily basis.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 07, 2026 07:12 PM (XMwZJ)

I am a great driver who can parallel park! And I used to speed like I was in NASCAR but no longer do. I raced people on I-55.

I admit to not caring what I did to my bf's beater car during college, as what's a new dent or scrape? My crazy brother was with me once, and I did not turn properly after picking up burgers at the window, and scraped along a wood fence. We thought it was hilarious and I had to park til I could drive again. Other than that I am good! Don't even remember if I told my bf about this.No worries as he's stuck with me now!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 07, 2026 07:26 PM (WONhk)

322 She's no John Brown.
Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 07:24 PM (WDjG6)

Well, they were both idiots.

And they might both end up getting innocent black people killed.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 07, 2026 07:27 PM (zZu0s)

323 Trump: "Today is the day when we settle all accounts..."

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 07:27 PM (krQz2)

324 Monkey Wash, Donkey Rinse. - Warren Zevon

Keeps running through my head today. Now I know why.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 07, 2026 07:27 PM (oJkoy)

325 She was unemployed, unless you count the undeclared income from George Soros.

Posted by: Wally at January 07, 2026 07:27 PM (JcH0w)

326 314 I hope all our Minnesota Morons stay safe. I'm thinking particularly of thathalfrican and I know we have someone else in Minneapolis but I can't remember who it is right now.
Posted by: bluebell at January 07, 2026 07:25 PM (79pEw

Wasn't there a Walter Freeman or someone like that posting from the Minneapolis area too?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 07, 2026 07:27 PM (u1qVW)

327 Can aircraft carrier battlegroups get to the Great Lakes?
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We can fly planes out of regular airfields, too.

Posted by: Methos at January 07, 2026 07:27 PM (vSvIl)

328 Does anyone else when a woman says 'I can parallel park!' Hear 'I have black friends!'

?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 07, 2026 07:28 PM (zZu0s)

329 There were two training carriers on Lake Michigan - Wolverine and Sable

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 07, 2026 07:28 PM (2GVsD)

330 I hope all our Minnesota Morons stay safe. I'm thinking particularly of thathalfrican and I know we have someone else in Minneapolis but I can't remember who it is right now.
Posted by: bluebell at January 07, 2026 07:25 PM (79pEw)

Walter Freeman? Haven't seen either one in awhile. :S

Posted by: pookysgirl, still playing The Nutcracker for Lil Pooky at January 07, 2026 07:28 PM (Wt5PA)

331 Hitting the gas, driving a Honda Pilot while an armed ICE agent is standing in front of you and many more are all around you, is about as smart as playing basketball on the Interstate during rush hour.

Many say FAFO. I say, "You Can't Fix Stupid."

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 07, 2026 07:28 PM (4nEGa)

332 Nood. Café.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 07, 2026 07:29 PM (0sNs1)

333 He's not too thrilled at the moment.
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 07, 2026 07:22 PM (qBdHI)
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God bless your brother for taking on this tough job. Is this the one that was previous a U.S. Marshal?

Posted by: bluebell at January 07, 2026 07:29 PM (79pEw)

334
I have it on good authority that only Fortunate Son is an acceptable soundtrack for imminent confrontations.
Posted by: Archimedes

CCR playing this with Al Gore sitting in the audience was priceless.

Posted by: Auspex at January 07, 2026 07:29 PM (Y8DZL)

335 >>> 330 I hope all our Minnesota Morons stay safe. I'm thinking particularly of thathalfrican and I know we have someone else in Minneapolis but I can't remember who it is right now.
Posted by: bluebell at January 07, 2026 07:25 PM (79pEw)

Walter Freeman? Haven't seen either one in awhile. :S
Posted by: pookysgirl, still playing The Nutcracker for Lil Pooky at January 07, 2026 07:28 PM (Wt5PA)

thathalfrican pops in every so often and I'm pretty sure was here a few days ago; not sure about Walter Freeman.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 07, 2026 07:29 PM (ULPxl)

336 271 I went further and looked her up. Her last 3 addresses are from Virginia, not a MN resident.

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Last addresses in VA, From. Virginia, lives in Minnesota and has MO plates.

I’d bet $100 there’s some kind of fraud happening as well in her orbit.
Posted by: Really??

The paid agitators move from state to state using the Left's ngo funding mechanism for car rentals, hotels, meals, etc. Some of that was revealed in Kenosha as the men that St. Kyle shot were drifters from around the US. Same thing in the Michael Brown case of rioters. Same at the Atlanta Cop City riots.

These same traveling asshole squads are used for ballot harvesting, rioting, etc. as a goon squad basically for the Dems.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 07:29 PM (WDjG6)

337
Many say FAFO. I say, "You Can't Fix Stupid."

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 07, 2026 07:28 PM (4nEGa)
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Stupid is something that has to be mitigated.

If Walz really gets stupid, he, too will have to be mitigated.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 07:29 PM (krQz2)

338 If they are smart, after Walz gives orders, they'd immediately contact The Secretary of War and ask what their actual orders are.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 07, 2026 07:25 PM (C3IAS)
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The unit commanders will be all over this, it won't come down to the individual soldiers.

NGB will have the command staff on the line and I don't think I have to tell you how risk-averse senior officers are when their pension and personal freedom are at stake.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 07, 2026 07:30 PM (ZOv7s)

339 Walter Freeman? Haven't seen either one in awhile. :S
Posted by: pookysgirl, still playing The Nutcracker for Lil Pooky at January 07, 2026 07:28 PM (Wt5PA)
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Yes, thank you! I saw thathalfrican earlier today, but not Walter.

Also keeping you in my prayers and hope you are doing okay.

Posted by: bluebell at January 07, 2026 07:30 PM (79pEw)

340 Considering PLAN's newest carrier. Fujin, is already back at the shipyard for repairs, the chances of those giant RO-ROs working are about 15% I say.

Go after Japan? Remember the Mongol armada?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 07, 2026 07:30 PM (2GVsD)

341 MN was a great state, now it is time for another Shermans March from Ely to Blue Earth.


WTF

Posted by: n at January 07, 2026 07:30 PM (ZpVv5)

342 Well, they were both idiots.

And they might both end up getting innocent black people killed.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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I meant that ironically. They would have called her a hero anyway if she ran over a bunch of ICE officers on her quest for martyrdom.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 07:31 PM (WDjG6)

343 317 Maybe we'll have Ensign Mark Kelly going to Minnesota and informing the National Guard there that they should not follow illegal orders.
Posted by: Raoul Ortega

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE HE ISN'T AN ENSIGN YET, AND WOULD NEED TO BE REDUCED SEVERAL MORE RANKS BEFORE REACHING THE RANK OF ENSIGN. AND HE'S JUST RETARDED ENOUGH TO DO IT.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at January 07, 2026 07:31 PM (ycI94)

344 Think the Great Lakes training carriers in WWII were converted bulkers of some kind (coal?).

One unexpected result: lots of incredibly well-preserved warbirds recovered decades later (mostly Wildcats), thanks to the oxygen content and temperature of the water at depth, and the chemistry of the bottom soil.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 07, 2026 07:31 PM (U/Byj)

345 131
'Death is a possibility in that kind of interaction with the police, and I'm not going to go full Zapruder film looking for meticulous compliance with the law.'

No. She knew damn well she was obstructing the law and she knew she was endangering their lives. I don't want there to be widespread shootings but if you intentionally confront law enforcement violently you put your life in peril.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 07, 2026 07:31 PM (fd80v)

346 When does the HQ here start getting credit for all the shit the commentators predict correctly?

Y'all need fat gummit checks.
Posted by: sifty boones at January 07, 2026 06:52 PM (ssLGl)

We get bumped up from the cardboard membership card to the plastic see thru one. If you hold it up to the light at the right angle, you'll see faint image of a nude Amy Schumer. Hubba, hubba!

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 07, 2026 07:32 PM (5xuJ/)

347 Is he best referred to as "Tampon Tim," or "Emperor Timmy"?
Because we can't have any "Kings."

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 07, 2026 07:32 PM (4nEGa)

348 For about a year long ago in a galaxy far away I lived with a GF. I had a car she didn’t. She never drove anywhere since she walked to work and if we went anywhere together I always drove. Parking cost $75 a month at my apartment and I was like fuck it I’ll park on the street.

In that entire year I parallel parked pretty much every day. No biggie. Never a DJ g to the car never any curb rash. The. One day my gf asks if she can use my car. I said sure. She comes back. Both the front and back numbers have scratches and both wheels are scraped .

Me: 250 parallel parks, zero damage
Her 1 parallel park, car loses $1000 in value.

Turns out I should have paid the $100 extra after all.

I look back and laugh at it now but it really pissed me off at the time.

Posted by: Really?? at January 07, 2026 07:32 PM (/HZvU)

349 The unit commanders will be all over this, it won't come down to the individual soldiers.

NGB will have the command staff on the line and I don't think I have to tell you how risk-averse senior officers are when their pension and personal freedom are at stake.
Posted by: Ace-En




Yeah, MN guard guys, 06s, took the knee and removed gear for floyd, fuck those guys.

Posted by: n at January 07, 2026 07:32 PM (ZpVv5)

350 346.

Love it.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 07, 2026 07:32 PM (oJkoy)

351 323 Trump: "Today is the day when we settle all accounts..."
Posted by: Axeman

He puts the "Don" in "Donroe Doctrine".

Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 07, 2026 07:33 PM (ycI94)

352 They cut a ferry down and added a flight deck. Paddle wheel aircraft carrier.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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Now that would be a cool steam punk addition to alternate history Civil War stories. Throw in Mark Twain to boot.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 07:33 PM (WDjG6)

353 When does the HQ here start getting credit for all the shit the commentators predict correctly?

Y'all need fat gummit checks.
Posted by: sifty boones at January 07, 2026 06:52 PM (ssLGl)

But I thought only Somalians got those fat gummit checks. Emperor Timmy said so.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 07, 2026 07:33 PM (4nEGa)

354 Somebody has to splain to karens, protesting in your car is not the same as protesting outside in persn.

Posted by: n at January 07, 2026 07:34 PM (ZpVv5)

355 Is he best referred to as "Tampon Tim," or "Emperor Timmy"?
Because we can't have any "Kings."
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg
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How about Grand Loon of MN.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 07:34 PM (WDjG6)

356 20 years, several of which were in the State Joint Operation Center dispatching troops to state emergencies and Federal requests.
Posted by: Military Moron

Hat tip. Did you handle and check points or road blocks?
I'm curious what your ROE was.

I was 3RD LAR BN out of 29 Palms. They had plans to send us out to secure an interchange outside of LA during the Rodney King riots. WITHOUT AMMO which was just nuts.

We got Somalia instead LOL

Posted by: Fen at January 07, 2026 07:35 PM (ciYHQ)

357 140
'Her name was Renee Nicole Good.'

She's dead and that's Good.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 07, 2026 07:36 PM (fd80v)

358 309 Her occupation is (err was ) poet.


Posted by: Really??
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She has now joined the Dead Poet's Society.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 07:36 PM (WDjG6)

359 Can we have Civil War II please?

With stirring cavalry charges and beautifully written letters to to wives back home?

Posted by: Ken Burns, now bereft of CPB funding at January 07, 2026 07:37 PM (DsA2n)

360 We can fly planes out of regular airfields, too.

In fact, two C130s just took off from MPLS

Posted by: t-bird at January 07, 2026 07:38 PM (GQhg+)

361 it is amazing how stupid everybody has become.

When I was in college we did bunches of fucking around, much of which would definitely have gotten court dates though not big house time were we caught, however, we were very aware of the risk of finding out, we scrupulously avoided, even endeavored to never ever get to the finding out things.

who runs some car at the fuzz?

Posted by: n at January 07, 2026 07:41 PM (ZpVv5)

362 I hope all our Minnesota Morons stay safe. I'm thinking particularly of thathalfrican and I know we have someone else in Minneapolis but I can't remember who it is right now.
Posted by: bluebell at January 07, 2026 07:25 PM (79pEw)

Walter Freeman, I believe, is the nic.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 07, 2026 07:47 PM (8zz6B)

363 "The idiots running Minnesota really seem to want more violence."

Is he really that idiotic and pandering to his base? Or both? Or does he truly think this ok

Interesting, On J6, the worst day in American history according to the liberals,
Trump asked the protestors to march to the Capital and peacefully protest.



Posted by: RM at January 07, 2026 07:47 PM (n/1Oj)

364 No, modern aircraft carrier battlegroups cannot reach the Great Lakes due to size restrictions of the locks and canals, particularly the St. Lawrence Seaway, which is too small for them. But we did have aircraft carriers in the Great Lakes in WWII for pilots to practice carrier landspings without fear of surprise attacks. Carriers were smaller in those days.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 07, 2026 07:22 PM (ZVgZ4)
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They cut a ferry down and added a flight deck. Paddle wheel aircraft carrier.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 07, 2026 07:26 PM (ZOv7s)

IIRC, there was (is) a long-standing treaty agreement that neither Canada nor the USA could keep ships of war in the Great Lakes. But exceptions were made during WWII.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 07, 2026 07:49 PM (8zz6B)

365 Can one of the less inept Morons do fake video with Gov Uptwinkles standing with uptwinkling hands, saying
" Somali fraud now, Somali fraud tomorrow and Somali fraud forever" with a couple of lightbulb heads nodding behind him in MN National Guard/daycare outfits with lots of bling?

Posted by: HogWildforIslam with a side of bacon at January 07, 2026 07:50 PM (T5Vfs)

366 Can aircraft carrier battlegroups get to the Great Lakes?
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 06:54 PM (IGnEY)

Niagara Falls is gonna be a problem. I think they have a bypass canal but I'm not sure a carrier was in their minds when it was built.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2026 07:55 PM (8avO+)

367 IIRC, there was (is) a long-standing treaty agreement that neither Canada nor the USA could keep ships of war in the Great Lakes. But exceptions were made during WWII.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 07, 2026 07:49 PM (8zz6B)

We were defending Canada even before Pearl Harbor. They converted some ships to training aircraft carriers during the war.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2026 07:56 PM (8avO+)

368 They cut a ferry down and added a flight deck. Paddle wheel aircraft carrier.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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Now that would be a cool steam punk addition to alternate history Civil War stories. Throw in Mark Twain to boot.
Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 07:33 PM (WDjG6)

The Confederates cobbled together a hot air balloon and put it on a small steamship outside of Richmond in the 1862 seige. It got stuck on a sandbank and was captured by the US Navy.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2026 07:59 PM (8avO+)

369 It might be hanging out with too many Somalis. Somalia being a shithole and all.

Piracy, fraud, and riots. The big three.

Almost forgot: famine.

Posted by: connected and litigious at January 07, 2026 08:03 PM (cS1cw)

370 Piracy, fraud, and riots. The big three.

Almost forgot: famine.
Posted by: connected and litigious at January 07, 2026 08:03 PM (cS1cw)

The famines in Somalia are caused by Piracy (theft) and fraud and violence.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2026 08:10 PM (8avO+)

371 Niagara Falls is gonna be a problem. I think they have a bypass canal but I'm not sure a carrier was in their minds when it was built.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2026 07:55 PM (8avO+)

It's called The Welland Canal ...

Posted by: browndog biting ankles at January 07, 2026 08:19 PM (3sXRv)

372 72: Yes, that moke was Mitchell Rupe, a security guard who pulled into a bank branch in Olympia WA housed in a trailer located in a then-undeveloped part of town. He walked in, robbed the bank, and then shot the two tellers to death with a .357 Magnum. No resistance, no reason other than to eliminate witnesses. He ballooned to over 400 lbs, in his years on death row. A federal judge ruled he could not be hanged due to the risk he'd be decapitated, so was re-sentenced to LWOP. Finally croaked from liver disease.

Posted by: Fritz at January 07, 2026 08:20 PM (J7jo9)

373 Do you think redistricting leads to a more fair and suitable democracy?;

Do you think that with multiple candidates and ranked choice voting we might end up with the least hated choice instead of the most extreme?:

In my last math class we studied various types of choosing a winner from multiple ranked candidates including the type used in Olympic scoring where highest and lowest scores are discarded

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at January 07, 2026 08:24 PM (yMxXU)

374 The funniest thing just hit me. If MN NG starts to follow illegal orders from Walz we could start a loud loop of the Dems own don’t follow illegal orders everywhere.

Posted by: epador at January 07, 2026 08:25 PM (TRnzq)

375 Now that would be a cool steam punk addition to alternate history Civil War stories. Throw in Mark Twain to boot.
Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 07:33 PM (WDjG6)

Check out Philip José Farmer’s Riverworld series where the likes of Richard Francis Burton, Hermann Göring, and Samuel Clemens interact through a bizarre afterlife in which every human ever to have lived is simultaneously resurrected along a single river valley that stretches over an entire planet. Clemens pilots a steamboat on the river and, IIRC, launches biplanes from the deck.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 07, 2026 08:31 PM (ZVgZ4)

376 beautifully written letters to to wives

Dear Marie,
It is hot as balls here.

Posted by: DaveA at January 07, 2026 08:48 PM (FhXTo)

377 Do you think that with multiple candidates and ranked choice voting we might end up with the least hated choice instead of the most extreme?:

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at January 07, 2026 08:24 PM

Please see the Alaska senate campaign for the answer to your question….

Posted by: DoctorMew at January 07, 2026 09:40 PM (9h9qD)

378 I'm so old that I remember when Ace claimed he didn't approve of running around calling people Nazis.

Posted by: The Smurfy King II at January 07, 2026 10:26 PM (Ys9Hz)

379 I'm not sure who the biggest fools are. Walz, Crockett or the morons defending the driver who clearly was attempting to hit those ICE agents. These are the same cretins who cheered the murder of people at the Jan 6th demonstration. Fuck them all.

Posted by: TJ jackson at January 08, 2026 03:13 AM (bXvrr)

380 TIME FOR THE INSURRECTION ACT TO BE INVOKED!

Posted by: Tracy at January 08, 2026 06:58 AM (LA9PI)

Two Venezuela-Linked "Dark Fleet" Ships Change Their Registrations Mid-Cruise to Russian In the Belief That This Will Protect Them from Trump;
But Trump Gives No Effs and Seizes Them

Russia actually sent an attack sub to protect one of the terrorist oil smuggling ships. Plus it suddenly hoisted a Russian flag and declared itself a Russian ship. Russia was part of this, because they approved the re-flagging of the ship without any of the normal steps required.

They thought Trump would be a-scared to seize a Russian-flagged terror ship.

WRONG!

Oh, and then they seized another one.


Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Wednesday that the U.S. seized two oil tankers linked to Venezuela.

"In two predawn operations today, the Coast Guard conducted back-to-back meticulously coordinated boarding of two 'ghost fleet' tanker ships--one in the North Atlantic Sea and one in international waters near the Caribbean. Both vessels--the Motor Tanker Bella I and the Motor Taker [sic] Sophia--were either last docked in Venezuela or en route to it," Noem posted on X.

"Under President Trump's bold and visionary leadership, US Coast Guard tactical teams worked closely with its counterparts at the Departments of War, Department of Justice and State and used their specialized expertise to conduct these operations and conduct two safe, effective boardings within hours of each other," she continued.

"One of these tankers, Motor Tanker Bella I, has been trying to evade the Coast Guard for weeks, even changing its flag and painting a new name on the hull while being pursued, in a desperate and failed attempt to escape justice. The heroic crew of the USCGC Munro pursued this vessel across the high seas and through treacherous storms--keeping diligent watch, and protecting our country with the determination and patriotism that make Americans proud. These brave men and women deserve our nation's thanks for their selfless devotion to duty."

...


The vessel was one of a number of sanctioned oil tankers operating near Venezuela that recently changed their flags to Russia.

Visegrád 24
@visegrad24

9h

Russia has dispatched a submarine and several warships to escort a shadow-fleet tanker that the United States attempted to seize off the coast of Venezuela and is now pursuing in the Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal reports.

The tanker Bella 1 spent more than two weeks trying to bypass the U.S. blockade on Venezuela but failed to dock and load cargo. In December, the vessel's crew repelled a U.S. attempt to board the ship and then sailed into the Atlantic Ocean.

It is now being pursued in international waters by the U.S. Coast Guard.

The tanker has since re-registered as Russian, been renamed Marinera, and the crew painted a Russian flag on the hull.

According to U.S. sources, Russia then asked Washington to stop pursuing what it now claims is a Russian vessel. On Tuesday, Russia's Foreign Ministry said it was following the situation around the tanker "with concern."

The ship is currently sailing about 300 miles south of Iceland toward the North Sea. A Russian submarine and other naval assets are moving in to support it.


RUSSIAN AGENT Donald Trump is going rogue like Ethan Hunt, yo!

Bu-bu-but Russia has shopping carts with refundable coin payment slots and Vladimir Putin is Super Socially Conservative you guys.

Meanwhile, Tucker Carlson's other allied nation, Iran, continues to burn.

Make no mistake: By taking out Maduro and crippling Venezuela's ability to ferry terrorist-funding Iranian oil and send oil to prop up their Cuban benefactors, Trump has taken major steps to destabilize and overthrow the (I know I shouldn't use this word but I can't help it) Axis of Evil.

And Tucker Carlson and his crew of goosestepping loonies want to pull an Obama and bail them all out!

Surge of Economic Pain Pushes Iranians to the Streets

High inflation and a currency collapse have squeezed Iranians' budgets, challenging the country's leaders.

Protesters took to the streets of the capital, Tehran, and other cities in Iran on Monday to decry surging inflation and the collapse of the national currency, which have thrown markets into chaos and punched holes in family budgets.

The currency plunged to a record low this past weekend against the U.S. dollar and the annual inflation rate rose to 42.2 percent in December.

Amid the turmoil, the head of Iran's central bank, Mohammad Reza Farzin, resigned on Monday, pending the president's acceptance, local news media reported. A former economy minister, Abdolnaser Hemmati, was set to replace him.

The economic turmoil poses a new challenge for Iran's leaders as they seek to maintain control of their country of 92 million people while recovering from attacks on its nuclear facilities in June by Israel and the United States and a campaign of "maximum pressure" from the Trump administration aimed at securing a new agreement about Iran's nuclear program.

...

Experts attribute Iran's deepening economic pain to a host of factors from poor management to policies that keep the country's economy closed. The stepped-up efforts by the Trump administration to limit Iran's oil sales to foreign countries and the war with Israel in June, during which the government tapped Iranian banks to cover its costs, have also contributed to the worsening economy.


...

The proposed 2026 budget showed the government's dilemma, reflecting a substantial decrease in oil revenue and an increased reliance on tax revenue.

On Monday, the Parliament rejected the proposed budget, the semiofficial Tasnim News Agency reported.

...

The currency collapse has been painful for ordinary Iranians, who have watched the value of their salaries and savings drop while prices for goods and services skyrocketed.

Omid, a 42-year-old sales manager in Tehran, said the value of his monthly income has dropped to the equivalent of $200 per month from $300 in just two months, giving him anxiety.

Via John Sexton, who also rounds up videos of the street protests.

Below, in Germany (I think), a white woman shows up to counter-protest Iranians cheering on the anti-Mullah protests.

As someone observed: White leftist women always make every single thing about themselves and their own bullshit and the thousands of evil snakes wriggling around in their heads.

Posted by: Ace at 05:30 PM




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1 The times are changing.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 05:31 PM (ExV1e)

2 38th!

Posted by: Brewingfrog at January 07, 2026 05:33 PM (qD5Bi)

3 Oh, hey...I mistakenly started reading the content.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 05:33 PM (ddphe)

4 Trump Pounces!

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 07, 2026 05:33 PM (JGjDx)

5 Speculation is that the Bella-1 seizure wasn't about oil. Possibly high value equipment or personnel.

Posted by: Max Power at January 07, 2026 05:34 PM (SwyyQ)

6 Leftist woman melts down and screams “Free Palestine” at Iranian people’s rally to support the uprising against the Islamic government
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That person is broken.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 05:34 PM (krQz2)

7 And that Russian sub just lay there in the water without making itself known in any way.

I guess.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 05:35 PM (GBKbO)

8 I couldabeen a contendah, instead of a bum which is what Iyam.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 07, 2026 05:35 PM (jc0TO)

9 Now I have visions of fireworks and bald eagles and bald eagles shooting fireworks.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 07, 2026 05:35 PM (2UnvF)

10 She seems nice.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at January 07, 2026 05:35 PM (0BrN/)

11 >>Leftist woman melts down and screams “Free Palestine” at Iranian people’s rally to support the uprising against the Islamic government


Toxoplasmosis Never Sleeps

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 05:35 PM (ddphe)

12 Clearly these tankers were carrying copies of the real Epstein files.

Posted by: Juan Paxety at January 07, 2026 05:35 PM (EwniN)

13 Coasties earning their pay.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 07, 2026 05:35 PM (XeU6L)

14 Worst Putin Puppet Eveh!

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 07, 2026 05:36 PM (JGjDx)

15 >>And that Russian sub just lay there in the water without making itself known in any way.

>I guess.


They probably ran out of wood to burn.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 05:36 PM (ddphe)

16 RUSSIAN AGENT Donald Trump is going rogue like Ethan Hunt, yo!

https://youtu.be/OyfpTJJXwEE?si=129g2566z8iOnfJ8

Posted by: Eric at January 07, 2026 05:36 PM (a2F+C)

17 During kwanzaa?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 07, 2026 05:36 PM (Kt19C)

18 Below, in Germany (I think), a white woman shows up to counter-protest Iranians cheering on the anti-Mullah protests.

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I think she just walked by and got triggered by the presence of Jews. Iranian Jews protesting in support of the Iranian people.

She turned a people rising up against Islamic tyranny into a Palestine thing 1500 miles away from the tyranny in question.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 05:37 PM (GBKbO)

19 Hey lady , I got your Free Palestine right heeya

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 07, 2026 05:37 PM (ScJGb)

20 No effs were given that day.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 05:37 PM (IGnEY)

21 15 >>And that Russian sub just lay there in the water without making itself known in any way.

>I guess.


They probably ran out of wood to burn.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 05:36 PM (ddphe)

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They had problems with their nuclear plant and used chemical suits to try and fix it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 05:37 PM (GBKbO)

22 Marinera! Let the pasta puns be saucy!

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 07, 2026 05:37 PM (n5tGW)

23 I voted for this.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 07, 2026 05:38 PM (Cw/ar)

24 All of that uninsured oil should be pumped somewhere safe, for the environment.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 05:38 PM (IGnEY)

25 Two Venezuela-Linked "Dark Fleet" Ships Change Their Registrations Mid-Cruise


It don't work like that.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 05:38 PM (WC9t6)

26 Uh, didn't we already overthrow the Venezuelan Gov? Why are we still seizing oil tankers?

Oh, wait, Russian, so it is OK to seize THEIR shit, even though we are not at War with them... and have not declared them terrorists.

We are sailing in very dangerous waters.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 05:39 PM (mP0Kj)

27 Stop the last video at the 12 second mark and behold the face of propaganda induced mental illness.

Looks like she bought a pair of AirPods Max, too, so I know she's batshit crazy for paying $549 for those.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 07, 2026 05:39 PM (6ydKt)

28 ‘ One of these tankers, Motor Tanker Bella I, has been trying to evade the Coast Guard for weeks, even changing its flag and painting a new name on the hull while being pursued, in a desperate and failed attempt to escape justice’

Didn’t two hot girls do something like this to a Lamborghini in some shitty 80s action comedy? IIRC, they were in a Countach and running from keystone cops and changed colors and license plates. Seems the Russkies like hot 80s American bimbos!

Posted by: Elric the Blade at January 07, 2026 05:39 PM (hfuWD)

29 Awwwwwwww. They really were just carrying Venezuelan oil?

That's boring.

*pout*

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 07, 2026 05:39 PM (06Hmj)

30 The "Lives and Lores" post might be from an exercise and not actually from any boardings.

The weather was horrible. According to sources.

YMMV

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 07, 2026 05:39 PM (NwnyJ)

31 Andrei, you've lost another sub?

Posted by: banana Dream at January 07, 2026 05:40 PM (3uBP9)

32 Are the ships worth keeping? Scrap heap?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 05:40 PM (IGnEY)

33 And that Russian sub just lay there in the water without making itself known in any way.

I guess.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 05:35 PM


That was the most stupid thing the russians could do sending a sub to escort an oil tanker. Not only is the sub tied down to the slow tanker it most likely was tracked by the US Navy every mile it sailed. They knew where that sub was at and most likely isolated it from the tanker it was escorting.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 07, 2026 05:40 PM (0N4FZ)

34 23 I voted for this.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 07, 2026 05:38 PM (Cw/ar)

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I voted for the banning of the idiom "to get out of hand."

I'm not getting it.

Instead things seem to just be getting out of hand and we'll be damn lucky if we live through it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 05:40 PM (GBKbO)

35 If this keeps up, the CIA are going to have to apply for SNAP benefits.

Posted by: t-bird at January 07, 2026 05:40 PM (GQhg+)

36 Someone should point out to that bitch in the last item that Iran is nowhere near Palestine.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 07, 2026 05:40 PM (s0JqF)

37 Change their registration means they hoisted up the Russian Tricolor

Posted by: Skip at January 07, 2026 05:40 PM (Ia/+0)

38 >>Didn’t two hot girls do something like this to a Lamborghini in some shitty 80s action comedy? IIRC, they were in a Countach and running from keystone cops and changed colors and license plates. Seems the Russkies like hot 80s American bimbos!


Johnny Dangerously did it better.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 05:40 PM (ddphe)

39 ‘ As someone observed: White leftist women always make every single thing about themselves and their own bullshit and the thousands of evil snakes wriggling around in their heads.’

Fake news, bro. There are some places even evil snakes won’t go.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at January 07, 2026 05:41 PM (hfuWD)

40 We should get some free gas out of this.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 05:41 PM (IGnEY)

41 >>And that Russian sub just lay there in the water without making itself known in any way.

>I guess.


Unknown to all except the US nuclear attack submarine shadowing it.

Posted by: Gref at January 07, 2026 05:41 PM (5rh/l)

42 The OG axis of evil was Iran, Syria, and North Korea, right?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 07, 2026 05:41 PM (06Hmj)

43 "Leftist woman melts down and screams “Free Palestine” at Iranian people’s rally to support the uprising against the Islamic government"

Sure I can understand her confusion. Iran, Israel, they both start with the letter I. Beyond that, they are identical.

Posted by: Eric at January 07, 2026 05:41 PM (a2F+C)

44 Where is Jones!!!!!

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at January 07, 2026 05:41 PM (TB/rm)

45 didn't we already overthrow the Venezuelan Gov? Why are we still seizing oil tankers?

Oh, wait, Russian, so it is OK to seize THEIR shit, even though we are not at War with them... and have not declared them terrorists.

We are sailing in very dangerous waters.
Posted by: Romeo13


Venezuela still owes us $50 billion. And you don't get to change your registration mid cruise.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 05:41 PM (WC9t6)

46 Truth Social comment by Trump on MN shooting :

https://tinyurl.com/4264vjxk

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 07, 2026 05:42 PM (rZCVI)

47 They just painted a Russian Flag on one. No flag.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 05:42 PM (IGnEY)

48 43 "Leftist woman melts down and screams “Free Palestine” at Iranian people’s rally to support the uprising against the Islamic government"

Sure I can understand her confusion. Iran, Israel, they both start with the letter I. Beyond that, they are identical.

Posted by: Eric at January 07, 2026 05:41 PM (a2F+C)

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She just saw some Jews and flipped the fuck out.

Because of anti-racism and diversity.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 05:42 PM (GBKbO)

49 ace I have been conviced that your criticisms of Tucker is valid. There is a thing as right and wrong, and when there is a platform as big and powerful as Tucker's, there is a certain responsibility with what he has on his platform and what is put out on the platform to the world, and that is important. I
t is necessary to police platforms for thought because of the danger from the power of new media like podcasts that goes beyond any tacit social acceptance of the right of voicing dangerous or objectionable opinions. This is especially important for opinion that might be taken up by credulous or emotional thinkers. This is not a freedom of speech question, it is a question of safeguarding the politics from fools.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 07, 2026 05:42 PM (rbvCR)

50 Awwwwwwww. They really were just carrying Venezuelan oil?"

Based on the water line, they were carrying Venezuelan helium...

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 05:42 PM (qRoBZ)

51 25 Two Venezuela-Linked "Dark Fleet" Ships Change Their Registrations Mid-Cruise


It don't work like that.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 05:38 PM
It worked for Captain Aubry.

Posted by: Eromero at January 07, 2026 05:43 PM (o2ZRX)

52 >>>5 Speculation is that the Bella-1 seizure wasn't about oil. Possibly high value equipment or personnel.

i heard some British source, maybe the BBC, speculating about that.

Posted by: ace at January 07, 2026 05:43 PM (1wjle)

53 Nationalize it.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 05:43 PM (IGnEY)

54 That was the most stupid thing the russians could do sending a sub to escort an oil tanker. Not only is the sub tied down to the slow tanker it most likely was tracked by the US Navy every mile it sailed. They knew where that sub was at and most likely isolated it from the tanker it was escorting.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 07, 2026 05:40 PM (0N4FZ)

I'd bet the calculation was that it was the only asset they could get into position to film and witness the takeover.

Didn't look like they tried to hide... Expect some UN Shanigans incoming.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 05:43 PM (mP0Kj)

55 26 Uh, didn't we already overthrow the Venezuelan Gov? Why are we still seizing oil tankers?

Oh, wait, Russian, so it is OK to seize THEIR shit, even though we are not at War with them... and have not declared them terrorists.

We are sailing in very dangerous waters.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 05:39 PM (mP0Kj)

They are ghost tankers under sanctions.

They aren't really Russian, they're smugglers who'll change ship names, registrations, GPS locator beacons, and everything else to get the cargo to port and get paid.

The Russians can end all these problems next week by sitting down and signing on the dotted line along with Z & Ukraine.

They are the ones sailing in dangerous waters, obviously.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 07, 2026 05:43 PM (6ydKt)

56 Uh, didn't we already overthrow the Venezuelan Gov? Why are we still seizing oil tankers?
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We nabbed one guy and his wife (maybe a few more if you believe the rumors). The rest of that government is still there. As are its partners elsewhere.

Posted by: Methos at January 07, 2026 05:43 PM (vSvIl)

57 We should get some free gas out of this.
Posted by: Boss Moss



I'd settle for some 1969 gas prices. I'd love to pull up to a full service pump like my dad did and say give me $2.75 worth of gas knowing that that would fill the car up.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 05:44 PM (WC9t6)

58 Willowed:
When I was in grade school almost every morning we would exercise to that stupid "chicken fat" song
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 07, 2026 05:36 PM (0N4FZ)

Me, too. I still think of it when I'm doing calisthenics.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 07, 2026 05:44 PM (zYpTz)

59 Two Venezuela-Linked "Dark Fleet" Ships Change Their Registrations Mid-Cruise


It don't work like that.
Posted by: rickb223

Man, how long has it actually been since there was a false flag incident in its original context?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 07, 2026 05:44 PM (a+4eV)

60 Jeez...some HOA is really missing their President.
She's batshit crazy!

Posted by: Diogenes at January 07, 2026 05:44 PM (2WIwB)

61 52 >>>5 Speculation is that the Bella-1 seizure wasn't about oil. Possibly high value equipment or personnel.

i heard some British source, maybe the BBC, speculating about that.

Posted by: ace at January 07, 2026 05:43 PM (1wjle)

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Set sail from Iran 7 months ago. Turned off its transponder about 2 weeks ago. Turned it back on a couple of days ago.

Bare minimum, this is obviously a ship that was trying to get around the sanctions enforced by US ships.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 05:45 PM (GBKbO)

62 >>We are sailing in very dangerous waters.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 05:39 PM (mP0Kj)


Yes. It will be the 5th World War 3 since we elected Trump the first time!

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 05:45 PM (ddphe)

63 Instead things seem to just be getting out of hand and we'll be damn lucky if we live through it.

We are indeed lucky to live thru these times. I count my blessings that I get to see part of it.

Posted by: t-bird at January 07, 2026 05:45 PM (GQhg+)

64 So the Mullah's security forces have killed around 3 dozen civilian protesters in response to the uprising.
Should we expect sit-ins and protests here in the US and on American college campi in support of these innocent martyrs?
Are innocent Shia Muslims killed by other Shia Muslims worthy of protest by the American Left?
Were innocent Sunni Muslims killed by other Sunni Muslims (ISIS, Taliban, Al-Queda) worthy of protest by the American Left?
Were innocent Uyghur Muslims incarcerated, raped and murdered by Chinese Security Forces worthy of protest by the American Left?
Or are the only Muslim deaths worthy of protest by the American Left those killed by Jews?

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at January 07, 2026 05:45 PM (MNCvZ)

65 So, the boat reflagged mid-sail? Yeah, we needed to stop that boat b/c that is some shady, shady sh&t...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 07, 2026 05:46 PM (tOcjL)

66 As someone observed: White leftist women always make every single thing about themselves and their own bullshit and the thousands of evil snakes wriggling around in their heads.
Posted by: Ace at 05:30 PM

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And if you are female, they always tell you about their abortions. It's sick.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 07, 2026 05:46 PM (Cw/ar)

67 56 We nabbed one guy and his wife (maybe a few more if you believe the rumors). The rest of that government is still there. As are its partners elsewhere.

Posted by: Methos at January 07, 2026 05:43 PM (vSvIl)

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And those still in place are making very nice sounds towards Trump.

They apparently promised to only use oil revenues on US made goods.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 05:46 PM (GBKbO)

68 Awwwwwwww. They really were just carrying Venezuelan oil?"

Based on the water line, they were carrying Venezuelan helium...
Posted by: man


Then it's a good possibility, that they were carrying Iranian yellow cake.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 05:46 PM (WC9t6)

69 So OT/ but the dead woman is supposedly identified as 37 year old Renee Good by her mother.. Evidently her wife was there too... Who knows if this is true .. Daily Mail

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2026 05:46 PM (VE6XX)

70 You can't stop WWIII.

You can only hope to contain it.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 05:46 PM (ddphe)

71 Minneapolis might get lucky in that it's too cold to riot. Then again, burning buildings are toasty

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 07, 2026 05:46 PM (ScJGb)

72 locator bacons

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 07, 2026 05:46 PM (Kt19C)

73
Speaker: Welcome to Wendy's! May I take your order?

Woman: FREE PALESTINE!!!

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 05:47 PM (krQz2)

74 63 Instead things seem to just be getting out of hand and we'll be damn lucky if we live through it.

We are indeed lucky to live thru these times. I count my blessings that I get to see part of it.

Posted by: t-bird at January 07, 2026 05:45 PM (GQhg+)

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You know...the 1820s seemed mostly peaceful. Besides the whole slavery issue, that is.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 05:47 PM (GBKbO)

75 Yes. It will be the 5th World War 3 since we elected Trump the first time"

Dude. We're all dead from net neutrality. Didn't you get the memo?

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 05:47 PM (qRoBZ)

76 I don't know what happened to people but there sure are a lot of them with poor emotional regulation when faced with opposing views and maybe they should stay home if they can't control themselves in public.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 07, 2026 05:47 PM (8+C2v)

77 They change the names of the ships and the registry every few months.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 05:47 PM (IGnEY)

78 Venezuela still owes us $50 billion. And you don't get to change your registration mid cruise.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 05:41 PM (WC9t6)

So the US Military is now in the debt collection business? Thought we were past that... guess not.

And tanker looks empty... look at the waterline.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 05:47 PM (mP0Kj)

79 Uh, didn't we already overthrow the Venezuelan Gov? Why are we still seizing oil tankers?

Oh, wait, Russian, so it is OK to seize THEIR shit, even though we are not at War with them... and have not declared them terrorists.

We are sailing in very dangerous waters.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 05:39 PM (mP0Kj)

I believe that those specific ships were internationally sanctioned and you don't get to avoid that just by saying that you're totally someone different while you're at sea.

Russia will huff and puff and bitch and then do nothing. As we would do if the situation were reversed.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 05:47 PM (ExV1e)

80 Yeah, good. Let's be real about this "pursuit through stormy seas" business though: pursuing an oil tanker with a Coat Guard cutter isn't exactly a high-speed boat chase out of Miami Vice. It's not the Royal Navy chasing Blackbeard around the Bahamas. It's more like chasing Joe Biden down when he wanders offstage like a disoriented Roomba.

Posted by: Hugh Hewitt at January 07, 2026 05:47 PM (CKIwv)

81 >>Dude. We're all dead from net neutrality. Didn't you get the memo?


I died from Popcorn Lung before Net Neutrality was even a thing.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 05:47 PM (ddphe)

82 Over at Insty, there are tweets that note these "tankers" didn't have any cargo but:
1) originated from Iran,
2) were desperate to dock in Venezuela,
3) Russia really, really, really did not want us to see what was on board, and, biggest,
4) the UK lifted its recent ban on sharing intelligence for this--and participated in the seizure.

A lot of smoke that says something very important was on those ships ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 07, 2026 05:47 PM (HXT0k)

83 The OG axis of evil was Iran, Syria, and North Korea, right?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 07, 2026 05:41 PM (06Hmj)

Iraq, not Syria. I'm pretty sure that was part of W's pre 2000s Iraq war speech at the UN.

Posted by: Methos at January 07, 2026 05:47 PM (vSvIl)

84 75 Yes. It will be the 5th World War 3 since we elected Trump the first time"

Dude. We're all dead from net neutrality. Didn't you get the memo?
Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 05:47 PM (qRoBZ)

I thought we all died during the Y2K bug....

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 05:48 PM (mP0Kj)

85 She turned a people rising up against Islamic tyranny into a Palestine thing 1500 miles away from the tyranny in question.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 05:37 PM (GBKbO)

We should send her a map with red circles. And an instruction card on how to cuff jeans. Because we are nice.

Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 05:48 PM (Wmg4n)

86 Evidently her wife"

Sure.

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 05:48 PM (qRoBZ)

87
And tanker looks empty... look at the waterline.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 05:47 PM (mP0Kj)

I'm thinking it wasn't carrying oil which makes it all the more suspicious

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2026 05:48 PM (VE6XX)

88 Jeez...some HOA is really missing their President.
She's batshit crazy!
Posted by: Diogenes at January 07, 2026 05:44 PM (2WIwB)

Spin her around three times and shake her and she'll scream something else.

"No Blood For Oil!"

"Fire Doesn't Melt Steel!"

"Triangle Shirtwaist!"

"44' 40 Or Fight!"

Like a retarded magic 8-ball.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 07, 2026 05:48 PM (06Hmj)

89 Sock off!
I was cosplaying Hugh Hewitt in an earlier thread so so that I could point out that something benefits Mitt Romney.

Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at January 07, 2026 05:48 PM (CKIwv)

90 How do you make money from empty tankers?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 05:48 PM (IGnEY)

91 Hmmm. Ethan Hunt has Haley Atwell. Trump has Melania and we love her, but advantage Ethan.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 07, 2026 05:48 PM (zZu0s)

92 They had problems with their nuclear plant and used chemical suits to try and fix it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 05:37 PM (GBKbO)
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*** The Red October was unavailable for comment. ***

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 07, 2026 05:48 PM (ESVrU)

93 82 A lot of smoke that says something very important was on those ships ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 07, 2026 05:47 PM (HXT0k)

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Maduro's porn collection.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 05:48 PM (GBKbO)

94 They aren't really Russian, they're smugglers who'll change ship names, registrations, GPS locator beacons, and everything else to get the cargo to port and get paid.

"Oh, man, where'd that 1100-foot ship go? It looked just like this one in front of me, but it had a different license plate..."

Posted by: t-bird at January 07, 2026 05:49 PM (GQhg+)

95 The Mullahs offered to give every one a $7 check. This is for real.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 07, 2026 05:49 PM (sDNVV)

96 92 They had problems with their nuclear plant and used chemical suits to try and fix it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 05:37 PM (GBKbO)
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*** The Red October was unavailable for comment. ***

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 07, 2026 05:48 PM (ESVrU)

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K-19: The Widowmaker, actually.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 05:49 PM (GBKbO)

97 We nabbed one guy and his wife (maybe a few more if you believe the rumors). The rest of that government is still there. As are its partners elsewhere.

Posted by: Methos at January 07, 2026 05:43 PM (vSvIl)
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Venezuela still has an appetite for finding out.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 05:49 PM (krQz2)

98 AWLF even her cats are going around to the back door now.

Posted by: MkY at January 07, 2026 05:49 PM (q6tQZ)

99
Like a retarded magic 8-ball.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 07, 2026 05:48 PM (06Hmj)


Lol

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 07, 2026 05:49 PM (8+C2v)

100 As a sidebar, USCGS Munro is a Legend-class ship, of the kind that our future frigates will be based on. This shows how smart a choice that is - excellent seaboats with long endurance in rough weather.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 07, 2026 05:50 PM (ZOv7s)

101 97 Venezuela still has an appetite for finding out.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 05:49 PM (krQz2)

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Venezuela is fucking grovelling to us right now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 05:50 PM (GBKbO)

102 So the US Military is now in the debt collection business? Thought we were past that... guess not.

And tanker looks empty... look at the waterline.
Posted by: Romeo13


Then it's possible they were carrying snuck out Iranian nuclear fuel. Because if they weren't carrying oil, there's no reason to change registration mid cruise.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 05:50 PM (WC9t6)

103 Hegseth's tweet seems to imply that they were carrying oil.... but i guess he didn't say so explicitly...

And I was named *after* Thomas Jefferson.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 07, 2026 05:50 PM (06Hmj)

104 A lot of smoke that says something very important was on those ships ...."

One doesn't sail around the world for 7 months on that heap for a pleasure cruise...

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 05:50 PM (qRoBZ)

105 > That was the most stupid thing the russians could do sending a sub to escort an oil tanker. Not only is the sub tied down to the slow tanker it most likely was tracked by the US Navy every mile it sailed. They knew where that sub was at and most likely isolated it from the tanker it was escorting.
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P-8 ASW planes were sorting out of the UK and Iceland 24X7 until the ship was captured. Intel bonanza.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 07, 2026 05:50 PM (NwnyJ)

106 I know the Coast Guard does operate outside domestic maritime waters (they were in Viet Nam, back in the day), but I did not know they were authorized to conduct this kind of mission- chasing a foreign vessel across the Atlantic? Would seem a more appropriate task for the Navy, especially if the shooting starts.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at January 07, 2026 05:50 PM (MZ+PY)

107 58 Willowed:
When I was in grade school almost every morning we would exercise to that stupid "chicken fat" song
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 07, 2026 05:36 PM (0N4FZ)

Me, too. I still think of it when I'm doing calisthenics.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January

I don’t even know what this gem is! Should I look it up?

Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 05:51 PM (Wmg4n)

108 Yeah, good. Let's be real about this "pursuit through stormy seas" business though: pursuing an oil tanker with a Coat Guard cutter isn't exactly a high-speed boat chase out of Miami Vice. It's not the Royal Navy chasing Blackbeard around the Bahamas. It's more like chasing Joe Biden down when he wanders offstage like a disoriented Roomba.
Posted by: Hugh Hewitt at January 07, 2026 05:47 PM (CKIwv)

I imagine an oil tanker is probably slower than OJ's Bronco.

Posted by: Methos at January 07, 2026 05:51 PM (vSvIl)

109 Wouldn't it cost more than $7 to write the checks?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 05:51 PM (IGnEY)

110 Then it's possible they were carrying snuck out Iranian nuclear fuel. Because if they weren't carrying oil, there's no reason to change registration mid cruise.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 05:50 PM (WC9t6)

Which is what I was thinking.. We seemed very determined to get this tanker

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2026 05:51 PM (VE6XX)

111 78 Venezuela still owes us $50 billion. And you don't get to change your registration mid cruise.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 05:41 PM (WC9t6)

So the US Military is now in the debt collection business? Thought we were past that... guess not.

And tanker looks empty... look at the waterline.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 05:47 PM (mP0Kj)

Which makes reflagging even shadier...they didn't have what they should have had on board...so why not stop? Unless they had something worse.

Posted by: Nova Local at January 07, 2026 05:51 PM (tOcjL)

112 We can always give the boats back to Russia once we empty them. Then Vlad has no reason to complain.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2026 05:51 PM (8avO+)

113 With Trump in for two terms, they're gonna have to start numbering world wars like the Super Bowl.

That will be the argument against Vance. "He's gonna start WWXXIV!"

Posted by: ... at January 07, 2026 05:51 PM (E0p3T)

114 Maduro's porn collection.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 05:48 PM (GBKbO)

Not El Banco de Spanko!?!?

What is this world coming to?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 07, 2026 05:51 PM (06Hmj)

115 Poor Marco. Now he has to captain some ships too.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 07, 2026 05:52 PM (n5tGW)

116 How do you make money from empty tankers?"

Who paid for the fuel? Crew?

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 05:52 PM (qRoBZ)

117 A lot of smoke that says something very important was on those ships ...."
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Not if there were mirrors.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 05:52 PM (krQz2)

118 Minneapolis might get lucky in that it's too cold to riot. Then again, burning buildings are toasty

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 07, 2026 05:46 PM (ScJGb)

Given the way one agent was sliding and trying to keep his balance while chasing down the car, it looks like there's a fair amount of ice there.

Posted by: pookysgirl, fighting Lil Pooky for control of the laptop at January 07, 2026 05:52 PM (Wt5PA)

119 Happy Meals on the house.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 05:52 PM (IGnEY)

120 > A lot of smoke that says something very important was on those ships ...."

One doesn't sail around the world for 7 months on that heap for a pleasure cruise...
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Nukes? Probable. Not likely.

Maybe.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 07, 2026 05:52 PM (NwnyJ)

121 Listening to Nemesis Games and there's a lot of ships changing transponders and stuff

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 07, 2026 05:53 PM (6U1c2)

122 imagine an oil tanker is probably slower than OJ's Bronco"

That's my line from this morning. You're welcome...

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 05:53 PM (qRoBZ)

123 But all the Democrats say Trump is a Russian asset! At this rate all of Russia's oil assets from Venezuela will belong to the US.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at January 07, 2026 05:53 PM (h3wuo)

124 Renee Good, the alleged person shot in Minnesota, was previously photographed at anti ICE protest. She knew she was FA, hard way to FO

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 07, 2026 05:53 PM (ScJGb)

125 "This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it."

-Fred Thompson, Hunt for Red October

Posted by: Fred! at January 07, 2026 05:53 PM (IifOV)

126 >>> Didn’t two hot girls do something like this to a Lamborghini in some shitty 80s action comedy? IIRC, they were in a Countach and running from keystone cops and changed colors and license plates. Seems the Russkies like hot 80s American bimbos!
Posted by: Elric the Blade at January 07, 2026 05:39 PM (hfuWD)


Cannonball Run?

Posted by: banana Dream at January 07, 2026 05:53 PM (3uBP9)

127 It's more like chasing Joe Biden down when he wanders offstage like a disoriented Roomba.
Posted by: Hugh Hewitt at January 07, 2026 05:47 PM (CKIwv)

Lol! Lol.

Posted by: Lady Who Appreciates a Man Who Knows Not All Women Are Leftist Nutjobs at January 07, 2026 05:53 PM (s0O1t)

128 Then it's possible they were carrying snuck out Iranian nuclear fuel. Because if they weren't carrying oil, there's no reason to change registration mid cruise.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 05:50 PM (WC9t6)

Unless they have internet, or a radio to someone who has access... which means they KNOW via the US Media, that we were out to seize those ships...

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 05:53 PM (mP0Kj)

129 Speaker: Welcome to Wendy's! May I take your order?

Woman: FREE PALESTINE!!!
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"Sorry, that promotion ended last week."

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at January 07, 2026 05:54 PM (8JzZF)

130
Did Maduro's wife have a huge shoe collection?

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 07, 2026 05:54 PM (IifOV)

131 Would seem a more appropriate task for the Navy, especially if the shooting starts.

Navy ships, from what I've heard, carry a Coast Guard officer and become Coast Guard for boardings. The Coast Guard has enormous power.

Posted by: t-bird at January 07, 2026 05:54 PM (GQhg+)

132 She's Good.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 05:54 PM (IGnEY)

133 Which is what I was thinking.. We seemed very determined to get this tanker
Posted by: It's me donna


I'll bet we had Geiger counters that were sniffing and pinging like crazy.

And no, the military and President Trump would not say that we caught them with Iranian nuclear material.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 05:54 PM (WC9t6)

134 I know the Coast Guard does operate outside domestic maritime waters (they were in Viet Nam, back in the day), but I did not know they were authorized to conduct this kind of mission- chasing a foreign vessel across the Atlantic? Would seem a more appropriate task for the Navy, especially if the shooting starts.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at January 07, 2026 05:50 PM (MZ+PY)
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They enforce maritime law, and are for criminal enforcement. Mostly they do coastal duty due to ship size limitations, but the Legend class has some serious range and endurance, allowing the CG to take over missions that the Navy would otherwise have to take on.

With a shortage of ships thanks to Obama and Biden, we have to economize use of Navy assets.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 07, 2026 05:54 PM (ZOv7s)

135 Nukes? Probable. Not likely."

Yeah. Weapons? Drugs?

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 05:54 PM (qRoBZ)

136 That ship should have transitioned to a Carnival Cruiser.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 07, 2026 05:54 PM (pkeXY)

137
Would the Russians sink the ships to ensure whatever is really on them is not discovered? They did send a Sub into the fray.

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 07, 2026 05:55 PM (IifOV)

138 The hospital has only a little more than an hour before the window in which they promised to call me expires.

I'm getting a bit antsy.

Also I really want some spaghetti squash. I should go by one after work.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 07, 2026 05:55 PM (a+4eV)

139 Cannonball Run?"

Adrianne unzipping her top...

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 05:55 PM (qRoBZ)

140 Thank you Ace for calling out the Nazi white nationalist Tucker Carlson despite all his Nazi groyper fans here bitching about it. They’re really gonna squawk when Ace grudgingly endorses the Newsom-Shapiro pro-America ticket over the Tucker Vance Nazis in 28. Ace is not playing around here. No NAZIS!!

Posted by: Tucker Carlson is an antisemitic racist at January 07, 2026 05:56 PM (CowIf)

141 116 How do you make money from empty tankers?"

Who paid for the fuel? Crew?
Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 05:52 PM (qRoBZ)

My SWAG? They were on their way to pick up cargo, when they got word they were going to get seized.

We had multiple Navy assets off the coast of Venezuela... so they were running empty and trying to hide.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 05:56 PM (mP0Kj)

142 What kinda fits to tie this all together is:

It was the remaining nuclear material from Iran, that was given to them by the Russians. They were going to stash it in VZ, then Russia agreed to hold it.

Or gold that they were going to stash in VZ, then worked out a deal to stash it in Russia.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 07, 2026 05:56 PM (HXT0k)

143 Unless they have internet, or a radio to someone who has access... which means they KNOW via the US Media, that we were out to seize those ships...
Posted by: Romeo13


But the only thing that would get them seized, is if they were carrying sanctioned oil. If they were running empty, there would be no reason to stop them. Or at least no reason to confiscate them. No, that whole ref flagging in the middle of a cruise is highly suspicious.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 05:56 PM (WC9t6)

144 They did send a Sub into the fray.
Posted by: Frank Barone

Could just have been there to observe. Take pictures. You know. See how we're doing stuff these days.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 07, 2026 05:56 PM (a+4eV)

145 Spaghetti squash, hold the squash.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 05:56 PM (IGnEY)

146
I know the Coast Guard does operate outside domestic maritime waters (they were in Viet Nam, back in the day)

They ran a LORAN station on Guam back in those days.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 07, 2026 05:56 PM (pkeXY)

147 Would the Russians sink the ships to ensure whatever is really on them is not discovered? They did send a Sub into the fray.
Posted by: Frank Barone at January 07, 2026 05:55 PM (IifOV)
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Sinking a US vessel would be an act of war. Most of the Russian navy is rusting at the dockside, so to show the flag they had to send a sub. Not a good look.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 07, 2026 05:57 PM (ZOv7s)

148 Cucker Tarlson should never be allowed to come back around. He’s too far off into the weeds and is too much of a pimp for his paymasters. This was evident when he was sporting his prep school bow tie.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 07, 2026 05:57 PM (Ouxay)

149 Say what you will about white liberal women, but if they were in charge, there'd be no protests.
Well, a few at first, then troops would put a stop to that.

Posted by: Wally at January 07, 2026 05:57 PM (0e5Te)

150 This is all reminding me of my Starfire game (Red Shirts!) when we stealth raided the enemy's last 2 colony ships while he was on diplo coms acting all smug about us taking down one of his colony ships the day prior, thinking that he still had 2 left. It was awesome because we planned the stealth strike on a hunch.

Posted by: Fen at January 07, 2026 05:57 PM (ciYHQ)

151 so they were running empty and trying to hide."

Yeah, but if they were really empty, they'd head for SE Asia. Easy to pick up something...

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 05:58 PM (qRoBZ)

152 All she needed was the heal click and the old zeig heil. Pyocho b

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at January 07, 2026 05:58 PM (aMFyJ)

153 That ship should have transitioned to a Carnival Cruiser.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 07, 2026 05:54 PM (pkeXY)

Holy shit we have norovirus bombs, now?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 07, 2026 05:58 PM (06Hmj)

154 This will get out of control.

It will get out of control, and we'll be lucky to live through it.

Posted by: RADM Josh Painter, USN at January 07, 2026 05:58 PM (0sNs1)

155 They enforce maritime law, and are for criminal enforcement. Mostly they do coastal duty due to ship size limitations, but the Legend class has some serious range and endurance, allowing the CG to take over missions that the Navy would otherwise have to take on.

With a shortage of ships thanks to Obama and Biden, we have to economize use of Navy assets.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 07, 2026 05:54 PM (ZOv7s)

When doing certain Ops, my US Navy Destroyer would carry small detachments of Coast Guard. We'd do the boarding and searching, they'd do the Arresting and Paperwork.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 05:58 PM (mP0Kj)

156 Would the Russians sink the ships to ensure whatever is really on them is not discovered? They did send a Sub into the fray.
Posted by: Frank Barone at January 07, 2026 05:55 PM (IifOV)
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Sinking a US vessel would be an act of war. Most of the Russian navy is rusting at the dockside, so to show the flag they had to send a sub. Not a good look.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 07, 2026 05:57 PM (ZOv7s)
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But would they have sunk the suddenly Russian-flagged tankers? How would that be an act of war?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 07, 2026 05:58 PM (ESVrU)

157 Exhaust plums coming off the helos is something else.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 05:59 PM (xvXg6)

158 What nationality is the crew?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 05:59 PM (IGnEY)

159 You know...the 1820s seemed mostly peaceful. Besides the whole slavery issue, that is.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 05:47 PM (GBKbO)

1820's was peaceful even slavery wise. In exchange for getting Missouri, the south gave up all land north of Arkansas to freedom, much of which was Indian territory or already Mexican (Texas hadn't broken off then). The one state from each side pushed back political problems until 1845 and the Mexican War in the US Territory anyhow.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2026 05:59 PM (8avO+)

160 How do you make money from empty tankers?

By recycling and getting "CA Refund Value"? I know the homeless do it.

Posted by: t-bird at January 07, 2026 06:00 PM (GQhg+)

161 But would they have sunk the suddenly Russian-flagged tankers?

Well, they do have a reputation for valuing human life...

/kidding

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 06:00 PM (qRoBZ)

162 Sinking a US vessel would be an act of war. Most of the Russian navy is rusting at the dockside, so to show the flag they had to send a sub. Not a good look.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 07, 2026 05:57 PM

I meant sinking the oil tankers, to hide whatever is on them.

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 07, 2026 06:00 PM (IifOV)

163 Most of the Russian navy is rusting at the dockside, so to show the flag they had to send a sub. Not a good look.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 07, 2026 05:57 PM (ZOv7s)

Heh, that was one of my many thoughts today. Why send a sub? Because that's all you got that than get there in time.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 07, 2026 06:00 PM (06Hmj)

164 You can't show a flag if it's underwater.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 07, 2026 06:00 PM (pkeXY)

165 Make her run the New Year's Gauntlet in Cologne

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at January 07, 2026 06:00 PM (wBaIH)

166 130
Did Maduro's wife have a huge shoe collection?
Posted by: Frank Barone at January 07, 2026 05:54 PM (IifOV)

Did she have dome sort of Ronald McDonald fixation?

Posted by: ErikInTexas at January 07, 2026 06:00 PM (4b7CV)

167 So the Russians send a sub?

But forgot we have helicopters.

Bear swim in water but can't fly.
Eagle swim and fly.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 07, 2026 06:01 PM (HXT0k)

168 Have the riots begun in Minneapolistan yet?

Posted by: Really?? at January 07, 2026 06:01 PM (/HZvU)

169 So the US Military is now in the debt collection business? Thought we were past that... guess not.

And tanker looks empty... look at the waterline.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 05:47 PM (mP0Kj)

The Navy and Coast Guard are enforcing the sanctions / blockade which were placed on specific ships - including these two - as is part of their job.

And just because she isn't full of crude doesn't mean she's empty. Not that it matters since they were subject to seizure, full or not.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 06:01 PM (ExV1e)

170 But the only thing that would get them seized, is if they were carrying sanctioned oil. If they were running empty, there would be no reason to stop them. Or at least no reason to confiscate them. No, that whole ref flagging in the middle of a cruise is highly suspicious.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 05:56 PM (WC9t6)
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It's funny how the people screaming "But muh international law!" don't actually know any of it. Maduro was not lawfully elected, and therefore had no sovereign immunity nor was he an actual head of state, but a usurper who unlawfully held power, violating lots of international conventions in the process. That's why we arrested him.

The "shadow fleets" likewise have been allowed to do their thing simply because no one wanted to deal with the hassle of taking them down, but now Trump can sweep the seas and there's not a damn thing Russia can do from a legal perspective.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 07, 2026 06:02 PM (ZOv7s)

171 Minnesota for Alberta.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 06:02 PM (IGnEY)

172 What kinda fits to tie this all together is:

It was the remaining nuclear material from Iran, that was given to them by the Russians. They were going to stash it in VZ, then Russia agreed to hold it.

Or gold that they were going to stash in VZ, then worked out a deal to stash it in Russia.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 07, 2026 05:56 PM (HXT0k)

You'd hardly need a tanker for that cargo. And why send it to Venezuela?

Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2026 06:02 PM (8avO+)

173 >>Why send a sub? Because that's all you got that than get there in time.


Also, if you can hand off whatever you are carrying to the Sub, Exfil becomes an easier process.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 06:02 PM (ddphe)

174
What nationality is the crew?
Posted by: Boss Moss

Probably a hodgepodge of vibrant diversity.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 07, 2026 06:02 PM (pkeXY)

175 But would they have sunk the suddenly Russian-flagged tankers? How would that be an act of war?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 07, 2026 05:58 PM (ESVrU)


If it was carrying oil, no big deal the ships get confiscated the oil gets confiscated. For them to sync to one or two tankers, there had to be something on there that they really really really didn't want to be found. And that doesn't leave a whole lot.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 06:02 PM (WC9t6)

176 Have the riots begun in Minneapolistan yet?"

They'd better start. Forecast shows near single digit temps soon...

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 06:02 PM (qRoBZ)

177 I don’t even know what this gem is! Should I look it up?
Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 05:51 PM (Wmg4n)

Definitely! You can find it on youtube. Just search using go, you chicken fat. It will come up.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 07, 2026 06:02 PM (zYpTz)

178 Did she have dome sort of Ronald McDonald fixation?
Posted by: ErikInTexas at January 07, 2026 06:00 PM (4b7CV)

I just snorted a fine Hudson Valley white out my nose thanks to you....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 07, 2026 06:02 PM (06Hmj)

179 Life is cruel. Blondie is eighty years old.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 07, 2026 06:02 PM (EyfuW)

180 Was my first and last RTS game. Wife put her foot down because, as team leader, I was playing 20 hours. sleeping 4. For 3 months.

Was crazy. Guys would spend a month forging an empire, take a 3 hour break to catch a nap, and wake up to find everything...gone.

Posted by: Fen at January 07, 2026 06:03 PM (ciYHQ)

181 I can't wait for all the international law experts, who told us the capture of Maduro was illegal, to chime in and tell us a multi-national operation to seize tankers that have violated several maritime international laws is illegal

It's right there in the "Orange Man Bad" Clause.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 07, 2026 06:03 PM (HXT0k)

182 You'd hardly need a tanker for that cargo. And why send it to Venezuela?
Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2026 06:02 PM (8avO+)

And Iran shares a land border with Russia, or the Caspian Sea if you like boats.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2026 06:03 PM (8avO+)

183 With Trump in for two terms, they're gonna have to start numbering world wars like the Super Bowl.

That will be the argument against Vance. "He's gonna start WWXXIV!"
Posted by: ... at January 07, 2026 05:51 PM (E0p3T)

That is ok, not a problem, just have to assure that Vance has the right advisors who give him the right information for him to make a decision correctly.
It is not as if the next election is that important, otherwise.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 07, 2026 06:03 PM (rbvCR)

184 "You can't show a flag if it's underwater."

No, and he also can't squeal to the press about your barely-latent homosexuality.

Oh wait. You said "flag." Never mind.

Posted by: Barack Obama at January 07, 2026 06:03 PM (0e5Te)

185 Oh - and Tim Walz has noted “Minnesota is at war with our Federal government.” Sounds a bit insurrectiony.

Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 06:03 PM (CM7zZ)

186 I meant sinking the oil tankers, to hide whatever is on them.
Posted by: Frank Barone at January 07, 2026 06:00 PM (IifOV)
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They could have just scuttled the ships. No torpedo needed.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 07, 2026 06:03 PM (ZOv7s)

187 Do oil tankers have a poop deck?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 06:03 PM (IGnEY)

188 Free Palestine woman; imagine her at the supper table.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 06:03 PM (xvXg6)

189 If it was carrying oil, no big deal the ships get confiscated the oil gets confiscated. For them to sync to one or two tankers, there had to be something on there that they really really really didn't want to be found. And that doesn't leave a whole lot.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 06:02 PM (WC9t6)
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Alien tech?

The "black goo" from the X-Files?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 07, 2026 06:03 PM (ESVrU)

190 You'd hardly need a tanker for that cargo. And why send it to Venezuela?
Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2026 06:02 PM (8avO+)

Desperation?
They're idiots?
Some kind of big brain misdirection play? (See #2)

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 07, 2026 06:04 PM (06Hmj)

191 And why send it to Venezuela?

This. I'm not confident there's much on board.

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 06:04 PM (qRoBZ)

192 168 Have the riots begun in Minneapolistan yet?
Posted by: Really?? at January 07, 2026 06:01 PM (/HZvU)

The dead woman wasn't even a Minnesotan supposedly at least not a native....

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2026 06:04 PM (VE6XX)

193 So it appears the Coast Guard boarded the Bella I before the Russian vessels dispatched to escort it could make a rendezvous, thus avoiding a direct confrontation. Smart move.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 07, 2026 06:04 PM (8zz6B)

194 Didn’t two hot girls do something like this to a Lamborghini in some shitty 80s action comedy? IIRC, they were in a Countach and running from keystone cops and changed colors and license plates. Seems the Russkies like hot 80s American bimbos!
Posted by: Elric the Blade at January 07, 2026 05:39 PM (hfuWD)

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The movie with Bette Midler and Shelly what's her name from Cheers?

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 07, 2026 06:04 PM (JzooK)

195 >>Do oil tankers have a poop deck?

In India, all decks are Poop Decks.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 06:04 PM (ddphe)

196 So the US Military is now in the debt collection business? Thought we were past that... guess not.

And tanker looks empty... look at the waterline.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 05:47 PM


I suspect that those tankers were part of a game the russians/iran was playing and they got caught. Flying a false flag is a violation of maritime laws and once they hoisted the russian flag mid cruise they became fair game for any Navy to seize them.


My gut feeling is they were/are smuggling drugs out of venezuala.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 07, 2026 06:05 PM (0N4FZ)

197 The Mullahs offered to give every one a $7 check. This is for real.
Posted by: Ben Had at January 07, 2026 05:49 PM (sDNVV)
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Let's not shortchange them. That's per month for 4 months!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 07, 2026 06:05 PM (RIvkX)

198 Well, Walz had a news conference. Legal insurrection site:

https://tinyurl.com/yatwu5nh

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 07, 2026 06:06 PM (PFs9e)

199 Oil of color.

Posted by: Eromero at January 07, 2026 06:06 PM (o2ZRX)

200 189 If it was carrying oil, no big deal the ships get confiscated the oil gets confiscated. For them to sync to one or two tankers, there had to be something on there that they really really really didn't want to be found. And that doesn't leave a whole lot.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 06:02 PM

Tax free cigarettes and fireworks from Indian casinos.

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 07, 2026 06:06 PM (IifOV)

201 Our Coast Guard chased these cocksuckers all the way to Iceland? Cool!

Posted by: Elric the Blade at January 07, 2026 06:06 PM (hfuWD)

202 192 168 Have the riots begun in Minneapolistan yet?
Posted by: Really?? at January 07, 2026 06:01 PM (/HZvU)

The dead woman wasn't even a Minnesotan supposedly at least not a native....

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2026 06:04 PM (VE6XX)

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Will they care about a dead white lesbian in winter time as much as a dead black druggie thug in the summer of love? I'm jaded,

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 07, 2026 06:06 PM (Cw/ar)

203 Didn’t two hot girls do something like this to a Lamborghini in some shitty 80s action comedy"

Cannonball Run, Adrienne Barbeau...

It's like I don't know you people.

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 06:06 PM (qRoBZ)

204 $28.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 06:06 PM (IGnEY)

205 I was thinking, why didn't Russia have their sub sink the ships rather than let the US take custody?

But then:
Law of salvage would apply and I think it'd take multiple hits across along the length of these tankers to actually sink them.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 07, 2026 06:06 PM (HXT0k)

206 Didn’t two hot girls do something like this to a Lamborghini in some shitty 80s action comedy? IIRC, they were in a Countach and running from keystone cops and changed colors and license plates. Seems the Russkies like hot 80s American bimbos!
Posted by: Elric the Blade at January 07, 2026 05:39 PM (hfuWD)

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The movie with Bette Midler and Shelly what's her name from Cheers?
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 07, 2026 06:04 PM (JzooK)
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Cannonball Run, maybe? I’m too lazy to google it.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at January 07, 2026 06:07 PM (hfuWD)

207 Free Palestine woman; imagine her at the supper table.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 06:03 PM (xvXg6)
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Part of the problem. No one sits at her table.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 07, 2026 06:07 PM (RIvkX)

208 Will they care about a dead white lesbian in winter time as much as a dead black druggie thug in the summer of love? I'm jaded,
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 07, 2026 06:06 PM (Cw/ar)

That's a tough one

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2026 06:07 PM (VE6XX)

209 My gut feeling is they were/are smuggling drugs out of venezuala.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 07, 2026 06:05 PM (0N4FZ)

In a tanker??

Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2026 06:07 PM (8avO+)

210 This. I'm not confident there's much on board.
Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 06:04 PM (qRoBZ)

It's entirely possible this was just an oil run, and Trump is legitimately that hot and heavy over it that he'd track the fuckers down like dogs over it, and Russia is plain old running out of boats for bootlegging crude and didn't want to surrender any more.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 07, 2026 06:07 PM (06Hmj)

211 Renee Good, the alleged person shot in Minnesota, was previously photographed at anti ICE protest. She knew she was FA, hard way to FO
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 07, 2026 05:53 PM (ScJGb)

But I'm a leftist. In Minnesota. And I'm a white savior of the darkies. Nothing bad will happen to me. I'm untouchable. -- Renee Good

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 06:07 PM (ExV1e)

212 Tanker?

I barely knew her.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 06:08 PM (krQz2)

213 In a tanker??"

It's a big twinky...

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 06:08 PM (qRoBZ)

214
Cut off every cent Minnesota gets from the Feds.

EVERY CENT!!

Posted by: fourseasons at January 07, 2026 06:08 PM (3ek7K)

215 Nobody was sinking tankers.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 06:08 PM (IGnEY)

216 My gut feeling is they were/are smuggling drugs out of venezuala.
Posted by: Mister Scott



That's the problem. When you put up what the cargo might be versus putting it on an oil tanker, not very many things make sense. If you were smuggling drugs, you wouldn't need an oil tanker.
Same with gold. That's what makes it all so wild ass guessing. Because nothing makes sense.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 06:09 PM (WC9t6)

217 Changing registrations was stupid. That's what pirates and spies do. And pirates and spies don't get Geneva protection. They get a short drop and a sudden stop.
Or at least they face this if they don't surrender, so it's good for them they at least did that.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 07, 2026 06:09 PM (gKWVE)

218 I'm waiting on the dead terrorist's residency. Minnesotans tried to claim all the arsonists were out of staters during the Floyd riots but the bookings showed they were almost all Twin Cities residents.
Minnesota Lefties like to think they're above criminal acts, but the track record shows otherwise.

Posted by: Wally at January 07, 2026 06:09 PM (0e5Te)

219 Will they care about a dead white lesbian in winter time as much as a dead black druggie thug in the summer of love? I'm jaded,
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 07, 2026 06:06 PM (Cw/ar)
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They're trying to get people outraged about criminal illegal aliens being deported, but people are overwhelmingly in favor of it, ESPECIALLY black people, who have had to endure the brunt of the falling wages and crime that results.

It's entire an AWFL cause, which is why no one cares.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 07, 2026 06:09 PM (ZOv7s)

220 Cucker Tarlson should never be allowed to come back around. He’s too far off into the weeds and is too much of a pimp for his paymasters. This was evident when he was sporting his prep school bow tie.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 07, 2026 05:57 PM (Ouxay)

I know, right? We can't go weak here and let the wrong people infect MAGA. We need the muscular conservatism like that championed by John McCain. That is the only true path to continuing the unending success that William F Buckley's tireless leadership gave us in the 70's
It is the only thing we have to defeat Hakeem Jefferies or whoever the Dems put forward.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 07, 2026 06:09 PM (rbvCR)

221 197 The Mullahs offered to give every one a $7 check. This is for real.
Posted by: Ben Had at January 07, 2026 05:49 PM (sDNVV)
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I know that sounds like a lot, but with all the inflation they've had over there that is only like negative 45 cents.

Posted by: Achmed Shmirnov at January 07, 2026 06:09 PM (qUkBO)

222 Would the Russians sink the ships to ensure whatever is really on them is not discovered? They did send a Sub into the fray.
Posted by: Frank Barone at January 07, 2026 05:55 PM (IifOV)

Almost certainly not. They were running what poker players call a bluff.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 06:09 PM (ExV1e)

223 This. I'm not confident there's much on board.
Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 06:04 PM (qRoBZ)

It's entirely possible this was just an oil run, and Trump is legitimately that hot and heavy over it that he'd track the fuckers down like dogs over it, and Russia is plain old running out of boats for bootlegging crude and didn't want to surrender any more.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 07, 2026 06:07 PM (06Hmj)

I can see Trump and Putin doing it as a game in the Ukraine talks...spotting the tanker a days start or whatever to make it sporting.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2026 06:09 PM (8avO+)

224 Did she actually run over an ICE?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 06:09 PM (IGnEY)

225 Russia actually sent an attack sub to protect one of the terrorist oil smuggling ships."

I think it was more likely the Loch Ness Monster who slipped out into the sea. Either one is just about as likely.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 07, 2026 06:10 PM (uWKK8)

226 Someone please remind me - what is the advice concerning a woody lasting a couple of months or longer?

And flooding the zone continues.

Why, yes - I definitely voted for this.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 07, 2026 06:10 PM (cYBz/)

227 They could have just scuttled the ships. No torpedo needed.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 07, 2026 06:03 PM (ZOv7s)

Dr Tim Curry: you'll receive the Order of Lenin for this Captain.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 07, 2026 06:10 PM (zZu0s)

228 It's entirely possible this was just an oil run, and Trump is legitimately that hot and heavy over it that he'd track the fuckers down like dogs over it, and Russia is plain old running out of boats for bootlegging crude and didn't want to surrender any more.
Posted by: Warai-otoko


Since we can track them via satellite and drone, why not wait until they fill up, and then confiscate them?

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 06:10 PM (WC9t6)

229 Were the Iranian nuclear materials there?

Posted by: Avi at January 07, 2026 06:11 PM (bA7fw)

230
That is ok, not a problem, just have to assure that Vance has the right advisors who give him the right information for him to make a decision correctly.
It is not as if the next election is that important, otherwise.
Posted by: Kindltot
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It's the fortitude to carry it out. That's a concern.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 06:11 PM (xvXg6)

231 Nobody was sinking tankers.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 06:08 PM (IGnEY)
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Everybody was Kung-fu fighting.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 06:11 PM (krQz2)

232 The ship was the pride of the Venezuelan side
Coming back from some cartel in Caracass
As the big freighters go, it was bigger than most
With a crew and good captain from India
Concluding some terms with a couple of drug firms
When they left fully loaded for Tehran
And later that night when the ship's bell rang
Could it be the US coast guard they'd been seeing?

Posted by: The Sinking of the Rogue Oil tanker at January 07, 2026 06:11 PM (IifOV)

233 Was there a third ship carrying the real payload while we chased two red herrings around the Atlantic?

Probably not, the Navy basically knows where every dissociated proton in the fucking ocean is at all times, i doubt you could slip that past them.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 07, 2026 06:11 PM (06Hmj)

234 It's entirely possible this was just an oil run, and Trump is legitimately that hot and heavy over it that he'd track the fuckers down like dogs over it, and Russia is plain old running out of boats for bootlegging crude and didn't want to surrender any more.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 07, 2026 06:07 PM (06Hmj)
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Yes. Trump is now sweeping the seas for those shadow fleet ships, who are worth money in their own right, but also service...wait for it...China.

China is losing a primary supplier of oil AND the supply of tankers is dropping.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 07, 2026 06:11 PM (ZOv7s)

235 Loaded tankers are more valuable.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 06:11 PM (IGnEY)

236 Someone please remind me - what is the advice concerning a woody lasting a couple of months or longer?

And flooding the zone continues.

Why, yes - I definitely voted for this.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 07, 2026 06:10 PM (cYBz/)


----
Put a hot iron to it?
*runs away*

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 07, 2026 06:12 PM (Cw/ar)

237 I was thinking, if the point hasn't already been made:

The left thinks what happened in MN is murder.

They also believed Kyle Rittenhouse committed murder.
Enough that they brought the full force and weight of the state against him.
And lost.

I dare them to try and arrest the ICE officer.
You know they're going to be forced to do it, don't you?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 07, 2026 06:12 PM (HXT0k)

238 Hold on. Someone mentioned 2 hot girls in a movie, and someone else said Bette Midler???? I want that guy banned.

Posted by: Wally at January 07, 2026 06:12 PM (0e5Te)

239 Didn’t two hot girls do something like this to a Lamborghini in some shitty 80s action comedy? IIRC, they were in a Countach and running from keystone cops and changed colors and license plates. Seems the Russkies like hot 80s American bimbos!
Posted by: Elric the Blade at January 07, 2026 05:39 PM (hfuWD)

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The movie with Bette Midler and Shelly what's her name from Cheers?
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 07, 2026 06:04 PM (JzooK)

Outrageous Fortune.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2026 06:12 PM (8avO+)

240
Trump seizes Minnesota and installs JD Vance as their interim governor....

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 06:12 PM (krQz2)

241 When doing certain Ops, my US Navy Destroyer would carry small detachments of Coast Guard. We'd do the boarding and searching, they'd do the Arresting and Paperwork.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 05:58 PM (mP0Kj)

My submarine carried SEALs once (training op) but never CG.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 06:12 PM (ExV1e)

242 Kristie Noem Called the Karen who got blasted a domestic terrorist.

Good.

Posted by: Really?? at January 07, 2026 06:13 PM (/HZvU)

243 Have the riots begun in Minneapolistan yet?
Posted by: Really?? at January 07, 2026 06:01 PM (/HZvU)

The dead woman wasn't even a Minnesotan supposedly at least not a native....
Posted by: It's me donna

Like Land o Lakes indian?
On occasion in the store I will point at a box and say, "Ha. They kicked out the Indian and kept the land."

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 07, 2026 06:13 PM (/lPRQ)

244 205 I was thinking, why didn't Russia have their sub sink the ships rather than let the US take custody?

But then:
Law of salvage would apply and I think it'd take multiple hits across along the length of these tankers to actually sink them.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 07, 2026 06:06 PM (HXT0k)

What would a US Billionaire do if the US Navy sunk one of his oil Tankers...

I'd wager this is not owned by the Russian Government, but one of the many oligarchs... who was trying to save his ship from being seized.

We are at a weird intersection of Military assets, and economic warfare. Something we really have not seen since the beginnings of WW2.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 06:13 PM (mP0Kj)

245 Hold on. Someone mentioned 2 hot girls in a movie, and someone else said Bette Midler???? I want that guy banned.

Posted by: Wally at January 07, 2026 06:12 PM (0e5Te)
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She had nice tits when she was younger.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 06:13 PM (krQz2)

246 Since we can track them via satellite and drone, why not wait until they fill up, and then confiscate them?
Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 06:10 PM (WC9t6)

That would be the normal course of events, wouldn't it?

I don't know.

This shit is either incredibly massively important, or it's all a big dumb meaningless farce of dickwaving and stupidity. Who the hell knows.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 07, 2026 06:13 PM (06Hmj)

247 Appoint Rubio Governor General of Minnesota.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 06:14 PM (IGnEY)

248 Most of the Russian navy is rusting at the dockside, so to show the flag they had to send a sub. Not a good look.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 07, 2026 05:57 PM (ZOv7s)

Russia has very little need for a Navy. I'm kind of surprised that they haven't scrapped most of it already.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 06:14 PM (ExV1e)

249 They aren't really Russian, they're smugglers who'll change ship names, registrations, GPS locator beacons, and everything else to get the cargo to port and get paid.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

Exceeeepppttt:
@Rebel_Warriors 4h
Russian FM in response to the US seizure of Marinera (Ex Bella 1) oil tanker in North Atlantic.

Russia demands the US ensure humane and dignified treatment of Russian citizens aboard the ship and fully respect their rights and interests.

Posted by: Rep Hank Johnson at January 07, 2026 06:14 PM (mlg/3)

250 White Lives Matter!

Wait... I don't think that's going to fly.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 07, 2026 06:14 PM (n5tGW)

251 The ship was the pride of the Venezuelan side
Coming back from some cartel in Caracass
As the big freighters go, it was bigger than most
With a crew and good captain from India
Concluding some terms with a couple of drug firms
When they left fully loaded for Tehran
And later that night when the ship's bell rang
Could it be the US coast guard they'd been seeing?
Posted by: The Sinking of the Rogue Oil tanker at January 07, 2026 06:11 PM (IifOV)
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At dinnertime, the old cook came on deck saying "Fellas, it's too rough to feed ya,"
At 7pm, the Coasties flew in, he said "Fellas, it's been good to know ya!"

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 07, 2026 06:14 PM (ZOv7s)

252 Like Land o Lakes indian?

On occasion in the store I will point at a box and say, "Ha. They kicked out the Indian and kept the land."

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 07, 2026 06:13 PM (/lPRQ)
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That's funny!

Every stick of Land O Lakes butter should begin with a land acknowledgement.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 06:14 PM (krQz2)

253 The dead woman wasn't even a Minnesotan supposedly at least not a native....
Posted by: It's me donna


Missouri plates on the suv.

Posted by: Really?? at January 07, 2026 06:15 PM (/HZvU)

254 Dr Tim Curry: you'll receive the Order of Lenin for this Captain.
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Very few video game clips are funnier than his "Space!" clip from Red Alert.

The part where he struggles to keep from laughing gets me every time.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 07, 2026 06:15 PM (HXT0k)

255 My gut feeling is they were/are smuggling drugs out of venezuala.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 07, 2026 06:05 PM (0N4FZ)

In a tanker??
Posted by: Oldcat


Hash Oil

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 07, 2026 06:15 PM (/lPRQ)

256 >> Loaded tankers are more valuable.


Are you too daft to recognize that a Tanker filled with Oil is no more valuable than a Tanker merely transporting other, more value dense, cargo?


Cool your heels. We just witnessed an incredible success of Intel in the Maduro Capture.
Let this play out before you set what little is left of your hair on fire.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 06:15 PM (ddphe)

257 She had nice tits when she was younger.

Did they have photography back then?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 06:15 PM (IGnEY)

258 Hold on. Someone mentioned 2 hot girls in a movie, and someone else said Bette Midler???? I want that guy banned.

Posted by: Wally at January 07, 2026 06:12 PM (0e5Te)
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She had nice tits when she was younger.
Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 06:13 PM (krQz2)
——

Ashkenazi Rack

Posted by: Elric the Blade at January 07, 2026 06:15 PM (hfuWD)

259 It's the fortitude to carry it out. That's a concern.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 06:11 PM (xvXg6)

I am not sure. Mike Pence had fortitude. Though if Vance is wiped out I suppose we run Pence. It would satisfy lots of the moderates who think some hillbilly from Ohio has the wrong approach and wrong loyalties.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 07, 2026 06:15 PM (rbvCR)

260 Appoint Rubio Governor General of Minnesota.
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 06:14 PM (IGnEY)

Reduce them to territorial status, redraw the borders to make a red state and leave the cities as territories forever.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2026 06:15 PM (8avO+)

261 Appoint Rubio Governor General of Minnesota.
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 06:14 PM (IGnEY)
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Territorial Governor. No congressional delegation, no senators, just one shadow delegate.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 07, 2026 06:15 PM (ZOv7s)

262 Hey, Jose-
You have to paint a new name on the bow of our ship.

....What? It's 30 ft seas out there!

Oh, and make sure the letters are at least 10 feet tall. Both sides.
Here's a rope and a 2" paintbrush.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at January 07, 2026 06:16 PM (DsA2n)

263 Posted by: Kindltot at January 07, 2026 06:09 PM (rbvCR)

Why don't you marry him already since you seem to love him sexually?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 07, 2026 06:16 PM (RIvkX)

264 Seems the Russkies like hot 80s American bimbos!
Posted by: Elric the Blade

Just like us Festrunk Brothers - "We are... two wild and crazy guys!" chasing American foxes!!

Posted by: Tonypete at January 07, 2026 06:16 PM (cYBz/)

265 Missouri plates on the suv.
Posted by: Really?

I guess they really showed her!!

Posted by: Tonypete at January 07, 2026 06:17 PM (cYBz/)

266 We are still in the first week of 2026.
So much good stuff going on, from taking ghost tankers of Venezuelan oil to 2,000 ICE agents into Minnesota to stop the massive, largest in my lifetime fraud and theft against the government.

Yes, I DID vote for this. Can't wait for week 2! Maybe arrest Soros by February?

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 07, 2026 06:17 PM (4nEGa)

267 >>I guess they really showed her!!


Well played.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 06:17 PM (ddphe)

268 Hold on. Someone mentioned 2 hot girls in a movie, and someone else said Bette Midler???? I want that guy banned.

Posted by: Wally

Fag Hag.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 07, 2026 06:17 PM (cYBz/)

269 I heard that "wrong" in Charlie Murphy's voice as relates to Rick James story.

Posted by: connected and litigious at January 07, 2026 06:18 PM (cS1cw)

270 I am not sure. Mike Pence had fortitude. Though if Vance is wiped out I suppose we run Pence. It would satisfy lots of the moderates who think some hillbilly from Ohio has the wrong approach and wrong loyalties.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 07, 2026 06:15 PM (rbvCR)
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Cringe leftist simp had fortitude?

Are you licking toads or something?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 07, 2026 06:18 PM (ZOv7s)

271 The old Confederacy had Robert E. Lee and wiley country boys who knew how to shoot.

The New Confederacy has Tim Walz and 8,000 jabbering Somalis.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 07, 2026 06:19 PM (HXT0k)

272 253 The dead woman wasn't even a Minnesotan supposedly at least not a native....
Posted by: It's me donna


Missouri plates on the suv.
Posted by: Really?? at January 07

Her bio says she is from Colorado and is “experiencing Minnesota”.

Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 06:19 PM (CM7zZ)

273 Oh - and Tim Walz has noted “Minnesota is at war with our Federal government.” Sounds a bit insurrectiony.
Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 06:03 PM (CM7zZ)

So, Minnesota is in rebellion against the central government? Expel their representatives from Congress, send the Army, dissolve their government.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 06:19 PM (ExV1e)

274 Roll Charlie around, roll him around....

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 07, 2026 06:19 PM (iW7pR)

275 >>>I know, right? We can't go weak here and let the wrong people infect MAGA. We need the muscular conservatism like that championed by John McCain

>Ha ha! You lost me there. Johnny McMaverick was always right about one thing: Bomb, bomb, Iran…

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 07, 2026 06:19 PM (Ouxay)

276 "Leftist woman melts down and screams “Free Palestine” at Iranian people’s rally to support the uprising against the Islamic government."

Does she even realize that Free Iran has nothing to do with Free Palestine? Is she so stupid she thinks they are the same place? or Iranians who want a freed country are Israeli agents? I mean, what exactly is the logic here?

Does she support the religious dictatorship in Iran, who has caused endless suffering, to continue?

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 07, 2026 06:20 PM (C3IAS)

277 Didn't Bette Midler get her start performing at bathhouses? Whatever that means in showbiz.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 07, 2026 06:20 PM (Cw/ar)

278 She had nice tits when she was younger.

Did they have photography back then?
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 06:15 PM (IGnEY)
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She used to just be a busty redhead who sang vintage tunes and showed off her rack.

Then, one day, she started talking.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 07, 2026 06:20 PM (ZOv7s)

279 So, Minnesota is in rebellion against the central government? Expel their representatives from Congress, send the Army, dissolve their government.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 06:19 PM (ExV1e)
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And install Marco Rubio as the military governor.

He needs a few more hats.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 06:20 PM (krQz2)

280 Sometimes the lion has to roar.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 07, 2026 06:20 PM (C3IAS)

281 Her bio says she is from Colorado and is “experiencing Minnesota”.
Posted by: Piper

Experienced.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 07, 2026 06:20 PM (iW7pR)

282
Her bio says she is from Colorado and is “experiencing Minnesota”.
Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 06:19 PM (CM7zZ)


Don't think it turned out like she expected and who wants to experience Minnesota ? Apologies to any Minnesotans here...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2026 06:20 PM (VE6XX)

283 The dead woman wasn't even a Minnesotan supposedly at least not a native....

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2026 06:04 PM (VE6XX)

Are you saying that she crossed a state line?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 06:21 PM (ExV1e)

284 243 Have the riots begun in Minneapolistan yet?
Posted by: Really??
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Probability of riots in MN greatly lowered.
Reality in MN greatly heightened.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 06:21 PM (xvXg6)

285 265 Missouri plates on the suv.
Posted by: Really?

I guess they really showed her!!
Posted by: Tonypete at January 07, 2026 06:17 PM (cYBz/)

St. Louis, bet anything. Or, wait, maybe Columbia.

Posted by: tubal at January 07, 2026 06:21 PM (pDt9x)

286
I heard that one of the tankers was smuggling WMDs, a full load of weapons-grade vuvuzelas.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 07, 2026 06:21 PM (y9nCu)

287 Not any more she's not.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 06:21 PM (IGnEY)

288 Didn't Bette Midler get her start performing at bathhouses? Whatever that means in showbiz.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 07, 2026 06:20 PM (Cw/ar)
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I think so.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 06:21 PM (krQz2)

289 >>I mean, what exactly is the logic here?


You can search forever.

You will never find the Logic in feminine reasoning.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 06:21 PM (ddphe)

290 259 It's the fortitude to carry it out. That's a concern.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 06:11 PM (xvXg6)

I am not sure. Mike Pence had fortitude. Though if Vance is wiped out I suppose we run Pence. It would satisfy lots of the moderates who think some hillbilly from Ohio has the wrong approach and wrong loyalties.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 07, 2026 06:15 PM (rbvCR)

are...are you trolling? Mike Pence?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 07, 2026 06:21 PM (xcxpd)

291 My gut feeling is they were/are smuggling drugs out of venezuala.
Posted by: Mister Scott



That's the problem. When you put up what the cargo might be versus putting it on an oil tanker, not very many things make sense. If you were smuggling drugs, you wouldn't need an oil tanker.
Same with gold. That's what makes it all so wild ass guessing. Because nothing makes sense.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 06:09 PM


They wanted that tanker out of venezuala by any means they could come up with because they have no clue what Trump is going to do next. If they smuggled a couple of tons of cocaine out with the tanker then that's a win for them.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 07, 2026 06:22 PM (0N4FZ)

292 Her bio says she is from Colorado and is “experiencing Minnesota”.
Posted by: Piper

Experienced.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 07, 2026 06:20 PM (iW7pR)
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Feeling Minnesota?

Posted by: Chris Cornell at January 07, 2026 06:22 PM (krQz2)

293 26 Uh, didn't we already overthrow the Venezuelan Gov? Why are we still seizing oil tankers?

Oh, wait, Russian, so it is OK to seize THEIR shit, even though we are not at War with them... and have not declared them terrorists.

We are sailing in very dangerous waters.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 05:39 PM (mP0Kj)

It wasn't really a Russian ship. What Trump has put a spotlight on in recent weeks is that there is a "dark fleet" of cargo ships and tankers that sail around the world, carrying contraband cargo for cash, and they change their names and countries of registration monthly, if they register at all. They've been slipping through all the supposed regulations on international shipping, and they are well paid by China, Russia, Iran, and up til now Venezuela (as well as anyone else who wants to deal in contraband) Trump is starting to shut down this dark fleet, ship by ship.

The Bella, supposedly registered to Russia was registered to Panama just a couple weeks ago. But Panama disavowed knowing anything about them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 07, 2026 06:22 PM (uWKK8)

294 But then:
Law of salvage would apply and I think it'd take multiple hits across along the length of these tankers to actually sink them.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 07, 2026 06:06 PM (HXT0k)

Modern torpedoes do not put holes in your ship, they snap the keel. One would suffice.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 06:22 PM (ExV1e)

295 283 The dead woman wasn't even a Minnesotan supposedly at least not a native....

Posted by: It's me donna
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Where was she domiciled?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 06:22 PM (xvXg6)

296 I was thinking, if the point hasn't already been made:
The left thinks what happened in MN is murder.

They also believed Kyle Rittenhouse committed murder.
Enough that they brought the full force and weight of the state against him.
And lost.

I dare them to try and arrest the ICE officer.
You know they're going to be forced to do it, don't you?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice


They'd probably get lit up by the rest of his ICE.
And the cops they send to do it know....
So they would just made a big production about issuing an arrest warrant.... Then Feds could could counter charge with accessory to felonyurdwr after the fact to the prosecutor and judge.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 07, 2026 06:22 PM (/lPRQ)

297 Minnesota can be a cold hard mutha fucka.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 06:22 PM (IGnEY)

298 Her bio says she is from Colorado and is “experiencing Minnesota”.
Posted by: Piper

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It wasn't Minnesota Nice.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 07, 2026 06:22 PM (Cw/ar)

299 I am not sure. Mike Pence had fortitude. Though if Vance is wiped out I suppose we run Pence. It would satisfy lots of the moderates who think some hillbilly from Ohio has the wrong approach and wrong loyalties.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 07, 2026 06:15 PM (rbvCR)

Well I got my laugh for the day

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2026 06:23 PM (VE6XX)

300
Missourans.

I had a customer complain about the way I said Missouri. I asked him to pronounce "Oregon" and he said "Ore-E-gone".

I told him we were even.

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 07, 2026 06:23 PM (IifOV)

301 Were they running empty?
Running blind?
Running into the sun?
Or running behind?

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at January 07, 2026 06:23 PM (NYInA)

302 are...are you trolling? Mike Pence?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 07, 2026 06:21 PM (xcxpd)
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I detect sarcasm.

Cause I called him "Lawn chair" before he became Trump's VP...and after.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 06:23 PM (krQz2)

303 So, Minnesota is in rebellion against the central government? Expel their representatives from Congress, send the Army, dissolve their government.
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6 Dems; 4 R in the House
2 Dems in the Senate.

Do it.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 07, 2026 06:23 PM (HXT0k)

304 Said it in an earlier thread. Do NOT provoke armed men. Darwin thingy.

Posted by: tubal at January 07, 2026 06:23 PM (pDt9x)

305 Her bio says she is from Colorado and is “experiencing Minnesota”.

she drove all the way for that ultimate FAFO...save the cigarette

Posted by: DanMan at January 07, 2026 06:23 PM (8uzBS)

306 295 283 The dead woman wasn't even a Minnesotan supposedly at least not a native....

Posted by: It's me donna
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Where was she domiciled?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more

If we believe x, she was living in MN. She has a wife and a 6 year old. She noted her occupation as a poet.

Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 06:24 PM (CM7zZ)

307 Did she actually run over an ICE?
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 06:09 PM (IGnEY)

She actually hit one with her car.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 06:24 PM (ExV1e)

308 Nobody wants to sink the takers. There's no profit and much negative.

Take the tanker and take the oil.
That's what he said we are going to do.
That's what we are going to do.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 06:24 PM (xvXg6)

309 We are at a weird intersection of Military assets, and economic warfare. Something we really have not seen since the beginnings of WW2.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 06:13 PM (mP0Kj)

"Interesting Times"

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 07, 2026 06:24 PM (xcxpd)

310 >>Her bio says she is from Colorado and is “experiencing Minnesota”.


She's not a REAL Soundgarden Fan!


She's a Poser!!

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 06:24 PM (ddphe)

311 They wanted that tanker out of venezuala by any means they could come up with because they have no clue what Trump is going to do next. If they smuggled a couple of tons of cocaine out with the tanker then that's a win for them.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 07, 2026 06:22 PM (0N4FZ)
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They were making a break for Russia, right?

So just the ships was the reason. Lay them up for a bit, repaint, slide them through territorial waters and send them out again.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 07, 2026 06:24 PM (ZOv7s)

312 Is someone defending Tucker? Well, I guess people defend Maddow too.

Posted by: fd at January 07, 2026 06:24 PM (vFG9F)

313 Missouri plates on the suv.
Posted by: Really?? at January 07

Her bio says she is from Colorado and is “experiencing Minnesota”.
Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 06:19 PM (CM7zZ)

Hmmm... Woman was from Colorado, driving a car with Missouri plates, to protest in Minnesota?

/Puts on his WW2 German Helmet, blows smoke out of his cigarette..

Interesting.... but SCHTUPID...

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 06:24 PM (mP0Kj)

314 She was experiencing Minnesota like white tailed deer experience Minnesota during hunting season

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 07, 2026 06:24 PM (ScJGb)

315 "White leftist women always make every single thing about themselves and their own bullshit and the thousands of evil snakes wriggling around in their heads."

LOL
Quotable.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 07, 2026 06:25 PM (2Ez/1)

316 Of all the Putin's Puppet-y actions Trump does, which is long and wide, this is the MOST Putin's Puppet action!

Posted by: Cray Cray at January 07, 2026 06:25 PM (EES2L)

317 Does poeting pay well?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 06:25 PM (IGnEY)

318 307 Did she actually run over an ICE?
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 06:09 PM (IGnEY)

She actually hit one with her car.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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Read that it was a man, thought it was a woman.
And he's in the hospital.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 06:25 PM (xvXg6)

319 302 are...are you trolling? Mike Pence?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 07, 2026 06:21 PM (xcxpd)
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I detect sarcasm.

Cause I called him "Lawn chair" before he became Trump's VP...and after.
Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 06:23 PM (krQz2)

God, I hope so.

I'd rather take an outright Democrat as VP than Mike Pence the mewling traitor.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 07, 2026 06:25 PM (xcxpd)

320 FAFO Russia.

FAFO.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 07, 2026 06:25 PM (C3IAS)

321 The Bella, supposedly registered to Russia was registered to Panama just a couple weeks ago. But Panama disavowed knowing anything about them.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 07, 2026 06:22 PM (uWKK
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Which basically makes the ship fair game for any government--or Horde of cutlass-wielding Morons--to capture it as plunder.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 07, 2026 06:25 PM (ESVrU)

322 Russia demands the US ensure humane and dignified treatment of Russian citizens aboard the ship and fully respect their rights and interests.
Posted by: Rep Hank Johnson


Give return airline tickets, a couple thousand bucks, a two week visa, and send them to Vegas.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 07, 2026 06:26 PM (/lPRQ)

323 317 Does poeting pay well?
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 06:25 PM (IGnEY)

I know several poetesses. It does not.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 07, 2026 06:26 PM (xcxpd)

324 She was experiencing Minnesota like white tailed deer experience Minnesota during hunting season

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 07, 2026 06:24 PM (ScJGb)


She attended an ICE Learing Center.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 07, 2026 06:26 PM (Cw/ar)

325 Do NOT provoke armed men.
Posted by: tubal at January 07, 2026 06:23 PM

* sobs violently *

Posted by: Michelle Fields at January 07, 2026 06:26 PM (0sNs1)

326 And her pronouns are she /her. So there is that.

Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 06:26 PM (CM7zZ)

327 Read that it was a man, thought it was a woman.
And he's in the hospital.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 06:25 PM (xvXg6)
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He look like a man!

Posted by: Ms. Swan at January 07, 2026 06:26 PM (krQz2)

328 Is cute laugh won't shelter him any longer.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 07, 2026 06:27 PM (EyfuW)

329 I am assuming Kindl is employing sarcasm...

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 07, 2026 06:27 PM (zZu0s)

330 >>And her pronouns are she /her. So there is that.


Now they are She/Were

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 06:27 PM (ddphe)

331 "If we believe x, she was living in MN. She has a wife and a 6 year old. She noted her occupation as a poet."

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Women don't have wives.
Sorry, they just don't.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 07, 2026 06:27 PM (2Ez/1)

332 I am not sure. Mike Pence had fortitude. Though if Vance is wiped out I suppose we run Pence. It would satisfy lots of the moderates who think some hillbilly from Ohio has the wrong approach and wrong loyalties.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 07, 2026 06:15 PM (rbvCR)

I tell ya, old Mike Pence may be a backstabbing piece of shit but he ain't got a Hindu wife. -- all too many folks on "our side"

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 06:27 PM (ExV1e)

333 Her bio says she is from Colorado and is “experiencing Minnesota”.
Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 06:19 PM (CM7zZ)


Don't think it turned out like she expected and who wants to experience Minnesota ? Apologies to any Minnesotans here...
Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2026 06:20 PM (VE6XX)
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Minnesota is an underrated state. Striking natural beauty that rivals anything in the USA. Sadly, it’s been overrun with toxic cockroaches and doesn’t have the population numbers or industry to survive the invasion. Big, rich states can take in 200k Somalis and it’s a rounding error. For states like MN, it’s a death sentence.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at January 07, 2026 06:28 PM (hfuWD)

334 We are at a weird intersection of Military assets, and economic warfare. Something we really have not seen since the beginnings of WW2.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 06:13 PM (mP0Kj)
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Only if you were in a coma between 1945 and now.

The Cold War was way more lit than this. This is a farce.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 07, 2026 06:28 PM (ZOv7s)

335 FAFO Russia.

FAFO.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 07, 2026 06:25 PM (C3IAS)
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FAFO AF

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 06:28 PM (krQz2)

336 *off sock

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 07, 2026 06:28 PM (mlg/3)

337 They were making a break for Russia, right?

So just the ships was the reason. Lay them up for a bit, repaint, slide them through territorial waters and send them out again.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 07, 2026 06:24 PM (ZOv7s)

Russia? In the North Atlantic in Winter? With all the ports frozen over?

Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2026 06:28 PM (8avO+)

338 Wait, what is going on?

Is the woman who played bumper cars not dead?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 07, 2026 06:29 PM (zZu0s)

339 309 We are at a weird intersection of Military assets, and economic warfare. Something we really have not seen since the beginnings of WW2.
Posted by: Romeo13
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States are jockeying with alliances while Trump juggles them.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 06:29 PM (xvXg6)

340 >>Minnesota is an underrated state. Striking natural beauty that rivals anything in the USA.

Meh - It's nice. But Wisconsin and MI have much of the same.

It's no Colorado or Utah, though.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 06:29 PM (ddphe)

341 I think it was more likely the Loch Ness Monster who slipped out into the sea. Either one is just about as likely.
Posted by: Tom Servo

I recently watched the two part Loch Ness episode of Bewitched from it's final year. Saw the Monster close up.

Posted by: Braless Samantha, Too at January 07, 2026 06:29 PM (oftw2)

342 Russia has very little need for a Navy. I'm kind of surprised that they haven't scrapped most of it already.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 06:14 PM (ExV1e)

They mostly have, not counting the Black Sea Fleet that's been neutralized by Ukraine. At one time they had the most nuclear powered ships in the world; scrapping got expensive, so there's at least 6 reactors they just dumped into the Arctic Ocean to be rid of them, and there may be more. They promise to go back and get them someday, oh sure they will.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 07, 2026 06:29 PM (uWKK8)

343 Her/she?

That's a candy bar, isn't it?

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 06:29 PM (krQz2)

344 Cannonball Run is still a fun movie.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 07, 2026 06:29 PM (xcxpd)

345 We only had 300,000 in the armed services when WW2 began. Smaller than Portugal.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 06:30 PM (IGnEY)

346 Minnesota is an underrated state

Been there many times.. Had relatives there.. They have mosquitos the size of birds .. Weather sucks most of the time but some of the areas are pretty

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2026 06:30 PM (VE6XX)

347 Does poeting pay well?
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 06:25 PM (IGnEY)

I know several poetesses. It does not.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 07, 2026 06:26 PM (xcxpd)

I remember how Emily Dickenson used to drive her carriage into the US Marshals....dang poetesses.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2026 06:30 PM (8avO+)

348 330 >>And her pronouns are she /her. So there is that.


Now they are She/Were
Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 06:27 PM (ddphe)

*goldclap*

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 07, 2026 06:30 PM (zZu0s)

349 PSA - moved from Brave to Opera browser. It pleases me. Also Duck Duck Go has turned into an idiot child.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 06:30 PM (xvXg6)

350 Women don't have wives.
Sorry, they just don't.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 07, 2026

I am merely the messenger. In summary, she was a white, 37 year old lesbian who has been an active leftist protester. She lived in MN, she was from CO. Per a witness, she was leading this particular protest and was actively and effectively blocking ICE vehicles.

And protestors have broken into a courthouse there.

Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 06:31 PM (CM7zZ)

351 Common Sense will come back. It sure looks like it's going to take a Civil War with the commies here and their RussaChinee friends to pull it off, but better in my time than in my children's.

Take your creatine. Hydrate. Buy ammo and wet wipes.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 07, 2026 06:31 PM (GeSNl)

352 Wait, what is going on?

Is the woman who played bumper cars not dead?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 07, 2026 06:29 PM (zZu0s)

She's pining for the fjords.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 07, 2026 06:31 PM (Cw/ar)

353 Minnesota is an underrated state. Striking natural beauty that rivals anything in the USA.
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How the fuck did it ever become so blue?

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 06:31 PM (krQz2)

354 Her bio says she is from Colorado and is “experiencing Minnesota”.
Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 06:19 PM (CM7zZ)


I'm guessing there won't be many stars in the review.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 07, 2026 06:31 PM (2WIwB)

355 Russia? In the North Atlantic in Winter? With all the ports frozen over?
Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2026 06:28 PM (8avO+)
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It isn't like you have to tag terra firma, just get inside territorial waters.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 07, 2026 06:31 PM (ZOv7s)

356 That's the problem. When you put up what the cargo might be versus putting it on an oil tanker, not very many things make sense. If you were smuggling drugs, you wouldn't need an oil tanker.
Same with gold. That's what makes it all so wild ass guessing. Because nothing makes sense.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 06:09 PM (WC9t6)

Apparently the Bella I never made port in VZ, and is/was running empty. But it could have rendezvous'd with small boats loaded with drugs, or gold, or VIPs. Stuff that's valuable enough to pay for the voyage, yet only occupies a little locker space or cabin space in the ship's upper works.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 07, 2026 06:31 PM (8zz6B)

357 They mostly have, not counting the Black Sea Fleet that's been neutralized by Ukraine. At one time they had the most nuclear powered ships in the world; scrapping got expensive, so there's at least 6 reactors they just dumped into the Arctic Ocean to be rid of them, and there may be more. They promise to go back and get them someday, oh sure they will.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 07, 2026 06:29 PM (uWKK

Don't call their nuke icebreakers part of the fleet.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2026 06:31 PM (8avO+)

358 Does poeting pay well?
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 06:25 PM (IGnEY)

I know several poetesses. It does not.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 07, 2026 06:26 PM (xcxpd)

If memory serves, until recently the US taxpayer spent a good penny every year on gay cowboy poetry.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 06:31 PM (ExV1e)

359 The fire rises

Posted by: not sure at January 07, 2026 06:32 PM (d5gnS)

360 How the fuck did it ever become so blue?
Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 06:31 PM (krQz2)
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Voter fraud. Lots and lots of voter fraud.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 07, 2026 06:32 PM (ZOv7s)

361 Opera screened out ads in Youtube last I used it.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 06:32 PM (IGnEY)

362 gettin this sock off

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 07, 2026 06:32 PM (Uo+RY)

363 Russia? In the North Atlantic in Winter? With all the ports frozen over?
Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2026 06:28 PM (8avO+)
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It isn't like you have to tag terra firma, just get inside territorial waters.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 07, 2026 06:31 PM (ZOv7s)

Then in the next blow you will tag terra firma

Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2026 06:32 PM (8avO+)

364 She's not a REAL Soundgarden Fan!
She's a Poser!!
Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 06:24 PM

Well, I give her some credit.
It was just like suicide.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at January 07, 2026 06:32 PM (DsA2n)

365 >>How the fuck did it ever become so blue?


Heritage and the Union Labor Movement around the turn of the century.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 06:33 PM (ddphe)

366 And protestors have broken into a courthouse there.
Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 06:31 PM (CM7zZ)


Do water cannons work in the winter?

Posted by: Diogenes at January 07, 2026 06:33 PM (2WIwB)

367 Also Duck Duck Go has turned into an idiot child.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 06:30 PM (xvXg6)

Yeah. Back in 2022. Their CEO made an announcement about it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 06:33 PM (ExV1e)

368 "271 The old Confederacy had Robert E. Lee and wiley country boys who knew how to shoot.

The New Confederacy has Tim Walz and 8,000 jabbering Somalis.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 07, 2026 06:19 PM (HXT0k) "

LOL, true!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 07, 2026 06:33 PM (Cjt/F)

369 gettin this sock off
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 07, 2026 06:32 PM (Uo+RY)
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Oh, yeah, baby!

Posted by: The Sock at January 07, 2026 06:34 PM (krQz2)

370 Apparently the Bella I never made port in VZ, and is/was running empty. But it could have rendezvous'd with small boats loaded with drugs, or gold, or VIPs. Stuff that's valuable enough to pay for the voyage, yet only occupies a little locker space or cabin space in the ship's upper works.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon


True. I'm sure we have been watching every single thing that floats around there.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 06:34 PM (WC9t6)

371 How the fuck did it ever become so blue?
Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 06:31 PM (krQz2)

Ask California. Or Colorado. Or New Hampshire. Or Massachusetts.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 07, 2026 06:34 PM (zZu0s)

372 How the fuck did it ever become so blue?
Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 06:31 PM (krQz2)
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Voter fraud. Lots and lots of voter fraud.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 07, 2026 06:32 PM (ZOv7s)

***

Washington State has entered the chat.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 07, 2026 06:34 PM (2WIwB)

373 Then in the next blow you will tag terra firma
Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2026 06:32 PM (8avO+)
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There are anchorages within territorial waters. And Russia has icebreakers.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 07, 2026 06:34 PM (ZOv7s)

374 What's this about two hot girls? Did they leave already?

Posted by: Fen at January 07, 2026 06:34 PM (ciYHQ)

375 She's not a REAL Soundgarden Fan!
She's a Poser!!
Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 06:24 PM

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She fell on black days.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 06:34 PM (krQz2)

376 Do water cannons work in the winter?
Posted by: Diogenes at January 07, 2026 06:33 PM (2WIwB)
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It's more like a freeze ray.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 07, 2026 06:35 PM (ZOv7s)

377 Russia has very little need for a Navy. I'm kind of surprised that they haven't scrapped most of it already.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 06:14 PM (ExV1e)

I was just rewatching "The Fortune Cookie" a couple days ago. (Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau) That ICE agent needs to take some cues from that movie - get in a hospital bed, wrap your whole body up in bandages from where the car hit, when anyone wants to see how bad you're hurt roll your eyes til they turn white and shout "OH THE PAIN!!! THE PAIN!!!!"

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 07, 2026 06:35 PM (uWKK8)

378 I am glad you guys finally woke up to the Soundgarden gag!

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 06:35 PM (ddphe)

379 Crazy white woman in Germany looks nice.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 07, 2026 06:35 PM (WONhk)

380 >>> How the fuck did it ever become so blue?


Heritage and the Union Labor Movement around the turn of the century.
Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 06:33 PM (ddphe)

The recent turn of the century, 2000? Because what about '84?

Posted by: banana Dream at January 07, 2026 06:36 PM (3uBP9)

381 >>>Wouldn't it cost more than $7 to write the checks?

It's a write off Jerry. They just write it off.

Posted by: Max Power at January 07, 2026 06:36 PM (Hucnr)

382
And protestors have broken into a courthouse there.
Posted by: Piper
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That makes sense. Tear up the bastion of their protection. - - - > liberal logic

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 06:36 PM (xvXg6)

383 That's a candy bar, isn't it?
Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 06:29 PM (krQz2)

She used to be a Zag/Nut

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 07, 2026 06:37 PM (06Hmj)

384 376 Do water cannons work in the winter?
Posted by: Diogenes at January 07, 2026 06:33 PM (2WIwB)
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It's more like a freeze ray.

putting the ice into the ice-involved shooting

Posted by: anachronda at January 07, 2026 06:37 PM (oY6Yp)

385 Nood. Florida.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 07, 2026 06:37 PM (zZu0s)

386 I am glad you guys finally woke up to the Soundgarden gag!

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 06:35 PM (ddphe)
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#292 I posted as "Chris Cornell".

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 06:37 PM (krQz2)

387 Heritage and the Union Labor Movement around the turn of the century.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 06:33 PM (ddphe)

Somebody knows his history.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 07, 2026 06:37 PM (n9ltV)

388 >>The recent turn of the century, 2000?

I realized that I am old shortly after hitting 'enter'.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 06:37 PM (ddphe)

389 The recent turn of the century, 2000? Because what about '84?
Posted by: banana Dream at January 07, 2026 06:36 PM (3uBP9)
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Fritz was from there, so Favorite Son.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 07, 2026 06:38 PM (ZOv7s)

390 As fast as I can self-censor myself for one topic today another one pops up that requires me to STFU.

It's a quandary.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 07, 2026 06:38 PM (GeSNl)

391 Nood! DeSantis Rocks, Crockett is embarrassing and I feel like Blade.

Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 06:38 PM (d2kuJ)

392 And protestors have broken into a courthouse there.
Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 06:31 PM (CM7zZ)


Do water cannons work in the winter?
Posted by: Diogenes at January 07, 2026 06:33 PM (2WIwB)

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Flamethrowers FTW -- just to be sure.

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 07, 2026 06:38 PM (1HWm1)

393 124 Renee Good, the alleged person shot in Minnesota, was previously photographed at anti ICE protest. She knew she was FA, hard way to FO
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 07, 2026 05:53 PM (ScJGb)

I'm not one for violence, but I couldn't care less about what happened to this woman. I'm surprised it hasn't happened more already.
A perfect example of "Play stupid games, win stupid prizes."
This is what end-stage TDS looks like, and with 20% to 30% of all citizens (and millions of illegals) having been inflicted with it, expect a lot more of this.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 07, 2026 06:39 PM (4nEGa)

394 This lesbian is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! This is a late lesbian! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed it to the perch it would be pushing up the daisies! Its metabolic processes are now history! It's off the twig! It's kicked the bucket, shuffled off its mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible!! THIS IS AN EX-LESBIAN!!

Posted by: Tonypete at January 07, 2026 06:39 PM (cYBz/)

395 "Do water cannons work in the winter?
Posted by: Diogenes"

It ain't bad in the day
When they squirt it your way
'cept in the Winter
When it's froze
And it's hard
When it hits
On your nose

Posted by: Guy who relates everything to a Zappa song at January 07, 2026 06:40 PM (vFG9F)

396 >>Somebody knows his history.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 07, 2026 06:37 PM (n9ltV)


I am just another retard on the net, as far as anyone needs to know.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 06:40 PM (ddphe)

397 Her bio says she is from Colorado and is “experiencing Minnesota”.
Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 06:19 PM (CM7zZ)

Now she will get to see what the bottom side of Minnesota grass looks like.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 07, 2026 06:40 PM (8zz6B)

398 349 PSA - moved from Brave to Opera browser. It pleases me. Also Duck Duck Go has turned into an idiot child.
Posted by: Braenyard
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Don't use Opera for secure shit like banking. Opera was bought from Skandis (who went on to make and operate Vivaldi) by a Chicom company about 5-6 years back. Both Opera and Vivaldi are shells with enhancements, like Brave is, on top of de googled Chrome.

Just want the plain jane, Chromium is the open source version of Chrome.

Firefox is the only other major browser with its own codebase and they are announcing a pivot to making their browser AI compliant plus some woke bullshit.

For old computers, Supermium is a degoogled Chrome for old Windows computers that have no upgrade path for their browsers. Brave requires a minimum of Windows 10 now for example.

Lots of old weird browsers on different code bases if you want to go to Linux. Plus most of the malware exploits don't work well on Linux

All Crapple browsers are skins on top of a Safari codebase from Apple.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 06:40 PM (WDjG6)

399 380 >>> How the fuck did it ever become so blue?

Heritage and the Union Labor Movement around the turn of the century.
Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 06:33 PM (ddphe)

The recent turn of the century, 2000? Because what about '84?
Posted by: banana Dream
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We'll never know the real answer, Dominion, electronic voting, mail in and drop off ballots have erased election truths. We'll never know what the people actually thought.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 06:41 PM (xvXg6)

400 PSA - moved from Brave to Opera browser. It pleases me. Also Duck Duck Go has turned into an idiot child.

my windows 10 mini-tower I use for my TV bricked this morning due to an overnight update...it wanted my Windows password. That box has to be at least ten years old and has a lot of software in it from my working days. It has no password I know of.

Been using Brave since I bought it. The update demanded Edge.

Posted by: DanMan at January 07, 2026 06:42 PM (8uzBS)

401 She has a wife and a 6 year old. She noted her occupation as a poet.
Posted by: Piper

I note her occupation as unemployed.

Posted by: Really?? at January 07, 2026 06:43 PM (/HZvU)

402 I thought Russia was trying to sell oil. Why are they now trying to receive Venezuela's oil?

Posted by: MikeN at January 07, 2026 06:46 PM (8uQGY)

403 .... Linux. Plus most of the malware exploits don't work well on Linux

All Crapple browsers are skins on top of a Safari codebase from Apple.
Posted by: whig
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I am Linux Mint. I can't spell. Brave spellcheck is so bad I caught it. Yeah, I don't trust anything that's ever been touched by Google or Microsoft.
I do business on IOS.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 06:46 PM (xvXg6)

404

Has she ever been experienced?

I have.

Posted by: Zombie Jimi Hendrix at January 07, 2026 06:47 PM (pkeXY)

405 I'd settle for some 1969 gas prices. I'd love to pull up to a full service pump like my dad did and say give me $2.75 worth of gas knowing that that would fill the car up.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 05:44 PM (WC9t6)

But, you'll need to settle for 1969 wages. I remember them.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 07, 2026 06:49 PM (5xuJ/)

406 I think we all know what is on those tankers.
Hillary's emails from her closet server, printed out copies.

Posted by: HogWildforIslam with a side of bacon at January 07, 2026 07:54 PM (T5Vfs)

407 25 Two Venezuela-Linked "Dark Fleet" Ships Change Their Registrations Mid-Cruise

Maybe they should have put a sign on the hull that said 'Baby Milk Factory or Floating Daycare. I'm sure T*mpon Tim would have cut them a check.

Posted by: Nelly at January 07, 2026 07:59 PM (7gpcF)

408 33 "That was the most stupid thing the russians could do sending a sub to escort an oil tanker."

Especially with US and UK P8 Poseidons orbiting overhead, armed with homing torpedos.

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at January 07, 2026 11:58 PM (FpP3s)

409 Kinda strange how these missions Trump keeps secret from Dems, go off without a hitch.

Posted by: Rbastid at January 08, 2026 12:57 AM (99bAJ)

RFKJr. Unveils What Leftwing Ninnies Are Calling an "Upside-Down" Food Pyramid

No, it's rightside up. The old one was upside down, created out of nothing besides what one Senator's quack doctor told him about nutrition, plus lots of lobbying by vegetarians who constantly pressure the government into lying about nutrition.

But sure, "upside down."


The White House on Wednesday unveiled new dietary guidelines, with officials calling it the "most significant reset of federal nutrition policy in history."

The new guidelines were represented with an upside-down pyramid placing vegetables, fruits, proteins, dairy and healthy fats at the top and whole grains at the bottom.

"The new guidelines recognize that whole, nutrient-dense food is the most effective path to better health and lower health care costs," said Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

"The new framework centers on protein and healthy fats, vegetables, fruits and whole grains. It's upside down, a lot of people say. It was actually upside down before," he added.

The initial food pyramid was introduced in the 1990s, showing a small amount of sugars at the top, recommending 2-4 servings of dairy, meat, fruit and vegetables in the middle, and 8-11 servings of bread, rice, pasta and other grains at the bottom. It was updated to "My Plate" under the Obama administration.

...

It was the first White House press briefing of 2026.

"Diets rich in vegetables and fruits reduce disease risk more effectively than many drugs," Kennedy added. "All grains outperform refined carbohydrates, added sugars, especially sugar sweetened beverages, drive metabolic disease, and today, our government declares war on added sugar, highly processed foods loaded with additives, added sugar and excess salt."

Rollins said these guidelines will apply to whole foods whether they are "fresh, frozen, canned or dried."

"These new guidelines are going to update the food that is served to America's children in our public schools to the plates that are served to our great men in uniform, in our military, our veterans, in the food that they are consuming at the VA and these new guidelines are also going to impact nutritional programs for the needy in our country, such as WIC and Head Start," Leavitt said, adding that these new guidelines would also help Americans save "thousands" on groceries.

HHS's statement is here.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins today released the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2025--2030, marking the most significant reset of federal nutrition policy in decades.

The new Guidelines deliver a clear, common-sense message to the American people: eat real food.

The U.S. faces a national health emergency. Nearly 90% of health care spending goes toward treating chronic disease, much of it linked to diet and lifestyle. More than 70% of American adults are overweight or obese, and nearly 1 in 3 adolescents has prediabetes. Diet-driven chronic disease now disqualifies many young Americans from military service, threatening national readiness and limiting opportunity.

...

"Under President Trump's leadership, the Administration is restoring scientific integrity, accountability, and common sense to federal health guidance. The 2025--2030 Guidelines reestablish food--not pharmaceuticals--as the foundation of health and reclaim the food pyramid as a tool for nourishment and education.

The Guidelines emphasize simple, flexible guidance rooted in modern nutrition science:

Prioritize protein at every meal

Consume full-fat dairy with no added sugars

Eat vegetables and fruits throughout the day, focusing on whole forms

Incorporate healthy fats from whole foods such as meats, seafood, eggs, nuts, seeds, olives, and avocados

Focus on whole grains, while sharply reducing refined carbohydratesLimit highly processed foods, added sugars, and artificial additives

Eat the right amount for you, based on age, sex, size, and activity level

Choose water and unsweetened beverages to support hydration

Limit alcohol consumption for better overall health

foodpyramidnew.jpg


Nutritional reformer and debunker of lies Nina Teichholz isn't satisfied -- the new dietary suggestions continue claiming that animal fat is bad for you and must be capped at 10% of all calories. Which she says make the new recommendations contradictory, given that they suggest a protein-first diet.

Delayed for months, the highly anticipated new U.S. Dietary Guidelines for Americans will be released to the public tomorrow, followed by a large (invite-only) event at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Thursday. As promised, the new guidelines are expected to be only about eight pages, far shorter than the 100+ tomes of previous administrations. The guidelines are also likely to include a lengthy appendix with scientific reviews to justify their changes.

The one widely touted reform was an "end to the war on saturated fat," as both HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and FDA Commissioner Marty Makary have repeatedly pledged since taking office--including as recently as Nov 27th. This was a revolutionary proposal. The cap on saturated fats has been a bedrock piece of advice since the launch of this policy in 1980, and it is why so many Americans avoid red meat, drink skim milk, and opt to cook with seed oils over butter.

Yet I learned from two administration officials that saturated fats will not be liberated after all. The longstanding 10% of calories cap on these fats will remain.

At the same time, the guidelines' language will encourage cooking with "butter" and "tallow," both of which are high in saturated fat. It will also introduce a colorful new food pyramid with proteins--including red meat--occupying the largest portion. These are powerful messages, never before conveyed by our national food policy, and are likely to influence consumer behavior.

Teichholz is a Hot MILF who probably looks good in a white lab coat and therefore all of what she says is presumptively true. Still, the new recommendations are good, and big, first step.

She notes that the new guidelines finally advocate for a low-carb diet, for those who tend to be fluffy:

Other Changes to the Guidelines

Before taking a deeper dive into saturated fats, here are some other details of the revamped guidelines I've learned:

• The limit on sugar will be dramatically lowered, from the current limit of 10% of calories to possibly 2% of calories, although that target may be for children only.

• A low-carbohydrate diet will be included as a possible option for people with obesity, diabetes, and perhaps other metabolic diseases. This is a huge win and one for which the Nutrition Coalition, the non-profit group I founded, has been advocating since 2020. This new low-carb option will be included in a section entitled "special considerations," even though 93% of American adults are metabolically unhealthy, according to a 2022 paper based on government data, making low-carb seem logical as a more mainstream approach. An important caveat here is that achieving a low-carbohydrate diet, which is almost always higher in fish, meat, dairy, butter, and fat generally, will be impossible with the continued 10% cap on saturated fats.


Good. I hope they choke on it.

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Posted by: GF at January 07, 2026 04:29 PM (bzIVz)

2 Obviously a sop to Big Vegetable.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 04:30 PM (ExV1e)

3 This is the health advice I was hoping for.
Although there are tweaks to be made based on personal genetics.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 07, 2026 04:30 PM (gKWVE)

4 Getting to the 1g of protein per target lb of body weight is hard to do while staying low on fat. Unless you eat a lot of steak and eggs and fish.

I get really tired of fish quick.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 07, 2026 04:30 PM (zZu0s)

5 I insurrected the previous thread.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 04:30 PM (ExV1e)

6 If chocolate and beer aren't at the top, it's still BS.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 07, 2026 04:32 PM (s0JqF)

7 Let me be the first to say Duh...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2026 04:32 PM (VE6XX)

8 and no seed oils!!

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 07, 2026 04:33 PM (jc0TO)

9 It's the flavor pyramid.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 07, 2026 04:33 PM (jc0TO)

10 The best diet is what I've termed, Augmented Vegetarianism.

Lot's of meats and green and cruciferous vegetables, very few carbs.

Carb intake should be limited to grain alcohol and gummie bears.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 07, 2026 04:34 PM (XV/Pl)

11 Carbs taste good because they are a quick and easy source of calories - like candy. And in the old days when calories were in short supply getting your hands on something chock full of them was good for you.

But now when half the population is overweight? To the extent the government should be getting involved with discussions of what you should eat it should be telling people to eat meat and vegetables not bread, french fries, or candy

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 04:34 PM (sKqQm)

12 Almost exactly the way we eat at home. Lots of protein, lots of vegetables.

Posted by: tubal at January 07, 2026 04:34 PM (pDt9x)

13 Teichholz is a Hot MILF who probably looks good in a white lab coat and therefore all of what she says is presumptively true. Still, the new recommendations are good, and big, first step.

Holy smokes, she's 60. I need to eat like she does.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2026 04:34 PM (Riz8t)

14 Turkey #1

Posted by: Rex B at January 07, 2026 04:34 PM (q0lgp)

15 Some people on the right are still not sold on Kennedy, but I love what he's doing, and I love the fact that he's in charge of HHS. He pisses off the right people every day, and he doesn't give a shit about doing it. He has no ambitions for any other job past this one, and every day in the office is just another YOLO! for him. I love it!

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 07, 2026 04:35 PM (uWKK8)

16 So the old "guidelines" have been in place since 1980? I was a young adult then, and absorbed the notion that red meat, eggs, and butter were bad for you. It's taken me a while to get over that brainwashing.

I think I'll have some roasted chicken for dinner tonight, along with some veggies and a salad!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 07, 2026 04:35 PM (wzUl9)

17 RFKJr. Unveils What Leftwing Ninnies Are Calling an "Upside-Down" Food Pyramid
—Ace
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Oh no! People would be eating less sugar!

That's not what the sweets industries paid for all those years ago!

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 04:35 PM (krQz2)

18 Carbs are a cheap source of calories. Fats are much more dense.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 07, 2026 04:35 PM (jc0TO)

19 I see that once again, Cheetohs have not received their place in the sun. I refuse to accept the new pyramid for this reason.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2026 04:35 PM (Riz8t)

20 On its own that food triangle tells me nothing.
Does it come with an instruction manual

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 07, 2026 04:36 PM (/lPRQ)

21 I'd argue RFK has been one of Trump's more effective picks. Behind Rubio and Bessent certainly but that's a high bar right there.

Put RFK in Trump's first cabinet and he's the best guy there

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 04:36 PM (sKqQm)

22 But... But... all those proteins and animal fats might lead to an increase in Men's testosterone!

Can't have that!!!

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 04:36 PM (mP0Kj)

23 I think I'll have some roasted chicken for dinner tonight, along with some veggies and a salad!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 07, 2026 04:35 PM (wzUl9)

That's what we're making! Roast chicken, bread stuffing, garlicky mash, yorkshire puds.

There's some carrots in the stuffing, it'll be fine, shut up Bobby.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 07, 2026 04:36 PM (06Hmj)

24 @19

>>I see that once again, Cheetohs have not received their place in the sun. I refuse to accept the new pyramid for this reason.

Flamin' Hot Cheetos are like crack cocaine.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 07, 2026 04:36 PM (XV/Pl)

25 It is telling that when the previous guidelines were published and people followed them, we went from a healthy population to one where half of all people are obese and more than half take at least one prescription medicine daily.

I have spent my life ignoring the guidelines and eating red meat, eggs, butter, and whole vegetables, and am in better physical shape than most people twenty years younger.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 07, 2026 04:36 PM (0U5gm)

26 Cheese is way above butter? Steak is above salmon?

I love steak, but this is supposed to be a health guide, right? Some of these choices seem a bit arbitrary.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 07, 2026 04:36 PM (Yp6az)

27 Best shape I've ever been in I was basically just eating meat and vegetables...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 04:37 PM (sKqQm)

28 Teichholz is a Hot MILF who probably looks good in a white lab coat and therefore all of what she says is presumptively true
___

Link?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 07, 2026 04:37 PM (Dv3i1)

29 Carbs taste good because they are a quick and easy source of calories - like candy. And in the old days when calories were in short supply getting your hands on something chock full of them was good for you.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 04:34 PM (sKqQm)
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Plus your stomach yeast (candida) lives on that stuff, and they keep ordering it up through your stomach-brain connection.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 04:37 PM (krQz2)

30 I appreciate the big slab of butter right in the middle. It's a crime what They did to butter. Inventing margarine was an even bigger crime.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 07, 2026 04:37 PM (zYpTz)

31 Getting to the 1g of protein per target lb of body weight is hard to do while staying low on fat. Unless you eat a lot of steak and eggs and fish.

I get really tired of fish quick.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Why eat low fat?

Posted by: MkY at January 07, 2026 04:37 PM (q6tQZ)

32 Ms. Piper. Paging Ms. Piper. Ms. Piper, please pick up the white courtesy phone.

Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2026 04:37 PM (77rzZ)

33 16 So the old "guidelines" have been in place since 1980? I was a young adult then, and absorbed the notion that red meat, eggs, and butter were bad for you. It's taken me a while to get over that brainwashing.

I think I'll have some roasted chicken for dinner tonight, along with some veggies and a salad!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 07, 2026 04:35 PM (wzUl9)

Funny that... just about the same timeline as suddenly going back to Paper Grocery bags... from plastic.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 04:38 PM (mP0Kj)

34 Teichholz is a Hot MILF who probably looks good in a white lab coat and therefore all of what she says is presumptively true
___

Link?


https://is.gd/JlXhR1

Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2026 04:38 PM (Riz8t)

35 Everything is floating in soy, right?

Posted by: NCKate at January 07, 2026 04:38 PM (uQzkA)

36 Gotta say, getting sugar out of my daily diet is gonna be really tough.

I have the metabolism of a shrew, if I drop empty calories I’ll waste away.

Milkshakes … sweet rolls … brownies

Hell, I made it to 29, can’t a guy enjoy life 🤨

Posted by: browndog on the Maid of the Mist at January 07, 2026 04:38 PM (ZWBVL)

37 You can get rid of your "sweet tooth" by starving the candida of sugar. The stomach yeast is your "sweet tooth".

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 04:38 PM (krQz2)

38 It is almost comical...mankind went its whole history without having a problem with obesity.

Then the US government rolls out welfare and their carb heavy food permit and suddenly have the people in the country are obese because of uh...their genetics.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 04:38 PM (sKqQm)

39 Whole Grains means Okra, rite?

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 07, 2026 04:38 PM (pLaQB)

40 Eat the bread, get diabetes. Grape Nuts.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 04:38 PM (IGnEY)

41 Prioritize protein at every meal

Globohomo should be happy with this one.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 04:39 PM (ExV1e)

42 That's what we're making! Roast chicken, bread stuffing, garlicky mash, yorkshire puds.

There's some carrots in the stuffing, it'll be fine, shut up Bobby.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 07, 2026

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Yeah, and some potatoes, too! Not a lot, I know they're starchy, but you need some carbs for energy.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 07, 2026 04:39 PM (wzUl9)

43 I get really tired of fish quick.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Fish Quic? Yuck.

It's Strawberry Quic or nothing.

Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2026 04:39 PM (77rzZ)

44 Whole milk, eggs, and butter!
Listen to the lefties scream.

Posted by: Chuck C at January 07, 2026 04:39 PM (D0HYP)

45 Do I sit on my hands? Go for a walk? Finish eating my carrots and just watch where this goes?

Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 04:39 PM (Wmg4n)

46 I still have seen no satisfactory explanation as to why Japan gets strawberry Cheetos and we don't.

Posted by: Mark1971 at January 07, 2026 04:39 PM (CNl8/)

47 Eat whatever you want and in moderation.

Your welcome!

Posted by: Zombie Ray Kroc, American Hero at January 07, 2026 04:39 PM (GlDYx)

48 "The old one was upside down, created out of nothing besides what one Senator's quack doctor told him about nutrition, plus lots of lobbying by vegetarians who constantly pressure the government into lying about nutrition."

I don't know it it was lobbying by vegetarians so much as lobbying by powerful food industries. The old model with insane amounts of carbs and starchy foods always seemed to be the product of corporate lobbying. Who the fuck needs to eat that much bread??

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 04:39 PM (iFTx/)

49 It's not upside-down. It's sideways. The correct top point is shown at the upper-left, and the correct bottom side is shown from upper-right to the bottom point.

Yum. 🤠

Posted by: mindful webworker - eat more beef at January 07, 2026 04:39 PM (dESj/)

50 She looks like Kate Blanchett Mixed with Nigella Lawson.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 07, 2026 04:39 PM (XV/Pl)

51 I've bought a nice yellow cake with chocolate frosting last night. Am I gonna die?

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 07, 2026 04:39 PM (pLaQB)

52 Gotta say, getting sugar out of my daily diet is gonna be really tough.

I have the metabolism of a shrew, if I drop empty calories I’ll waste away.
🤨
Posted by: browndog on the Maid of the Mist at January 07, 2026 04:38 PM (ZWBVL)
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The body burns fats a lot better than it does glucose, from what I've learned.

And fats will stick with you.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 04:39 PM (krQz2)

53 Eating plants is for livestock.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 04:39 PM (IGnEY)

54 The beige-ish background stands for pork.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 07, 2026 04:39 PM (06Hmj)

55 Teichholz kind of looks like if someone hit Debbie Wasserman Schultz with the "not ugly" stick and really laid down the hickory...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 04:40 PM (sKqQm)

56 Steaks, carrots, and gruel.
The diet of champions

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 07, 2026 04:40 PM (/lPRQ)

57 I appreciate the big slab of butter right in the middle. It's a crime what They did to butter. Inventing margarine was an even bigger crime.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!



In parts of Canada, margarine itself is a crime. They outlawed it years ago.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 07, 2026 04:40 PM (0U5gm)

58 I've bought a nice yellow cake with chocolate frosting last night. Am I gonna die?

Yes

Well

Eventually

Posted by: The actuary tables at January 07, 2026 04:40 PM (sKqQm)

59 I see that once again, Cheetohs have not received their place in the sun. I refuse to accept the new pyramid for this reason.
Posted by: Archimedes

Crunchy Cheetohs for the win.

Posted by: Tuna at January 07, 2026 04:40 PM (lJ0H4)

60 It's not upside-down. It's sideways. The correct top point is shown at the upper-left, and the correct bottom side is shown from upper-right to the bottom point.

Yum. 🤠
Posted by: mindful webworker - eat more beef at January 07, 2026 04:39 PM (dESj/)
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Good point. Eggs, for example, is one of the most complete and balanced foods you can eat.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 04:40 PM (krQz2)

61 44 Whole milk, eggs, and butter!
Listen to the lefties scream.
-----------------
Lard and Bacon Drippings are good for you. Cook with them.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 07, 2026 04:41 PM (pLaQB)

62 I f you are eating meat, moderation isn't required.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 04:41 PM (IGnEY)

63 What effect does the food pyramid have on the public? I imagine it's used to design school meals. Anything else? Are any Americans actually designing their meal plans around the food pyramid?

Posted by: bonhomme at January 07, 2026 04:41 PM (Yp6az)

64 10 The best diet is what I've termed, Augmented Vegetarianism.

Lot's of meats and green and cruciferous vegetables, very few carbs.

Carb intake should be limited to grain alcohol and gummie bears.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 07, 2026 04:34 PM (XV/Pl)

But enough carbs from the whole grains...

It's now a right-sized pyramid. And I appreciate not bothering to put any junk on it b/c that needs to be avoided if we're talking "best" - treats are meant to be treats, not part of the dietary guidelines...I mean the guidelines are the ideal, not the actual, diet for folks...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 07, 2026 04:41 PM (tOcjL)

65 Are cheetos one of those foods that are going to change color once RFK gets his food dye changes in place? I know Doritos are

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 04:41 PM (sKqQm)

66 That Food Pyramid looks pretty much like my diet.

Minus the Bourbon and Gin. Both, technically in the grains I guess.

So, I figure I'm good.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 07, 2026 04:41 PM (NwnyJ)

67 "I didn't see semen on that list."

-- Kamala Harris

"Or lead!"

-- Bitch shot by ICE

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 04:41 PM (iFTx/)

68 > Am I gonna die?

We're all going to die.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 07, 2026 04:42 PM (Yp6az)

69 But... But... all those proteins and animal fats might lead to an increase in Men's testosterone!

That's probably why the previous guidelines said not to.

Looking at pictures of this Teichholz woman will also increase your T levels.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 07, 2026 04:42 PM (2ocoG)

70 RFKJr. Unveils What Leftwing Ninnies Are Calling an "Upside-Down" Food Pyramid

Stranger things have happened.

Posted by: Agribusiness is fake and gay like Will Byers at January 07, 2026 04:42 PM (TbWk/)

71 Are any Americans actually designing their meal plans around the food pyramid?
Posted by: bonhomme at January 07, 2026 04:41 PM (Yp6az)

It was a long game to get America to subconsciously accept platonic regular polygons.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 07, 2026 04:42 PM (06Hmj)

72 I get really tired of fish quick.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Fish Quic? Yuck.

It's Strawberry Quic or nothing.
Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2026 04:39 PM (77rzZ)
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Bisquick > Fishquick

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 04:42 PM (krQz2)

73 What effect does the food pyramid have on the public? I imagine it's used to design school meals. Anything else? Are any Americans actually designing their meal plans around the food pyramid?

People did change their diets around the time the older food pyramid was released but in fairness it would probably just another symptom and not the real cause

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 04:42 PM (sKqQm)

74 So, now it's a food thread.

Oh, wait....

Posted by: one hour sober at January 07, 2026 04:42 PM (Y1sOo)

75 "Teichholz is a Hot MILF who probably looks good in a white lab coat and therefore all of what she says is presumptively true. "

So who's the guy who sounds like he's in prison now?

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 04:43 PM (iFTx/)

76 True confession. I eat a baked potato most every night at home. Skin included of course. Lots of butter and salt, sprinkled heavily with dried dill weed. Life is very good.

Posted by: tubal at January 07, 2026 04:43 PM (pDt9x)

77 Beef Jerky is the go to health food.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 07, 2026 04:43 PM (pLaQB)

78 68 > Am I gonna die?

We're all going to die.
Posted by: bonhomme at January 07, 2026 04:42 PM (Yp6az)

Nobody gets out of life alive.

Posted by: Inexorable as taxes so party on at January 07, 2026 04:43 PM (TbWk/)

79 Big Corn and Big Wheat say booo to this one.

Problem with carbs is most people get carbs from processed junk foods and mostly from sugar. But blaming carbs in general at least gets people to pay attention to their sugar intake. People didn't get obese eating plain rice or oatmeal.

Posted by: brak at January 07, 2026 04:43 PM (jGJov)

80 I saw Stomach Yeast open for Bread on the "Baby I'm-a Want You" tour in '73

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 07, 2026 04:43 PM (Dv3i1)

81 It was on this site that I learned about "rabbit starvation," also known as "protein poisoning."

It's when a person eats a meat that's very lean (e.g., that of wild rabbit), but does not consume enough carbs and fat along with it to be able to digest it properly. So you die of malnutrition even though you're eating lots of protein, because your body can't process it.

Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2026 04:44 PM (77rzZ)

82 It's like they focus grouped the word "upside down", and put the base of the pyramid on top to invite everyone saying that.

Keep saying it. Because yes, the old one was indeed upside down.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 07, 2026 04:44 PM (06Hmj)

83 45 Do I sit on my hands? Go for a walk? Finish eating my carrots and just watch where this goes?
Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 04:39 PM (Wmg4n)

Temperance, Piper. LOL

I'm proud to report I didn't get potato chips at the grocery store. Meats, cheeses, and vegetables. No sugar, no refined carbs. But most importantly, no tater chips.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 07, 2026 04:44 PM (zYpTz)

84 Get a grip, ya feeble snowflakes. . . . . it's not an upside down pyramid. . . . . it's a healthy fat-laden pizza slice. Use your eyes.

Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards & Soyboy Sodomite Libs at January 07, 2026 04:44 PM (5DfsO)

85 68 > Am I gonna die?

We're all going to die.
Posted by: bonhomme at January 07, 2026 04:42 PM (Yp6az)

Yes. Might as well go out well fed.

Posted by: tubal at January 07, 2026 04:44 PM (pDt9x)

86 OT/ but Trump has weighed in on the MN ICE "shooting" saying the woman maliciously tried to run down the officer and he is in the hospital ...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2026 04:44 PM (VE6XX)

87 Ag Subsidies are around 10 Billion Per Year

Ag spends roughly 200 Mil Per Year Lobbying Congress.

They are definitely gonna cry about inverting that Pyramid.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 04:44 PM (ddphe)

88 Nutrition Science will always be an inexact...

...Science.

That's all I'm sayin'.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at January 07, 2026 04:44 PM (DgMqy)

89 I Wiki'd Nina Teicholz. Quite attractive, facially. No body shot, though.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 07, 2026 04:44 PM (Y1sOo)

90 I like Broccoli being in the center. Because broccoli is the king of vegetables. And not an effeminate Islam curious one like King Chuckles III

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 04:44 PM (sKqQm)

91 77 Beef Jerky is the go to health food.
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 07, 2026 04:43 PM (pLaQB)

And the preferred in-stall activity of Planet Fitness trannies.

Posted by: More repetition than full circle at January 07, 2026 04:44 PM (TbWk/)

92 I still have seen no satisfactory explanation as to why Japan gets strawberry Cheetos and we don't.

The Japanese apple pie Kit Kats are diabolical. If they sold them here I'd look like Tim Walz.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 07, 2026 04:44 PM (2ocoG)

93 Diabetes, brought to you by Archer Daniels Midland.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 04:44 PM (IGnEY)

94 I appreciate the big slab of butter right in the middle. It's a crime what They did to butter. Inventing margarine was an even bigger crime.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!


***
My mother always bought margarine instead of butter, probably because it was cheaper. I followed suit for many years. Even now, knowing that butter is NOT lethal, I sometimes hesitate in the store. ("That Parkay is soooo much cheaper than Land O'Lakes butter --"). But then I grab Walmart's version of the same butter and am happy.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 07, 2026 04:45 PM (wzUl9)

95 OT/ but Trump has weighed in on the MN ICE "shooting" saying the woman maliciously tried to run down the officer and he is in the hospital ...
Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2026 04:44 PM (VE6XX)
_____

As I said on the last thread, she clearly hit him and pretty hard. I'm not surprised he's in the hospital.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 04:45 PM (iFTx/)

96 90 I like Broccoli being in the center. Because broccoli is the king of vegetables. And not an effeminate Islam curious one like King Chuckles III
Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 04:44 PM (sKqQm)

Love broccoli and cauliflower...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2026 04:45 PM (VE6XX)

97 IIRC, Kellog was a big investor in the original food pyramid scheme.

And people normally give that as the explanation of it came up that we should have so much grain.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 04:46 PM (krQz2)

98 I never cut back on butter. That shit's good. You can never have too much.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 07, 2026 04:46 PM (pLaQB)

99 Must be an exhaust port on the food pyramid somewhere.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 04:46 PM (IGnEY)

100 Beef cattle herd is at its lowest numbers in 75 years
Live cattle prices up 21% in the last year
It will take a minute.um of 2 years to begin any harvest of a larger herd

I the largest increases in retail beef are with the cheapest cuts, they are the cuts most in demand
This is not what I voted for. Did you?

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith...who puts the anal in anal sex at January 07, 2026 04:46 PM (5WW1s)

101 Brooke Rollins can tell me what to eat anytime.

Posted by: wth at January 07, 2026 04:46 PM (v0R5T)

102 83 45 Do I sit on my hands? Go for a walk? Finish eating my carrots and just watch where this goes?
Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 04:39 PM (Wmg4n)

Temperance, Piper. LOL

I'm proud to report I didn't get potato chips at the grocery store. Meats, cheeses, and vegetables. No sugar, no refined carbs. But most importantly, no tater chips.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 07, 2026 04:44 PM (zYpTz)

But no kale chips. That's an act of self-loathing.

Posted by: It's silage for livestock, not for people at January 07, 2026 04:46 PM (TbWk/)

103 Japan has an unhealthy yet fascinating relationship with sweets.

Like the Koreans and pizza.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 07, 2026 04:46 PM (06Hmj)

104 Anyway I have been diagnosed as a Diabetic and its hereditary.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at January 07, 2026 04:46 PM (DgMqy)

105 What effect does the food pyramid have on the public? I imagine it's used to design school meals. Anything else? Are any Americans actually designing their meal plans around the food pyramid?
Posted by: bonhomme

Following the Dietary Guidelines is required by any institution accepting federal funds: Schools, hospitals, rehab and nursing homes, the Army. And it is what is taught in what passes for "health class" today.

Posted by: Chuck C at January 07, 2026 04:46 PM (D0HYP)

106
The Japanese apple pie Kit Kats are diabolical. If they sold them here I'd look like Tim Walz.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 07, 2026

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World Market has all sorts of KitKats from Asian countries. You have to look at the in-English ingredients list to find out what they are.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 07, 2026 04:46 PM (wzUl9)

107 Butter can be a beverage.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 04:46 PM (IGnEY)

108 I like Broccoli being in the center. Because broccoli is the king of vegetables. And not an effeminate Islam curious one like King Chuckles III


Pffffft. Asparagus is king, and lima beans are the heir apparent.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2026 04:46 PM (Riz8t)

109 I like Broccoli being in the center. Because broccoli is the king of vegetables. And not an effeminate Islam curious one like King Chuckles III

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 04:44 PM (sKqQm)
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That m----rf----r is not real.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 04:46 PM (krQz2)

110 IIRC, Kellog was a big investor in the original food pyramid scheme.

And people normally give that as the explanation of it came up that we should have so much grain.
Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 04:46 PM (krQz2)
_____

Yea, that and the yuge push to pig out on breakfast foods ... like the stuff Kellog made. Pure corruption.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 04:47 PM (iFTx/)

111 Maria Elisa
@mariaelisasmith
Jan 5
I’m devastated by this illegal capture of an elected head of state by Trump.

I live in constant fear my beloved leader, Gustavo Petro, who lives at Cra 8 #7-26, La Candelaria, Bogotá, Colombia, will share the same fate. He’s usually home with his wife Verónica by 10pm.
Jan 5, 2026 · 7:12 PM UTC

Remember the Colombian despot is only in power because he got away with assassinating his primary opponent...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 04:47 PM (sKqQm)

112 Lol
Grocery prices will come down on DAY ONE!

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith...who puts the anal in anal sex at January 07, 2026 04:47 PM (5WW1s)

113 I do limit my intake of red meat to once per meal.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 07, 2026 04:47 PM (0U5gm)

114 >>>My mother always bought margarine instead of butter, probably because it was cheaper.

an entire generation was taught margarine > butter. My mom is a boomer and all her recipes involve Crisco and/ or margarine

Posted by: brak at January 07, 2026 04:47 PM (jGJov)

115 Anyone ever put butter in hot tea? It’s quite good.

Posted by: tubal at January 07, 2026 04:47 PM (pDt9x)

116 smith smith prefers meat up his keister

Posted by: It's a part he likes to play at January 07, 2026 04:47 PM (TbWk/)

117 Japan has an unhealthy yet fascinating relationship with sweets.


They also ingest a buttload of salt.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2026 04:47 PM (Riz8t)

118 > I eat a baked potato most every night at home. Skin included of course.

Potato skins supposedly have higher levels of glycoalkaloids and pesticide residue.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 07, 2026 04:47 PM (Yp6az)

119 But then I grab Walmart's version of the same butter and am happy.

Outside of some high-end butters like some from Ireland, I can’t tell the difference between the various butters available at grocery stores.

Has there been any screeching yet about peanuts being on the pyramid?

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 07, 2026 04:47 PM (EXyHK)

120 RFK Jr. hasn't cured my Toenail Fungus yet, either.

Posted by: Agony of De Feet at January 07, 2026 04:47 PM (oftw2)

121 What effect does the food pyramid have on the public? I imagine it's used to design school meals. Anything else? Are any Americans actually designing their meal plans around the food pyramid?
Posted by: bonhomme at January 07, 2026 04:41 PM (Yp6az)

IIRC, someone did a study about a decade ago and found that the public came pretty close. It wasn't a deliberate thing but it happened.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 04:48 PM (ExV1e)

122 Can we get RFK to comment on why we only get a couple of flavors of Kit Kat when Japan has an almost infinite variety?

America can not afford to have a strategic Kit Kat gap with those pervy Japanese

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 04:48 PM (sKqQm)

123 ace, the one thing I have learned is the new concept in medicine that all people are not the same, and there is a lot of variation between people of differing genetic backgrounds. Apparently this is an approach the VA is adopting in its own way.

What my Korean wife eats would just about kill me, and after living 50 years in the US with a US diet, she still has trouble with it.
RFKJr's problem here is that one diet proposed is not good for everyone in every situation, and unfortunately that is what is being demanded.
I suppose we could simplify things by restricting genetics, but that has other issues.

From listening to her presentations, Teichholz' number one issue is seed oils, if only because of the possibility of inflammation. Inflammation is bad juju for all sorts of reasons.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 07, 2026 04:48 PM (rbvCR)

124 >>>Are any Americans actually designing their meal plans around the food pyramid?

it gets in your head as a child and stays there. I still remember being told 11 servings of bread haha

Posted by: brak at January 07, 2026 04:48 PM (jGJov)

125 Anyone ever put butter in hot tea? It’s quite good.
Posted by: tubal at January 07, 2026 04:47 PM (pDt9x)

I think that's a capital offense in the UK.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 07, 2026 04:48 PM (06Hmj)

126 Nina Teichholz isn't satisfied

Harrumph

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 07, 2026 04:48 PM (Kt19C)

127 Vegetables are what food eats.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 07, 2026 04:48 PM (jc0TO)

128 >My mother always bought margarine instead of butter, probably because it was cheaper.


No. It is because she was lied to.

They will find the increase in Alzheimers and Dementia spiked with the Boomers and Gen X.

Animal Fats aren't optional.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 04:48 PM (ddphe)

129 To Pennsylvanians pretzels are at the top of the food chain

Posted by: Skip at January 07, 2026 04:49 PM (Ia/+0)

130 also, because it is funny:

Maria Elisa
@mariaelisasmith
Jan 5
I’m devastated by this illegal capture of an elected head of state by Trump.

I live in constant fear my beloved leader, Gustavo Petro, who lives at Cra 8 #7-26, La Candelaria, Bogotá, Colombia, will share the same fate. He’s usually home with his wife Verónica by 10pm.
Jan 5, 2026 · 7:12 PM UTC

Posted by: Kindltot at January 07, 2026 04:49 PM (rbvCR)

131 I like Broccoli being in the center. Because broccoli is the king of vegetables. And not an effeminate Islam curious one like King Chuckles III
Posted by: 18-1

Artichokes are the king of veggies. It even looks like a crown.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 07, 2026 04:49 PM (mlg/3)

132 They also ingest a buttload of salt.

My memory is that the dangers of salt were overblown.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 04:49 PM (sKqQm)

133 Rarely eat breakfast. If I must it’s eggs over easy and bacon. Maybe buttered grits too.

Posted by: tubal at January 07, 2026 04:49 PM (pDt9x)

134 My mother always bought margarine instead of butter, probably because it was cheaper.
*
an entire generation was taught margarine > butter. My mom is a boomer and all her recipes involve Crisco and/ or margarine
Posted by: brak at January 07, 2026

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I can understand that, but my mother (a) grew up on a Florida farm and (b) was born in 1916. Thus she was exposed to the real animal products from an early age, and in a time when people didn't get hit with quite so much advertising and "advice" from the Feds.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 07, 2026 04:49 PM (wzUl9)

135 I'd shut up about prices if I had championed the President under whom inflation "wasn't happening" until they had to admit it had increased prices 20% over the course of the administration.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 04:49 PM (krQz2)

136 So, wait. Chocolate shouldn't be 30% of my caloric intake?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 07, 2026 04:50 PM (RIvkX)

137 Well, I see a few Sugar Crisp grains way at the very peak, so my diet is safe for now.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 07, 2026 04:50 PM (bIWgk)

138 I like plants too much to eat them.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 04:50 PM (IGnEY)

139 ASS is drinking.

I'm here for it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 07, 2026 04:50 PM (06Hmj)

140 Where's fentanyl on that triangle thingy? It's an important part of a woman-beater's diet.

Posted by: Zombie George Floyd at January 07, 2026 04:50 PM (0e5Te)

141 Nina Teichholz isn't satisfied

Harrumph

Is she going to administer spankings?

Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2026 04:50 PM (Riz8t)

142 118 > I eat a baked potato most every night at home. Skin included of course.

Potato skins supposedly have higher levels of glycoalkaloids and pesticide residue.
Posted by: bonhomme at January 07, 2026 04:47 PM (Yp6az)

Well that would explain a lot. Bugs hate me anymore.

Posted by: tubal at January 07, 2026 04:50 PM (pDt9x)

143 Okay, y’all. Let us start with one size does not fit all. How you eat if you need to lose weight is different than gaining is different than maintaining. How you eat if you sit on your tail all day because of a desk job is different than how you eat if you are a roughneck.

This food whatever is miles better than the old one, though I like the plate visual so much better because that is how we eat and it makes much more sense. No one over there at MAHA hq reached out to me. You can, in fact, eat too many fats. Just like you can eat too many lots of things. The person cited in Ace’s article is far more rational than most people on this subject, but even she has some bias here coming out. I know, I know crazy.

Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 04:50 PM (Wmg4n)

144 RFK Jr. hasn't cured my Toenail Fungus yet, either.
Posted by: Agony of De Feet

Nor mine.

Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2026 04:51 PM (77rzZ)

145 114 >>>My mother always bought margarine instead of butter, probably because it was cheaper.

an entire generation was taught margarine > butter. My mom is a boomer and all her recipes involve Crisco and/ or margarine
Posted by: brak at January 07, 2026 04:47 PM (jGJov)

It came around because of war shortage IIRC but got promoted as healthier so people would be more accepting. Never mind that hydrogenated vegetable oil has shown to cause vessel inflammation and fuck with cholesterol. Eat what the government tells you because SCIENCE™!

Posted by: Brought to you by ConAgra at January 07, 2026 04:51 PM (TbWk/)

146 Anyone ever put butter in hot tea? It’s quite good.

Posted by: tubal at January 07, 2026 04:47 PM (pDt9x)

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I'll try that and report back.

Been drinking butter in my coffee now for 5+ years.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 04:51 PM (krQz2)

147 I eat a baked potato most every night at home. Skin included of course.

Potato skins supposedly have higher levels of glycoalkaloids and pesticide residue.
Posted by: bonhomme at January 07, 2026

***
Ah, for those tasty days of leftover DDT --!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 07, 2026 04:51 PM (wzUl9)

148 Artichokes are too much work for the payoff.

Posted by: tubal at January 07, 2026 04:51 PM (pDt9x)

149 Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at January 07, 2026 04:46 PM (5WW1s)

Since you voted for biden, you got exactly what you wanted.

quit being a dumbass.

Posted by: Ouch the Grouch at January 07, 2026 04:52 PM (G+z4C)

150 Remember the Colombian despot is only in power because he got away with assassinating his primary opponent...
____

Almost happened here.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 07, 2026 04:52 PM (Dv3i1)

151 The best thing the government could have done during COVID was tell people to take Vit D if they are deficient (and most are), lose any extra weight, and start exercising regularly.

And of course it did none of those things.

Though I remember Fauci saying he took 10K of Vit D a day which is...not a great idea for most people.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 04:52 PM (sKqQm)

152 I'm proud to report I didn't get potato chips at the grocery store. Meats, cheeses, and vegetables. No sugar, no refined carbs. But most importantly, no tater chips.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 07, 2026 04:44 PM (zYpTz)

But no kale chips. That's an act of self-loathing.
Posted by: It's silage for livestock, not for people at January 07, 2026 04:46 PM (TbWk/)

That's b/c you make your own kale chips - packaged kale chips are disgusting...

WAY easier to make homemade kale chips vs homemade potato chips...and your attempts taste better for the former, but not the latter...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 07, 2026 04:52 PM (tOcjL)

153 Man, Big Food must really hate this -- where are the snacks? the fizzy drinks? the fast food? the prepared and frozen food?

How will people get their daily allowance of preservatives, additives, colorants, emulsifiers, and flavorings?

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 07, 2026 04:52 PM (bIWgk)

154 Can we get RFK to comment on why we only get a couple of flavors of Kit Kat when Japan has an almost infinite variety?

America can not afford to have a strategic Kit Kat gap with those pervy Japanese
Posted by: 18-1
......

I don't see Donettes anywhere on that pyramid either.

Posted by: wth at January 07, 2026 04:52 PM (v0R5T)

155 But no kale chips. That's an act of self-loathing.
Posted by: It's silage for livestock, not for people at January 07, 2026 04:46 PM (TbWk/)

Ha! I'm not actually opposed to kale chips, but they just don't have enough body. Too much like, oh, salted paper. It doesn't satisfy the crunch craving.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 07, 2026 04:52 PM (zYpTz)

156 >>You can, in fact, eat too many fats.


You can drink enough water to kill yourself, too.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 04:52 PM (ddphe)

157 Broccoli fillets and steak up top, big glass of milk and a couple of eggs. mmm

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 04:52 PM (xvXg6)

158
Hilarious.

Even when ASS tries to sound reasonable,

he still sounds stupid.


We need better quality trolls.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 07, 2026 04:52 PM (iJfKG)

159 They also ingest a buttload of salt.

My memory is that the dangers of salt were overblown.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 04:49 PM (sKqQm)
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Still though, keep it out of your butt.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 04:52 PM (krQz2)

160 Artichokes are the king of veggies. It even looks like a crown.
Posted by: weft cut-loop

It might choke Artie, but it ain't gonna choke Stymie!

Posted by: Matthew "Stymie" Beard at January 07, 2026 04:53 PM (oftw2)

161 Has anyone ever used the governments food pyramid to decide their diet? I already don’t trust anything they say, and I’m not starting now. I agree this is a good first step, but the importance of protein is still be undersold.

Posted by: Mad Max in VA at January 07, 2026 04:53 PM (vSl8l)

162 Man, Big Food must really hate this -- where are the snacks? the fizzy drinks? the fast food? the prepared and frozen food?

Don't worry. You'll get all of those with food stamps.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2026 04:53 PM (Riz8t)

163 No Reese Poofs and Little Debbies?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 04:53 PM (IGnEY)

164 Limit alcohol consumption for better overall health

I guess we're excluding mental health. Because sweet, merciful gin is about the only thing that keeps me from embarking on my chargrilled longpig diet some days.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 07, 2026 04:53 PM (u1qVW)

165 This is how I eat. Humans have evolved for thousands of years to eat meat. It only makes sense unless you are trying to kill off a good portion of the voter base.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 07, 2026 04:53 PM (xvV+O)

166
RFKJr. Unveils What Leftwing Ninnies Are Calling an "Upside-Down" Food Pyramid
—Ace

============

I don't see any Dr. Pepper and brownies!

Posted by: SNAP Mom of 6 at January 07, 2026 04:53 PM (Uo+RY)

167 > My memory is that the dangers of salt were overblown.

Salt is bad for the 10% or so of the population who have bodies that don't self regulate salt effectively. For everyone else, you just naturally crave less salty food when you have had too much. Your body will also signal you to drink more liquids and you excrete the excess salt.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 07, 2026 04:53 PM (Yp6az)

168 RFKJr. Unveils What Leftwing Ninnies Are Calling an "Upside-Down" Food Pyramid

It's an upside-down pyramid for a reason, Leftists, and you know exactly what that reason is.

Posted by: t-bird at January 07, 2026 04:54 PM (GQhg+)

169 Man, Big Food must really hate this -- where are the snacks? the fizzy drinks? the fast food? the prepared and frozen food?

Watching the left respond to this by echoing Mondelez that junk food is good for you is going to be hillarious.

I'm old enough to remember when a common leftist talking point was Americans are fat and stupid because they eat chips and McDs all the time...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 04:54 PM (sKqQm)

170 Gramps wouldn't drink store bought milk.
Said it tasted like water.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 04:54 PM (xvXg6)

171 Do I sit on my hands? Go for a walk? Finish eating my carrots and just watch where this goes?
Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 04:39 PM (Wmg4n)

It goes into the ditch, Piper. Then we set it on fire and fight over the extinguisher.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 07, 2026 04:54 PM (rbvCR)

172 My memory is that the dangers of salt were overblown.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 04:49 PM (sKqQm)

IIRC, subsequent studies found that there is some group of black men for who salt is really, really bad for their blood pressure and for everyone else it's no big deal.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 04:54 PM (ExV1e)

173 I was thinking about Trump and Rubio redirecting Venezuela's oil money but allowing them to produce and sell. In terms of controlling the country, it's brilliant - and it's also why they need Delcy Rodriguez in charge of doling out what she's given.
Before this money (along with the drug money) was handed out to all of the competing groups in Venezuela; not just the government, but the Generals individually, the Army Collectively, the Security Police, the Cartels, the above ground government. Now it is all going to go thought Rodriguez, and if any of them don't play ball with her, she can cut them off on her own say so.
Why will she go along with this? Because this now makes her more powerful (for now) than anyone else in Venezuela, including some old rivals, like the head of the militia's and the generals. So now Rubio doesn't really have to control the entire country, he just has to keep Delcy Rodriguez knowing that her position depends on her not fucking up too much.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 07, 2026 04:54 PM (uWKK8)

174 165 This is how I eat. Humans have evolved for thousands of years to eat meat. It only makes sense unless you are trying to kill off a good portion of the voter base.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 07, 2026 04:53 PM (xvV+O)

They want us undernourished, weak and stupid. Makes it easier to keep us subdued. See e.g. North Korea

Posted by: And Big Mike's school starvation plan at January 07, 2026 04:54 PM (TbWk/)

175
Been drinking butter in my coffee now for 5+ years.
Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 04:51 PM (krQz2)

Do you blend it?

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 07, 2026 04:55 PM (S6amQ)

176 We will also find, in the future, that cholesterol is as accurate and predictive as BMI.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 04:55 PM (ddphe)

177 It came around because of war shortage IIRC but got promoted as healthier so people would be more accepting. Never mind that hydrogenated vegetable oil has shown to cause vessel inflammation and fuck with cholesterol. Eat what the government tells you because SCIENCE™!
Posted by: Brought to you by ConAgra at January 07, 2026

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That's a good point. My mother was in her twenties during WWII, living here (Canadian-born, naturalized citizen), and would have been affected by shortages and wartime govt. "advice."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 07, 2026 04:55 PM (wzUl9)

178 As far as what the proper human diet is supposed to be, our dentition provides the answer. We are omnivores, by design.

Posted by: tubal at January 07, 2026 04:55 PM (pDt9x)

179 I bought two bags of potato chips over the holidays. Still had them the last day of the season.

Ate less than a third of a bag with some pretty clean sour cream onion dip, got up and threw the bags away.

I don't know. Chips just aren't getting it for me anymore.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 04:55 PM (krQz2)

180 For most of history one of the signs of how high your status was in your society was how much meat you got to eat.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 04:55 PM (sKqQm)

181 Alcohol and seed oils kill your liver. Eliminate one. They learned that in 1989.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 04:55 PM (IGnEY)

182 I've bought a nice yellow cake with chocolate frosting last night. Am I gonna die?
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 07, 2026 04:39 PM (pLaQB)

Yes. But not from cake.

It will only horribly disfigure you. Aren't you relieved to know that?

Posted by: Kindltot at January 07, 2026 04:55 PM (rbvCR)

183 Though I remember Fauci saying he took 10K of Vit D a day which is...not a great idea for most people.
Posted by: 18-1


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Dr. John Campbell did a video a couple months back revealing an error in the way the USRDA for Vitamin D was calculated -- there is a clear error that greatly under estimates the amount required. I think it moved from 600IU to 9,000IU if you do the math correctly. Check it out. Anecdotally, every time I see someone doing blood tests to find right dosage it ends up being closer to 9,000IU

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 07, 2026 04:55 PM (bIWgk)

184 Limit alcohol consumption for better overall health

I guess we're excluding mental health. Because sweet, merciful gin is about the only thing that keeps me from embarking on my chargrilled longpig diet some days.

This is an excellent point, but I'm not sure how you would quantify the effect. Many people would pop a gasket from the daily grind were it not for the prospect of a cocktail or wine before dinner, to say nothing of its use as a social lubricant.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2026 04:56 PM (Riz8t)

185 Ain't nobody in this country undernourished

Posted by: NCKate at January 07, 2026 04:56 PM (uQzkA)

186 RFK's upside down pyramid > Stranger Things upside down in Season 5

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 04:56 PM (sKqQm)

187 Well, fish and broccoli are on my menu tonight.

And a Martini or three, with olives. I think I'm good.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 07, 2026 04:56 PM (NwnyJ)

188 So I can satisfy all of these requirements with a decent sub sandwich.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 07, 2026 04:56 PM (6ydKt)

189 Times past soda water (pop) was a treat not a water supplement.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 04:56 PM (xvXg6)

190 So the supreme pizza would be smack in the middle of diagram.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 07, 2026 04:57 PM (jc0TO)

191 170 Gramps wouldn't drink store bought milk.
Said it tasted like water.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 04:54 PM

One of my friends had a dairy and they drank raw milk and had fresh cream and homemade butter. No more dairies here though, I'd get milk from them if they still had the cows and I hear goats milk in coffee is really good.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 07, 2026 04:57 PM (S6amQ)

192 Although they are both routinely demonized, sugar (glucose) and salt (sodium) are both essential nutrients. Too little of either one, and you die.

People too easily forget this.

Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2026 04:57 PM (77rzZ)

193 My BP responds to dietary sodium intake very quickly. When I go out to eat I know I'll be up 10 pts by morning.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 07, 2026 04:57 PM (RIvkX)

194 Alcohol and seed oils kill your liver. Eliminate one.

Is this a trick question?

Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2026 04:57 PM (Riz8t)

195 As far as what the proper human diet is supposed to be, our dentition provides the answer. We are omnivores, by design.

Posted by: tubal at January 07, 2026 04:55 PM (pDt9x)
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We're still not getting many nutrients through plant cell walls.

This is why the old world used to boil them to mush.

"Fresh vegetables" are practically going to your colon.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 04:57 PM (krQz2)

196 Ah, for those tasty days of leftover DDT --!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

My parents cared enough to put up the Mickey Mouse wallpaper impregnated with DDT in my nursery. Only reason I am still alive and kickin'.

Posted by: The Thing With Two Heads at January 07, 2026 04:57 PM (oftw2)

197 You don't need sugar.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 04:58 PM (IGnEY)

198 188 So I can satisfy all of these requirements with a decent sub sandwich.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 07, 2026 04:56 PM (6ydKt)

Meatlover Pizza, with onions and Pineapple.

(yeah, I know... HERASY!)

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 04:58 PM (mP0Kj)

199 Dr. John Campbell did a video a couple months back revealing an error in the way the USRDA for Vitamin D was calculated -- there is a clear error that greatly under estimates the amount required. I think it moved from 600IU to 9,000IU if you do the math correctly. Check it out. Anecdotally, every time I see someone doing blood tests to find right dosage it ends up being closer to 9,000IU

I don't spend a lot of time in doors so I started taking 2K of Vit D and while it helped with some things like overall immune response there were some side effects.

I dropped back down to 1K and haven't seen any negative effects.

My GF has started telling me I need to take K2 as well but I haven't had a chance to look into it

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 04:58 PM (sKqQm)

200 195 As far as what the proper human diet is supposed to be, our dentition provides the answer. We are omnivores, by design.

Posted by: tubal at January 07, 2026 04:55 PM (pDt9x)
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We're still not getting many nutrients through plant cell walls.

This is why the old world used to boil them to mush.

"Fresh vegetables" are practically going to your colon.
Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 04:57 PM (krQz2)

Colon Blow.

Posted by: tubal at January 07, 2026 04:58 PM (pDt9x)

201 I hate liars.

Skim and low fat milk are water lying that they are milk. I only drink whole milk.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 07, 2026 04:58 PM (xvV+O)

202 I remember when a burger platter was the size a Buick hubcap.

Posted by: Eromero at January 07, 2026 04:58 PM (o2ZRX)

203 For most of history one of the signs of how high your status was in your society was how much meat you got to eat.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 04:55 PM (sKqQm)

Our meat words are Norman and our animal words are Aenglisc, right?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 07, 2026 04:58 PM (06Hmj)

204 185 Ain't nobody in this country undernourished
Posted by: NCKate at January 07, 2026 04:56 PM (uQzkA)

There's no "food insecurity" when our poorest people are 50+ pounds overweight and childhood obesity is at an all time high. So the lying cocksuckers lying about "food deserts" can go pound sand.

Posted by: And their puds at Planet Fitness at January 07, 2026 04:59 PM (TbWk/)

205 Been drinking butter in my coffee now for 5+ years.
Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 04:51 PM (krQz2)


I admire your commitment to drinking a horrible tasting concoction over a lengthy period of years.


Posted by: naturalfake at January 07, 2026 04:59 PM (iJfKG)

206
This is an excellent point, but I'm not sure how you would quantify the effect. Many people would pop a gasket from the daily grind were it not for the prospect of a cocktail or wine before dinner, to say nothing of its use as a social lubricant.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2026 04:56

As I get older I feel terrible after having more than two drinks and it makes me want to eat garbage the next day. It also gives me insomnia in the middle of the night.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 07, 2026 04:59 PM (S6amQ)

207 >>"Fresh vegetables" are practically going to your colon.


The fiber is what your gut bacteria rely on to flourish.

Almost as if it was by design...

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 04:59 PM (ddphe)

208 Times past soda water (pop) was a treat not a water supplement.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026

***
I remember how astonished I was to find vending machines with Cokes and snacks at my high school. Even then, I guess, such things were being pushed on us.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 07, 2026 04:59 PM (wzUl9)

209 I always use heavy cream in my coffee.

Posted by: tubal at January 07, 2026 04:59 PM (pDt9x)

210 I suppose the fact that she has a Ph.D. in nutrition focused on evidence-based nutrition policy from the University of Reading means she is a DEI crank.

CHARLATANS! LARD IS EVIL

Posted by: Kindltot at January 07, 2026 04:59 PM (rbvCR)

211 @FoxNews
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1h
DEM GOV. TIM WALZ: "I have a very simple message: We do not need any further help from the federal government."

"To Donald Trump and Kristi Noem: You've done enough."

"I've issued a warning order to prepare the Minnesota National Guard. We have soldiers in training and prepared to be deployed, if necessary."

"Minnesota will not allow our community to be used as a prop in a national political fight. We will not take the bait." | @TheStoryFNC

Posted by: Don Black at January 07, 2026 05:00 PM (ZxPkt)

212 207 >>"Fresh vegetables" are practically going to your colon.


The fiber is what your gut bacteria rely on to flourish.

Almost as if it was by design...
Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 04:59 PM (ddphe)

Funny, that.

Posted by: tubal at January 07, 2026 05:00 PM (pDt9x)

213 They want us undernourished, weak and stupid. Makes it easier to keep us subdued. See e.g. North Korea
Posted by: And Big Mike's school starvation plan at January 07, 2026 04:54 PM (TbWk/)

Don't forget about us!

Posted by: Oxygen-starved mask wearers at January 07, 2026 05:00 PM (0BrN/)

214 Ain't nobody in this country undernourished
Posted by: NCKate at January 07, 2026 04:56 PM (uQzkA)

Actually, I'd bet that a lot of people in this country are undernourished. Not underfed, by any means, but certainly undernourished.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 05:00 PM (ExV1e)

215 Alcohol and seed oils kill your liver. Eliminate one. They learned that in 1989.
Posted by: Boss Moss

They learned about seed oils in 1912, the year after Crisco came out.

Posted by: t-bird at January 07, 2026 05:00 PM (GQhg+)

216 10% is very hard to achieve, and it is not how I eat personally. The number is far closer to 25-30%. You do need healthy carbs. They fuel your body, they support your gut biome, they provide energy. It is very silly to consider a serving of brown rice the equivalent of a handful of gummy bears. You also need protein- you should not try to survive on bread, even wheat bread, alone.

Americans are chubby by and large because they sit around all day. They aren’t outdoors, they aren’t doing manual labor, they aren’t riding bikes until the street lights turn on. It is food, of course, too. But you are not going to become an Adonis merely by not using seed oils. Bad news bears, right? Also, you can be a great weight and have zero muscle tone, this isn’t exactly a great goal. It’s a very big picture.

Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 05:00 PM (Wmg4n)

217 CaliGirl at January 07, 2026 04:57 PM (S6amQ)

Years ago, I bought eggs and grains from an Amish woman who lived out in the back of beyond. I also bought raw milk from her to make my own yogurt--it was phenomenal!

Several months later, she sadly told me she wasn't allowed to sell me raw milk anymore because of some regulation. I was willing to sign a liability waiver!

I'm all for agencies making the public aware of risks, but let us make our own deccisions.

Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at January 07, 2026 05:00 PM (USyCi)

218 >>I always use heavy cream in my coffee.


I go with that in the morning coffee and 1/2 n 1/2 once I start eating for the day.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 05:01 PM (ddphe)

219 Nina Teichholz is no Ben Shapiro's sister.

Ashknazi breasts activate!

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at January 07, 2026 05:01 PM (wBaIH)

220 Tufts University says to eat your Reeses Poofs.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 05:01 PM (IGnEY)

221 Meat, eggs and whole milk. I'm perfectly fine with that.

My diet is now healthy again. Governmentally speaking.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 07, 2026 05:01 PM (n5tGW)

222 Limit alcohol consumption for better overall health

SHUT YOUR FILTHY WHORE MOUTH!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 07, 2026 05:01 PM (n9ltV)

223 Although they are both routinely demonized, sugar (glucose) and salt (sodium) are both essential nutrients. Too little of either one, and you die.

People too easily forget this.
Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2026 04:57 PM (77rzZ)

Supposedly, you body will manufacture glucose if you don't eat it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 05:02 PM (ExV1e)

224 I hate liars.

Skim and low fat milk are water lying that they are milk. I only drink whole milk.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 07, 2026 04:58 PM (xvV+O)
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Milk still has a bunch of sugar for growing calves.

Take a protein shaker, put in heavy cream and water and shake until blended.

However, these days, I put trace minerals in all my bottle-fulls of water. I get that thick, somewhat-mineral taste of milk without the mucus.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 05:02 PM (krQz2)

225 If I was a brainless member of a bovine herd, and a rancher was tossing bales of feed at me, I might have concerns about dietary guidelines and what not, but until we get there, I’m going to gorge on what I like. BOOM!

Feed me! I have money.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 07, 2026 05:02 PM (Ouxay)

226 "I've issued a warning order to prepare the Minnesota National Guard. We have soldiers in training and prepared to be deployed, if necessary."


Looks like Timpon has decided on what his next grift will be.

"Tonight on MSNBC an interview with political prisoner Tim Walz"

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 05:02 PM (sKqQm)

227 Better absorption of vit d and k2 when taken at meal time if fats present; these are fat soluble vits.

Tonights' meal is ground ribeye burgers with air fried fries and whole milk.

Posted by: Kingsman at January 07, 2026 05:03 PM (ehY6c)

228 I remember how astonished I was to find vending machines with Cokes and snacks at my high school. Even then, I guess, such things were being pushed on us.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,

Robert Schneider ran for 8th grade Student Organization on a platform of cheerleaders and soda machines. We got neither. Soured me on politics.

Posted by: Frustrated, Along With TJM at January 07, 2026 05:03 PM (oftw2)

229 General Walz mobilizing his army.

Posted by: tubal at January 07, 2026 05:03 PM (pDt9x)

230 If I was a brainless member of a bovine herd, and a rancher was tossing bales of feed at me, I might have concerns about dietary guidelines and what not, but until we get there, I’m going to gorge on what I like. BOOM!


Obligatory https://tinyurl.com/ya5u7rux

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 05:03 PM (sKqQm)

231 188 So I can satisfy all of these requirements with a decent sub sandwich.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
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The bread on a Sub is classified as a pastry.



Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 05:04 PM (xvXg6)

232 I always use heavy cream in my coffee.
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I used to love heavy cream in my coffee.

But I started trying butter.

Now, when I put even a spot of cream in my coffee I can taste the grit of the coffee.

I don't know, but it seems to me that in comparison cream blunts the taste of coffee, but butter gives you that creaminess and doesn't blunt the flavor.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 05:04 PM (krQz2)

233 "I've issued a warning order to prepare the Minnesota National Guard. We have soldiers in training and prepared to be deployed, if necessary."

"Minnesota will not allow our community to be used as a prop in a national political fight. We will not take the bait." | @TheStoryFNC
Posted by: Don Black

Walz is probably going to be indicted the way things are going. What he says is not likely to make much difference anymore.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 05:04 PM (WDjG6)

234 Mmm ... mucus.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 07, 2026 05:04 PM (jc0TO)

235 Pitz Gazette to close. Unions claim another scalp.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 07, 2026 05:05 PM (mlg/3)

236 Trump on Truth Social

I have just viewed the clip of the event which took place in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is a horrible thing to watch. The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self defense. Based on the attached clip, it is hard to believe he is alive, but is now recovering in the hospital. The situation is being studied, in its entirety, but the reason these incidents are happening is because the Radical Left is threatening, assaulting, and targeting our Law Enforcement Officers and ICE Agents on a daily basis. They are just trying to do the job of MAKING AMERICA SAFE. We need to stand by and protect our Law Enforcement Officers from this Radical Left Movement of Violence and Hate!

PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 05:05 PM (WC9t6)

237 229 General Walz mobilizing his army.
Posted by: tubal
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Just like that other hero of the Democrats, Orval Faubus.

It'll come out the same way.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 05:05 PM (WDjG6)

238 I was looking at my class pictures when I was in grade school in the 1960s, not a single fat kid in any of the six pictures that I have. We ate high fat foods and pretty much fried everything in lard. Diabetes back then was unheard of except for that one unlucky kid who generally didn't make it to adulthood.


We rode our bikes, swam and walked everywhere we needed to go pretty much. Now half of our kids are pre diabetic, grossly overweight and have a ton of other health issues that were unheard of 50-60 years ago.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 07, 2026 05:05 PM (0N4FZ)

239 Why eat low fat?
Posted by: MkY at January 07, 2026 04:37 PM (q6tQZ)

That's what I am saying. It is difficult to do both (high protein and low fat.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 07, 2026 05:05 PM (zZu0s)

240 The number is far closer to 25-30%. You do need healthy carbs

Did you notice the massive fruit section of the pyramid? Fair warning, it takes a lot of fruit to supply 30%. I'm eating about 3 lbs per day.

Posted by: t-bird at January 07, 2026 05:05 PM (GQhg+)

241 Where is the Impossivle Beef?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 05:05 PM (IGnEY)

242 >>>Several months later, she sadly told me she wasn't allowed to sell me raw milk anymore because of some regulation. I was willing to sign a liability waiver!

I'm all for agencies making the public aware of risks, but let us make our own deccisions.
Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at January 07, 2026 05:00 PM (USyCi)
*****
Where I live in NC, raw milk is sold with a "not for human consumption" label. Heh, yeah but if I drive to SC no labels on raw milk. I like raw milk and buy it when I can find it.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at January 07, 2026 05:05 PM (TB/rm)

243
I'm all for agencies making the public aware of risks, but let us make our own deccisions.
Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at January 07, 2026 05:00 PM (USyCi)

I agree with you and I'm sorry the government screwed up your source for fresh milk.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 07, 2026 05:05 PM (S6amQ)

244 This is how I eat. Humans have evolved for thousands of years to eat meat. It only makes sense unless you are trying to kill off a good portion of the voter base.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable
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"One person’s faith allows them to eat anything, but another, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables"

Posted by: Romans 14:2 at January 07, 2026 05:06 PM (XeU6L)

245 Tonights meal here is a thick ribeye and mashed taters. Veggies will be an afterthought.

Posted by: He-Man Woman Haters Club at January 07, 2026 05:06 PM (oftw2)

246 Does this mean steak is going to get more expensive? Cause it sounds like steak is going to get more expensive.

Posted by: Clay at January 07, 2026 05:06 PM (oOYKt)

247 The "food pyramid" was introduced to support grain farmers and sell excess stocks.

BTW, compare the "food pyramid" with the recommendations in this bulletin from 1930 (link goes to the State Library of Oregon Digital Collection): https://is.gd/7yisFV

Posted by: Bert G at January 07, 2026 05:06 PM (VARTN)

248 I've issued a warning order to prepare the Minnesota National Guard. We have soldiers in training and prepared to be deployed, if necessary."

"Minnesota will not allow our community to be used as a prop in a national political fight. We will not take the bait." | @TheStoryFNC
Posted by: Don Black

Walz is probably going to be indicted the way things are going. What he says is not likely to make much difference anymore.
Posted by: whig


Go ahead Walz. Trump nationalizes them and sends them to fucking Samoa.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 05:06 PM (WC9t6)

249 Looks like Timpon has decided on what his next grift will be.

"Tonight on MSNBC an interview with political prisoner Tim Walz"
Posted by: 18-1

Timmy is a bit dense, once the Insurrection Act is posted, it is martial law, military tribunals, etc. Look forward to the new era of Reconstruction where the Northern and Western states are Reconstructed.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 05:07 PM (WDjG6)

250 I mostly use olive oil and butter to cook. But i eat a lot of flax seeds. Hasn't really been an issue, and my blood work is immaculate.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 07, 2026 05:07 PM (06Hmj)

251 The amount of carbs you need is 0.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 05:07 PM (IGnEY)

252 If you want to lose weight, it will be calories in, calories out. You need a deficit (a healthy deficit, not a crazy one). You can lose weight and eat your calories in donuts. You will be hungry. Your hair will be brittle and dull. You will feel like garbage, you will crave other food because your body tells you what it needs if you listen. But you can. OR you can chose to eat real food, lots of veggies, good proteins, fats and healthy carbs other than what you get from fruits and veggies and you will be doing much better. Even better than that, move your body in addition to a lifestyle change.

Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 05:07 PM (Wmg4n)

253 244 This is how I eat. Humans have evolved for thousands of years to eat meat. It only makes sense unless you are trying to kill off a good portion of the voter base.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable
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"One person’s faith allows them to eat anything, but another, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables"
Posted by: Romans 14:2 at January 07, 2026 05:06 PM (XeU6L)

Paul was known to love a nice grilled pork steak. He talks about it in 2 Timothy.

Posted by: tubal at January 07, 2026 05:07 PM (pDt9x)

254 You do need healthy carbs.

I'm not going to argue with you because arguing about nutrition here is pointless but there is a LOT of evidence - as in research - which shows that you do not need carbs. At all.

There are thousands of people who chronicle their carnivore lifestyle, even the more restrictive beef-only carnivore, and the health improvements they've had as a result.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 05:07 PM (ExV1e)

255 Don't you need raw milk for your artisanal cheese craft?

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 07, 2026 05:07 PM (jc0TO)

256 Trump just came out with a pretty good statement on the shooting.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 07, 2026 05:07 PM (uWKK8)

257 Ripped from the headlines 2030-

Oat Bran And Vegetables-The Silent Killer

Posted by: Hooterville World Guardian at January 07, 2026 05:07 PM (oftw2)

258 251 The amount of carbs you need is 0.
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026

Absolutely, 100% not true.

Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 05:08 PM (Wmg4n)

259 Go ahead Walz. Trump nationalizes them and sends them to fucking Samoa.
Posted by: rickb223
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Trump is simply gathering all this information if and when he needs to invoke the Insurrection Act. Same reason he withdrew the troops from Portland, LA, etc. If they continue to act up, more grist for the Insurrection Act invocation.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 05:08 PM (WDjG6)

260 Where is the Impossivle Beef?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 05:05 PM (IGnEY)
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It says food pyramid.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 05:08 PM (krQz2)

261 It also gives me insomnia in the middle of the night.
Posted by: CaliGirl

Insomnia is also a problem for me if I have a drink or two. This is sad for I dearly love the occasional Manhattan or Old Fashion.

Posted by: Tuna at January 07, 2026 05:09 PM (lJ0H4)

262
I don't spend a lot of time in doors.....
Posted by: 18-1

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{mounts hobby horse}

Even if you spend time out of doors, you get no UVB unless sun is above 35 or 40 degrees in sky. This never happens in Fall or Winter for top 2/3 of country. And even then, it only happens around noon.

During Spring and Summer, the sun spends more time high enough for the UVB to reach the ground, and we wear less clothing, so people need less supplement but during Fall and Winter I think almost everyone does.

As for how much, I am just saying hat some is better than none. I think the effects are subtle and not obvious -- maybe you are more likely to get flu, or maybe long term chronic effects after years of having too little. It seems to be a universal good for many conditions but very hard to determine since sick people often have low levels, but we don't know direction of causality.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 07, 2026 05:09 PM (bIWgk)

263 Posted by: Tom Servo at January 07, 2026 05:07 PM (uWKK

Is there a.way to access it?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 07, 2026 05:09 PM (Nx5jP)

264 It's gotta be hard to be a rigidly observant Jain.

No onions or garlic?

No food at all where you have to kill the entire organism to eat it?

Da hell you people eat, then, leaves and hair?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 07, 2026 05:09 PM (06Hmj)

265 Eat unprocessed food that tastes good to you.

Our needs are all slightly different. Key is the UNPROCESSED part... because they have manipulated some foods to mimic tastes of food our body wants, without the parts of that food our body needs.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 05:09 PM (mP0Kj)

266 I'm all for agencies making the public aware of risks, but let us make our own deccisions.
Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at January 07, 2026 05:00 PM (USyCi)
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You assume that the "agencies" are doing good. I think over the last 70 years those "agencies" have demonstrated that they are not doing good. But hey I'm only looking at the results and not their super "altruistic" motivations.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 07, 2026 05:09 PM (xvV+O)

267 General Walz mobilizing his free shit army.
Posted by: tubal

Posted by: wth at January 07, 2026 05:09 PM (v0R5T)

268 You go into Ketosis and burn fat.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 05:09 PM (IGnEY)

269 How is mobilizing the National Guard to obstruct ICE agents in the lawful execution of their duties not insurrection?

Posted by: Send them all to Florence ADX at January 07, 2026 05:09 PM (TbWk/)

270 I was looking at my class pictures when I was in grade school in the 1960s, not a single fat kid in any of the six pictures that I have. We ate high fat foods and pretty much fried everything in lard. Diabetes back then was unheard of except for that one unlucky kid who generally didn't make it to adulthood.

You can see this on shorpy as well. Before the 80s you can't find an overweight kid. Then as time goes on they become more and more common.

One of the many things that the last season of stranger things gets wrong is having a morbidly obese kid in 1987...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 05:09 PM (sKqQm)

271 Now U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., has confirmed that members of Congress “just moved to subpoena Rep. Ilhan Omar and her brother/husband’s immigration records in the Oversight Committee.”

Above is stolen from the internet.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 07, 2026 05:10 PM (n5tGW)

272 All those crazy Democrats busy over the weekend defending Maduro can now shift to defending processed sugars.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 07, 2026 05:10 PM (MIY8C)

273 As I get older I feel terrible after having more than two drinks and it makes me want to eat garbage the next day. It also gives me insomnia in the middle of the night.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 07, 2026 04:59 PM (S6amQ)

Same. One glass of wine, I feel nice. Two, and I feel nauseous when I go to bed, and dehydrated and hungover when I get up. So, mostly just have a glass on weekend evenings, and try not to give in to the second pour.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 07, 2026 05:10 PM (zYpTz)

274 >>there is a LOT of evidence - as in research - which shows that you do not need carbs. At all.


Not reliable evidence. Carbs are needed for essential biologic function.
Not the amounts we consume...but, there are processes that require carbs.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 05:10 PM (ddphe)

275 General Walz mobilizing his army.
Posted by: tubal
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It's all about logistics. Critical supplies of hair dye, nose rings, ear guages, and tampons must be assured. Oh, and printed signs.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 07, 2026 05:10 PM (XeU6L)

276 Unless Timmy wants to go all 1861, National Guard units are subject to Federal Military Authority. He sounds like he doesn't realize that.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 07, 2026 05:10 PM (uWKK8)

277 269 How is mobilizing the National Guard to obstruct ICE agents in the lawful execution of their duties not insurrection?
Posted by: Send them all to Florence ADX at January 07, 2026 05:09 PM (TbWk/)

Well, it is. I imagine some hair splitters may disagree, but whatever.

Posted by: tubal at January 07, 2026 05:10 PM (pDt9x)

278 If a couple of drinks gives you insomnia, I recommend six.

Posted by: wth at January 07, 2026 05:10 PM (v0R5T)

279 Latest, Fireaid for the victims of CA wildfires in the Palisade,
"Early reports suggested that was hardly the case. Last September, The New York Post revealed that of the $100 million raised by musicians such as Joni Mitchell, Lady Gaga, John Mayer, Billie Joe Armstrong and more, some of the funds went to nonprofits with very little connection to fire safety or reparations.

The Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation
Podcasters discussing the wildfires
Sanitizing pre-schools
NAACP Pasadena
My Tribe Rise
The CA Native Vote Project
The Los Angeles Black Worker Center
Now, Rep. Jim Jordan has released a scathing update on the FireAid money matter.

The Ohio Republican’s assessment confirms that some of the money in question didn’t go directly to the victims of last year’s Palisades fire as promised."

Dems are a professional crime syndicate.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 05:11 PM (WDjG6)

280 Twinkies are still good to go....yes?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 07, 2026 05:11 PM (iMotb)

281 If you want to lose weight, it will be calories in, calories out.

This has been proven to be false in dozens of studies.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 05:11 PM (ExV1e)

282 >>>The amount of carbs you need is 0.
Posted by: Boss Moss

>Unless you’re Irish and there’s no snake meat to be had.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 07, 2026 05:11 PM (Ouxay)

283 >>Eat unprocessed food that tastes good to you.


Simple, true and effective dietary advice.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 05:11 PM (ddphe)

284 240 The number is far closer to 25-30%. You do need healthy carbs

Did you notice the massive fruit section of the pyramid? Fair warning, it takes a lot of fruit to supply 30%. I'm eating about 3 lbs per day.
Posted by: t-bird at January 07, 2026 05:05 PM (GQhg+)

That is also where your body's needed sugars should come from...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 07, 2026 05:11 PM (tOcjL)

285 Timmeh was not an officer, right? So he can't be recalled to service.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 07, 2026 05:11 PM (jc0TO)

286 Your genetics have alot to do with your overall health too.

I smoke 2 packs of cigarettes a day, drink wine every night and have seen a doctor twice in my life. Once for stitches in my lip and once when I had a laceration from being kicked by a horse. At 75 I take no medications.

I cook and eat good food not processed junk.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 07, 2026 05:12 PM (sDNVV)

287 Absolutely, 100% not true.
Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 05:08 PM (Wmg4n)

Name the essential carbohydrate.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 05:12 PM (ExV1e)

288 I'm not going to argue with you because arguing about nutrition here is pointless but there is a LOT of evidence - as in research - which shows that you do not need carbs. At all.


If you go back 10K years you'll find people eating meat, fruit, and vegetables but almost no carbs.

I would assume then we could still live easily with none...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 05:12 PM (sKqQm)

289 277 269 How is mobilizing the National Guard to obstruct ICE agents in the lawful execution of their duties not insurrection?
Posted by: Send them all to Florence ADX at January 07, 2026 05:09 PM (TbWk/)

Well, it is. I imagine some hair splitters may disagree, but whatever.
Posted by: tubal at January 07, 2026 05:10 PM (pDt9x)

Even the Supreme Court has said that Lower Courts get to over ride the Commander in Chiefs authority with the National Guard.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 05:12 PM (mP0Kj)

290 276 Unless Timmy wants to go all 1861, National Guard units are subject to Federal Military Authority. He sounds like he doesn't realize that.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Hell, since the Natl Guard establishing act in the early 1900's, President has even more authority. Also Ike federalized the Arkansas National Guard to remove the governor's authority (Orval Faubus) that was using them to keep black students out of Little Rock Central High School.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 05:12 PM (WDjG6)

291 I was asking why low fat.
A high fat diet is just fine.
Wait...you're not listening to your doctor, are you?

Hah

Posted by: MkY at January 07, 2026 05:12 PM (q6tQZ)

292 287 Absolutely, 100% not true.
Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 05:08 PM (Wmg4n)

Name the essential carbohydrate.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 05:12 PM (ExV1e)

Little Debbie Nutty Bars.

Posted by: tubal at January 07, 2026 05:13 PM (pDt9x)

293
No food at all where you have to kill the entire organism to eat it?

Da hell you people eat, then, leaves and hair?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 07, 2026 05:09 PM (06Hmj)

Breatharians have entered the chat.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 07, 2026 05:13 PM (S6amQ)

294 In parts of Canada, margarine itself is a crime. They outlawed it years ago.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 07, 2026 04:40 PM (0U5gm)

For a period of years, colored margarine was illegal, thanks to the dairy lobby. So you got a brick of white margarine, and a little packet of yellow dye to mix with it, at the expense of some effort. But that went away early in my childhood.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 07, 2026 05:13 PM (8zz6B)

295 "Name the essential carbohydrate."


Beer

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 07, 2026 05:13 PM (iMotb)

296 Same. One glass of wine, I feel nice. Two, and I feel nauseous when I go to bed, and dehydrated and hungover when I get up.
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One snort of Ruby Port really rings the bell
Then a glass of Muscatel sets my head up well
Then this sweetest bottle of cheapest sherry wine
I say goodbye to my mind

Posted by: The Youngbloods, 'Wine Song' at January 07, 2026 05:13 PM (XeU6L)

297 Unless Timmy wants to go all 1861, National Guard units are subject to Federal Military Authority. He sounds like he doesn't realize that.
Posted by: Tom Servo


That's what I said. Trump nationalizes the Mn Nat Guard and sends them to American Samoa.

Your move Timmy.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 05:13 PM (WC9t6)

298 Stress wars make those drinks tasty. And women.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 07, 2026 05:13 PM (EyfuW)

299 I can't stand Nancy Mace, but i do still love it when her grandstanding megalomania winds up working in our favor.

Seriously, she's like a political berserker, if not, unfortunately, literally.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 07, 2026 05:13 PM (06Hmj)

300 If you want to lose weight, it will be calories in, calories out.

Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 05:07 PM (Wmg4n)
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Sorry, Piper. I know I'm sorta in your wheelhouse. But "Calories In, Calories Out" ignores how substances interact with the body other than being burned.

A fatty liver can be caused by a too many "calorie" lifestyle, but a backed-up and the resulting Insulin Resistance does not make it about a balance of calories. Most people don't lose because of insulin resistance--even with exercise.

And diet does a whole lot more to un-burden a liver than a treadmill could ever do.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 05:13 PM (krQz2)

301 I'll say this for Trump if by this summer:

Tim Walz is in prison
Ilhan Omar is in Somalia
And lil' Nicky Maduro has given his final words on the gallows

I will start considering him to be THE greatest president, not just one of...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 05:13 PM (sKqQm)

302 Does this mean steak is going to get more expensive? Cause it sounds like steak is going to get more expensive.
Posted by: Clay at January 07, 2026 05:06 PM (oOYKt)

IIRC the tariffs on imported beef from Argentina are now very low. Also the EU rules on beef are very exclusive of foreign beef.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 07, 2026 05:14 PM (rbvCR)

303 You can see this on shorpy as well. Before the 80s you can't find an overweight kid. Then as time goes on they become more and more common.

One of the many things that the last season of stranger things gets wrong is having a morbidly obese kid in 1987...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 05:09 PM (sKqQm)

Well, not really. There were far far fewer than today of course but there were definitely some tubs in my elementary/middle school during that time frame

Posted by: damn I'm getting old at January 07, 2026 05:14 PM (TbWk/)

304 I drink coffee black. I drink whole organic milk because I like milk. I don't care if milk contains natural sugars. I drink water to 'hydrate.'

I've been spoiled for life over beef - ranching family sends us 1/2 a butchered cow when needed. That said, I'm no steak aficionado and just want some meat and taters for dinner.



Posted by: 13times at January 07, 2026 05:14 PM (fnZRl)

305 Bourbon is 0 carbs.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 05:14 PM (IGnEY)

306 Even the Supreme Court has said that Lower Courts get to over ride the Commander in Chiefs authority with the National Guard.
Posted by: Romeo13

Different matter and facts when a governor threatens to use the Guard to prevent ICE from operating. Supremacy clause is at stake there. Little Timmy plans to go out as a horrible example before he gets a prison sentence I guess.

Thelma and Louise YOLO. Minnesota, though, is in the back seat of the car going over the cliff.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 05:14 PM (WDjG6)

307
I cook and eat good food not processed junk.
Posted by: Ben Had at January 07, 2026 05:12 PM (sDNVV)

Fist bump and I found some chanterelles yesterday and I cut about 5 pounds and will go and get more too. I'm stoked about the mushrooms.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 07, 2026 05:14 PM (S6amQ)

308 I don't know, but it seems to me that in comparison cream blunts the taste of coffee, but butter gives you that creaminess and doesn't blunt the flavor.
___

How much butter should I use, one stick or two?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 07, 2026 05:14 PM (Dv3i1)

309 That's what I said. Trump nationalizes the Mn Nat Guard and sends them to American Samoa.

Your move Timmy.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 05:13 PM (WC9t6)
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That's typically not done without the governor's approval though.

So, ripping a state's NG away from them is rather unprecedented.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 05:14 PM (krQz2)

310 Trump's statement on MN shooting. Truth Social site:

https://tinyurl.com/4264vjxk

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 07, 2026 05:15 PM (Nx5jP)

311 The idea of leftists voluntarily putting themselves on a bread and water diet in order to stick it to Trump makes me chuckle.

Cause they will, they'll do that.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 07, 2026 05:15 PM (HXT0k)

312 There were 420 students in my high school class in 1973. Maybe 6 or 7 were overweight.

Posted by: No ONe Starved To Death at January 07, 2026 05:15 PM (oftw2)

313 Not reliable evidence. Carbs are needed for essential biologic function.
Not the amounts we consume...but, there are processes that require carbs.
Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 05:10 PM (ddphe)

Name the essential carbohydrate. The one that you must eat to get and without which you will die.

You can't because there isn't one. There are essential proteins, there are essential fats, but there are no essential carbs. None.

Dozens, maybe hundreds, of studies at this point. But people know what they know and they aren't gonna change what they've believed their whole lives. That's why arguing nutrition here is pointless.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 05:15 PM (ExV1e)

314 The idea of leftists voluntarily putting themselves on a bread and water diet in order to stick it to Trump makes me chuckle.

Bread, wine, cheetoes, and ho hos...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 05:15 PM (sKqQm)

315 No food at all where you have to kill the entire organism to eat it?
Da hell you people eat, then, leaves and hair?
Posted by: Warai-otoko

toenail clippings.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 07, 2026 05:15 PM (1Nv0l)

316 All these posts on drinking is making me go for an early afternoon cocktail.... with orange juice as a mixer.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 07, 2026 05:15 PM (xvV+O)

317 >>Fist bump and I found some chanterelles yesterday and I cut about 5 pounds and will go and get more too. I'm stoked about the mushrooms.


Nice. Those are incredibly tasty.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 05:15 PM (ddphe)

318 If you go back 10K years you'll find people eating meat, fruit, and vegetables but almost no carbs.

I would assume then we could still live easily with none...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 05:12 PM (sKqQm
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Fruit and vegetables aren't carbs? News to me.

Posted by: Bigsmith at January 07, 2026 05:16 PM (1Au9i)

319 Unless Timmy wants to go all 1861, National Guard units are subject to Federal Military Authority. He sounds like he doesn't realize that.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 07, 2026 05:10 PM


It sounds like Herr tampon tim is using this shooting as a distraction from his other issues.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 07, 2026 05:16 PM (0N4FZ)

320 Thelma and Louise YOLO. Minnesota, though, is in the back seat of the car going over the cliff.
Posted by: whig

I thought Scandinavians were rather shy and reserved. Maybe they're not getting enough vit D.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 07, 2026 05:16 PM (Dv3i1)

321 One B-2 with a Load of two Bunker Busters....

Problem in Minneapolis problem solved....

Posted by: General Ripper at January 07, 2026 05:16 PM (38587)

322 People 10,0000 year ago lived in caves, and their art was shit. I'm not taking their advice on anything.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
serious or shitposting? you be the judge! at January 07, 2026 05:16 PM (u1qVW)

323 No food at all where you have to kill the entire organism to eat it?
Da hell you people eat, then, leaves and hair?
Posted by: Warai-otoko

toenail clippings.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators
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Empty. Calories.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 07, 2026 05:16 PM (xvV+O)

324 Absolutely, 100% not true.
Posted by: Piper


You need proteins, and fats, and vitamins, ....

Carbs are only energy. You can get that energy from fat so I think it is technically 100% true that carbs are not essential.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 07, 2026 05:16 PM (bIWgk)

325 If you go back 10K years you'll find people eating meat, fruit, and vegetables but almost no carbs.

I would assume then we could still live easily with none...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 05:12 PM (sKqQm)

Fruits and vegetables contain carbohydrates, to varying degrees.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 05:17 PM (ExV1e)

326 Name the essential carbohydrate. The one that you must eat to get and without which you will die.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Cheetos. Any variety.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 07, 2026 05:17 PM (1Nv0l)

327 Sigh, I just learned my beloved Carando sausage is owned by the Chinks at Smithfield.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at January 07, 2026 05:17 PM (wBaIH)

328 >>Name the essential carbohydrate.


Nice strawman.

There are biological/metabolic processes that require carbohydrates.
This is not an opinion.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 05:17 PM (ddphe)

329 Well, not really. There were far far fewer than today of course but there were definitely some tubs in my elementary/middle school during that time frame

I did know some chunky kids but morbidly obese? The kid on Stranger things is 12 and the internet says about 200 lbs...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 05:17 PM (sKqQm)

330 You can see this on shorpy as well. Before the 80s you can't find an overweight kid. Then as time goes on they become more and more common.



We had ONE throughout the whole 70's. And he was big boned. Because he was every bit as active as the rest of us.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 05:17 PM (WC9t6)

331 Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 05:10 PM (ddphe)

You might not need dietary carbohydrates. Glycogen is a carbohydrate and it is found in abundance in meat.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 07, 2026 05:17 PM (n9ltV)

332 I did some cycle training on beech mtn once on low carbs. Had crippling lactic acid issues.

Posted by: NCKate at January 07, 2026 05:18 PM (uQzkA)

333 Even fiber is non essential.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 05:18 PM (IGnEY)

334 >>Fruit and vegetables aren't carbs? News to me.

Don't stop them...they are on a roll.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 05:18 PM (ddphe)

335 >>>I smoke 2 packs of cigarettes a day, drink wine every night and have seen a doctor twice in my life. Once for stitches in my lip and once when I had a laceration from being kicked by a horse. At 75 I take no medications.

I cook and eat good food not processed junk.
Posted by: Ben Had at January 07, 2026 05:12 PM (sDNVV)
*****
Ben Had, what is your opinion about organic foods. I'm skeptical but interested in your opinion. TIA Rufus

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at January 07, 2026 05:18 PM (TB/rm)

336 How much butter should I use, one stick or two?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 07, 2026 05:14 PM (Dv3i1)
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2 tablespoons per 16-oz coffee.

And shake it up, you get something that good and frothy.

I saw something about how butter-coffee is kind of like "Yak water" that the Tibetans use to stay warm.

They combine warm water with yak fat and vigorously shake it up. It's like a perfect combination to open your body to converting white fat to burnable brown fat.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 05:18 PM (krQz2)

337 The men of the Lewis and Clark expedition were often starved for animal fat. any time they got a buffalo, a bear, or beaver tail they feasted. They consumed huge amounts of lean meat (elk, deer, antelope) to stay fed, but it was not enough.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at January 07, 2026 05:18 PM (PSEDc)

338 That's what I said. Trump nationalizes the Mn Nat Guard and sends them to American Samoa.

Your move Timmy.
Posted by: rickb223
======
Send them to Puerto Rico or the Virgin Islands. Troops would like an all expense paid trip to there given the temps and snow on the ground in MN.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 05:19 PM (WDjG6)

339 242 >>>Several months later, she sadly told me she wasn't allowed to sell me raw milk anymore because of some regulation. I was willing to sign a liability waiver!

I'm all for agencies making the public aware of risks, but let us make our own deccisions.
Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at January 07, 2026 05:00 PM (USyCi)
*****
Where I live in NC, raw milk is sold with a "not for human consumption" label. Heh, yeah but if I drive to SC no labels on raw milk. I like raw milk and buy it when I can find it.
Posted
I saw an ad today for a new program ‘Suddenly Amish’. I think this is entertainment taking another whack at destroying the Amish. The left hates everything good and pure, Godly.

Posted by: Eromero at January 07, 2026 05:19 PM (o2ZRX)

340 If you go back 10K years you'll find people eating meat, fruit, and vegetables but almost no carbs.

I would assume then we could still live easily with none...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 05:12 PM (sKqQm)

Carbs are very storeable, and really important for winter consumption. This was a benefit that the early farmers had over the herding and foraging cultures. It was the sort of thing that let you stay in one place and care for the kids and the weak. It is as always a trade off.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 07, 2026 05:19 PM (rbvCR)

341 Name the essential carbohydrate.


Naan.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 05:19 PM (WC9t6)

342 People have glycogen stored in the muscles.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 05:19 PM (IGnEY)

343 smith smith prefers meat up his keister
Posted by: It's a part he likes to play at January 07, 2026 04:47 PM (TbWk/)

His favorite vegetable is splooge.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 07, 2026 05:19 PM (8zz6B)

344 Sad to see bourbon was not at the top. We need more science!

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 07, 2026 05:19 PM (n5tGW)

345 If mushrooms don't make you hallucinate, they're just empty calories!

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at January 07, 2026 05:19 PM (wBaIH)

346 Not too many fat executives in the 50-60s with steak and 3 martini lunches either.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 07, 2026 05:19 PM (xvV+O)

347 I just realized, cave art of 10,000 years ago was revisited by the Impressionists

Posted by: Skip at January 07, 2026 05:19 PM (Ia/+0)

348 >Fruit and vegetables aren't carbs? News to me.

Don't stop them...they are on a roll.

We've gone from a food thread to a pun thread...

Anyway if its fruit wouldn't it be better on a crepe then a roll?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 05:19 PM (sKqQm)

349 One snort of Ruby Port really rings the bell
Then a glass of Muscatel sets my head up well
Then this sweetest bottle of cheapest sherry wine
I say goodbye to my mind
Posted by: The Youngbloods, 'Wine Song' at January 07, 2026

***
"It's midnight and I got
Two more bottles of wine"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 07, 2026 05:20 PM (wzUl9)

350 I thought Scandinavians were rather shy and reserved. Maybe they're not getting enough vit D.
Posted by: Chuck Martel
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They go viking when they start drinking.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 05:20 PM (WDjG6)

351 254 You do need healthy carbs.

I'm not going to argue with you because arguing about nutrition here is pointless but there is a LOT of evidence - as in research - which shows that you do not need carbs. At all.

There are thousands of people who chronicle their carnivore lifestyle, even the more restrictive beef-only carnivore, and the health improvements they've had as a result.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

You do you, I am not going to argue either. I am a nutritionist by education, I do fitness for a living, I am living breathing proof of weighing 200 pounds for a long time , I am 5’1. I wore a tight size 16. I wear a 2 or 4. I am not skinny, but I am fit. I am post menopausal (I know, you are welcome) and I have 4 pack abs. I have 3 kids, so those lower abs are a bugger, darn it. Flat, but I cannot get the definition. Anyway, no meds. Just food choices and working out. I do not know everything by any stretch, but I do know something.

Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 05:20 PM (Wmg4n)

352 Never bought that food pyramid BS. Raised on whole milk and was blessed with a mother that knew her way around a kitchen. That tradition continues tonight with a 4lb pork shoulder ala pernil. Should be ready in about forty minutes....

Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 07, 2026 05:20 PM (nbLIj)

353 For Christmas, wife got me ginger tea, it has a buttery flavor to it.
Don't put anything in it

Posted by: Skip at January 07, 2026 05:20 PM (Ia/+0)

354 I'm all for agencies making the public aware of risks, but let us make our own deccisions.

The government that will pay for you to cut our junk off is worried about people drinking fresh milk

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 05:20 PM (sKqQm)

355 Is a Table spoon like an eighth of a stick?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 05:20 PM (IGnEY)

356 Americans are chubby by and large because they sit around all day. They aren’t outdoors, they aren’t doing manual labor, they aren’t riding bikes until the street lights turn on. It is food, of course, too. But you are not going to become an Adonis merely by not using seed oils. Bad news bears, right? Also, you can be a great weight and have zero muscle tone, this isn’t exactly a great goal. It’s a very big picture.
Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 05:00 PM (Wmg4n)

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I think they are fat three main reasons: sedentary lifestyle, sugary colas and the "three meals a day" paradigm .



Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 07, 2026 05:21 PM (Vh9CX)

357 For a period of years, colored margarine was illegal, thanks to the dairy lobby. So you got a brick of white margarine, and a little packet of yellow dye to mix with it, at the expense of some effort. But that went away early in my childhood.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 07, 2026 05:13 PM (8zz6B)

Mom used to say, "that was the neatest thing since colored margarine"
Until recently even margarine in this state had to have a different color than butter.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 07, 2026 05:21 PM (rbvCR)

358 That's what I said. Trump nationalizes the Mn Nat Guard and sends them to American Samoa.
Posted by: rickb223

That could tip it over~~!!!!

Posted by: Rep Hank Johnson at January 07, 2026 05:21 PM (mlg/3)

359 Imagine watching how the US military captured Nicolas Maduro and less than a week later threatening to deploy the national guard against federal personnel.

Posted by: Methos at January 07, 2026 05:21 PM (vSvIl)

360 TBF, that pyramid IS upside down.

And is a triangle, not a pyramid.

(Looking at a picture from Giza for reference.)

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at January 07, 2026 05:21 PM (NYInA)

361 >>You might not need dietary carbohydrates. Glycogen is a carbohydrate and it is found in abundance in meat.


That doesn't mean Metabolic Process doesn't require Carbs.

Now, how you can access those requirements is certainly something that can be altered. But the easiest way is to add beneficial carbs, regardless of source.

I can't tell you the volume and type of Protein you could achieve this with, off the top of my head.
But I can tell you that adding it via reasonable portions of carb rich foods that are not meat is not unhealthy.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 05:21 PM (ddphe)

362 Absolutely, 100% not true.
Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 05:08 PM (Wmg4n)

Name the essential carbohydrate.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 05:12 PM (ExV1e)
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Captain Crunch was part of an essential breakfast!

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 05:21 PM (krQz2)

363 Not too many fat executives in the 50-60s with steak and 3 martini lunches either.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 07, 2026

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No, just blown livers and coronaries from stress

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 07, 2026 05:21 PM (wzUl9)

364 Fruit and vegetables aren't carbs? News to me.

Most vegetables are low and most fruits are fairly high with the exception of melons and berries but not blueberries which are higher...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2026 05:21 PM (VE6XX)

365 One of those fancy teas makes you poop.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 05:21 PM (IGnEY)

366 I will say, when I have done keto, my brain tends to feel a bit foggy. Great for losing weight, but not a fan of that.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 07, 2026 05:21 PM (zZu0s)

367 There are biological/metabolic processes that require carbohydrates.
This is not an opinion.
Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 05:17 PM (ddphe)

Sure. The brain requires glucose.

Now... When glycogen stores are depleted, typically after prolonged fasting or intense exercise, the body shifts to gluconeogenesis, the synthesis of glucose from non-carbohydrate precursors.

So, what that means, is that your very own body - unless there's something wrong with it - can produce the glucose that your brain requires without you ever eating any.

But you do you.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 05:22 PM (ExV1e)

368 "The old one was upside down, created out of nothing besides what one Senator's quack doctor told him about nutrition, plus lots of lobbying by vegetarians who constantly pressure the government into lying about nutrition."

I don't know it it was lobbying by vegetarians so much as lobbying by powerful food industries. The old model with insane amounts of carbs and starchy foods always seemed to be the product of corporate lobbying. Who the fuck needs to eat that much bread??
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 04:39 PM (iFTx/)

What, companies that make meat and butter did no lobbying these 50 years?

Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2026 05:22 PM (8avO+)

369 I smoke 2 packs of cigarettes a day, drink wine every night and have seen a doctor twice in my life. Once for stitches in my lip and once when I had a laceration from being kicked by a horse. At 75 I take no medications.

I cook and eat good food not processed junk.
Posted by: Ben Had

You should get your blood panel done. I only go to the doc once a year for my medical (outside of the times I have broken bones). It's worth it for the lab tests. Could be the difference between making it to 80 vs 90 (if you care).

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 07, 2026 05:22 PM (1Nv0l)

370 Not too many fat executives in the 50-60s with steak and 3 martini lunches either.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 07, 2026

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No, just blown livers and coronaries from stress
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 07, 2026 05:21 PM (wzUl9)


Mmmmmm. Non filtered cigarettes.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 07, 2026 05:22 PM (zZu0s)

371
The healthiest and the longest amount of time I was able to control my weight was the 8 years I was doing 20 carbs per day (from salad/low carb veggies) and meats,hard cheese, fats, and no sugar. I have started this this week. I'm 3 days in and notice a difference already. Cauliflower is my go to veggie.

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 07, 2026 05:22 PM (IifOV)

372
There are other government guidelines that were put in place due to the enthusiasm of a small number of guys, when no one else wanted to bother.

The linear model of risk for exposure to toxins, for example. No allowance for non-linear risk, or the ability of the body's repair mechanisms to deal with low concentrations.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 07, 2026 05:22 PM (VWtfl)

373 254 You do need healthy carbs.

I'm not going to argue with you because arguing about nutrition here is pointless but there is a LOT of evidence - as in research - which shows that you do not need carbs. At all
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The human body is designed to persist. It can do without many thing s an survive. Being able to survive without a certain food does not mean the body does not need it.

The human was a grazer before it was a hunter.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 05:23 PM (xvXg6)

374 The initial food pyramid was introduced in the 1990s

Yeah just stop right there.
Born last night, or AI, because the first one I was subjected to was on an ancient FILM STRIP, viewed the school year JFK was shot. If the food pyramid isn't at least 100 years old I will eat everything on it. What the hell -- worth a try?

God Damn It, this is important. You are not allowed to just make shit up. And if I can't trust you on those so-called 'details,' I'm not going to trust you on the large items either.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 07, 2026 05:23 PM (zdLoL)

375 If mushrooms don't make you hallucinate, they're just empty calories!
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov


If they do make you hallucinate, you can burn a lot of calories running from shit that scares you.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 05:23 PM (WC9t6)

376 I do not say this to recommend anything.

I went nicotine free about 6 months ago for the first time in about 20 years.

Life seems drab and unexciting.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 07, 2026 05:23 PM (zZu0s)

377 If you go back 10K years you'll find people eating meat, fruit, and vegetables but almost no carbs.

I would assume then we could still live easily with none...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 05:12 PM (sKqQm)

Fruits and vegetables are absolutely carbohydrates.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 07, 2026 05:23 PM (zYpTz)

378 I miss smoking.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 07, 2026 05:24 PM (Cw/ar)

379 I will say, when I have done keto, my brain tends to feel a bit foggy. Great for losing weight, but not a fan of that.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 07, 2026 05:21 PM (zZu0s)

I'd think you could just have a smidge of honey or something if that is a problem.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2026 05:24 PM (8avO+)

380 "I found some chanterelles yesterday and I cut about 5 pounds and will go and get more too.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 07, 2026 05:14 PM (S6amQ)

This must be the year of the Chanterelles here in the valley cause just yesterday I spotted a rather large patch of them and called a friend who is really into mushrooms.

Posted by: 13times at January 07, 2026 05:24 PM (fnZRl)

381 "The old one was upside down, created out of nothing besides what one Senator's quack doctor told him about nutrition, plus lots of lobbying by vegetarians who constantly pressure the government into lying about nutrition."
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Don't leave that worthless pile of shit FDR out of the blame for this.
His "let's have the government buy up all the wheat and milk farmers can't sell if it falls below the price set by some doofus pencil-pusher in DC."

Then: "we have a shit ton of wheat and milk. What do we do? Let's recommend people eat 12 servings of bread a day!
And cereal! Milk on sugar-loaded cereal!
And we'll turn the rest of the milk into cheese and refrigerate it for decades."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 07, 2026 05:24 PM (HXT0k)

382 Is a Table spoon like an eighth of a stick?
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 05:20 PM (IGnEY)
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Yeah. I use a fourth of a stick. + MCT.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 05:24 PM (krQz2)

383 Cauliflower is my go to veggie.
Posted by: Frank Barone
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Try boiled cabbage with butta'.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 05:24 PM (xvXg6)

384 Rufus, my opinion is organic is mostly a marketing play for the " I want to eat super healthy" crowd. The increased cost isn't worth it.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 07, 2026 05:24 PM (sDNVV)

385 What kind of butter should you put in your coffee, if you decide to try such a thing? Whipped and salted, unsalted, or what?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 07, 2026 05:24 PM (wzUl9)

386 366 I will say, when I have done keto, my brain tends to feel a bit foggy. Great for losing weight, but not a fan of that.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 07, 2026 05:21 PM (zZu0s)

I feel the complete opposite, I feel better eating fewer carbs and no processed food.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 07, 2026 05:25 PM (8+C2v)

387 I will say, when I have done keto, my brain tends to feel a bit foggy. Great for losing weight, but not a fan of that.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone

Made my piss smell terrible. Definitely works for weight loss. But very hard to sustain. I switched to consuming a minimum of 150g of protein a day, while staying under a calorie limit. That minimizes the carbs and the carb cravings.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 07, 2026 05:25 PM (1Nv0l)

388 I went nicotine free about 6 months ago for the first time in about 20 years.

Life seems drab and unexciting.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 07, 2026 05:23 PM (zZu0s)

That's because it is, for the overwhelming majority of people.

Posted by: Life is a long boring sentence at January 07, 2026 05:25 PM (TbWk/)

389 Try boiled cabbage with butta'.

Posted by: Braenyard -

Or skillet cabbage with Bacon grease. Yum.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 07, 2026 05:25 PM (Cw/ar)

390 Butter is one of four food groups.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 07, 2026 05:25 PM (jc0TO)

391 I'm a Level Five Vegan. I don't eat anything that casts a shadow.

Posted by: Jesse Grass at January 07, 2026 05:26 PM (0BrN/)

392 >>I miss smoking.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 07, 2026 05:24 PM (Cw/ar
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So do I, a lot. I really enjoyed a smoke with my coffee or an adult beverage(s)

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at January 07, 2026 05:26 PM (TB/rm)

393 Melted butter and bacon grease is good soup.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 05:26 PM (IGnEY)

394 The human body is designed to persist. It can do without many thing s an survive. Being able to survive without a certain food does not mean the body does not need it.

The human was a grazer before it was a hunter.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 05:23 PM (xvXg6)

There are only 7 amino acids our body can't manufacture from scraps. These are the ones that are the least useful and can afford to be left to chance and instincts to get, and a bit of meat gives them to you.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2026 05:26 PM (8avO+)

395 Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 05:20 PM (Wmg4n

I trust you, Piper, and if I lived closer I would come to your studio. Plus, I think you're a very nice person.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 07, 2026 05:26 PM (ix8EF)

396 The largest crop in ancient Egypt was wheat. Porridge was the staple meal.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 07, 2026 05:27 PM (sDNVV)

397
This must be the year of the Chanterelles here in the valley cause just yesterday I spotted a rather large patch of them and called a friend who is really into mushrooms.
Posted by: 13times at January 07, 2026 05:24 PM

I find where the poison oak grows under the oak trees and lots of leaves is where I find them. I have to beat the thieves that go and steal them from me every year. I didn't get any last rain season.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 07, 2026 05:27 PM (8+C2v)

398 Everyone is telling others "you do you"

Is this a polite way of saying "go f--- yourself"?
I wonder.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 07, 2026 05:27 PM (bIWgk)

399 Republican James Comer, the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, released a report Tuesday on how anti-alcohol activists in the Biden administration attempted to meddle with the Dietary Guidelines process and promote the idea that “no amount” of booze is safe.

Posted by: SMOD at January 07, 2026 05:27 PM (r5p5k)

400 What kind of butter should you put in your coffee, if you decide to try such a thing? Whipped and salted, unsalted, or what?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 07, 2026 05:24 PM (wzUl9)

Coffee should be like your heart... black, with no butter in it.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 07, 2026 05:27 PM (dGCAG)

401 I'm a Level Five Vegan. I don't eat anything that casts a shadow.
Posted by: Jesse Grass at January 07, 2026 05:26 PM

I snorted out loud.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 07, 2026 05:27 PM (jc0TO)

402 It's like Waltz has permission to take my stuff.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 07, 2026 05:27 PM (EyfuW)

403 >>>I miss smoking.


I quit for about 6-8 months a year.

But, I always go back in the winter.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 05:27 PM (ddphe)

404 Beef, butter, bacon, and eggs.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 05:27 PM (IGnEY)

405 I think they are fat three main reasons: sedentary lifestyle, sugary colas and the "three meals a day" paradigm .



Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 07

You could get all your calories in one or two meals. It won’t kill you, but you can also spread those calories out. My blood sugar would fall through the floor if I ate once a day. I eat a lot. But I don’t eat chips and Cheetos a lot. You can eat a shizzle ton of green beans for the same calories. 😊

Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 05:27 PM (Wmg4n)

406 So do I, a lot. I really enjoyed a smoke with my coffee or an adult beverage(s)
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at January 07, 2026 05:26 PM (TB/rm)

take up juggling, somehow I always got that smokers just needed the ritual of bumming cigs, finding matches and holding them more than the smokes.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2026 05:28 PM (8avO+)

407 I will say, when I have done keto, my brain tends to feel a bit foggy. Great for losing weight, but not a fan of that.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 07, 2026 05:21 PM (zZu0s)

I feel the complete opposite, I feel better eating fewer carbs and no processed food.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 07, 2026 05:25 PM (8+C2v)
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Yeah. Keto is supposed to clear brain fog. ¯\_(ツ_/¯

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 05:28 PM (krQz2)

408 Everyone is telling others "you do you"

Is this a polite way of saying "go f--- yourself"?
I wonder.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 07, 2026 05:27 PM (bIWgk)

More like a way to say that I don't care nearly enough about convincing you of my position to put effort into it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 05:28 PM (ExV1e)

409 >>I find where the poison oak grows under the oak trees and lots of leaves is where I find them.


The fairy rings of old/dead trees is the go to, imo.

However, if there is any Oak/Ivy there, the mushrooms are safe from me. I end up in the ER if I touch that shit.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 05:28 PM (ddphe)

410 Or skillet cabbage with Bacon grease. Yum.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 07, 2026 05:25 PM (Cw/ar)


With bacon and just a pinch of sugar

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 05:28 PM (WC9t6)

411 What is Tim planning on doing with the national guard?

Posted by: Max Power at January 07, 2026 05:28 PM (SwyyQ)

412 Salt was mentioned. I love salt. Just as salt is used to make jerky it also dehydrates the living cell. Eat salt drink water.
Also; Some people (using allergic improperly) have a certain sensitivity to salt which affects their body negatively - IE raises blood pressure and other things.
You can be tested for that. Dr.s have been muzzled about that test.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 05:29 PM (xvXg6)

413 Nutritional terrorism.

SILENCE!!! I KALE YOU!!!

Posted by: Some fates are worse than death at January 07, 2026 05:29 PM (TbWk/)

414
Life seems drab and unexciting.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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If you stop drinking and smoking you'll live a lot longer...or at least it will seem like a lot longer.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 07, 2026 05:29 PM (XeU6L)

415 >>take up juggling, somehow I always got that smokers just needed the ritual of bumming cigs, finding matches and holding them more than the smokes.


Yo-Yo is my go to for curing the 'hand fixation'.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 05:29 PM (ddphe)

416 Rufus, my opinion is organic is mostly a marketing play for the " I want to eat super healthy" crowd. The increased cost isn't worth it.
Posted by: Ben Had at January 07, 2026 05:24 PM (sDNVV)

It is also a maddening misuse of the term, so perfect for the illiterate and gullible crowd...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 07, 2026 05:29 PM (nbLIj)

417 >>>Rufus, my opinion is organic is mostly a marketing play for the " I want to eat super healthy" crowd. The increased cost isn't worth it.
Posted by: Ben Had at January 07, 2026 05:24 PM (sDNVV)
******
Thank you, I tend to agree but I'm sort of on an island here so there ya go. Appreciate it. R.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at January 07, 2026 05:29 PM (TB/rm)

418 I'm just going to keep eating burgers and fries until the food police knock down my door and drag me away. I gave up smoking 7 years ago; I figure I've done my bit.

Posted by: Paco at January 07, 2026 05:29 PM (2L+MU)

419 I miss smoking.



I quit 13 years ago. And I still miss it.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 05:30 PM (WC9t6)

420 Yo-Yo is my go to for curing the 'hand fixation'.
Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 05:29 PM (ddphe)

There's always Planet Fitness

Posted by: Speaking of hand fixations at January 07, 2026 05:30 PM (TbWk/)

421 I make my own ice coffee adding whipping cream, which is butter I'm disinclined to churn.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at January 07, 2026 05:30 PM (wBaIH)

422 What kind of butter should you put in your coffee, if you decide to try such a thing? Whipped and salted, unsalted, or what?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 07, 2026 05:24 PM (wzUl9)
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Definitely unsalted.

And from grass fed cows (so it has a better Omega 3/6 balance) is better.

I didn't like Ghee which is what some people use--and really organic ghee is the cleanest. But I'm going to try it again.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 05:30 PM (krQz2)

423 They literally flipped the pyramid upside down like South Park said to do. 😂

Posted by: SMOD at January 07, 2026 05:30 PM (r5p5k)

424 >>Thank you, I tend to agree but I'm sort of on an island here so there ya go.


I used to guide the head of the CA Organic Wine Growers Association.
I will quote him:
"Garrett, there is NO such thing as Organic wine.".

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 05:31 PM (ddphe)

425 You could get all your calories in one or two meals. It won’t kill you, but you can also spread those calories out. My blood sugar would fall through the floor if I ate once a day. I eat a lot. But I don’t eat chips and Cheetos a lot. You can eat a shizzle ton of green beans for the same calories. 😊
Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 05:27 PM (Wmg4n)

I've been the reverse with time I've tended to have nothing or tiny stuff at lunch and breakfast and now less at dinner too.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2026 05:31 PM (8avO+)

426 Oh and NOOD

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at January 07, 2026 05:31 PM (wBaIH)

427 345 If mushrooms don't make you hallucinate, they're just empty calories!
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at January 07, 2026 05:19 PM (wBaIH)

Do not eat the mushrooms growing in the cow pies.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 07, 2026 05:31 PM (8+C2v)

428 Nood. Boats - technically ships but whatever.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 05:31 PM (ExV1e)

429 Rufus, my opinion is organic is mostly a marketing play for the " I want to eat super healthy" crowd. The increased cost isn't worth it.
Posted by: Ben Had at January 07, 2026 05:24 PM (sDNVV)

Organic may include extra protein, though; you know, all those bugs and nematodes and things.

Posted by: Paco at January 07, 2026 05:31 PM (2L+MU)

430 Though I remember Fauci saying he took 10K of Vit D a day which is...not a great idea for most people.
Posted by: 18-1

I'm sure it doesn't work for some people, but that's only 250 micrograms.

That's the amount that works for me, for whole bunch of things, like not falling into a depressive spiral and other emotional equilibrium maintenance things, and using less ibuprofen at certain times of the month.

K2 (the menaquinone-7 form of it) is supposed to work with D3 to ... direct the D3 to put calcium in the proper places? I think? But there are apparently different forms of K2 that do different things. Menaquinone-4 is supposed to do good things for your brain.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 07, 2026 05:31 PM (a+4eV)

431 Nutritional terrorism.

SILENCE!!! I KALE YOU!!!
Posted by: Some fates are worse than death at January 07, 2026 05:29 PM (TbWk/)
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* golf clap *

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 05:31 PM (krQz2)

432 Is this Housemaid movie good?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 05:31 PM (IGnEY)

433 Don't blame the alligators, I have no interest in living to be 80 or 90. The day I can't take care of myself I'm done.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 07, 2026 05:32 PM (sDNVV)

434 bumming cigs, finding matches and holding them more than the smokes.
Posted by: Oldcat
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Rituals

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 05:32 PM (xvXg6)

435 Some big shit is jumping off in New York City. With the FBI and a bunch of law-enforcement unfortunately I'm driving and of course we can't post pictures.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 05:32 PM (WC9t6)

436 >>take up juggling, somehow I always got that smokers just needed the ritual of bumming cigs, finding matches and holding them more than the smokes.


Yo-Yo is my go to for curing the 'hand fixation'.
Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 05:29 PM (ddphe)

upgrade to throwing daggers or shirukin

Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2026 05:33 PM (8avO+)

437 I quit 13 years ago. And I still miss it.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 05:30 PM (WC9t6)

That's awful. I dipped for about 20 years, and I've been quit for about 20 years. I still dream about it, but as soon as I wake up I remember I don't use anymore, and the feeling of liberation is fantastic.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 07, 2026 05:33 PM (dGCAG)

438 Rufus, my opinion is organic is mostly a marketing play for the " I want to eat super healthy" crowd. The increased cost isn't worth it.
Posted by: Ben Had at January 07, 2026 05:24 PM (sDNVV)

It is also a maddening misuse of the term, so perfect for the illiterate and gullible crowd...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 07, 2026

***
Mrs. Wolfus No. 1 was a chemistry student, and she found it irritating that they used "organic" on things. To her that meant "It has carbon in it."

When I see "organic milk" in the store, I tell Linda, "Good, I was tired of that silicon milk I saw everywhere."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 07, 2026 05:33 PM (wzUl9)

439 bumming cigs, finding matches and holding them more than the smokes.
Posted by: Oldcat
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Rituals

Posted by: Braenyard


Plain Air just doesn't have the same kick as nicotine and caffeine.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 05:33 PM (WC9t6)

440 395 Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 05:20 PM (Wmg4n

I trust you, Piper, and if I lived closer I would come to your studio. Plus, I think you're a very nice person.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 07

Thank you. Listen, everyone has an opinion. Some are good, some aren’t. I am pretty sure most can weed through and recognize what’s what, for the most part. Plus, everyone, including me, wants an easy answer and fix that comes with zero downside. But there isn’t one. Not yet at least!

Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 05:34 PM (Wmg4n)

441 Walz issues 'warning order' to prep National Guard

Posted by: SMOD at January 07, 2026 05:34 PM (r5p5k)

442 421 I make my own ice coffee adding whipping cream, which is butter I'm disinclined to churn.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at January 07, 2026 05:30 PM (wBaIH)

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I just take my cup of coffee out to the barn and squeeze out the raw milk straight from the cow's teet.

For sweetening I pull out a honeycomb straight from the hive and drip some raw honey into the cup.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 07, 2026 05:34 PM (Vh9CX)

443 bumming cigs, finding matches and holding them more than the smokes.
Posted by: Oldcat
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Rituals

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 05:32 PM (xvXg6)

I remember getting a pack once and smoking it alone once I'd lost contact with actual smokers. Never smoked myself.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2026 05:34 PM (8avO+)

444 Tenured TN university professor fired for making "insensitive" remarks on social media the day after Chslie akurk was killed. Reinstated and given extra half million compensation
He posted on social media a quote from Charlie saying "unfortunately these deaths are the price we must pay to protect the 2nd Amendment "

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at January 07, 2026 05:35 PM (5WW1s)

445 Caligirl - I think the persistent wet since Thanksgiving has created the perfect conditions for mushrooms in the North Sacramento Valley where the valley meets foothills. (no pines)

It's not dried out here in weeks.

Posted by: 13times at January 07, 2026 05:35 PM (fnZRl)

446 For sweetening I pull out a honeycomb straight from the hive and drip some raw honey into the cup.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 07, 2026 05:34 PM (Vh9CX)

Chew on the bees for extra buzz.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2026 05:35 PM (8avO+)

447 419 I miss smoking.
I quit 13 years ago. And I still miss it. - rickb223

I'll tell you this; I'm glad I quit - sort of had to - but I wouldn't give up a single cigar or cigarette I smoked over about 40 years. I genuinely loved tobacco, and it worked, for me anyway, in reducing the tension and anxiety of everyday life.

Posted by: Paco at January 07, 2026 05:35 PM (2L+MU)

448 All milk is organic. It contains Carbon.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 05:35 PM (IGnEY)

449 Nood! We took ships that were trying to be cute with flags!

Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 05:36 PM (Wmg4n)

450 K2 (the menaquinone-7 form of it) is supposed to work with D3 to ... direct the D3 to put calcium in the proper places? I think? But there are apparently different forms of K2 that do different things. Menaquinone-4 is supposed to do good things for your brain.
Posted by: FeatherBlade
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And Mg Citrate. When you go for you annual they will (if you ask) check your vit D level. Adjust accordingly.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 05:36 PM (xvXg6)

451 I think they are fat three main reasons: sedentary lifestyle, sugary colas and the "three meals a day" paradigm .



Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 07, 2026 05:21 PM


When I was in grade school almost every morning we would exercise to that stupid "chicken fat" song with the teachers watching. If you didn't at least try they would be all over your a$$ in front of all of the other kids in your school.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 07, 2026 05:36 PM (0N4FZ)

452 Try vaping.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 05:36 PM (IGnEY)

453 Harold Ford, Jr moments ago on Fox News: Why didn't they (ICE) shoot-out her tires?

Galactic level stupidity. Same as FJB saying police should shoot charging perps in the leg.

It will probably be ineffectual at close range. The things that can go wrong are innumerable.

Posted by: Gref at January 07, 2026 05:36 PM (5rh/l)

454 That's awful. I dipped for about 20 years, and I've been quit for about 20 years. I still dream about it, but as soon as I wake up I remember I don't use anymore, and the feeling of liberation is fantastic.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 07, 2026 05:33 PM (dGCAG)


I'm never going back to smoking. But every now and then I'll pass by someplace and get a whiff of it, and it just makes me remember the smell. It's like I'll go to the casino and I'll stand in the no smoking part but I'll get real close to that hallway that leads to the smoking section. Just to get a good whiff every now and then.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 05:36 PM (WC9t6)

455 I've been the reverse with time I've tended to have nothing or tiny stuff at lunch and breakfast and now less at dinner too.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2026 05:31 PM (8avO+)

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I've always felt better by skipping breakfast and having a small snack for lunch.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 07, 2026 05:37 PM (Vh9CX)

456 If you have some sort of wellness program tied to your work insurance, you'll want to show them this pyramid. They are still working off the old one, telling people to eat low fat, low salt, high carbs.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 07, 2026 05:37 PM (+mUZM)

457 nood



boats

Posted by: banana Dream at January 07, 2026 05:38 PM (3uBP9)

458 If you have some sort of wellness program tied to your work insurance, you'll want to show them this pyramid. They are still working off the old one, telling people to eat low fat, low salt, high carbs.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 07, 2026 05:37 PM (+mUZM)

I instantly reject anything that calls itself 'wellness' . To Orwellian.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 07, 2026 05:39 PM (8avO+)

459 Another component to putting the many different bread (pasta) products at the mass level. It was done to mask the increased cost of food (inflation).

They filled our bellies with cheap fluff masking the increased cost of a meal at the steak house.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 05:39 PM (xvXg6)

460 I do one meal at day at lunch and is a full meal. Evening is some fruit or a little cheese with my wine.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 07, 2026 05:40 PM (sDNVV)

461 I smoked unwater in a dream with sub titles.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 07, 2026 05:43 PM (EyfuW)

462
So does this mean that the Army is going to redo the MREs to the first two menu lists, with actual American food? Because when I read the modern MRE menus it's all weird TexMex, Italian and Indian food that's mostly carb heavy pasta, beans and rice.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 07, 2026 05:45 PM (y9nCu)

463 Life is like a little smart-aleck.....

Posted by: Dee Dee Ramone, 1993 at January 07, 2026 05:49 PM (oftw2)

464 What kills me are these ads I see from my insurance company promoting some "portion control" bullshit colored plate gimmick, showing totally out of shape, soft people lounging on their couches in loose fitting clothes with facial expressions beaming from all the "positive steps" they're taking in their "wellness."

A lot of people need a little less affirmation and lot more Gunny Seargant Hartman.

Posted by: Zek at January 07, 2026 05:52 PM (5FPX4)

House Oversight Committee Takes Testimony About Somali Fraud (While Democrats Yammer about January 6th and White Supremacy)

Media Lies
@MediasLies

Democrat Rep. Robert Garcia's opening statement at the House Oversight hearing on fraud: Agrees fraud is bad... then immediately pivots to "but Trump!"

"Republicans like to talk about fraud in states with Democratic governors... but Republicans also have a president who has pardoned or reduced jail time for 25 criminals convicted of fraud..."

Classic TDS deflection. Instead of addressing fraud in blue states, it's all Trump's fault.

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While Democrats shouted and flung feces like low IQ monkeys, Republicans sought to elicit testimony from Minnesotal lawmakers and prosecutors with first-hand knowledge of the fraud.

Three state Republican lawmakers who have investigated public assistance fraud told the House Oversight Committee taxpayers were being ripped off to the tune of billions of dollars over recent years and the state's Democratic leadership refused to act. Walz, who recently announced he would drop his bid for a third term, has been asked to testify at a later hearing amid scrutiny of his handling of the schemes and faced criticism for failing to step in sooner to shut down payments to fraudsters.

House Republicans launched an investigation into Walz's handling of the fraud claims in December claiming the former vice-presidential nominee allowed efforts to cover it up and retaliate against whistleblowers under his watch. Walz has claimed the hearings and broader federal actions against the state are a political stunt to silence critics of the administration.

Rep. James Comer, a Kentucky Republican who chairs the committee, questioned whether Walz, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and the state's Democratic leadership were negligent or complicit in the fraud.

"Gov. Tim Walz, Attorney General Keith Ellison and Minnesota's Democrat leadership have either been asleep at the wheel or complicit in these crimes," Comer said. "We must expose this theft of taxpayer dollars and hold everybody accountable who let it happen."

...

One prosecutor has alleged that half or more of the $18 billion in federal funds for 14 programs in Minnesota since 2018 could have been stolen. Most of the defendants in the case are Somali Americans.

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State Rep. Marion Rarick told lawmakers the Walz administration had retaliated against state employees who raised concerns about the fraud with threats of being fired for cause so they cannot collect unemployment insurance or being involuntarily transferred to other departments to damage their careers.

State Rep. Kristin Robbins, a Republican who is running for governor, also said Walz has overseen a culture that encourages fraud. She said the committee she leads had identified fraud in Medicaid programs, autism centers, housing stabilization and other programs.

"Culture matters. Fraud flourishes when leaders ignore it, and criminals see they can get away with it," she testified. "Second, fraud flourishes when basic internal controls are not followed. This is not complicated."

She accused Walz and his administration of actively interfering with criminal investigations looking into the fraud and refusing to address the fraud for political gains through the support of Somali Americans in Minnesota. The state Department of Human Services undermined attempts to strengthen fraud prevention by making it harder to disqualify providers for the Child Care Assistance Program than others.

"We have many whistleblower reports talking about how DHS undermined the ability to strengthen internal controls," Robbins said.

Some videos of the questioning -- and the Democrats making animal noises -- below.


Gunther Eagleman™
@GuntherEagleman

2h

UNBELIEVABLE: !Just watched this disgusting display from a Dem in the House Oversight hearing on massive Minnesota fraud schemes.

Instead of addressing the childcare crisis and fraud that's bleeding taxpayers dry, she launches into a vile tirade painting white men as the real criminals and even dragging Jan 6 pardons into it.

She mocks "bad groups" and "others," then demands we "look at ourselves" -- meaning blame American citizens, especially white men, for "disproportionate" violence.

She even laughs while spewing this BULLSHIT! And get this: Defends Somali donors to campaigns, insisting they're all citizens so no problem. Total deflection from the real fraud investigations hitting her backyard.

This is peak anti-American, anti-white hatred from the left -- ignoring border chaos, criminal illegals, and fraud rings while demonizing hardworking patriots and even the President.

She's the real threat to our country, pushing division and excuses for corruption.

Time to call out these race-baiting Dems and demand accountability!


This gape-assed faggot is using the committee's time to whine about the "stolen valor" of Trump -- who's only the second US president with a background in entertainment, btw -- putting his name on the Trump-Kennedy Center.

He says he has legishhlashion ready for thish purposhh.

Either he's in Biden-like cognitive decline and the speesh shentersh of his brain are degraded, or he's a Kamala-like daydrinker and slosh-drunk during working hours.

You choose.

But choose wisely, because as the True Grail brings everlasting life, the False Grail brings eternal damnation.

That said, the answer is "Both."

Update:

America
@america

Majority Whip Tom Emmer: "Do you have any doubt that Tim Walz knew about that fraud as it was occurring?"

Minnesota State Reps:

"None whatsoever"

"He absolutely knew that it was occurring."


Video. The whistleblowers were told they would be fired for cause so that they could not receive unemployment insurance.

Posted by: Ace at 03:28 PM




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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 03:29 PM (Zz0t1)

2 Woot!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 03:29 PM (Zz0t1)

3 You and Garrett going to open a daycare, ace?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 07, 2026 03:29 PM (zZu0s)

4 Hello?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 07, 2026 03:29 PM (QGaXH)

5 Jan 6th.


HA!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 03:29 PM (Zz0t1)

6 2026 is gonna be brutal for the dems. All they have to run on is Jan 6th.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 07, 2026 03:29 PM (0N4FZ)

7 The gop is going to do what, exactly?

Posted by: Turn 2 at January 07, 2026 03:29 PM (CyFyf)

8 Is it a dude pretending to be a woman?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 07, 2026 03:30 PM (zZu0s)

9 legishhlashion ready for thish purposhh.

Shhhh.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 07, 2026 03:30 PM (Kt19C)

10 "I was scared for 2 hours 5 years ago. That justifies Somalis who appeared in this country 2 years ago stealing billions of dollars."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 03:31 PM (GBKbO)

11 Tradeshmensh entransh.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 07, 2026 03:31 PM (Kt19C)

12 None of the Learing Centers are safe.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 03:31 PM (IGnEY)

13 6 2026 is gonna be brutal for the dems. All they have to run on is Jan 6th.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 07, 2026 03:29 PM (0N4FZ)

I think they will keep rolling the dice on situations like the one in the previous thread. They have legions of wanna be martyrs with a death wish who don't believe they can really die.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 07, 2026 03:31 PM (zZu0s)

14 >>>7 The gop is going to do what, exactly?

the doomerism is getting old

they've sent ICE into the state to arrest illegals, prosecutors already have 92 open cases, Trump sent MORE prosecutors to investigate more fraud...

I mean, for crying out loud. Some of you just can't accept "Yes" as an answer.

Posted by: ace at January 07, 2026 03:32 PM (1wjle)

15 Ellison is crowing that he stopped $70M in fraud...while apparently allowing another $9B+

Either he is a mouth breathing retarded incompetent or he was in on it.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 03:32 PM (sKqQm)

16 I like Rep. Brandon Gill's questioning. He clearly prepared well and doesn't take any nonsense.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 07, 2026 03:32 PM (ZeH0U)

17 The verb "protect" in Ellison' tweet is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

Posted by: RS at January 07, 2026 03:32 PM (SuU/K)

18 Brandon Gill is one of my favorites

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2026 03:33 PM (VE6XX)

19 Walz, Ellison, and the rest of the democrats who instructed their voters to impede ICE got a woman killed just hours ago.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 07, 2026 03:33 PM (0U5gm)

20 I'd trade all the hearings in the world for one high level conviction of someone like Walz...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 03:33 PM (sKqQm)

21 [Ellison's]

Posted by: RS at January 07, 2026 03:33 PM (SuU/K)

22 Democrats are totally going to win back the House. They are hovering over all the targets important to the voters. How can you not want them back in charge?

Posted by: Marcus T at January 07, 2026 03:34 PM (oAqqA)

23 Either he is a mouth breathing retarded incompetent or he was in on it.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 03:32 PM (sKqQm)

Hey!!

Posted by: Both at January 07, 2026 03:34 PM (Q4G+n)

24 I still maintain that we shouldn't be saving Blue States from themselves. Let a thousand corruptions bloom. Just don't spend federal money on them.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 07, 2026 03:34 PM (jc0TO)

25 This post is a bit of a letdown after the last one about a crazy AWFuL clamdigger running over cops and getting shot in the head while onlookers squeal like Ned Beatty in Deliverance. Just saying!

Her poor cats.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 03:34 PM (iFTx/)

26 I mean, for crying out loud. Some of you just can't accept "Yes" as an answer.
Posted by: ace at January 07, 2026 03:32 PM (1wjle)

I think part of it is that this type of thing SHOULD send any honest person into a righteous fury. The Minnesotas should have already hanged tim Walz and set the swinging corpse on fire in the center of Minneapolis-St Paul.

That they haven't makes people uncomfortable and wonder how many reasonable, honest people are left.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 07, 2026 03:34 PM (zZu0s)

27 I wanna hear news about those ships we boarded. Anybody heard anything?

Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2026 03:35 PM (77rzZ)

28 Ace, We are heartbroken and aghast at your invidious comparisons regarding Democrats. However we will endeavor to persevere.

Posted by: Feces-throwing low IQ monkeys at January 07, 2026 03:35 PM (0BrN/)

29 Reduce social service payments to Minnesota to zero for a decade. Let them tax themselves if they want to pay for Somali childcare.

Posted by: mr tmz at January 07, 2026 03:35 PM (rJ48h)

30 Nero fiddles, Dems yammer about Jan 6th, and Republicans hold hearings.

Every man to his own trade. (Chacun à son métier)

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 07, 2026 03:36 PM (bIWgk)

31 14 the doomerism is getting old

they've sent ICE into the state to arrest illegals, prosecutors already have 92 open cases, Trump sent MORE prosecutors to investigate more fraud...

I mean, for crying out loud. Some of you just can't accept "Yes" as an answer.

Posted by: ace at January 07, 2026 03:32 PM (1wjle)

=======

People still think this became a news item because of a YouTuber.

The YouTuber released his video a week after the MN USA (appointed in August) had a press conference where he announced the first of his indictments in this investigation while saying that it was the first of a large wave.

And that was before the DOJ sent more prosecutors this week.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 03:36 PM (GBKbO)

32 The gop is going to do what, exactly?
Posted by: Turn 2 at January 07, 2026 03:29 PM (CyFyf)


They're going to hold hearings so they can have pundits post "WATCH THIS SICK BURN!!!" on the Xcrement.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 03:36 PM (Zz0t1)

33 The fraudsters are all going to be doing the perp and ICE removal process just in time for the midterms. Remember this is just Minnesota. The Feds have this going in Illinois and California which is going to make this look like child’s play.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 07, 2026 03:36 PM (oAqqA)

34 27 I wanna hear news about those ships we boarded. Anybody heard anything?
Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2026 03:35 PM (77rzZ)

The fact we aren't hearing much tells me it was pretty important stuff they found

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2026 03:36 PM (VE6XX)

35 Ellison should get hit by chair. Every single time he is near one.

Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 03:36 PM (OoFl2)

36 Day-by-day step-by-step you realize my genius.

Posted by: The Pinochet Solution at January 07, 2026 03:37 PM (RIvkX)

37 26 I think part of it is that this type of thing SHOULD send any honest person into a righteous fury. The Minnesotas should have already hanged tim Walz and set the swinging corpse on fire in the center of Minneapolis-St Paul.

That they haven't makes people uncomfortable and wonder how many reasonable, honest people are left.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 07, 2026 03:34 PM (zZu0s)

=======

Rep. Tom Emmer, noted squish (and #3 in House leadership), said that he wants Somali fraudsters denaturalized and deported.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 03:37 PM (GBKbO)

38 Y'all can keep L'opecia Pressley in DC. We don't want her back.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 07, 2026 03:37 PM (bFu5X)

39 The fact we aren't hearing much tells me it was pretty important stuff they found
Posted by: It's me donna

Yep.

Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2026 03:37 PM (77rzZ)

40 Ellison has plans on high office.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 07, 2026 03:38 PM (xcxpd)

41 I think part of it is that this type of thing SHOULD send any honest person into a righteous fury. The Minnesotas should have already hanged tim Walz and set the swinging corpse on fire in the center of Minneapolis-St Paul.

The Dems have a game they play with these type of news stories

1) It isn't happening. Period. End of Story!

2) Ok its happening occasionally but it is racist for you to notice

3) it happened, its a good thing it happened, but its old news anyway

and...this always seems to work.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 03:38 PM (sKqQm)

42 Government of the theater kids, by the theater kids, for the theater kids.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 07, 2026 03:39 PM (rqw5t)

43 >>>The YouTuber released his video a week after the MN USA (appointed in August) had a press conference where he announced the first of his indictments in this investigation while saying that it was the first of a large wave.
And that was before the DOJ sent more prosecutors this week.

no doubt Nick Shirely revealed additional avenues for investigation, and that's important, but it's not as if Trump was sitting on his thumbs before this. That US Attorney estimated that there was nine billion in fraud. One assumes it was announcements like that that spurred Shirley.

Posted by: ace at January 07, 2026 03:39 PM (1wjle)

44 Rep. Tom Emmer, noted squish (and #3 in House leadership), said that he wants Somali fraudsters denaturalized and deported.

The problem is when some judge says "you can't do that" in six month Emmer's ilk will tell Trump to pound sand on impeaching that judge...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 03:39 PM (sKqQm)

45 Do you have any doubt that Tim Walz knew all about the fraud?
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My only question regards the degree to which he was participating.

Posted by: Methos at January 07, 2026 03:39 PM (vSvIl)

46 Ellison should get hit by chair. Every single time he is near one.
Posted by: Piper

Wow, violent sentiments from Piper.

What's next, Fen posting Mannix girls?

Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2026 03:39 PM (77rzZ)

47 I wanna hear news about those ships we boarded. Anybody heard anything?
Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2026 03:35 PM (77rzZ)

The fact we aren't hearing much tells me it was pretty important stuff they found

Posted by: It's me donna



Gold is heavy and difficult to transport.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 07, 2026 03:40 PM (0U5gm)

48 And Bob, no. I am not threatening Ellison with chairs. I mean goodness, it’s me. I don’t throw chairs, even at someone who really, really deserves to be smacked by a chair after stepping on a Lego and getting bitten by a shark.

Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 03:40 PM (OoFl2)

49 The gop is going to do what, exactly?

the doomerism is getting old

they've sent ICE into the state to arrest illegals, prosecutors already have 92 open cases, Trump sent MORE prosecutors to investigate more fraud...

I mean, for crying out loud. Some of you just can't accept "Yes" as an answer.
Posted by: ace at January 07, 2026 03:32 PM (1wjle)
___

I'll add that (as I've been saying) it takes time for FBI and DOJ to build and bring criminal cases. Months or even years. Even open and shut cases take time. It's already been shown that corrupt judges (and corrupt grand juries) will seize on any issue to deep-six the case. These cases have to be perfect to have a good chance of winning.

Too many of our own people seem upset that Pam Bondi doesn't just prowl the streets at night in a leather catsuit shooting bad guys in the face.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 03:40 PM (iFTx/)

50 43 no doubt Nick Shirely revealed additional avenues for investigation, and that's important, but it's not as if Trump was sitting on his thumbs before this. That US Attorney estimated that there was nine billion in fraud. One assumes it was announcements like that that spurred Shirley.

Posted by: ace at January 07, 2026 03:39 PM (1wjle)

=======

I assume the Shirley video was in process before. That David guy has been looking into it all independently for a while.

But...the news cycle actually began with the MN USA's press conference. The $9 billion number came from that news conference.

News of indictments came from that news conference.

Also, shipwreckedcrew makes an educated guess that Walz dropped his re-election bid because he got a Targeting Letter from the DOJ telling him he's under criminal investigation. I believe it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 03:40 PM (GBKbO)

51 My only question regards the degree to which he was participating

Walz personally has a low net wealth, but I saw one of his kids mouthing off the other day about this fraud so I assume his brats were the ones getting the payouts, like Joe and Hunter...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 03:40 PM (sKqQm)

52 Why would you set out from your home in the morning looking like a black conehead?

Posted by: NCKate at January 07, 2026 03:41 PM (uQzkA)

53 People still think this became a news item because of a YouTuber.

The YouTuber released his video a week after the MN USA (appointed in August) had a press conference where he announced the first of his indictments in this investigation while saying that it was the first of a large wave.

And that was before the DOJ sent more prosecutors this week.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 03:36 PM (GBKbO)

Well more people pay attention to YouTubers than the government announcements, for better and worse.

Speaking of...how is Another Movie Channel doing? You're really on a great tempo with video releases.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 07, 2026 03:41 PM (xcxpd)

54 "Accountability" is the new red-hot buzzword.

Republicans waving receipts at dems in hearings is about all the accountability we're likely to see.

Dems did not scream accountability when hunting down aunt Mabels who were in sight of the capital dome on 1/6/21. They sent their goons armed up with full-auto rifles and wearing plated vests to arrest the Mables in front of their kids at zero dark thirty. They got it done. They had the judges, the juries, the prosecutors, and the jailers all ready for action.

Posted by: M. Gaga at January 07, 2026 03:41 PM (KiBMU)

55 44 Rep. Tom Emmer, noted squish (and #3 in House leadership), said that he wants Somali fraudsters denaturalized and deported.

The problem is when some judge says "you can't do that" in six month Emmer's ilk will tell Trump to pound sand on impeaching that judge...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 03:39 PM (sKqQm)

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IJs are rubber stamping ICE.

At least 70% of all people picked up by ICE are signing waivers of process and just getting deported without even seeing an IJ.

Again..600,000 deported in 11 months, all from the interior. District level judges are stopped precious little.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 03:42 PM (GBKbO)

56 The fact we aren't hearing much tells me it was pretty important stuff they found
Posted by: It's me donna

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I suspect it will be nothing

Ivan: "Hey, how do we smuggle this important stuff out of Venezuela?"
Boris:"Let's use a sanctioned ship that Trump is trying to seize."
Ivan "Da! Good Idea."

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 07, 2026 03:42 PM (bIWgk)

57 46 Ellison should get hit by chair. Every single time he is near one.
Posted by: Piper

Wow, violent sentiments from Piper.

What's next, Fen posting Mannix girls?
Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2026

Haha! See my 48. Ellison’s ex helped me so much in my divorce, it’s a little personal. He is a huge lesson in the reality that the good guy doesn’t always win.

Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 03:42 PM (OoFl2)

58 >>Walz personally has a low net wealth, but I saw one of his kids mouthing off the other day about this fraud so I assume his brats were the ones getting the payouts, like Joe and Hunter...


The payouts came in the form of a Voting Block 100k+ strong and Democrat Party Favors...like, a VP Bid.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 03:43 PM (ddphe)

59 Rep. Tom Emmer, noted squish (and #3 in House leadership), said that he wants Somali fraudsters denaturalized and deported.

The problem is when some judge says "you can't do that" in six month Emmer's ilk will tell Trump to pound sand on impeaching that judge...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 03:39 PM (sKqQm)

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IJs are rubber stamping ICE.

At least 70% of all people picked up by ICE are signing waivers of process and just getting deported without even seeing an IJ.

Again..600,000 deported in 11 months, all from the interior. District level judges are stopped precious little.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 03:42 PM (GBKbO)
________

... with Judge "The Catapult" Blade waiting in the wings ...

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 03:43 PM (iFTx/)

60 Pam Bondi doesn't just prowl the streets at night in a leather catsuit shooting bad guys in the face.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade


I'll be in my bunk.

Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2026 03:43 PM (77rzZ)

61 49 I'll add that (as I've been saying) it takes time for FBI and DOJ to build and bring criminal cases. Months or even years. Even open and shut cases take time. It's already been shown that corrupt judges (and corrupt grand juries) will seize on any issue to deep-six the case. These cases have to be perfect to have a good chance of winning.

Too many of our own people seem upset that Pam Bondi doesn't just prowl the streets at night in a leather catsuit shooting bad guys in the face.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 03:40 PM (iFTx/)

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And, combine that with Democrats in the Senate demanding more roll call votes on the floor than in recent history in order to slow things down.

They're doing that on appointments to positions like USAs.

The MN USA wasn't appointed until August. By December he was bringing indictments on this stuff while promising more.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 03:43 PM (GBKbO)

62 >House Oversight Committee Takes Testimony About Somali Fraud
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cool
the circus is in town

Posted by: Don Black at January 07, 2026 03:43 PM (ZxPkt)

63 I'd trade all the hearings in the world for one high level conviction of someone like Walz...
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Yup. There's no deterrence against stuff like this in the future unless government personnel/office holders are punished in some material way.

"Not running for office again so I don't get any more, but get to keep the graft I've already collected" isn't enough.

Posted by: Methos at January 07, 2026 03:43 PM (vSvIl)

64 Signal Elon Crypto The Qatar Plane Epstein Vaccines Iran Tylenol USAID Maduro ICE will be the end of Trump!!!

Posted by: ... at January 07, 2026 03:44 PM (Q4G+n)

65 Too many of our own people seem upset that Pam Bondi doesn't just prowl the streets at night in a leather catsuit shooting bad guys in the face.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 03:40 PM

Though that would be enough for me.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 07, 2026 03:44 PM (jc0TO)

66 53 Speaking of...how is Another Movie Channel doing? You're really on a great tempo with video releases.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 07, 2026 03:41 PM (xcxpd)

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453 subs.

That Orson Welles wave gave me outsized hope for the growth. Growth has slowed tremendously since that video stopped trending.

But, I keep on. Don't have much else to do. Got turned down on one job I'd interviewed for yesterday. Le sigh...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 03:44 PM (GBKbO)

67 Walz having a special statement on TV now

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 07, 2026 03:44 PM (iMotb)

68 Too many of our own people seem upset that Pam Bondi doesn't just prowl the streets at night in a leather catsuit shooting bad guys in the face.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 03:40 PM (iFTx/)


Well....now I am, with that visual in my head...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 07, 2026 03:44 PM (xcxpd)

69 Majority Whip Tom Emmer: "Do you have any doubt that Tim Walz knew about that fraud as it was occurring?"

Minnesota State Reps:

"None whatsoever"

"He absolutely knew that it was occurring."

You mean Tom Emmer, who told the citizens of MN to STFU and STFD when they objected to having hordes of unassimilable foreigners dumped on them. He's desperately trying to make people forget that. Don't let him succeed. He needs to go.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2026 03:44 PM (Riz8t)

70 The unroll is against the sleeves. I repeat. The unroll is against the sleeves.

Posted by: ... at January 07, 2026 03:45 PM (Q4G+n)

71 Pam Bondi doesn't just prowl the streets at night in a leather catsuit shooting bad guys in the face.

One thing I will say for Bondi - she has the hollywood look.

Seriously if you were casting a reformist but hot milfy looking prosecutor you'd pick her for her looks at least wouldn't you?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 03:45 PM (sKqQm)

72 But, I keep on. Don't have much else to do. Got turned down on one job I'd interviewed for yesterday. Le sigh...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 03:44 PM (GBKbO)

Sorry to hear that man.

But the year is young.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 07, 2026 03:45 PM (xcxpd)

73 Earlier thread:
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"Biden" Signed an Executive Order Relieving "Day Cares" of the Need to Provide Verification of Their "Enrollees"
—Ace
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Simple: The Democratic Party MUST be funded.

Walz, very likely, knew all about it. Mrs. Tiresmoke-appreciator is divorcing Walz because he was hiding a cache of money on her.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 03:45 PM (krQz2)

74 Personally, I think Walz might be a little more loquacious after another Delta Dawn operation.

But then, I feel that way about every one of these low down, dirty Democrat dogs.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 07, 2026 03:45 PM (BI5O2)

75 This gape-assed faggot is using the committee's time to whine about ...

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You're gonna have to be a lot more specific ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 07, 2026 03:46 PM (PtqHl)

76 Got turned down on one job I'd interviewed for yesterday. Le sigh...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 03:44 PM (GBKbO)

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Probably too much Prometheus.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 03:46 PM (krQz2)

77 My only question regards the degree to which he was participating

Walz personally has a low net wealth, but I saw one of his kids mouthing off the other day about this fraud so I assume his brats were the ones getting the payouts, like Joe and Hunter...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 03:40 PM (sKqQm)
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Where does anyone think Walz was getting campaign contributions from? A lot of this kind of corruption isn't direct cash vigs under the table (watch out, don't hit Kamala) but legit-looking transfers like campaign donations and support.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 03:46 PM (iFTx/)

78
shriek!

shriekety shriek!

*throws feces*

*shakes one leg*

Thank ya. Thank ya very much.

-Ayanna Pressley, performer on the stage of life.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 07, 2026 03:46 PM (azNOR)

79 68 Too many of our own people seem upset that Pam Bondi doesn't just prowl the streets at night in a leather catsuit shooting bad guys in the face.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 03:40 PM (iFTx/)


Well....now I am, with that visual in my head...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 07, 2026 03:44 PM (xcxpd)

Nice visual... but I brain is more...

Her in a nice slinky dress, holding a small pistol...

Bondi... Pam Bondi... /que James Bond Music.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 03:46 PM (mP0Kj)

80 72 But, I keep on. Don't have much else to do. Got turned down on one job I'd interviewed for yesterday. Le sigh...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 03:44 PM (GBKbO)

Sorry to hear that man.

But the year is young.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 07, 2026 03:45 PM (xcxpd)

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Unemployment insurance got approved, so that will help the tiniest of bits, but Dolley makes enough to cover our costs and even pay for all of the pre-planned vacations this year (not cheap).

I want a job. I try for the jobs. But...there's only so much I can do. In the meantime, I bitch into cameras about movies.

I think I'm ready to make my Wolfgang Petersen video now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 03:46 PM (GBKbO)

81 "Biden" Signed an Executive Order Relieving "Day Cares" of the Need to Provide Verification of Their "Enrollees"

Reminds me of Obama removing the check on whether political donations are from overseas on his donation website...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 03:47 PM (sKqQm)

82 45 Do you have any doubt that Tim Walz knew all about the fraud?
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My only question regards the degree to which he was participating.

Posted by: Methos at January 07, 2026 03:39 PM (vSvIl)

I saw a theory that makes a lot of sense. Walz was selected as the VP running mate strictly due to the fact that he had complete access to this fraud network and its billions.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at January 07, 2026 03:47 PM (KbCG3)

83 >> I wanna hear news about those ships we boarded. Anybody heard anything?

All you need to know is they reflagged the ship with a Russian registry, the Russian sent a submarine escort, so we added an P8 Poseidon anti submarine asset to our flotilla and boarded the vessel, then took control.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 07, 2026 03:47 PM (oAqqA)

84 Jacob Frey (not from even from Minnesota) dispatches a flying monkey to kill and be killed per the Islamofascist/Bolshevik playbook and now gets to puff his pathetic little chest out and screech profanities like Lindsay Graham getting his weiner caught in a random zipper while making a hasty exit from the bathroom marked "other" during the J6 Fedsurrection.

Don't fall for it. Keep the pressure on, double down on ot. Let these assholes burn the place to the ground. In January. But keep the pressure on. The screeching must stop. See General Sherman's remarks viz Georgia and South Carolina for application rates...

Posted by: ErikInTexas at January 07, 2026 03:47 PM (4b7CV)

85 453 subs.

That Orson Welles wave gave me outsized hope for the growth. Growth has slowed tremendously since that video stopped trending.

But, I keep on. Don't have much else to do. Got turned down on one job I'd interviewed for yesterday. Le sigh...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 03:44 PM

454.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 07, 2026 03:47 PM (bFu5X)

86 Paraphrasing Minnesota safety director- Peacefully protesting, Peacefully while gathering Peacefully while Peacefully always how Peacefully ee can be

Posted by: Skip at January 07, 2026 03:48 PM (Ia/+0)

87 52 Why would you set out from your home in the morning looking like a black conehead?
Posted by: NCKate at January 07, 2026 03:41 PM (uQzkA)

They're from France?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 07, 2026 03:48 PM (xcxpd)

88 77
Where does anyone think Walz was getting campaign contributions from? A lot of this kind of corruption isn't direct cash vigs under the table (watch out, don't hit Kamala) but legit-looking transfers like campaign donations and support.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 03:46 PM (iFTx/)

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"Leave this obvious corruption alone."

It's enough to make him a co-conspirator.

And, I do hold to the belief that Walz stopped his campaign because he got a targetting letter from the DOJ.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 03:48 PM (GBKbO)

89 Where does anyone think Walz was getting campaign contributions from? A lot of this kind of corruption isn't direct cash vigs under the table (watch out, don't hit Kamala) but legit-looking transfers like campaign donations and support.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 03:46 PM (iFTx/)

Wonder if there were more than average contributions to 'Back the Blue' from Miny Soda...

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 03:48 PM (mP0Kj)

90 Nick "Don't Call Me" Shirley

Posted by: ... at January 07, 2026 03:48 PM (Q4G+n)

91 Walz ESL translator looks to be 'theatrical' at best.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 07, 2026 03:48 PM (iMotb)

92 I have no doubt Tim Walz is gayer than a bag of dicks, and pays for his wife’s bulls with fraud money.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 07, 2026 03:48 PM (oAqqA)

93 45 Do you have any doubt that Tim Walz knew all about the fraud?
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My only question regards the degree to which he was participating.

Posted by: Methos at January 07, 2026 03:39 PM (vSvIl)

I saw a theory that makes a lot of sense. Walz was selected as the VP running mate strictly due to the fact that he had complete access to this fraud network and its billions.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at January 07, 2026 03:47 PM (KbCG3)
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Well, she did "raise record billions overnight". I thought it was all the transfer of cash from Biden's campaign. But it might have been more.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 03:48 PM (krQz2)

94 85
454.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 07, 2026 03:47 PM (bFu5X)

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F'n sweet. Thank you!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 03:48 PM (GBKbO)

95 No mattrr how bad people are, Trump is worse

Posted by: Skip at January 07, 2026 03:49 PM (Ia/+0)

96 Walz is giving a special address?

I thought we weren't supposed to call him retarded no more....

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 03:49 PM (krQz2)

97 Shirley you jest.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 03:49 PM (IGnEY)

98 Make minnesota a territory again put it under marshal law and send in some hanging judges. Fck this.

Posted by: Cold, dark and unpleasant at January 07, 2026 03:49 PM (KdazR)

99 saw a theory that makes a lot of sense. Walz was selected as the VP running mate strictly due to the fact that he had complete access to this fraud network and its billions.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at January 07, 2026 03:47 PM (KbCG3)

Was it mine? Because that's my theory. Same reason Biden was chosen. His "foreign policy".

Posted by: ... at January 07, 2026 03:49 PM (Q4G+n)

100 No mattrr how bad people are, Trump is worse

Posted by: Skip at January 07, 2026 03:49 PM (Ia/+0)
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At least Hitler wasn't Trump!

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 03:49 PM (krQz2)

101 Too many of our own people seem upset that Pam Bondi doesn't just prowl the streets at night in a leather catsuit shooting bad guys in the face.

I just want to know how she got the Australians to name a beach after her.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2026 03:49 PM (Riz8t)

102 Where does anyone think Walz was getting campaign contributions from? A lot of this kind of corruption isn't direct cash vigs under the table (watch out, don't hit Kamala) but legit-looking transfers like campaign donations and support.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 03:46 PM (iFTx/)

Martin Armstrong (love his computer or don't) says there is the odd trick of buying one long option and one short option in the politicians name, and covering the loser, and that sort of "honest transfer" flies under all the radars in the world right now

Posted by: Kindltot at January 07, 2026 03:50 PM (rbvCR)

103 I want a job where i can drive a golf cart all day and occasionally wave my pistol.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 07, 2026 03:50 PM (EyfuW)

104
I was listening to this. Bonus outrage:

One of those dim Dems asked the witness if she agreed with Trump's pardon of George Santos.

Witness answers she doesn't know; doesn't have all the facts of the case.

Dim Dem says "STOP DEFLECTING. You know what happened!"

Stop deflecting?!?! What does George Santos have to do with MN fraud?????

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 07, 2026 03:50 PM (Uo+RY)

105 They had the judges, the juries, the prosecutors, and the jailers all ready for action.
Posted by: M. Gaga at January 07, 2026 03:41 PM (KiBMU)

It is hard to argue that this is what happened.

It is still my point that the dems in 2021 ACTED like they had pulled off a coup and started setting out to purge their enemies. I am still surprised they did nkt do something more overt (more overt than trying to assassinate trump) in 2024.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 07, 2026 03:50 PM (zZu0s)

106 For those of you wondering where this is going, right now they are tracking who benefited from the fraudulent funds, and which campaigns they found their way back too.

Just in time for the midterms.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 07, 2026 03:50 PM (oAqqA)

107 I think I'm ready to make my Wolfgang Petersen video now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 03:46 PM (GBKbO)

You must really be working ahead of me. I just finished The Neverending Story.

But I got distracted by Japanese Horror movies as well.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 07, 2026 03:50 PM (xcxpd)

108 I want a job where i can drive a golf cart all day and occasionally wave my pistol.
Posted by: thug dolphin at January 07, 2026 03:50 PM

It's called Retirement.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 07, 2026 03:50 PM (jc0TO)

109 Too many of our own people seem upset that Pam Bondi doesn't just prowl the streets at night in a leather catsuit shooting bad guys in the face.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 03:40 PM

I would like to point out that we don't know that she doesn't do this.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 03:50 PM (ExV1e)

110 106 For those of you wondering where this is going, right now they are tracking who benefited from the fraudulent funds, and which campaigns they found their way back too.

Just in time for the midterms.
Posted by: Marcus T at January 07, 2026 03:50 PM (oAqqA)

Good news is always welcome

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 07, 2026 03:51 PM (xcxpd)

111 Got turned down on one job I'd interviewed for yesterday. Le sigh...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 03:44 PM (GBKbO)

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Probably too much Prometheus.
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I don't get it.

Posted by: Crusader at January 07, 2026 03:51 PM (TN0g+)

112 Where does anyone think Walz was getting campaign contributions from? A lot of this kind of corruption isn't direct cash vigs under the table (watch out, don't hit Kamala) but legit-looking transfers like campaign donations and support.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 03:46 PM (iFTx/)

=======

"Leave this obvious corruption alone."

It's enough to make him a co-conspirator.

And, I do hold to the belief that Walz stopped his campaign because he got a targetting letter from the DOJ.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 03:48 PM (GBKbO)
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Possible. I think more likely the Democrap poo-bahs saw the handwriting on the wall, smelled the stench from the shambling corpse, and didn't want to spend any more political capital on a dead-bang loser that they never really liked or wanted in the first place. Better to clear the decks and get rid of this leper.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 03:51 PM (iFTx/)

113 All you need to know is they reflagged the ship with a Russian registry, the Russian sent a submarine escort, so we added an P8 Poseidon anti submarine asset to our flotilla and boarded the vessel, then took control.

I hadn't heard that. I suppose that when you don't know where, or if, there's a sub in the area, it has the advantage. When you DO know, the sub is in great peril.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2026 03:51 PM (Riz8t)

114 they've sent ICE into the state to arrest illegals, prosecutors already have 92 open cases, Trump sent MORE prosecutors to investigate more fraud...

But… the question was about Republicans, not Trump. How much of Trump’s policies have been turned into law by Republicans, so that they last longer than him? (This is a serious question—I don’t know the answer, although I do suspect it.)

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 07, 2026 03:51 PM (EXyHK)

115 Any hearing held in Congress - any one -- is nothing but a show. An opportunity for the Congress Critters to hear themselves speak, get their talking points out there and then come back to their constituents and exclaim how they stood up to big bad ????.

And nothing gets solved.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 07, 2026 03:51 PM (N39Ws)

116 107 You must really be working ahead of me. I just finished The Neverending Story.

But I got distracted by Japanese Horror movies as well.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 07, 2026 03:50 PM (xcxpd)

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I keep myself 2 weeks ahead of what's posting, at least.

When I started, I was writing the reviews the morning after I watched something and then just posting the reviews. And then I watched Persona, had no idea what to write, and didn't post anything for 2 days as I struggled with it and then watched it again.

Don't want that gap again!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 03:51 PM (GBKbO)

117 the doomerism is getting old

As Razorfist says, the black pill is the gayest thing on Earth. Although he doesn’t know about garrett.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 07, 2026 03:51 PM (3cXfB)

118 I just finished The Neverending Story.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 07, 2026 03:50 PM

Obviously false advertising.

Posted by: Lionel Hutz at January 07, 2026 03:52 PM (jc0TO)

119 Got turned down on one job I'd interviewed for yesterday. Le sigh...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 03:44 PM (GBKbO)

I'd ask if you were too American or too human but employers poke around through internet posts so best you don't answer.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 03:52 PM (ExV1e)

120 Keep at it, TJM.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 07, 2026 03:52 PM (zZu0s)

121 All of these fucking committees should be limited to a 48 hour shelf life. Too many cocksucking legislators have too much power over a country who did not vote for them.

Go back to your constituency, go back to your state and fuck off!

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 07, 2026 03:52 PM (Ouxay)

122 About the lady trying to run over ICE agents.

It's just amazing how fast progs opinions of surging your car at a human being changes.

Highway is blocked by a protest and you can't get home and a bunch of people are beating on your car?

No. That is barbaric!

Federal officers of ICE wants to ask you questions?

Run over and then back up again.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 03:52 PM (krQz2)

123 112 Possible. I think more likely the Democrap poo-bahs saw the handwriting on the wall, smelled the stench from the shambling corpse, and didn't want to spend any more political capital on a dead-bang loser that they never really liked or wanted in the first place. Better to clear the decks and get rid of this leper.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 03:51 PM (iFTx/)

=======

He said in his press conference announcing his decision that he couldn't spend his time campaigning and "defending myself".

It's a tea leaf, but a strong indicator at the same time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 03:52 PM (GBKbO)

124 I just finished The Neverending Story.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 07, 2026 03:50 PM (xcxpd)

I'm not falling for that one.

Posted by: ... at January 07, 2026 03:52 PM (Q4G+n)

125 "I was listening to this. Bonus outrage:

One of those dim Dems asked the witness if she agreed with Trump's pardon of George Santos.

Witness answers she doesn't know; doesn't have all the facts of the case.

Dim Dem says "STOP DEFLECTING. You know what happened!"

Stop deflecting?!?! What does George Santos have to do with MN fraud?????

Posted by: Blonde Morticia"


Pretty fucking stupid, typical for Dems but wait until they start getting into Big Oil and global warming. Which they will if given a chance.

Posted by: Ripley at January 07, 2026 03:53 PM (GUOwU)

126 the doomerism is getting old

they've sent ICE into the state to arrest illegals, prosecutors already have 92 open cases, Trump sent MORE prosecutors to investigate more fraud...

I mean, for crying out loud. Some of you just can't accept "Yes" as an answer.

Posted by: ace at January 07, 2026 03:32 PM (1wjle)

The black pilled are determined to make everyone else as miserable as they are. No know cure for the blackpilled except a hammer to a thumb. Maybe both thumbs.

Posted by: Ouch the Grouch at January 07, 2026 03:53 PM (G+z4C)

127 "I’m about 7 beers deep and I’ve decided that the NYC Abolish Housing lady, the new woke mayor of Seattle, and the schizo Trump Grand Jury lady are all the same CIA agent."

https://is.gd/D5FmyD

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 07, 2026 03:53 PM (VktAz)

128 But… the question was about Republicans, not Trump. How much of Trump’s policies have been turned into law by Republicans, so that they last longer than him? (This is a serious question—I don’t know the answer, although I do suspect it.)

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 07, 2026 03:51 PM (EXyHK)
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Non-administration GOP are completely AWOL.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 03:53 PM (krQz2)

129 And what's this about Pam Bondi in a leather catwoman suit? Julie Newmar did it best, but still....

Posted by: ErikInTexas at January 07, 2026 03:54 PM (4b7CV)

130 115 Any hearing held in Congress - any one -- is nothing but a show. An opportunity for the Congress Critters to hear themselves speak, get their talking points out there and then come back to their constituents and exclaim how they stood up to big bad ????.

And nothing gets solved.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 07, 2026 03:51 PM (N39Ws)

Yup, oversite is there so Congress can decide on funding, or if they need to change laws.

As we are just doing continuing resolutions for most stuff... and the laws are ALREADY on the books that make this illegal.

This is all theatre.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 03:54 PM (mP0Kj)

131 I wish I knew sign language because I think many might be frauds

Posted by: Skip at January 07, 2026 03:54 PM (Ia/+0)

132 Too many of our own people seem upset that Pam Bondi doesn't just prowl the streets at night in a leather catsuit shooting bad guys in the face.
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I move that she be permitted to try-on said leather catsuit. If it doesn't fit, we must acquit.

Posted by: Crusader at January 07, 2026 03:54 PM (TN0g+)

133 The really infuriating thing?

This is one out of 50 states that had some sort of multi-billion dollar fraud going on. And while I personally think the Democrats are primarily involved, so are Republicans.

It's the largest transfer (illegal) of wealth from the public to the political class and their supporters.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 07, 2026 03:54 PM (NwnyJ)

134 My only question regards the degree to which he was participating
Posted by: 18-1

The thing is the left has engineered a distributed network of true believers that are all on the same page without being told what to do specifically. They all know which direction in which to push.
I think it's closer to the mafia don who tells his captains that they have to earn but doesn't want to know the details.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 07, 2026 03:54 PM (mlg/3)

135 So, what's the balance in the house now that that CA Congressman has died?

Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2026 03:54 PM (77rzZ)

136 114
But… the question was about Republicans, not Trump. How much of Trump’s policies have been turned into law by Republicans, so that they last longer than him? (This is a serious question—I don’t know the answer, although I do suspect it.)

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 07, 2026 03:51 PM (EXyHK)

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Deporting people here illegally is already law.

What extra law will force Democrats to do it too?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 03:54 PM (GBKbO)

137 The Aussies pronounce it 'BON-dye'

tiny factoid

Posted by: Don Black at January 07, 2026 03:54 PM (ZxPkt)

138 Growth has slowed tremendously since that video stopped trending.

Have you considered wearing a bustier and chaps?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 03:54 PM (ExV1e)

139 It's just amazing how fast progs opinions of surging your car at a human being changes.


The left doesn't really have beliefs.

They have a narrative and a desire for power and apparently that is enough

If tomorrow a MAGA guy gets shot trying to run over a cop we will get the exact same people posting variants on FAFO.

Hell, remember these same people spent yesterday celebrating Michael Byrd shooting Ashli Babbitt

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 03:54 PM (sKqQm)

140 I hadn't heard that. I suppose that when you don't know where, or if, there's a sub in the area, it has the advantage. When you DO know, the sub is in great peril.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2026 03:51 PM (Riz8t)

You can bet we had a sub in the area. Not to mentioning all of the hydrophones sprinkled like confetti across the Atlantic ocean floor.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 07, 2026 03:54 PM (N39Ws)

141 No know cure for the blackpilled except a hammer to a thumb. Maybe both thumbs.
Posted by: Ouch the Grouch at January 07, 2026 03:53 PM (G+z4C)

A toe curling blowjob might work too.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 07, 2026 03:55 PM (zZu0s)

142 138 Growth has slowed tremendously since that video stopped trending.

Have you considered wearing a bustier and chaps?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 03:54 PM (ExV1e)

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Actually, yes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 03:55 PM (GBKbO)

143 141 No know cure for the blackpilled except a hammer to a thumb. Maybe both thumbs.
Posted by: Ouch the Grouch at January 07, 2026 03:53 PM (G+z4C)

A toe curling blowjob might work too.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 07, 2026 03:55 PM (zZu0s)

I could be blackpilled...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 07, 2026 03:55 PM (xcxpd)

144 So Ellison has a fraud recovery rate of 0.7% after 6 years in office? That's less than a drop in the bucket. The notion that this is something to brag about is God-tier delusion.

Posted by: Incompetent and complicit is no way to live, son at January 07, 2026 03:56 PM (TbWk/)

145 It is astounding that Democrats can act like baffoons at hearings with zero reprecussions.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 07, 2026 03:56 PM (XV/Pl)

146 This is one out of 50 states that had some sort of multi-billion dollar fraud going on. And while I personally think the Democrats are primarily involved, so are Republicans.
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The fraud is a cost of doing business.
- Gov Mike DeWine (Weasel-OH)

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 07, 2026 03:56 PM (Dv3i1)

147 129 And what's this about Pam Bondi in a leather catwoman suit? Julie Newmar did it best, but still....
Posted by: ErikInTexas at January 07, 2026 03:54 PM (4b7CV)

But Michelle Pfiefer did do the Crazy Hawt intersection very very well.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 03:56 PM (mP0Kj)

148 The black pilled are determined to make everyone else as miserable as they are. No know cure for the blackpilled except a hammer to a thumb. Maybe both thumbs.
___________________

As a proud partaker of licorice jelly beans, I simply more enjoy being occasionally surprised than continuously disappointed.

Until an elected government official goes to prison for any of this, there's no reason to believe anything has changed.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 07, 2026 03:56 PM (VktAz)

149 TJM, sorry to hear that, and thinking something will break your way on the job front. You have MANY friends here in your corner.

Posted by: RM at January 07, 2026 03:56 PM (fRHst)

150 so he is crazy.

tag him, bag him

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 07, 2026 03:56 PM (EyfuW)

151 Damn, this makes me want to move to MN and open a Learing Center or two or a dozen.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 07, 2026 03:56 PM (pLaQB)

152 Bald Pressley seems a bit riled up.

Unsure why she's dressed as a pilgrim, but whatever.

MN can paint this loss of tax payer money to Somolians any color they want, they are under the microscope now for fraud and kickbacks.

The fact that after a decade over 70% of the dear, sweet Somolians are still on welfare should be a clue.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 07, 2026 03:56 PM (WONhk)

153 Was it mine? Because that's my theory. Same reason Biden was chosen. His "foreign policy".
Posted by: ... at January 07, 2026 03:49 PM (Q4G+n)

It would be darkly hilarious to discover that Obama left the DNC broke, Hillary took over its debts in return for being the candidate, when she lost she took all the money with her, and Biden ran because he had all that Chinese and UKR bribe money, which was the only way the Dems had a warchest.
Kamala was the only one who could possibly access Biden's money when it was proven he couldn't win in 2024, and Walz was tapped because he had more bribe money available.
It is like the Medieval Spanish aristocrats marrying the moneychanger's daughter to get out from under debts for generations.

Obama may have bankrupted the Dems fatally. Everything since then has been due to that.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 07, 2026 03:56 PM (rbvCR)

154 Not a good look, as the kids say

@nicksortor 30m
🚨 BREAKING: Leftists rioters have successfully CHASED OUT Minneapolis Police by breaking their windows, throwing objects, and kicking their vehicles

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 07, 2026 03:56 PM (mlg/3)

155 "I was listening to this. Bonus outrage:

One of those dim Dems asked the witness if she agreed with Trump's pardon of George Santos.

Witness answers she doesn't know; doesn't have all the facts of the case.

Dim Dem says "STOP DEFLECTING. You know what happened!"

Stop deflecting?!?! What does George Santos have to do with MN fraud?????

Posted by: Blonde Morticia"
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Santos lied.

....

Danang Dick lied and set a legal precedent that said lying was a free speech issue.

Lying Republicans deserve expulsion, lying Dems deserve recognition of their civil liberties to lie.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 03:56 PM (krQz2)

156 Where does anyone think Walz was getting campaign contributions from? A lot of this kind of corruption isn't direct cash vigs under the table (watch out, don't hit Kamala) but legit-looking transfers like campaign donations and support.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 03:46 PM (iFTx/)

Martin Armstrong (love his computer or don't) says there is the odd trick of buying one long option and one short option in the politicians name, and covering the loser, and that sort of "honest transfer" flies under all the radars in the world right now
Posted by: Kindltot at January 07, 2026 03:50 PM (rbvCR)
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Yea, the "options straddle." There's a million ways to do it.

Ilhan's "husband" runs a half-assed hedge fund that suddenly gets yuge influxes of investment money at exactly the same time her filthy community of subhuman CHUDs is raping the taxpayers blind with daycare fraud. Sure, Jan. I'll bet any amount of money the vast majority -- maybe even all -- of those "investments" were knowing kickbacks from the fraud.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 03:57 PM (iFTx/)

157 My only question regards the degree to which he was participating
Posted by: 18-1

The thing is the left has engineered a distributed network of true believers that are all on the same page without being told what to do specifically. They all know which direction in which to push.
I think it's closer to the mafia don who tells his captains that they have to earn but doesn't want to know the details.

Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?

Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2026 03:57 PM (Riz8t)

158 It wouldn't surprise me if some of the Somali kickbacks are laundered through ActBlue.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 07, 2026 03:57 PM (Dv3i1)

159 I look forward to reading the Strongly Worded Letter that will be the result of these hearings.

Posted by: brak at January 07, 2026 03:57 PM (jGJov)

160 @nicksortor 30m
🚨 BREAKING: Leftists rioters have successfully CHASED OUT Minneapolis Police by breaking their windows, throwing objects, and kicking their vehicles

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 07, 2026 03:56 PM (mlg/3)
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They burned a precinct building to the ground in Minny.

No biggie.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 03:57 PM (krQz2)

161 The thing is the left has engineered a distributed network of true believers that are all on the same page without being told what to do specifically. /i]

Yes and no.

Barack Obama doesn't send an order down through a group of middle managers to tell Karen McAWFL to impede ICE or steal MN daycare funds.

But the FNM tells the line level people what they are supposed to do after getting orders from people like Obama and then the NGOs pay them for doing it...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 03:57 PM (sKqQm)

162 So soon after kwanzaa?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 07, 2026 03:57 PM (Kt19C)

163 149 TJM, sorry to hear that, and thinking something will break your way on the job front. You have MANY friends here in your corner.

Posted by: RM at January 07, 2026 03:56 PM (fRHst)

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Thank you!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 03:57 PM (GBKbO)

164 It is astounding that Democrats can act like baffoons at hearings with zero reprecussions.
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The 13%ers aren't watching and the wine moms aren't listening, so there's nobody to hold them accountable.

Posted by: Crusader at January 07, 2026 03:58 PM (TN0g+)

165 I look forward to reading the Strongly Worded Letter that will be the result of these hearings.

Posted by: brak at January 07, 2026 03:57 PM (jGJov)
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Sleeves are going to roll.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 03:58 PM (krQz2)

166 @137

>> The Aussies pronounce it 'BON-dye'

They also pronounce the word No with seven extra vowels and consonants.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 07, 2026 03:58 PM (XV/Pl)

167 > Most of the defendants in the case are Somali Americans.



No. They aren't any kind of "American". They are foreign invaders from Somalia. They have no intention of ever becoming Americans. Their values (if you could even call them that) are diametrically opposed to those of America.



Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 07, 2026 03:59 PM (IG3/x)

168 Obama may have bankrupted the Dems fatally. Everything since then has been due to that.

It isn't like they've not gone along with everything he wanted. They all share in the blame.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2026 03:59 PM (Riz8t)

169 Ilhan's "husband" runs a half-assed hedge fund that suddenly gets yuge influxes of investment money at exactly the same time her filthy community of subhuman CHUDs is raping the taxpayers blind with daycare frau

If I remember the numbers his firm's worth went from $50K to $30M in one year.

And I guess an aside this is how Epstein's op was funded too wasn't it? Investment funds deposited with the person you want to bribe and he, legally, then gets his share...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 03:59 PM (sKqQm)

170 Bald Pressley seems a bit riled up.
Unsure why she's dressed as a pilgrim, but whatever.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

She's auditioning for a part in the Addams Family Musical, obviously.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 07, 2026 03:59 PM (mlg/3)

171 What extra law will force Democrats to do it too?

There are ways to make laws self-enforcing and of distributing enforcement to people willing to. (1) explicitly allow states to deport criminals. (2) prioritize certain functions of government; if those functions are performed, functions lower on the list, such as the DOE, are disbanded. (3) no government funds can go to criminals, including people here illegally, and private citizens are empowered to sue to enforce this at the local level.

That’s just off the top of my head. I’m sure people who have been actually thinking about it have more (and better) ideas.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 07, 2026 03:59 PM (EXyHK)

172 Run away! Run away!

Posted by: MPD at January 07, 2026 03:59 PM (jc0TO)

173 TJM, a job search is usually a bunch of Nos, sweetly followed by a Yes.

But if you talk about Kurosawa too much, that string of Nos can get longer.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 04:00 PM (krQz2)

174 Possible. I think more likely the Democrap poo-bahs saw the handwriting on the wall, smelled the stench from the shambling corpse, and didn't want to spend any more political capital on a dead-bang loser that they never really liked or wanted in the first place. Better to clear the decks and get rid of this leper.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 03:51 PM (iFTx/)

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He said in his press conference announcing his decision that he couldn't spend his time campaigning and "defending myself".

It's a tea leaf, but a strong indicator at the same time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 03:52 PM (GBKbO)
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Well, he was already getting publicly accused of being complicit or at least looking the other way. So he was already "defending" himself even if he never got any letter. But hey, I hope you're right -- I'd love to see an investigation of this potato head, especially once he's out of politics and thus no real reason for the party to circle wagons. To the contrary, they'll throw him to the wolves.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 04:00 PM (iFTx/)

175 (Keith Elliison)....Either he is a mouth breathing retarded incompetent or he was in on it.
Posted by: 18-1

Well, how about both?

Posted by: A face in the crowd.... at January 07, 2026 04:00 PM (vcOmj)

176 Maybe Frey and the cops shouldn't have let the 3rd Police Precinct be burned to the ground during the George Floyd riots.

Posted by: mr tmz at January 07, 2026 04:00 PM (rJ48h)

177 Somehow was here but next thing was on Sunday food thread

Posted by: Skip at January 07, 2026 04:00 PM (Ia/+0)

178 They also pronounce the word No with seven extra vowels and consonants.
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Not sure about extra consonants, but I do hear all the vowels - "Naeiou"

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 07, 2026 04:00 PM (Dv3i1)

179 It would be darkly hilarious to discover that Obama left the DNC broke, Hillary took over its debts in return for being the candidate, when she lost she took all the money with her, and Biden ran because he had all that Chinese and UKR bribe money, which was the only way the Dems had a warchest.
Kamala was the only one who could possibly access Biden's money when it was proven he couldn't win in 2024, and Walz was tapped because he had more bribe money available.
It is like the Medieval Spanish aristocrats marrying the moneychanger's daughter to get out from under debts for generations.

Obama may have bankrupted the Dems fatally. Everything since then has been due to that
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Omg. *makes O face*

.....

Wow.

Posted by: Cold, dark and unpleasant at January 07, 2026 04:01 PM (KdazR)

180 Shocked didn't get autobanned

Posted by: Skip at January 07, 2026 04:01 PM (Ia/+0)

181 > 175 (Keith Elliison)....Either he is a mouth breathing retarded incompetent or he was in on it.
Posted by: 18-1

Well, how about both?
Posted by: A face in the crowd.... at January 07, 2026 04:00 PM (vcOmj)

Also a communist.


For the trifecta, you know.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 07, 2026 04:01 PM (IG3/x)

182 I wonder if Timmah! is pissed that Kamala blew his hard earned grift money for nothing?

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 07, 2026 04:01 PM (pLaQB)

183 "Unsure why she's dressed as a pilgrim, but whatever."

I laughed, Christy. You should do a conservative comedy routine

I can't even listen to Ayanna Presley anymore-I find her remarks so objectionable. Same with AOC.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 07, 2026 04:01 PM (8Xy/A)

184 “such as the DOE”

That should of course be the Department of Education, although I’m honestly not sure how useful the Department of Energy is either.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 07, 2026 04:01 PM (EXyHK)

185 Minnesota is one of our favorite client states.

Posted by: Big Penguin at January 07, 2026 04:01 PM (3x5AN)

186 Her in a nice slinky dress, holding a small pistol...

Bondi... Pam Bondi... /que James Bond Music.
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Cat suit, leather, Wembley...

Missus Peel, You're needed.

Posted by: clarence at January 07, 2026 04:01 PM (JhlRS)

187 Nancy Mace, show us the goods !

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 07, 2026 04:01 PM (S+j2h)

188 No. They aren't any kind of "American". They are foreign invaders from Somalia. They have no intention of ever becoming Americans. Their values (if you could even call them that) are diametrically opposed to those of America.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 07, 2026 03:59 PM (IG3/x)
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That would sound bigoted, had I not seen how plenty of Somalis refer to the president of Somalia as "our president". And Somalia as "our country".

The bro-fo Omar being chief among those.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 04:02 PM (krQz2)

189 Ilhan's "husband" runs a half-assed hedge fund that suddenly gets yuge influxes of investment money at exactly the same time her filthy community of subhuman CHUDs is raping the taxpayers blind with daycare fraud.
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And right after she pushed a bill through the Democrat Congress --- the MEALS Act --- that reduced Federal oversight of funding for food, day care, and medical assistance programs.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 07, 2026 04:02 PM (VktAz)

190 > They also pronounce the word No with seven extra vowels and consonants.

Yep. Aussies add pretty much every vowel to the word, "no." It's like nai-oh with a slight u sound at the end.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 07, 2026 04:02 PM (Yp6az)

191 And what's this about Pam Bondi in a leather catwoman suit? Julie Newmar did it best, but still....
Posted by: ErikInTexas at January 07, 2026 03:54 PM (4b7CV)

Diana Rigg has entered the chat...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 07, 2026 04:02 PM (nbLIj)

192 >>> BREAKING: Leftists rioters have successfully CHASED OUT Minneapolis Police by breaking their windows, throwing objects, and kicking their vehicles

Minnesota -- we've come a long way from lutefisk and casseroles

Posted by: brak at January 07, 2026 04:02 PM (jGJov)

193 Aussies call their native language 'Strine'

which is 'Australian' boiled down to the barest nub of a word

Posted by: Don Black at January 07, 2026 04:02 PM (ZxPkt)

194 Also a communist.


For the trifecta, you know.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

And a Mooselimb.

Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2026 04:02 PM (77rzZ)

195 I'm wondering if Trump is going to have to invoke the Insurrection Act and suspend Minnesota State Government.

Well you know Marco Rubio will have to be Military Governor. (Although it would be fun to give Hegseth a shot at it)

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 07, 2026 04:02 PM (uWKK8)

196 Ilhan's "husband" runs a half-assed hedge fund that suddenly gets yuge influxes of investment money at exactly the same time her filthy community of subhuman CHUDs is raping the taxpayers blind with daycare fraud.
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You know who else ran a half assed hedge fund.....

Think about it

Posted by: Cold, dark and unpleasant at January 07, 2026 04:03 PM (KdazR)

197 Do you have any doubt that Tim Walz knew all about the fraud?
......

He was too busy trying to figure out which end of his shotgun the flag pops out of.

Posted by: wth at January 07, 2026 04:03 PM (v0R5T)

198 Her in a nice slinky dress, holding a small pistol...

Bondi... Pam Bondi... /que James Bond Music.

"Do you expect me to talk?!?"
"No Mr 18-1 I want you to watch my FOXN interview muhahaha"

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 04:03 PM (sKqQm)

199 Well you know Marco Rubio will have to be Military Governor. (Although it would be fun to give Hegseth a shot at it)
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 07, 2026 04:02 PM (uWKK

The more jobs Marco gets, the more competent he becomes.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 07, 2026 04:03 PM (Mxf84)

200 Too many of our own people seem upset that Pam Bondi doesn't just prowl the streets at night in a leather catsuit shooting bad guys in the face.

I'll be in my bunk.

In light of earlier Ace stories today, I have to point out my bunk is not at a Planet Fitness.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 07, 2026 04:04 PM (2ocoG)

201 OT: some college kid was running a "survey" asking about whether towns should be allowed to ban the rodeo from its presence.
I circled "strongly oppose", ignored the other questions and, uh, drew a penis on the available space.
I have an immature side...

Posted by: gKWVE at January 07, 2026 04:04 PM (gKWVE)

202 People have killed for much, much less than the billions and billions of dollars of grift (each year!!!) that is floating around the Democrat-Communist Party and their constituents.

Posted by: Democrat Fraud and Learing Center at January 07, 2026 04:05 PM (qUkBO)

203 No. That is barbaric!

Federal officers of ICE wants to ask you questions?

Run over and then back up again.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 03:52 PM (krQz2)

Driving over peoplism isn't about driving over people, it's about power.

Posted by: ... at January 07, 2026 04:05 PM (Q4G+n)

204 We haven't heard all that much from Smellvis Pressly lately.

I for one could've done with not hearing from her even less.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 07, 2026 04:05 PM (IG3/x)

205 The more jobs Marco gets, the more competent he becomes.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 07, 2026 04:03 PM (Mxf84)

It's because he's too busy to have bad ideas or join gangs.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 04:05 PM (ExV1e)

206 If a civil war breaks out on Minneapolis, who do you root for? Somalis, leftist white people, African Americans? Any Amish there?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 07, 2026 04:05 PM (ScJGb)

207 Jacob Frey just said "Ice, get the fuck out".

Maybe all cops should just stop trying to arrest criminals because someone may get shot. Nice logic there, idiot.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 07, 2026 04:05 PM (nO8M5)

208 > And a Mooselimb.
Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2026 04:02 PM (77rzZ)

That, too.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 07, 2026 04:06 PM (IG3/x)

209 Any Amish there?

Of course there are. The Amish are everywhere in the United States; they actually have kids.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 07, 2026 04:06 PM (EXyHK)

210 Maybe Canada will invade MN?

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 07, 2026 04:06 PM (pLaQB)

211 206 If a civil war breaks out on Minneapolis, who do you root for? Somalis, leftist white people, African Americans? Any Amish there?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 07, 2026 04:05 PM (ScJGb)

The fire, obviously.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 07, 2026 04:06 PM (Mxf84)

212 >>> If a civil war breaks out on Minneapolis, who do you root for? Somalis, leftist white people, African Americans?

the snow

Posted by: brak at January 07, 2026 04:06 PM (jGJov)

213 If a civil war breaks out on Minneapolis, who do you root for? Somalis, leftist white people

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 07, 2026 04:05 PM (ScJGb)
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Heavy casualties on all sides?

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 04:06 PM (krQz2)

214 I wanna hear news about those ships we boarded. Anybody heard anything?
Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2026 03:35 PM (77rzZ)

The second one was M/T Sophia, which was unflagged, not large, and has the same name as another ship that is supposedly in transit from Palau to Yap and flagged by the Marshall Islands.
The M/T Sophia image online is different from the tweet put out by Southcom

So this one is odd

Posted by: Kindltot at January 07, 2026 04:06 PM (rbvCR)

215 That bald one is particularly offensive looking

Yeesh

Posted by: melodicmetal1 at January 07, 2026 04:06 PM (jJqFc)

216 @nicksortor
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47m
🚨 BREAKING: Leftists are ALREADY burning flags in the streets of Minneapolis after the Mayor continues to LIE about what actually happened

Posted by: Don Black at January 07, 2026 04:06 PM (ZxPkt)

217 W dn't dd ny vwls, y knw.

Posted by: The Welsh at January 07, 2026 04:07 PM (3x5AN)

218 TJM, I once got declined for a job interview and later found out from a colleague that it was for a really weird, inscrutable reason.

And that wasn't the only time, either. I had another guy tell me I was passed over for a position, for an equally inscrutable reason.

These HR people are pretty arbitrary and capricious, because they can be. Eventually you'll find one who's a normie, and it'll be for the best, because normies roll with normies, and it'll be a normie firm you work at.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 07, 2026 04:07 PM (BI5O2)

219 And a Mooselimb.
Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2026 04:02 PM (77rzZ)
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A Moose bit my sister once.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 04:07 PM (krQz2)

220 "So soon after kwanzaa?"

Let's hope it doesn't impact PRIDE month.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 07, 2026 04:07 PM (iMotb)

221 If a civil war breaks out on Minneapolis, who do you root for? Somalis, leftist white people, African Americans? Any Amish there?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 07, 2026 04:05 PM (ScJGb)

Send in the Army, give them the Atlanta treatment - that'd make Mrs. Walz happy - and then piss on the ashes.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 04:07 PM (ExV1e)

222 >>They also pronounce the word No with seven extra vowels and consonants.

https://www.youtube.com/
shorts/mHBR6KWzoFw

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 04:07 PM (ddphe)

223 47m
🚨 BREAKING: Leftists are ALREADY burning flags in the streets of Minneapolis after the Mayor continues to LIE about what actually happened
Posted by: Don Black at January 07, 2026 04:06 PM (ZxPkt)

Be a shame if the City burned down....

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2026 04:07 PM (VE6XX)

224 The Amish are everywhere in the United States
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair

The Hawaiian Amish are the most fun. They throw the best luaus.

Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2026 04:07 PM (77rzZ)

225 Oh dang! I forgot to keep some of the cash. What a knucklehead!

Posted by: Jazz Hands Walz, Lifetime Renter with Net Worth of Zero. Point. Zero. at January 07, 2026 04:08 PM (qUkBO)

226 You can tell the Dems know just how bad this is.

This is kinda amazing, the all-hands effort of every tactic to change the subject.

I'm really going to enjoy the attempt to say that Walz is fully responsible, and no one else, to try and make him the fall guy.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 07, 2026 04:08 PM (HXT0k)

227 Stick with me on this, but the defense of the fraudsters by the dems, why its almost as if they are financially benefitting too.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 07, 2026 04:08 PM (n5tGW)

228 207 Jacob Frey just said "Ice, get the fuck out".

Maybe all cops should just stop trying to arrest criminals because someone may get shot. Nice logic there, idiot.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 07, 2026 04:05 PM (nO8M5)

Maybe time for an Admiral Ackbar moment...

Have Trump sign an executive order ordering ICE out of the State, declaring that indeed, Minnesota is now taking responsibility for immigration enforcement... by their very orders.

Then charge them with aiding and abetting Illegals when they don't enforce the law.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 04:08 PM (mP0Kj)

229 Leftists are ALREADY burning flags in the streets of Minneapolis

Which flags?

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 07, 2026 04:08 PM (jc0TO)

230 Greenland would be a super place to send Somalis.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 07, 2026 04:08 PM (pLaQB)

231 But, I keep on. Don't have much else to do. Got turned down on one job I'd interviewed for yesterday. Le sigh...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 03:44 PM (GBKbO)

From what I've seen, the average wait to get a job is about six months. Though the "holiday season" is usually a dud.

Your new job should be showing up soon according to nf Statistics Inc.

Hey, TJM,

do you write out what your going to say on your Movie videos, or just wing it after thinking a bit?

Cuz if you just wing it...man, I'm impressed.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 07, 2026 04:08 PM (iJfKG)

232 206 - I root for body count, pure and simple.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 07, 2026 04:09 PM (Cjt/F)

233 Leftists are ALREADY burning flags in the streets of Minneapolis
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The Minniapolitans are revolting!

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 04:09 PM (krQz2)

234 But I shot a tard in Minne just to watch her die.
When I hear that ICE freezin', I hang my head and sigh

Posted by: Martin Tell at January 07, 2026 04:09 PM (sFNX2)

235 > Do you have any doubt that Tim Walz knew all about the fraud?
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Oh, he knew.

But he's a bit player. Getting paid to run interference at the state level, maybe interface with his state reps in Congress. But he's no principal in this fraud.

He's too fucking stupid to be trusted with much more than a bit part.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 07, 2026 04:09 PM (NwnyJ)

236 Really people need to stop saying "unbelievable" . There is no disgusting low that the Democrats can reach that is not believable.

Posted by: steevy at January 07, 2026 04:09 PM (YwEeS)

237 So ... how soon before hordes of filthy hippies and trantifag homos with misspelled signs and no deodorant break out in totally-not-coordinated and totally-not-astroturf protests in blue cities across the country?

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 04:09 PM (iFTx/)

238 Jacob Frey just said "Ice, get the fuck out".
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Fuckin' mayors.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 04:10 PM (krQz2)

239 The louder they blapdabadap the dumber they sound

Posted by: melodicmetal1 at January 07, 2026 04:10 PM (jJqFc)

240 230 Greenland would be a super place to send Somalis.
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 07, 2026 04:08 PM (pLaQB)

I say Antarctica is a good place to drop off illegal invaders. We could live stream it and see what kind of society they eke out for themselves.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 07, 2026 04:10 PM (nO8M5)

241 OH, yeah, the comedy just keeps rolling

@amuse
INSURRECTION? Gov Walz revealed that 7,800 National Guard troops are in training for a possible deployment and has sent out a warning notice preparing troops that may be deployed against federal immigration agents. A governor preparing state troops against federal law enforcement is a red line. Walz made sure to make it clear he hasn't made a final decision on deploying troops too the streets of Minneapolis.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 07, 2026 04:10 PM (mlg/3)

242 The Hawaiian Amish are the most fun. They throw the best luaus.

I always forget that Hawaii is part of the United States. But, so does Hawaii.

And I’m sure they would throw the best luaus.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 07, 2026 04:10 PM (EXyHK)

243 American flags, no one there would even look cross at a Marxist's flag

Posted by: Skip at January 07, 2026 04:11 PM (Ia/+0)

244 Leftists are ALREADY burning flags in the streets of Minneapolis
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The Minniapolitans are revolting!
------

They don't smell good either.

Posted by: Crusader at January 07, 2026 04:11 PM (TN0g+)

245 Does Baldie have even one mirror in her house?

Posted by: wth at January 07, 2026 04:11 PM (v0R5T)

246 TJM, I once got declined for a job interview and later found out from a colleague that it was for a really weird, inscrutable reason.

From the flip side, I remember one interview that really stands out as a hiring manager.

The candidate had put a line item on her resume about how she led a particular type of effort common to the job I was looking to hire her for. As an easy question to get her comfortable I asked "Tell me about how you did that work item?"

And she said..."oh I didn't actually do that work, a friend told me I should put it on my resume because companies want to see that"

At that moment the interview was over. If you are going to lie to my stick with the lie.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 04:11 PM (sKqQm)

247 Or is it Minniappletinis?

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 04:11 PM (krQz2)

248 >
He's too fucking stupid to be trusted with much more than a bit part.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 07, 2026 04:09 PM (NwnyJ)


Remember Senator Geary in Godfather II?

That's Walz.

There's a dead underage hooker's skeleton in his closet.

Count on it.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 07, 2026 04:11 PM (IG3/x)

249 Be a shame if the City burned down....

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2026 04:07 PM (VE6XX)

Can always count on you to reduce things to their essence.

Posted by: ... at January 07, 2026 04:11 PM (Q4G+n)

250 Folks, we're less than 5 months from the most important time of year. It's no time to get distracted!

Focus!!!

Posted by: Pride Month at January 07, 2026 04:11 PM (3x5AN)

251 Since much of the conversation about Nancy Mace on this site seems to be how she looks in a bikini. I was glad to hear her asking some good questions, although maybe she looks good in a bikini too.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 07, 2026 04:11 PM (8Xy/A)

252 @amuse
INSURRECTION? Gov Walz revealed that 7,800 National Guard troops are in training for a possible deployment and has sent out a warning notice preparing troops that may be deployed against federal immigration agents. A governor preparing state troops against federal law enforcement is a red line. Walz made sure to make it clear he hasn't made a final decision on deploying troops too the streets of Minneapolis.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 07, 2026 04:10 PM (mlg/3


National Guard against ICE... Sounds Insurrectionay to me....

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2026 04:11 PM (VE6XX)

253 Leftists are ALREADY burning flags in the streets of Minneapolis

Their new Somali flags? Can I get some to burn as well?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 04:12 PM (sKqQm)

254 236 Really people need to stop saying "unbelievable" . There is no disgusting low that the Democrats can reach that is not believable.
Posted by: steevy at January 07, 2026 04:09 PM (YwEeS)

You'd think I'd figure that out but I am continually amazed at the depths they sink to. They really would sell their mother and children out for power.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 07, 2026 04:12 PM (nO8M5)

255 Gold is heavy and difficult to transport.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 07, 2026 03:40 PM (0U5gm)

But a billion dollars' woth would barely show on the Plimsoll marks of a huge tanker.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 07, 2026 04:12 PM (8zz6B)

256 Greenland would be a super place to send Somalis.
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 07, 2026 04:08 PM (pLaQB)

I say Antarctica is a good place to drop off illegal invaders. We could live stream it and see what kind of society they eke out for themselves.
Posted by: CaliGirl
......

The poor penguins.

Posted by: wth at January 07, 2026 04:12 PM (v0R5T)

257 I think Walz knew of the fraud, and getting lots of campaign funds from it.

Posted by: Skip at January 07, 2026 04:12 PM (Ia/+0)

258 how soon before hordes of filthy hippies and trantifag homos with misspelled signs and no deodorant break out in totally-not-coordinated and totally-not-astroturf protests in blue cities across the country?
==
Too cold. Gonna be springtime

Posted by: Cold, dark and unpleasant at January 07, 2026 04:12 PM (KdazR)

259 218 TJM, I once got declined for a job interview and later found out from a colleague that it was for a really weird, inscrutable reason.

And that wasn't the only time, either. I had another guy tell me I was passed over for a position, for an equally inscrutable reason.

These HR people are pretty arbitrary and capricious, because they can be. Eventually you'll find one who's a normie, and it'll be for the best, because normies roll with normies, and it'll be a normie firm you work at.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 07, 2026 04:07 PM (BI5O2)

Once interviewed with the owner of the company who straight up said, "I don't see any reason this won't happen."

They still asked me to take a personality test. After said test, they ghosted me.

I got a new job. Boss there called me into his office one day and told me he knew why I didn't get the job. Their HR lady was giving a talk and used me as an example of not wanting to hire someone based on the test bc I was "too ambitious."

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at January 07, 2026 04:12 PM (KbCG3)

260 In reference to Black Pilling:

(1) Maduro is out in Venezuela.
(2) Iran is teetering on the brink of getting rid of the Ayatollahs;
(3) Iran will not have nukes, at least not anytime soon;
(4) Argentina and Chile are, if not friendly, at least good neighbors;
(5) Cuba commies can not survive without Putin and Maduro, and will not;
(6) China and the sorry ass Russians are dangeroud, but not decively so and have been shown as such.
(7) Lord Barack's personal pick for CFO of the DEA is indicted for laundering cartel drug money;
( The War on Drugs is really a War on drugs with traffickers reduced to pelagic flotsam and jetsom.
(9) The obvious scams of J6, the 2020 election and Democrat money laundering are out in the open, more proof almost daily;
(10) The rancid schemes of DEI and Transgenderism are waning. Fast, and most importsntly,
(11) My favorite angus heifer who I thoght might be sterile turns out to be about 6 months pregnant by our barely-old-enough little bull. That's good news!

Take heart, have courage, and don't be swayed by appeals to emotion. Facts are hard things, and this is the time for firmness and cool heads.

Posted by: ErikInTexas at January 07, 2026 04:12 PM (4b7CV)

261 88 77
Where does anyone think Walz was getting campaign contributions from? A lot of this kind of corruption isn't direct cash vigs under the table (watch out, don't hit Kamala) but legit-looking transfers like campaign donations and support.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 03:46 PM (iFTx/)

=======

"Leave this obvious corruption alone."

It's enough to make him a co-conspirator.

And, I do hold to the belief that Walz stopped his campaign because he got a targetting letter from the DOJ.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 03:48 PM (GBKbO)

Fed Gov transfer payments from Biden Admin --> MN Daycare centers (and CA, and...) --> ActBlue --> Names of rando cutouts and patsies who don't know they're contributing ---> Biden (then Harris) Campaigns ---> Celebrities and factotums ---> into the wind.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 07, 2026 04:13 PM (0CU3H)

262 Just saw the video of the car and ICE shooting. The most disturbing thing for me is all the people shouting for ICE to "get out of my neighborhood". Disturbing because if this happened in my neighborhood, I'd be out there cheering ICE on and all my lefty neighbors would know whose house and property to vandalize.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 07, 2026 04:13 PM (Dv3i1)

263 He's too fucking stupid to be trusted with much more than a bit part.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 07, 2026 04:09 PM (NwnyJ)


Remember Senator Geary in Godfather II?

That's Walz.

There's a dead underage hooker's skeleton in his closet.

Count on it.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 07, 2026 04:11 PM (IG3/x)
____

Male or female hooker?

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 04:13 PM (iFTx/)

264 Since much of the conversation about Nancy Mace on this site seems to be how she looks in a bikini. I was glad to hear her asking some good questions, although maybe she looks good in a bikini too.

Mace is a corundum

Yes she is physically attractive. But she's also both unstable and more effective then most of her GOP peers.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 04:13 PM (sKqQm)

265 Between the revelations of billions of dollars of taxpayer dollars stolen and to be prosecuted, Maduro's drug trade being stymied, and the tech billionaires deciding to back Trump, I think the DNC is going to be a little short on funds this fall.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 07, 2026 04:13 PM (0U5gm)

266 Nancy Grace is every bit the delusional attention whore that MTG was.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 04:13 PM (ddphe)

267 @amuse
INSURRECTION? Gov Walz revealed that 7,800 National Guard troops are in training for a possible deployment and has sent out a warning notice preparing troops that may be deployed against federal immigration agents. A governor preparing state troops against federal law enforcement is a red line. Walz made sure to make it clear he hasn't made a final decision on deploying troops too the streets of Minneapolis.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 07, 2026 04:10 PM (mlg/3)
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Timmy's going all out for an orange wardrobe these days.

If a Minny cop downs ONE single federal officer, Trump needs to roll the tanks.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 04:13 PM (krQz2)

268
@amuse
INSURRECTION? Gov Walz revealed that 7,800 National Guard troops are in training for a possible deployment and has sent out a warning notice preparing troops that may be deployed against federal immigration agents. A governor preparing state troops against federal law enforcement is a red line. Walz made sure to make it clear he hasn't made a final decision on deploying troops too the streets of Minneapolis

Where is Mark Kelly and his advice reels on illegal orders?

Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 04:13 PM (OoFl2)

269 Good. Let yankee land burn!

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord:
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword:
His truth is marching on....

Posted by: Fightin Joe Biden at January 07, 2026 04:13 PM (GlDYx)

270 237 So ... how soon before hordes of filthy hippies and trantifag homos with misspelled signs and no deodorant break out in totally-not-coordinated and totally-not-astroturf protests in blue cities across the country?
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 04:09 PM

They're on their way as we speak, sadly.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 07, 2026 04:14 PM (nO8M5)

271 263 I am going with male because Walz.

Posted by: turambar at January 07, 2026 04:14 PM (Q0yOR)

272 Mob forms

https://x.com/nicksortor/status/
2008998414248501754

Posted by: Don Black at January 07, 2026 04:14 PM (ZxPkt)

273 National Guard against ICE... Sounds Insurrectionay to me....
Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2026 04:11 PM (VE6XX)

Funnily enough... it also sounds like an illegal order.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 04:14 PM (ExV1e)

274 @amuse
INSURRECTION? Gov Walz revealed that 7,800 National Guard troops are in training for a possible deployment and has sent out a warning notice preparing troops that may be deployed against federal immigration agents. A governor preparing state troops against federal law enforcement is a red line. Walz made sure to make it clear he hasn't made a final decision on deploying troops too the streets of Minneapolis.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 07, 2026 04:10 PM (mlg/3)

Oh.... my...

He is threatening insurrection, against a President and WAR Department, that just did one of the most successful quick strikes to get an enemy leader, in history.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 04:14 PM (mP0Kj)

275 I say Antarctica is a good place to drop off illegal invaders. We could live stream it and see what kind of society they eke out for themselves.
Posted by: CaliGirl
......

The poor penguins.
Posted by: wth

Nah. We're good. We run the entire racket.
-- Big Penguin

Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2026 04:14 PM (77rzZ)

276 It would be darkly hilarious to discover that Obama left the DNC broke,
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Those 1000+ officeholders who lost under him were their fundraisers, earners.
He wiped out their farm team.
And forced them to become addicted to laundered government funds instead of fundraising.
Which had the negative feedback loop of distancing them from actual donors and voters.

Which is where they are now: Wholly dependent upon laundered government funds and vote fraud to win.

It's not that the Party no longer has a broad base, it's that none of them even know who their base is anymore.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 07, 2026 04:14 PM (HXT0k)

277 Yeah, I'm worn out with the blackpill nonsense. If that's what you call a cynical, raised eyebrow when hopium addicts start up with their tired routine, so be it, but don't expect the people who've always been right to hoist the welcome banner for your mysterious, ephemeral Kraken.

It's on y'all to show some results.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 07, 2026 04:15 PM (BI5O2)

278 To 184: Hey, DOE (specifically NNSA) makes and has the nuclear weapons. Biggest reason an incoming republican DOE secretary walks in assuming he can fire everybody and walks out with a suitcase and military aide feelin' awesome.

Posted by: IowaCityExile at January 07, 2026 04:15 PM (v0B9E)

279 > Male or female hooker?
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 04:13 PM (iFTx/)

If I were to hazard a guess?

Epicene.

(now there's a word we don't use nearly enough nowadays)

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 07, 2026 04:15 PM (IG3/x)

280 Flag burns leftist, now THAT'S a story.

Posted by: ... at January 07, 2026 04:15 PM (Q4G+n)

281 I prefer that the fraudsters go to US prison rather than deporting. Money was sent back home to buy stuff. Let’s not send them back where they stashed the cash.

Posted by: High tech at January 07, 2026 04:15 PM (37cEZ)

282 Where does anyone think Walz was getting campaign contributions from? A lot of this kind of corruption isn't direct cash vigs under the table (watch out, don't hit Kamala) but legit-looking transfers like campaign donations and support.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 03:46 PM (iFTx/)

=======

"Leave this obvious corruption alone."

It's enough to make him a co-conspirator.

And, I do hold to the belief that Walz stopped his campaign because he got a targetting letter from the DOJ.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 03:48 PM (GBKbO)

Fed Gov transfer payments from Biden Admin --> MN Daycare centers (and CA, and...) --> ActBlue --> Names of rando cutouts and patsies who don't know they're contributing ---> Biden (then Harris) Campaigns ---> Celebrities and factotums ---> into the wind.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 07, 2026 04:13 PM (0CU3H)
_____

Yea, but I wonder in this case it was even that complicated. The daycares were stealing billions. It wouldn't have been hard to donate directly to Walz or a PAC. I'd love to see someone like Datarepublican do an AI dive on it.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 04:16 PM (iFTx/)

283 @nicksortor 30m
🚨 BREAKING: Leftists rioters have successfully CHASED OUT Minneapolis Police by breaking their windows, throwing objects, and kicking their vehicles
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 07, 2026 03:56 PM (mlg/3)

Mostly peaceful. Waiting for the fires.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 07, 2026 04:16 PM (rbvCR)

284 @amuse
INSURRECTION? Gov Walz revealed that 7,800 National Guard troops are in training for a possible deployment and has sent out a warning notice preparing troops that may be deployed against federal immigration agents.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 07, 2026 04:10 PM (mlg/3)

That will get ugly. If you're NG, what do you do?

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 07, 2026 04:16 PM (zYpTz)

285 Nancy Grace is every bit the delusional attention whore that MTG was.

Which member of Congress isn't?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 04:16 PM (ExV1e)

286 Why would most people in the National Guard even in MN want to work against ICE?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 07, 2026 04:17 PM (8Xy/A)

287 BREAKING: Leftists rioters have successfully CHASED OUT Minneapolis Police by breaking their windows, throwing objects, and kicking their vehicles
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 07, 2026 03:56 PM (mlg/3)

Mostly peaceful. Waiting for the fires.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 07, 2026 04:16 PM (rbvCR)
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Really impressive that Walz wants them to fight the National Guard and ICE rather than rioters.

The Miniappletinis like their riots.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 04:17 PM (krQz2)

288 INSURRECTION? Gov Walz revealed that 7,800 National Guard troops are in training for a possible deployment and has sent out a warning notice preparing troops that may be deployed against federal immigration agents.
.......

Mark Kelley to the White Courtesy phone. Mark Kelley.

Posted by: wth at January 07, 2026 04:17 PM (v0R5T)

289 > Greenland would be a super place to send Somalis.
Posted by: Pudinhead
----

let's not despoil that landscape

Posted by: Don Black at January 07, 2026 04:18 PM (ZxPkt)

290 Nancy Grace is every bit the delusional attention whore that MTG was.

The news business is also entertainment.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 07, 2026 04:18 PM (jc0TO)

291 Critical Drinker thinks Kathleen Kennedy is on the way out, or possibly not.

Kathleen Kennedy - Here We Go Again...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7_yYBwjM6U

Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2026 04:18 PM (Riz8t)

292 > That will get ugly. If you're NG, what do you do?
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 07, 2026 04:16 PM (zYpTz)

Last I checked, the Guard takes the same "uphold and defend the Constitution of the United State against all enemies, foreign and domestic" as the regular military.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 07, 2026 04:18 PM (IG3/x)

293 262 Just saw the video of the car and ICE shooting. The most disturbing thing for me is all the people shouting for ICE to "get out of my neighborhood". Disturbing because if this happened in my neighborhood, I'd be out there cheering ICE on and all my lefty neighbors would know whose house and property to vandalize.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 07, 2026 04:13 PM (Dv3i1)

It is coming out that it was a planned anti ICE protest... a set up.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 04:18 PM (mP0Kj)

294 Epicene.

(now there's a word we don't use nearly enough nowadays)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Agreed.

Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2026 04:18 PM (77rzZ)

295 That will get ugly. If you're NG, what do you do?

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 07, 2026 04:16 PM (zYpTz)
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Send a copy of Mark Kelly's message to the governor. And tell him, you're thinking of applying that advice.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 04:18 PM (krQz2)

296 BREAKING: Leftists rioters have successfully CHASED OUT Minneapolis Police by breaking their windows, throwing objects, and kicking their vehicles
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 07, 2026 03:56 PM (mlg/3)

Mostly peaceful. Waiting for the fires.
Posted by: Kindltot
......

Baby it's cold outside.

Posted by: wth at January 07, 2026 04:18 PM (v0R5T)

297 And I guess an aside this is how Epstein's op was funded too wasn't it? Investment funds deposited with the person you want to bribe and he, legally, then gets his share...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 03:59 PM (sKqQm)

Epstein was likely the onramp/offramp for dark money and drug and human trafficking money. You only can do that with seriously heavy government backing

Posted by: Kindltot at January 07, 2026 04:18 PM (rbvCR)

298 Waltz is fat and stupid. He will squeal if he is going to prison. He is going to have an accident soon. Its easier to blame it all on him them.

Posted by: Hillary and Barak chat at January 07, 2026 04:19 PM (KdazR)

299 Greenland would be a super place to send Somalis.

Call me crazy but I'd suggest Somali as the correct place to send the Somalis

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 04:19 PM (sKqQm)

300 That will get ugly. If you're NG, what do you do?
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!
=======
Insurrection Act will be employed, the judges will have to get stuffed, and the NG will be nationalized. Just like LR Central.

Although Timmy might just go to federal prison while Faubus skated.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 04:19 PM (WDjG6)

301 I have a hard time believing that the MN Guard would willing deploy against ICE, but then again, Dim Baltz was a member of it.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 07, 2026 04:19 PM (mlg/3)

302 Have not heard the name Nancy Grace in a long time.Did not know she was still around.

Posted by: tubal at January 07, 2026 04:19 PM (pDt9x)

303 That will get ugly. If you're NG, what do you do?
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 07, 2026 04:16 PM (zYpTz)

Arrest Tim Walz?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 07, 2026 04:19 PM (06Hmj)

304 Mob forms

https://x.com/nicksortor/status/
2008998414248501754
Posted by: Don Black at January 07, 2026 04:14 PM (ZxPkt)
____

Meh. A few dozen retards girly-throwing snowballs. If this is the best they have, then I might have been wrong that this will blow over by the weekend. It might blow over by tomorrow.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 04:20 PM (iFTx/)

305 Whoever guessed months back, "Leftists plan to give illegal orders", treat yourself to something nice.

Posted by: ... at January 07, 2026 04:20 PM (Q4G+n)

306 It would be darkly hilarious to discover that Obama left the DNC broke,
---
Those 1000+ officeholders who lost under him were their fundraisers, earners.
He wiped out their farm team.
And forced them to become addicted to laundered government funds instead of fundraising.
Which had the negative feedback loop of distancing them from actual donors and voters.

Which is where they are now: Wholly dependent upon laundered government funds and vote fraud to win.

It's not that the Party no longer has a broad base, it's that none of them even know who their base is anymore.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 07, 2026 04:14 PM (HXT0k)

Will history show that, in the long term, Obama was the most successful Republican President ever?

Obviously, no, because the GOP is as vile and useless as the Dems and Obama was just a narcissistic idiot.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 04:20 PM (ExV1e)

307 299 Greenland would be a super place to send Somalis.

Call me crazy but I'd suggest Somali as the correct place to send the Somalis
--------------
Davy Jones Locker makes sense.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 07, 2026 04:20 PM (pLaQB)

308 34 27 I wanna hear news about those ships we boarded. Anybody heard anything?
Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2026 03:35 PM (77rzZ)

The fact we aren't hearing much tells me it was pretty important stuff they found
Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2026 03:36 PM (VE6XX)

They must've found evidence that would lead to the arrest and conviction of Hillary Clinton.

Posted by: Or Jimy Hoffa's corpse at January 07, 2026 04:20 PM (TbWk/)

309 Minnesota should lose its statehood status and become a territory. No longer participate in elections. And pay the money back. Also many state politicians should be thrown in jail.

Posted by: Case at January 07, 2026 04:20 PM (4rWc3)

310 >>Have not heard the name Nancy Grace in a long time.Did not know she was still around.


I think she landed at Court TV?

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 04:20 PM (ddphe)

311 He is threatening insurrection, against a President and WAR Department, that just did one of the most successful quick strikes to get an enemy leader, in history.
Posted by: Romeo13

Only slightly harder logistically speaking to roll up his entire admin.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 07, 2026 04:20 PM (mlg/3)

312 Whoever guessed months back, "Leftists plan to give illegal orders", treat yourself to something nice.

Posted by: ... at January 07, 2026 04:20 PM (Q4G+n)
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Thanks. I think I will.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 04:20 PM (krQz2)

313 OK I'm looking at these videos of Karen vs Iceman,
and I'm just not seeing the vehicle touch the man

gonna need a Zapruder film-type dissection of this to be sure

Posted by: Don Black at January 07, 2026 04:21 PM (ZxPkt)

314 Minnesota should lose its statehood status and become a territory. No longer participate in elections. And pay the money back. Also many state politicians should be thrown in jail.

Posted by: Case at January 07, 2026 04:20 PM (4rWc3)
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This, too, is the story of California.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 04:21 PM (krQz2)

315 If you're NG, what do you do?

Refuse an order which is illegal on its face.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 04:22 PM (ExV1e)

316 That will get ugly. If you're NG, what do you do?

Shoot the governor?

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 07, 2026 04:22 PM (n5tGW)

317 That's Walz.

There's a dead underage hooker's skeleton in his closet.

Count on it.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 07, 2026 04:11 PM (IG3/x)
____

Male or female hooker?
----

Style Guide says 'live boy, dead girl'.

Posted by: clarence at January 07, 2026 04:23 PM (JhlRS)

318 315 If you're NG, what do you do?

Refuse an order which is illegal on its face.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 04:22 PM (ExV1e)

Resign your commission in the MN Guard.

Posted by: Nova Local at January 07, 2026 04:23 PM (tOcjL)

319 Do NOT provoke armed men.

Posted by: tubal at January 07, 2026 04:23 PM (pDt9x)

320 Whoever guessed months back, "Leftists plan to give illegal orders", treat yourself to something nice.
Posted by: ...
......

I've got a Kit Kat for my after lunch snack.

Posted by: wth at January 07, 2026 04:23 PM (v0R5T)

321 It is coming out that it was a planned anti ICE protest... a set up.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 04:18 PM (mP0Kj)

I wonder if the casting director informed that lady that she'd been cast in the role of corpse.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 04:23 PM (ExV1e)

322 Can someone update the Rubio meme with him wearing a Minnesota Viking jersey?

Posted by: Wally at January 07, 2026 04:23 PM (0e5Te)

323 Waltz is fat and stupid. He will squeal if he is going to prison. He is going to have an accident soon. Its easier to blame it all on him them.
Posted by: Hillary and Barak chat at January 07, 2026 04:19 PM (KdazR)

Like that fat ass in Shawshank Redemption that cried like a baby so the guards beat him to death his first night in the joint. Saved a lot of time and trouble.

Posted by: Warden Norton at January 07, 2026 04:23 PM (GlDYx)

324 I couldn't tell what happened in Minneapolis from those vids.

I couldn't even see the ICE agent almost get run down, or any shots being fired.

I just saw some innocent cars getting shellacked by the SUV.

Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2026 04:23 PM (77rzZ)

325 Democrats making animal noises --

LOL

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 07, 2026 04:23 PM (Kt19C)

326 They must've found evidence that would lead to the arrest and conviction of Hillary Clinton.
Posted by: Or Jimy Hoffa's corpse at January 07, 2026 04:20 PM (TbWk/)

My only guesses are an Ayatollah, or a big ol' barrel full of enriched uranium.

Oil is out of the question. Weapons wouldn't be that big of a deal either.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 07, 2026 04:23 PM (06Hmj)

327 >>>207 Jacob Frey just said "Ice, get the fuck out".

Teacher says, every time a Democrat says the F word, an illegal gets its EBT card filled

Posted by: brak at January 07, 2026 04:23 PM (jGJov)

328 OK I'm looking at these videos of Karen vs Iceman,
and I'm just not seeing the vehicle touch the man

gonna need a Zapruder film-type dissection of this to be sure
Posted by: Don Black at January 07, 2026 04:21 PM


Better video angle. She does appear to actually hit the ICE agent.

https://tinyurl.com/338smh3u
Posted by: JackStraw at January 07, 2026 02:22 PM

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 07, 2026 04:24 PM (jc0TO)

329 "Denaturalized and deported" can absolutely happen. As a child, my US citizenship document had terms on the back that stated the US government can take away your citizenship and deport you. So clear that even as a 12 year old I understood what that meant.

Posted by: KungPow at January 07, 2026 04:24 PM (L3CZ0)

330 @nicksortor
·
35m
🚨 BREAKING: BLACKHAWKS spotted overhead near Minneapolis as the National Guard prepares for deployment

Things are getting very tense out here.

Posted by: Don Black at January 07, 2026 04:24 PM (ZxPkt)

331 Can someone update the Rubio meme with him wearing a Minnesota Viking jersey?
Posted by: Wally at January 07, 2026 04:23 PM (0e5Te)

And then Ravens gear and a headset.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 07, 2026 04:24 PM (06Hmj)

332 OK I'm looking at these videos of Karen vs Iceman,
and I'm just not seeing the vehicle touch the man

gonna need a Zapruder film-type dissection of this to be sure
Posted by: Don Black at January 07, 2026 04:21 PM (ZxPkt)
_____________

Seems clear he was hit in this vid:

https://tinyurl.com/338smh3u

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 04:24 PM (iFTx/)

333 Refuse an order which is illegal on its face.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Resign your commission in the MN Guard.
Posted by: Nova Local

Refusing seems like the better option; if you quit, you'll be replaced by someone hot to do the stupid thing.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 07, 2026 04:24 PM (mlg/3)

334 307 299 Greenland would be a super place to send Somalis.

Call me crazy but I'd suggest Somali as the correct place to send the Somalis
--------------
Davy Jones Locker makes sense.
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 07, 2026 04:20 PM (pLaQB)

You don't want to flood your newly acquired, big, beautiful Greenland with Somali garbage. Send 'em back to Somalia.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 07, 2026 04:25 PM (zYpTz)

335 330 @nicksortor
·
35m
🚨 BREAKING: BLACKHAWKS spotted overhead near Minneapolis as the National Guard prepares for deployment

Things are getting very tense out here.
Posted by: Don Black at January 07, 2026 04:24 PM (ZxPkt)

I know. Wife giving me the Death Stare about getting the outdoor lights taken down.

Posted by: tubal at January 07, 2026 04:26 PM (pDt9x)

336 I think everyone knows why the democrats are willing to to anything to stop ICE, including pressing the NG to oppose them, or kill people.

The entire democrat party is based on stolen taxpayer money and fraudulent votes, and if the illegals are thrown out and the fraud prosecuted, the democrat party ceases to exist.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 07, 2026 04:26 PM (0U5gm)

337 OK I'm looking at these videos of Karen vs Iceman,
and I'm just not seeing the vehicle touch the man

gonna need a Zapruder film-type dissection of this to be sure
Posted by: Don Black at January 07, 2026 04:21 PM (ZxPkt)

There's one angle where the car sure seems to clip his hip and left leg. He gets spun around.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 04:26 PM (ExV1e)

338 More than a few have observed that the Chinese have to be crapping themselves over how fast the US rolled over the ChiCom air defense junk they sold to Venezuela.


Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 07, 2026 04:26 PM (IG3/x)

339
You'd think our bleeding-heart progressives would be angry that money was being stolen on such a magnitude instead of going to the poor and needy.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 07, 2026 04:26 PM (tgvbd)

340 322 Can someone update the Rubio meme with him wearing a Minnesota Viking jersey?
Posted by: Wally at January 07, 2026 04:23 PM (0e5Te)

So you think he is a serial loser?

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 07, 2026 04:27 PM (6Bc88)

341 69 Majority Whip Tom Emmer: "Do you have any doubt that Tim Walz knew about that fraud as it was occurring?"

Minnesota State Reps:

"None whatsoever"

"He absolutely knew that it was occurring."

You mean Tom Emmer, who told the citizens of MN to STFU and STFD when they objected to having hordes of unassimilable foreigners dumped on them. He's desperately trying to make people forget that. Don't let him succeed. He needs to go.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2026 03:44 PM (Riz8t)
_______
Maybe he should start hanging out with Thom Tillis.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 07, 2026 04:27 PM (s0JqF)

342
I know. Wife giving me the Death Stare about getting the outdoor lights taken down.
Posted by: tubal at January 07, 2026 04:26 PM (pDt9x)

"How in the crap are there seventeen thousand new day care centers in Greenland overnight?!?!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 07, 2026 04:27 PM (06Hmj)

343 So if Walz calls out the NG to protest illegals from ICE they are committing a crime...and then ICE would be obligated to arrest them in turn.

Seems a stupid idea unless Walz really just wants to get some NG members shot.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 04:27 PM (sKqQm)

344 Haaaaa i copied the wrong thing.

Don't worry. New glasses should be ready by the end of the week.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 07, 2026 04:27 PM (06Hmj)

345 Do NOT provoke armed men.
Posted by: tubal

I once got pulled over for some traffic violation on the Presidio of Monterey (where DLI is located). The Fed cop who made the stop told me to get out of my car, which of course I did. But I made the mistake of then putting my hands on my hips as he explained something to me.

The cop told me that he construed hands-on-hips as a hostile stance and told me to take my hands off my hips.

As much as I said "Oh, please" in my head, I complied with his request.

Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2026 04:28 PM (77rzZ)

346 Uhmm, the Department of War can simply nationalize the MN national guard and take control of it.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 07, 2026 04:28 PM (XV/Pl)

347 Gold is heavy and difficult to transport.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 07, 2026 03:40 PM (0U5gm)

There is a rumor that Venezuela settled a lot of debts with Russia and China in Venezuelan gold the day before Maduro got snatched. Physical gold is hard to transport, but I am not sure if it went via tanker.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 07, 2026 04:28 PM (rbvCR)

348 FIREWORKS!
All H*ll Breaks Loose at Hearing on Minnesota Fraud as Far-Left Rep. Ayanna Pressley Goes into a Screaming Meltdown When She’s Called Out on Her Grandstanding Nonsense

Posted by: SMOD at January 07, 2026 04:28 PM (RHGPo)

349 At times like these, we miss the calming presence of St George of Fentanyl

Posted by: 2009Refugee at January 07, 2026 04:28 PM (8AONa)

350 Better video angle. She does appear to actually hit the ICE agent.

https://tinyurl.com/338smh3u
Posted by: JackStraw at January 07, 2026 02:22 PM
Posted by: toby928(c)

Per the NY Post, the ICE officer is in the hospital.

Posted by: Tuna at January 07, 2026 04:28 PM (lJ0H4)

351 Who had Minnesota on their Civil War II bingo card?

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 04:28 PM (krQz2)

352
More than a few have observed that the Chinese have to be crapping themselves over how fast the US rolled over the ChiCom air defense junk they sold to Venezuela.

____________

Who knows? Maybe they sold it knowing it was junk while they keep the state-of-the-art stuff for themselves. That was what the Russians did.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 07, 2026 04:28 PM (tgvbd)

353 You'd think our bleeding-heart progressives would be angry that money was being stolen on such a magnitude instead of going to the poor and needy.

On leftists sites they've already reached the point of arguing:

It is GOOD that the Somalis were taking this money. It shows they aren't dumb like right wing racists say and they needed the money more then stupid taxpayers do.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 04:28 PM (sKqQm)

354 My husband‘s buddy is an ICE agent and he’s been assigned to Minneapolis. We are going to hear some good stories from him at the end of this whole thing.

Posted by: Keena at January 07, 2026 04:29 PM (RiTnx)

355 It's funny how often I'm the real villain here...Some Somali dude in Minnesota rips of the government, but I'm the real villain.

I actually see this as a positive - they are not defending what the Somalis did but trying to change the subject.

When the facts are in your favor pounds the facts
When the law is in your favor, pound the law.
When nothing is in your favor, pound the table.


Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 07, 2026 04:30 PM (C3IAS)

356 "That's Walz.

There's a dead underage hooker's skeleton in his closet.

Count on it.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia "


I'm thinking underage dead hooker"

Posted by: Ripley at January 07, 2026 04:30 PM (GUOwU)

357 If I were a Guardsman in MN I'd exercise the restraint so contrary to my nature, and demanded by my ROE, because I have a family to feed.

But just give me a reason. One little reason. Just one. Please, do it. I'd be beggin' ya.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 07, 2026 04:30 PM (BI5O2)

358 > You'd think our bleeding-heart progressives would be angry that money was being stolen on such a magnitude instead of going to the poor and needy.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 07, 2026 04:26 PM (tgvbd)

"Poor and needy" is always defined as "hardcore leftist voters", genuinely impoverished or not.

Poor and needy conservative voters are sister-fucking redneck yokels with sixth grade educations who are too stupid to vote for what's good for them.

It is known.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 07, 2026 04:30 PM (IG3/x)

359 Remember Senator Geary in Godfather II?
That's Walz.
There's a dead underage hooker's skeleton in his closet.
Count on it.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 07, 2026 04:11 PM (IG3/x)

The Chinese intelligence agencies have films from some of his "youth field trips" to China.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 07, 2026 04:30 PM (rbvCR)

360 The cop told me that he construed hands-on-hips as a hostile stance and told me to take my hands off my hips.

As much as I said "Oh, please" in my head, I complied with his request.
Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2026 04:28 PM (77rzZ)

Start singing "The French Mistake" at him.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 07, 2026 04:30 PM (06Hmj)

361 Nood. RFKJ.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 04:30 PM (ExV1e)

362 BREAKING: BLACKHAWKS spotted overhead near Minneapolis as the National Guard prepares for deployment

Wait, don't the Blackhawks have a game scheduled against the Wild? Supposed to be on the ice at 7:30.

(Breaking: Chuck Martel just found out that the Minnesota Wild is a real NHL hockey team that has been around for 25+ years)

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 07, 2026 04:30 PM (Dv3i1)

363 Per the NY Post, the ICE officer is in the hospital.

I remember when it came out that Trayvon was doing a ground n' pound on George Zimmerman the leftist line instantly went from "Zimmerman ambushed Trayvon" to "some times you have to take a beat down"

If the Post is correct the left will soon argue that if the officer's injuries were not life threatening he deserved to get hit for blocking Karen's car...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 04:31 PM (sKqQm)

364 328 OK I'm looking at these videos of Karen vs Iceman,
and I'm just not seeing the vehicle touch the man

gonna need a Zapruder film-type dissection of this to be sure
Posted by: Don Black at January 07, 2026 04:21 PM


Better video angle. She does appear to actually hit the ICE agent.

https://tinyurl.com/338smh3u
Posted by: JackStraw at January 07, 2026 02:22 PM
Posted by: toby928(c)

Not actually needed but useful in the court of public opinion. The whole shooting happened in about 2 seconds, the whole encounter on most video so far is about 20 seconds before the shooting.

If someone is heading at you with a car and you are infront of it and happen to be a federal officer trying to execute a lawful stop, then you are allowed to shoot at the driver regardless of whether it touched you. Imminent threat to be stopped and cars are lethal weapons in this case and no, a federal officer is NOT required to give way to the car and perp aka retreat.

The lady committed suicide by cop essentially whether she intended that outcome or not and a whole train of bad decisions in a very short period of time by her.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 04:31 PM (WDjG6)

365 @Breaking911
·
2h
MINN. POLICE CHIEF: "I am obviously very concerned, I have been told, that a woman who was sitting in her car blocking the street, and not the target of any enforcement activity, is now deceased."

Posted by: Don Black at January 07, 2026 04:31 PM (ZxPkt)

366 Keith Ellison is worse than lying pond scum--on his best days.

Posted by: comanche voter at January 07, 2026 04:31 PM (cB7nX)

367 Gold is heavy and difficult to transport.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 07, 2026 03:40 PM (0U5gm)

There is a rumor that Venezuela settled a lot of debts with Russia and China in Venezuelan gold the day before Maduro got snatched. Physical gold is hard to transport, but I am not sure if it went via tanker.

Posted by: Kindltot


Up through WWII, warships carried gold below decks as a universal currency to purchase fuel or supplies in case they ended up away from an allied port.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 07, 2026 04:31 PM (0U5gm)

368 Better video angle. She does appear to actually hit the ICE agent.

https://tinyurl.com/338smh3u

Posted by: JackStraw at January 07, 2026 02:22 PM
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At this point, I really don't give a fuck.

She fucked around and found out.

Minnesota seems to want to find out some stuff too.

The other side is always talking about cops shooting unarmed civilians. But FAFO is what they said when Byrd shot Ashli Babbitt.

There is no benefit in engaging with people who can change their minds so completely on a vehicle/pedestrian clash.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 04:31 PM (krQz2)

369 Dem Rep. Ayanna "Q-ball" Pressley

Posted by: SMOD at January 07, 2026 04:32 PM (RHGPo)

370 TJM that Preminger video was a tough job, after that any should be easy

Posted by: Skip at January 07, 2026 04:32 PM (Ia/+0)

371 This fraud is so widespread that it has to be organized.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 07, 2026 04:33 PM (Vh9CX)

372 I remember when it came out that Trayvon was doing a ground n' pound on George Zimmerman the leftist line instantly went from "Zimmerman ambushed Trayvon" to "some times you have to take a beat down"

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 04:31 PM (sKqQm)
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Great example.

These people can't be trusted. They vacillate all over the place.

Posted by: Axeman at January 07, 2026 04:33 PM (krQz2)

373 333 Refuse an order which is illegal on its face.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Resign your commission in the MN Guard.
Posted by: Nova Local

Refusing seems like the better option; if you quit, you'll be replaced by someone hot to do the stupid thing.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 07, 2026 04:24 PM (mlg/3)

No, you won't...they'd worry Trump would deploy them overseas...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 07, 2026 04:34 PM (tOcjL)

374 Obviously whoever was the cause of this woman's death you know they are going to blame it on ICE

Posted by: Skip at January 07, 2026 04:34 PM (Ia/+0)

375 All H*ll Breaks Loose at Hearing on Minnesota Fraud as Far-Left Rep. Ayanna Pressley Goes into a Screaming Meltdown When She’s Called Out on Her Grandstanding Nonsense
____

The best part is that it was a witness that called her out on her grandstanding.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 07, 2026 04:34 PM (Dv3i1)

376 Poison Ivy, guitarist of The Cramps, looked lovely in a cat suit.

Posted by: Dames, Booze, Chains, and Boots at January 07, 2026 04:34 PM (oftw2)

377 That will get ugly. If you're NG, what do you do?
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 07, 2026 04:16 PM (zYpTz)

The funniest thing would be if Trump as CIC announces a 30 day paid holiday for MN NG and they should take it if they are wise.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 07, 2026 04:35 PM (rbvCR)

378 Thinking you have special superior judgement has started many wars.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 07, 2026 04:36 PM (EyfuW)

379

The DNC is a criminal racketeering operation.

They exist to steal and rip off the poor and the taxpayer.

Billions they say they need goes to them and others and never gets to where it needs to go.

They are truly demonic scumbags.


Posted by: Rev DR E Buzz at January 07, 2026 04:36 PM (et1vG)

380 I’m convinced that Africa is for Africans. If you self identify as African and hate America, there’s a boat waiting for you in the harbor.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 07, 2026 04:36 PM (Ouxay)

381 Looks like a ramming to me, pulls out and could drive to the right but runs off road to hit that car

Posted by: Skip at January 07, 2026 04:36 PM (Ia/+0)

382 Greenland would be a super place to send Somalis.
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 07, 2026 04:08 PM (pLaQB)

Tell the Greenlanders they taste like seal.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 07, 2026 04:37 PM (8zz6B)

383 370 TJM that Preminger video was a tough job, after that any should be easy
Posted by: Skip

We, the Preminger Family Trust, are considering legal options.

Posted by: Skidoo at January 07, 2026 04:37 PM (oftw2)

384 Oh, and for fun, from Colombian's X feed

Maria Elisa
@mariaelisasmith
Jan 5
I’m devastated by this illegal capture of an elected head of state by Trump.

I live in constant fear my beloved leader, Gustavo Petro, who lives at Cra 8 #7-26, La Candelaria, Bogotá, Colombia, will share the same fate. He’s usually home with his wife Verónica by 10pm.
Jan 5, 2026 · 7:12 PM UTC

Posted by: Kindltot at January 07, 2026 04:37 PM (rbvCR)

385 Gov Walz revealed that 7,800 National Guard troops are in training for a possible deployment and has sent out a warning notice preparing troops that may be deployed against federal immigration agents. Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 07, 2026 04:10 PM (mlg/3)

The NG is commanded, first and foremost, by the president. If the president counteracts that commend, and the NG does not comply, they all spend 20 years in Leavenworth (if they are lucky). Second, the NG would be committing suicide - trump would order in whatever forces he has from the rest of the country, and the Minnesota NG would immediately surrender. Or die.

For what? for Walz? Somali scammers? Illegal alien rapists being sent home?

Dems talk about refusing illegal orders - these would be illegal orders.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 07, 2026 04:38 PM (C3IAS)

386 Cops can be dickheads, but in their defense, they deal with awful people all day and night.

They are also dickheads with guns.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 07, 2026 04:41 PM (C3IAS)

387 Nick Shirley reports that there is medical transport fraud in MN. Is there any operation in MN that is not fraudulent?

https://tinyurl.com/5bvsdkmn.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 07, 2026 04:42 PM (8Xy/A)

388 Walz deploys Minnesota NG. NG overthrows Walz. Somalis all over the US return to Somalia. Sydney Sweeney stops by for a night of fun

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 07, 2026 04:43 PM (ScJGb)

389 Walt is crazy. I bet he has a special cage for his fun kids.
His World is collapsing. Secrets and blackmail.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 07, 2026 04:45 PM (EyfuW)

390 @Breaking911
·
1h
Minneapolis residents are in the streets attacking federal agents

Posted by: Don Black at January 07, 2026 04:50 PM (ZxPkt)

391 Don't tell me. We need R's in Minnesota to straighten this crime/fraud out even though this fraud was discovered back in 2017.

It kind of brings us back to the Paul Ryan days with the "10 year plans" that seemed to be designed to be memory hole dumps where all would be forgotten.

Politicians, R's and D's. I fuggin pretty much hate em all at this point.
I don't want to hear one smidgen of talk about R's and D's.
I want prison sentences. There is a decade plus of time that has gone by to process this and if there is not enough evidence at this point as they watched billions get ripped off then just be frank with the American people.
They are not going to arrest any R or D over this. They will however make Paul Ryan......Envious.

Fuq the R and D at this point.

Posted by: Drider at January 07, 2026 06:17 PM (Bv8CJ)

Minnesota Terrorist Tries to Ram ICE with Her Car, Gets Fatally Shot in Self-Defense
Update: Slowed Video Shows Car Hitting Agents

As a commenter said: They're going to try to Derek Chauvin these agents.


The Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday defended an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer who fatally shot someone in what the agency says was self-defense.

"Today, ICE officers in Minneapolis were conducting targeted operations when rioters began blocking ICE officers and one of these violent rioters weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them--an act of domestic terrorism," DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement. "

An ICE officer, fearing for his life, the lives of his fellow law enforcement and the safety of the public, fired defensive shots."


...

"This is the direct consequence of constant attacks and demonization of our officers by sanctuary politicians who fuel and encourage rampant assaults on our law enforcement," McLaughlin added.

It's time for Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act.

Posted by: Ace at 02:22 PM




Comments

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1 Bring it

Posted by: steevy at January 07, 2026 02:22 PM (YwEeS)

2 Yes. Send the Army to Minnesota.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 02:22 PM (ExV1e)

3 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at January 07, 2026 02:22 PM (NcvvS)

4 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 02:23 PM (Zz0t1)

5 Nevermind the agents. They're gonna try to Derek Chauvin Trump.

Posted by: ... at January 07, 2026 02:23 PM (Q4G+n)

6 Crazy people doing crazy shit but expecting to get away with it.

Posted by: huerfano at January 07, 2026 02:24 PM (98kQX)

7 5 Nevermind the agents. They're gonna try to Derek Chauvin Trump.
Posted by: ... at January 07, 2026 02:23 PM (Q4G+n)

Of course they are

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2026 02:24 PM (VE6XX)

8 When leftards riot it's your fault for "causing chaos".

Posted by: ... at January 07, 2026 02:24 PM (Q4G+n)

9 A can't really see too much from that video.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 07, 2026 02:24 PM (rZCVI)

10 all i hear is 'hawk... ptui', followed by some WTFs

Posted by: Don Black at January 07, 2026 02:24 PM (ZxPkt)

11 They're going to have to cancel The View now. They just lost their viewer.

Posted by: Mark1971 at January 07, 2026 02:24 PM (CNl8/)

12 There are multiple angle videos available online

Posted by: brak at January 07, 2026 02:25 PM (jGJov)

13 Do you know who else lost a viewer?

Posted by: D. Crenshaw at January 07, 2026 02:25 PM (Q4G+n)

14 That angle, she excessively accelerates 'for some reason.'

The other angle shows she hits an ICE agent.

Attempted assault with a deadly weapon.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 02:25 PM (Zz0t1)

15 There have been a couple more videos that have different angles. There is an officer in front of the vehicle.

Posted by: Mark1971 at January 07, 2026 02:25 PM (CNl8/)

16 FAFO! Woohoo!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 07, 2026 02:25 PM (Cjt/F)

17 Dude you did a murder? Is that what he says?

Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 02:25 PM (Wmg4n)

18 12 There are multiple angle videos available online
Posted by: brak at January 07, 2026 02:25 PM (jGJov)

That one doesn't look good for the ICE agent.. But it's hard to tell...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2026 02:26 PM (VE6XX)

19 I don't see either the ICE agent almost getting run over, or any shooting in that video.

Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2026 02:26 PM (77rzZ)

20 Moar. Of. This!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 07, 2026 02:26 PM (Cjt/F)

21 Better video angle. She does appear to actually hit the ICE agent.

https://tinyurl.com/338smh3u
Posted by: JackStraw at January 07, 2026 02:22 PM

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 07, 2026 02:26 PM (jc0TO)

22 Do you know who else lost a viewer?
Posted by: D. Crenshaw at January 07, 2026 02:25 PM (Q4G+n)


Face without an eye.


- - -- - Lyrics in Billy Idol's trashcan.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 02:26 PM (Zz0t1)

23 I'm sorry but I must admit the shrill cries of WTF! from these idiots is very satisfying.

Posted by: Fen at January 07, 2026 02:26 PM (ciYHQ)

24 I honestly can't tell shit from that video. *shrugs*

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 07, 2026 02:27 PM (SSEhk)

25 Again, living life like a Grand Theft Auto cut scene usually leads to negative consequences.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 02:27 PM (Zz0t1)

26 Smartphones ACTIVATE
Shitty video

Posted by: wth at January 07, 2026 02:27 PM (v0R5T)

27 As I mentioned in the earlier thread, this is an 80/20 issue that will be deader than the dead FAFO crunt by the weekend.

Without a racial angle, the blacks -- and their army of race hustlers -- will sit this one out. Nobody cries for dead AWFuLs who try to run over cops. White antifa homos will also mostly stay home, afraid that they too will be shot.

Sure, the left will try to make this slashcunt into a martyr, but the vast majority of normals will watch the vid of her literally running over a cop, shrug, and mutter "FAFO."

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 02:27 PM (iFTx/)

28 She was being ordered out of the vehicle by an ICE agent. He was trying to open her door for extraction when she drove away with his arm inside the vehicle. She then drove at another ICE agent who shot her in defense of himself and the agent she had attempted to drive away with. Justified shoot all the way around.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at January 07, 2026 02:27 PM (iIXK7)

29 The finding out can be very tough.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 07, 2026 02:27 PM (jc0TO)

30 this is gonna be fucked up

you know Schumer and Discount 0bama are drooling over this

Posted by: Don Black at January 07, 2026 02:27 PM (ZxPkt)

31 Woman in red SUV is blocking half the road, then takes off when pickup truck guys approach. One shot her as she was accelerating away? The usual suspects are screeching that she was "shot in the face" so... was shot from down the road (stuck car)? Doesn't seem like trigger happy ICE unless the agent was in her path, however, inconsistent with her reportedly "trying to turn around"

Posted by: 80sfan at January 07, 2026 02:28 PM (dVc3M)

32 Dude you did a murder? Is that what he says?

Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 02:25 PM (Wmg4n)


Ruprecht loves to run......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 02:28 PM (Zz0t1)

33 The other angle shows one of the ICE agents in front of the car as the driver floors it

But...watching the people that defended the murder of Ashley Babbiit upset that one of theirs got killed trying to murder a cop...on the day after J6 no less? Wow.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 02:28 PM (sKqQm)

34
It's time for Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act.

I'm shocked he hasn't done so already.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at January 07, 2026 02:28 PM (QVmho)

35 These AWFLs and soyboys aren't going to like how this unfolds. The sad thing is the high-level organizers never suffer.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 07, 2026 02:28 PM (cYBz/)

36 if you are only the driver and your pals kill while robbing a bank. You the driver will be charged with murder. Mayors too.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 07, 2026 02:28 PM (EyfuW)

37 https://tinyurl.com/338smh3u
Posted by: JackStraw at January 07, 2026 02:22 PM

I feel sorry for the folks whose parked cars got creamed by the SUV.

Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2026 02:28 PM (77rzZ)

38 and so soon after National Insurrection Day, too

Posted by: Don Black at January 07, 2026 02:28 PM (ZxPkt)

39 Dude you did a murder? Is that what he says?
Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 02:25 PM (Wmg4n)


I did a poopy!

Posted by: Joe Biden at January 07, 2026 02:29 PM (Zz0t1)

40 Any self respecting Texas Ranger would have used his grenade.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 07, 2026 02:29 PM (gm9Sb)

41 A vehicle is a deadly weapon. If you use it to disrupt law enforcement activity, you might get shot.

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at January 07, 2026 02:29 PM (V6W16)

42 theres other footage that shows she angled the wheels at the officer and then struck the officer that fired in return.. good shoot.

Posted by: saar at January 07, 2026 02:29 PM (lexfv)

43 What a stupid way to die.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at January 07, 2026 02:29 PM (wGerL)

44 The small print on her learners permit didn’t make it clear she needed to have an adult in the vehicle.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 07, 2026 02:29 PM (Ouxay)

45 A middle aged lady should've learned better since she made it to middle age.

Posted by: NCKate at January 07, 2026 02:30 PM (uQzkA)

46 Step on the gas! Er... fall on the gas!

Posted by: wth at January 07, 2026 02:30 PM (v0R5T)

47 I thought the guy said "turn down for what?"

Posted by: Oglebay at January 07, 2026 02:30 PM (2ap+5)

48 I am so sick of these performative assholes yelling "Oh my f***ing God" and "What the f***". Also "here I am bravely whipping out my camera and recording". "I'm a resistance!".

Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2026 02:30 PM (Riz8t)

49 31 The usual suspects are screeching that she was "shot in the face" so... was shot from down the road (stuck car)?

grassy knoll

Posted by: anachronda at January 07, 2026 02:30 PM (oY6Yp)

50 On a side note.......

Grand Theft Auto VI was supposed to release in 2024. It's now been postponed, again, to 2027.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 02:30 PM (Zz0t1)

51 That angle, she excessively accelerates 'for some reason.'

The other angle shows she hits an ICE agent.

Attempted assault with a deadly weapon.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 02:25 PM (Zz0t1)

24 hour rule but it appears she was trying to evade Federal Agents who wanted to arrest her for impeding

I blame Seatle. They let protesters get away with too much sht

Posted by: Fen at January 07, 2026 02:30 PM (ciYHQ)

52 And just like that 'stochastic terrorism' is never mentioned again.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 07, 2026 02:30 PM (mlg/3)

53

"Dude what the fuck. "

Um, yeah.



Posted by: Rev DR E Buzz at January 07, 2026 02:31 PM (et1vG)

54 the whole thing was clearly a trap, or a set-up ... notice all the "bystanders" who just happen to be doing video with their phones.
(a.k.a. "co-conspirators")

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 07, 2026 02:31 PM (Cjt/F)

55 The Shooter steps in front of her car, while drawing, as she was reversing to leave. This is a murder.

Holy shit, that's blatant murder. They were driving away. They are already trying to spin it that the driver was trying to run them over, which is completely bullshit.

ICE needs to leave our state. full stop. If they refuse we need to make them. I'm not watching another fucking video like this. Force them out.

I'm downloading every single one of these videos in case these MAGA voters decide to do the usual and have a selective memory.

If the MPD doesn't arrest the shooter now then everything Frey promised is a lie, and a dangerous one.

R/conservative is celebrating this and claiming the driver was trying to run over the officer. How in gods name would shooting someone prevent the car from hitting the ICE buffoon if it was already heading straight at them from 3 feet away?

I legitimately do not know how to handle the fact that there are people who will see such a completely altered, Trump-dictated version of reality no matter what is in front of them.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 07, 2026 02:31 PM (44PvT)

56 Her "coexist" and "hate has no home here" bumper stickers did not provide the expected buff to her defense.

Posted by: brak at January 07, 2026 02:31 PM (fKnkv)

57 Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2026 02:30 PM (Riz8t)

I agree with you.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 07, 2026 02:31 PM (rZCVI)

58 11 They're going to have to cancel The View now. They just lost their viewer.
Posted by: Mark1971 at January 07, 2026 02:24 PM (CNl8/)

/chuckles

/Golf Clap

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 02:31 PM (mP0Kj)

59 Ace, if you haven't seen it already, the vid that Jackstraw linked to is much better, and you can clearly see she actually hits the cop before he fires. He doesn't get out of the way in time.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 02:31 PM (iFTx/)

60 Frey knows who is really to blame here: ICE.

"I am aware of a shooting involving an ICE agent at 34th Street & Portland. The presence of federal immigration enforcement agents is causing chaos in our city. We’re demanding ICE to leave the city immediately. We stand rock solid with our immigrant and refugee communities."

https://x.com/MayorFrey/status/2008945355925364762

Elon Musk: "You are a pathetic donkey"

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2008950688106336605

Posted by: mr_jack at January 07, 2026 02:31 PM (LNPSJ)

61 time for Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act.

I'm shocked he hasn't done so already.
==
Its teed up. The notice periods have run and certifications are met. He just needs a particular criminal action for purposes of theatre...

Posted by: Cold, dark and unpleasant at January 07, 2026 02:32 PM (KdazR)

62 It's time for Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act.

-----------

The Democrat-Communist Domestic Terrorists -- and their Billionaire Backers and Foreign Puppet-Masters -- are gonna may The 2020 Summer of Love, Burning, Looting, & Murdering ... but "mostly peaceful" Burning, Looting, & Murdering ... look like a 4th of July Parade this year before the midterms.

Buckle up, it's gonna be a bumpy Trumpy ride.

And Make Blue Shithole States Territories Again!

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 07, 2026 02:32 PM (lYk5q)

63 If the MPD doesn't arrest the shooter now then everything Frey promised is a lie, and a dangerous one.

Narrator: Everything Frey promised is a lie

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 07, 2026 02:32 PM (jc0TO)

64 2 Yes. Send the Army to Minnesota.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 02:22 PM (ExV1e)

Trump needs to call in the National Guard because protestors on the scene are starting to riot.

Fraudster Tim Walz is already talking about indicting the ICE officers.

Posted by: Joemarine at January 07, 2026 02:32 PM (y171U)

65 I wonder how the Left will distinguish this from the Charlottesville car ramming that ended the Unite the Right "riot." I was reliably informed that in that case that running over someone while attempting to escape a threatening mob was the worst case of murder one ever. Oh wait, who am I kidding, no one in the media will mention the Charlottesville precedent.

Posted by: Martin Tell at January 07, 2026 02:33 PM (sFNX2)

66 The Shooter steps in front of her car, while drawing, as she was reversing to leave. This is a murder.

Cops don't have to backdown from a situation and let a perp flee.

Or another way to think about it...if the ICE agent had thrown a rumble strip in front of Karen McAWFL's car while demanding she get out of the vehicle would he be guilty of vandalizing her car?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 02:33 PM (sKqQm)

67 The bitch screeching "shame shame shame" got on my nerves.

Posted by: NCKate at January 07, 2026 02:33 PM (uQzkA)

68 >>>Trump needs to call in the National Guard because protestors on the scene are starting to riot

Oh no, not allowed!

Posted by: federal judge at January 07, 2026 02:33 PM (fKnkv)

69 "You did a murder"

Their English teach is going to be so proud of them.

What a stupid, senseless death. Comply with orders given. Darwin wins that round methinks.

Posted by: turambar at January 07, 2026 02:33 PM (Q0yOR)

70 Good.

If they don't like the administration's policies they can vote in the 2028 presidential election.

But running down ICE SHOULD get them shot. Every time.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 07, 2026 02:33 PM (n9ltV)

71 The Shooter steps in front of her car, while drawing, as she was reversing to leave. This is a murder.


They watch too much TV. She was being ordered to stop and exit the vehicle. She instead reverses, then rapidly accelerates and strikes an officer with her vehicle. She opened the FA door and FO the consequences for it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 02:33 PM (Zz0t1)

72 Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2026 02:28 PM

Probably one of those people yelling "What the f***?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 07, 2026 02:33 PM (rZCVI)

73 Oh wait, who am I kidding, no one in the media will mention the Charlottesville precedent.

Yep. And note, he was being chased by armed members of antifa that were yelling that they were going to kill him. And we know this because the local antifa members said so

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 02:33 PM (sKqQm)

74 Will anything happen?

Posted by: The person who is always wondering if anything will happen at January 07, 2026 02:34 PM (LFVCm)

75 Trump needs to call in the National Guard because protestors on the scene are starting to riot

Oh no, not allowed!
Posted by: federal judge


Trump needs to send in the 101st Airborne.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 02:34 PM (WC9t6)

76 Democratium may protect you from political embarrassment, from indictment and from consequences, but it does not protect you from a bullet

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 07, 2026 02:34 PM (ScJGb)

77 Elon Musk: "You are a pathetic donkey"

------------

The judges would have also accepted "jackassclown."

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 07, 2026 02:34 PM (lYk5q)

78 54 the whole thing was clearly a trap, or a set-up ... notice all the "bystanders" who just happen to be doing video with their phones.
(a.k.a. "co-conspirators")
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 07, 2026 02:31 PM (Cjt/F)

Come on... isn't it Normal in Minnesota to stand outside in the cold and wet, and video a small random suburban street?

Check their phones for the ap that shows where ICE is at...

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 02:34 PM (mP0Kj)

79 I'd be pissed if that was my car she plowed while dead.
Hope she bundled her home and auto insurance to save hundreds.
It's a dog park.

Posted by: wth at January 07, 2026 02:34 PM (v0R5T)

80 Teach=teacher...oops.

Posted by: turambar at January 07, 2026 02:34 PM (Q0yOR)

81 Send in the Guard. Better yet, the 75th Rangers. Better than that, the 10th Mountain (looks cold there).

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 07, 2026 02:34 PM (gm9Sb)

82 “Dude, you did a murder for what?!”

No: Lady, you got yourself shot for WHAT?”
AWFL.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 07, 2026 02:35 PM (Hkcdp)

83 I wonder how the Left will distinguish this from the Charlottesville car ramming that ended the Unite the Right "riot." I was reliably informed that in that case that running over someone while attempting to escape a threatening mob was the worst case of murder one ever. Oh wait, who am I kidding, no one in the media will mention the Charlottesville precedent.

Excellent point.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2026 02:35 PM (Riz8t)

84 Come on... isn't it Normal in Minnesota to stand outside in the cold and wet, and video a small random suburban street?

Check their phones for the ap that shows where ICE is at...
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 02:34 PM

No jobs, I guess.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 07, 2026 02:35 PM (jc0TO)

85 If Karen stops and obeys the ICE agents' orders she gets a trip downtown and at worst is out on bail right now.

If Karen keeps reversing to try and get away she gets a trip downtown and faces some moderately serious charges

But acceleration your car when there is a cop in front of it? If she lived she would face attempted murder charges

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 02:35 PM (sKqQm)

86 79 I understood that reference

Posted by: turambar at January 07, 2026 02:35 PM (Q0yOR)

87 hero's what comes next:

the media will use this shooting story to hammer the fraud story into submission

bet me

Posted by: Don Black at January 07, 2026 02:35 PM (ZxPkt)

88 Frey knows who is really to blame here: ICE.

"I am aware of a shooting involving an ICE agent at 34th Street & Portland. The presence of federal immigration enforcement agents is causing chaos in our city. We’re demanding ICE to leave the city immediately. We stand rock solid with our immigrant and refugee communities."

https://x.com/MayorFrey/status/2008945355925364762

Elon Musk: "You are a pathetic donkey"

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2008950688106336605
Posted by: mr_jack at January 07, 2026 02:31 PM (LNPSJ)
______

Hmmm. Mayor Gay Homo Fag's statement is interesting, and telling. He's using the incident as a means to call for ICE to leave. At least in that statement, he's not calling it a murder or even a possibly unlawful shoot. Something is up. He musta seen the vid of the cop getting rammed, or he (correctly) senses this ain't going the way the left wants.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 02:35 PM (iFTx/)

89 I legitimately do not know how to handle the fact that there are people who will see such a completely altered, Trump-dictated version of reality no matter what is in front of them.
Posted by: Intercepted

Moreover, nary a one can tell you why with any reasonable explanation let alone one based in facts.

Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 02:36 PM (Wmg4n)

90 Lack of sunlight might be why Yankees go crazy?

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 07, 2026 02:36 PM (pLaQB)

91 >>> Come on... isn't it Normal in Minnesota to stand outside in the cold and wet, and video a small random suburban street?

they probably receive tax dollars to do just that, somehow

Posted by: brak at January 07, 2026 02:36 PM (jGJov)

92 "You are a pathetic donkey."

That was well chosen and few words there, Elon.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 07, 2026 02:36 PM (rZCVI)

93 Trump needs to call in the National Guard because protestors on the scene are starting to riot.

Fraudster Tim Walz is already talking about indicting the ICE officers.
Posted by: Joemarine at January 07, 2026 02:32 PM (y171U)

Yeah, but multiple Judges have now said THEY have control of where the National Guard goes.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 02:36 PM (mP0Kj)

94 "the whole thing was clearly a trap, or a set-up ... notice all the "bystanders" who just happen to be doing video with their phones.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez "


There are hordes of leftist activists showing up at ICE raids and recording them is hope of capturing a shooting, or anything to stir up more trouble.

Posted by: Ripley at January 07, 2026 02:36 PM (GUOwU)

95 She seems to be trying to leave but she had been ordered to get out of her vehicle.. She then does seem to graze/hit the officer who would have no idea if she was trying to kill him.. Like I said split second decision...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2026 02:36 PM (VE6XX)

96 the fraud story is below the fold now

it's gonna be Dead Karen 24/7

Posted by: Don Black at January 07, 2026 02:36 PM (ZxPkt)

97 The Shooter steps in front of her car, while drawing, as she was reversing to leave. This is a murder.
-
I don't think I really care whether the left thinks it's murder, so long as they get the message the same will happen to them if they interfere with ICE.

Posted by: Methos at January 07, 2026 02:36 PM (vSvIl)

98 Attempted assault with a deadly weapon.
Posted by: Sponge

Nitpick: attempted murder

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 07, 2026 02:37 PM (mlg/3)

99 I guess if you need video evidence that TDS make you real stupid, this is it.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at January 07, 2026 02:37 PM (MSlZp)

100 Ok, so the left's argument is that ICE doesn't have a right to demand you get out of your car and you can drive through them.

ICE...being a federal police agency.

Now remember the several cases that have come up where a leftist mob surrounds a driver and if the driver tries to drive out they get arrested for it? And how the left believes this is the correct result since you don't have a right to drive through people even if they are threatening you?

Now square that with their take here...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 02:37 PM (sKqQm)

101 88 Hmmm. Mayor Gay Homo Fag's statement is interesting, and telling. He's using the incident as a means to call for ICE to leave. At least in that statement, he's not calling it a murder or even a possibly unlawful shoot. Something is up. He musta seen the vid of the cop getting rammed, or he (correctly) senses this ain't going the way the left wants.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 02:35 PM (iFTx/)

======

He's got to dance on a tightrope.

I think the AWFLs are more radicalized than the Somalis, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 02:37 PM (GBKbO)

102 Trump will be accused of murder before sundown

Posted by: Don Black at January 07, 2026 02:37 PM (ZxPkt)

103 Trump needs to send in the 101st Airborne.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 02:34 PM (WC9t6)

--------------

With a side of Special Operations Forces -- for The Children, but not the Somali Children..

/If it saves just one child's life ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 07, 2026 02:37 PM (lYk5q)

104 I saw Dead Karens open for the Dead Kennedys at the Omni in '88

Posted by: turambar at January 07, 2026 02:38 PM (Q0yOR)

105 Anyway, I am sorry someone lost their life, and even more sorry this person’s family has to live with the aftermath and consequences of this person’s very, very bad decisions.

Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 02:38 PM (Wmg4n)

106 85 If Karen stops and obeys the ICE agents' orders she gets a trip downtown and at worst is out on bail right now.

If Karen keeps reversing to try and get away she gets a trip downtown and faces some moderately serious charges

But acceleration your car when there is a cop in front of it? If she lived she would face attempted murder charges
Posted by: 18-1
=======
Seen it pretty often. People panic and do stupid things to try to avoid arrest when they realize they are going to jail even over a minor thing.

The experienced thugs, ironically know from repeated trips downtown, jail, etc., that fighting the man on the street is rather stupid. They prefer to just hurl insults.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 02:38 PM (WDjG6)

107 83 I wonder how the Left will distinguish this from the Charlottesville car ramming that ended the Unite the Right "riot." I was reliably informed that in that case that running over someone while attempting to escape a threatening mob was the worst case of murder one ever. Oh wait, who am I kidding, no one in the media will mention the Charlottesville precedent.

Excellent point.
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Charlottesville was a Hillary Op. It didn't work. Fuck Dems.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 07, 2026 02:38 PM (pLaQB)

108 55 Holy shit, that's blatant murder. They were driving away. They are already trying to spin it that the driver was trying to run them over, which is completely bullshit.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissi

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"I stopped trying to kill you three seconds ago. Why didn't you stop shooting?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 02:38 PM (GBKbO)

109 She seems to be trying to leave but she had been ordered to get out of her vehicle.. She then does seem to graze/hit the officer who would have no idea if she was trying to kill him.. Like I said split second decision...
Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2026 02:36 PM (VE6XX)


Pay close attention to her rate of acceleration when attempting to 'leave.'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 02:38 PM (Zz0t1)

110 Trump will be accused of murder before sundown
Posted by: Don Black at January 07, 2026 02:37 PM

How does he do it all? The guy must never sleep.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 07, 2026 02:38 PM (jc0TO)

111 Ace, the angle of the video you posted does not show the ICE officer about to be killed in the front of the SUV.

There are better videos on line showing the ICE officer standing in the front.

Posted by: Joemarine at January 07, 2026 02:39 PM (y171U)

112 Women really don't seem to understand that actions have consequences. I guess enough "Boss Girl" movies and TV shows makes them think they are untouchable.

Posted by: Leupold at January 07, 2026 02:39 PM (eIzlH)

113 94, exactly my point; this was a setup, planned in advance, leftist minions summoned, etc.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 07, 2026 02:39 PM (Cjt/F)

114 102 Trump will be accused of murder before sundown

Posted by: Don Black at January 07, 2026 02:37 PM (ZxPkt)

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Someone has to take blame for bombing that wedding in the Middle East.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 02:39 PM (GBKbO)

115 Shooter steps in front of her car, while drawing, as she was reversing to leave. This is a murder.
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This is stupid thinking. She wasnt having an argument with a stranger. She was being arrested. She used force to flee, resist and arguably ran into an agent. Getting shot is pretty standard in this circumstance. Female hysteria aside, tits are not a do whatever you feel like card. They really arent.

Posted by: Cold, dark and unpleasant at January 07, 2026 02:39 PM (KdazR)

116 I'm a bit troubled by this; there's not a good view of the front of the vehicle, but I don't see evidence of her actually trying to run anyone over, just evidence of her trying to escape. It's a judgment call, but I hate to see police shoot someone just because circumstances say they can, not because they actually needed to.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 07, 2026 02:39 PM (uWKK8)

117 Heh, any report on what those two boarded ships were transporting?

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 07, 2026 02:39 PM (pLaQB)

118 >>>Seen it pretty often. People panic and do stupid things to try to avoid arrest when they realize they are going to jail even over a minor thing.

26+ seasons of "Cops" says this is true

Posted by: brak at January 07, 2026 02:39 PM (jGJov)

119 Now remember the several cases that have come up where a leftist mob surrounds a driver and if the driver tries to drive out they get arrested for it? And how the left believes this is the correct result since you don't have a right to drive through people even if they are threatening you?

Now square that with their take here...
Posted by: 18-1

They have no principles. I don't consider almost anything a leftist says is consonant with the truth. That is why they came up with their lived experiences bullshit.

Well, the perp's lived experiences just ended dead.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 02:39 PM (WDjG6)

120 The houses in the video definitely make it look like the area is AWFL native habitat.

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at January 07, 2026 02:39 PM (GSe6k)

121
Now square that with their take here...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026

Well the first problem here is you are attempting to overlay logic on the situation.

Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 02:40 PM (Wmg4n)

122 Seen it pretty often. People panic and do stupid things to try to avoid arrest when they realize they are going to jail even over a minor thing.

There was a case not long ago where some yute was being chased by cops for I think shoplifting and to get away he jumped from the second floor of the mall to the first - shattering both his legs - last I checked on the story it was unclear if he would ever walk again.

But if he just surrendered? Slap on the wrist and back out on the street...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 02:40 PM (sKqQm)

123 =======
Seen it pretty often. People panic and do stupid things to try to avoid arrest when they realize they are going to jail even over a minor thing.



As the saying goes: "Don't do the crime if you can't do the time."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 02:40 PM (Zz0t1)

124 I'm a bit troubled by this; there's not a good view of the front of the vehicle, but I don't see evidence of her actually trying to run anyone over, just evidence of her trying to escape. It's a judgment call, but I hate to see police shoot someone just because circumstances say they can, not because they actually needed to.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 07, 2026 02:39 PM

She actually hits the cop with the suv.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 07, 2026 02:40 PM (jc0TO)

125 I don't think the DHS should even give the names of the specific ICE agents to the Minnesota kremlin court system. And if they are convicted in absentia the Feds should yank all federal funding from Minnesota other than the legally obligated SSDI payments.

Posted by: PaleRider at January 07, 2026 02:40 PM (WorPe)

126 All your oil tankers are belong to us.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 02:40 PM (IGnEY)

127 All of the leftist agitators are calling online for their allies to get on the streets of Minnesota and attack ICE

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 07, 2026 02:40 PM (0U5gm)

128 26+ seasons of "Cops" says this is true
Posted by: brak
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The dumbasses after a car chase where they get stopped and all open the doors and flee are smarter than this dead cupcake.

You threaten a cop with a lethal weapon, you get deaded.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 02:40 PM (WDjG6)

129 It's too cold for normal riot season.

If the woman is white there won't be a huge protest.

If she's Somolian, look out!

It was only a matter of time with these dimwits who only know the F word. I guess from the Learing Center.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 07, 2026 02:40 PM (WONhk)

130
I think it will all come down to the angle at which the fatal bullet entered her body. If it was from the side or the sort of left-rear, ICE agent is in trouble.

THAT said, the bitch was clearly there to disrupt LE and was fully prepared to leave a body in her wake.

What an IDIOT attempting to drive away when you're being ordered out of the car with an agent pulling on your door!!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 07, 2026 02:40 PM (Uo+RY)

131 The officer who shot the driver had a lot less time to make up his mind than Hero of the Speaker's Lobby Michael Byrd had before he shot Ashli Babbitt.

Posted by: huerfano at January 07, 2026 02:41 PM (98kQX)

132 tits are not a do whatever you feel like card.



Hey, let's not be too hasty here.

Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2026 02:41 PM (77rzZ)

133
The Shooter steps in front of her car, while drawing, as she was reversing to leave.

Like "gender", I guess "reversing" has contradictory definitions now

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at January 07, 2026 02:41 PM (xG4kz)

134 Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Minnesota needed to change the narrative. They are desperately searching for a martyr for Dems to do it. This will be the one, until it doesn't work...then, they'll try again...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 07, 2026 02:41 PM (tOcjL)

135 Trump will be accused of murder before sundown

Posted by: Don Black at January 07, 2026 02:37 PM (ZxPkt)

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BREAKING: Rep. Al Green Introduces 108,000 Articles of Impeachment Against Trump -- One for Every Minnesomalian Resident He Plans On Murdering This Year. Developing ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 07, 2026 02:41 PM (lYk5q)

136 All of the leftist agitators are calling online for their allies to get on the streets of Minnesota and attack ICE

This was always the plan. They were just waiting for some useful idiot to lay down his or her life for the cause.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2026 02:41 PM (Riz8t)

137 All of the leftist agitators are calling online for their allies to get on the streets of Minnesota and attack ICE
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 07, 2026 02:40 PM

Time to switch to riot guns.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 07, 2026 02:41 PM (jc0TO)

138 127 All of the leftist agitators are calling online for their allies to get on the streets of Minnesota and attack ICE

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 07, 2026 02:40 PM (0U5gm)

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ICE is going to deport so many Somalis while the DOJ cracks down on generalized lawlessness, including election fraud, over the next year or so. It's going to be such a shock to the system that no Democrat will ever have to act Somali again.

And not one of them will thank Trump for it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 02:41 PM (GBKbO)

139 ICE agents POUNCED!

Posted by: 496 at January 07, 2026 02:42 PM (PLjqd)

140 There is a better video from the driver’s side of the car.

First shot was clearly justified. Second shot? That’s gonna be hard to justify.

Posted by: Tucker at January 07, 2026 02:42 PM (Q/qJ3)

141 Women really don't seem to understand that actions have consequences. I guess enough "Boss Girl" movies and TV shows makes them think they are untouchable.
Posted by: Leupold at January 07, 2026 02:39 PM

Given the sheer quantity of bodycam videos out there that show AWFLs and their demon spawn using the "I'm a girl! You can't arrest me!" etc... card when being arrested, they really don't.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 07, 2026 02:42 PM (bFu5X)

142 Seems a trip to the barrel is eminent.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 02:42 PM (Zz0t1)

143 Neighborhood AWFLs defending those that do jobs Americans won't do like shoveling sidewalks and scraping windshields. And embezzling.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 07, 2026 02:42 PM (gm9Sb)

144 She seems to be trying to leave but she had been ordered to get out of her vehicle.. She then does seem to graze/hit the officer who would have no idea if she was trying to kill him.. Like I said split second decision...
Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2026 02:36 PM (VE6XX)
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Watch the vid at the link Jack Straw provided. It's a different angle and you can clearly see she did actually hit the cop, and pretty hard too. His body shudders. This changes everything. It's one thing to say "he got out of the way and still shot her!" But he didn't get out of the way. She hit him. Hard. Righteous shoot.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 02:42 PM (iFTx/)

145 There was a case not long ago where some yute was being chased by cops for I think shoplifting and to get away he jumped from the second floor of the mall to the first - shattering both his legs - last I checked on the story it was unclear if he would ever walk again.

But if he just surrendered? Slap on the wrist and back out on the street...
Posted by: 18-1
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Yep. I think there was actually a case of a Somali doing that shit in the Mall of Americas and they ended up with a broken back and paralyzed for life for a jump to avoid the cops. Been back a few years and I might be mistaken.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 02:43 PM (WDjG6)

146 140 There is a better video from the driver’s side of the car.

First shot was clearly justified. Second shot? That’s gonna be hard to justify.

Posted by: Tucker at January 07, 2026 02:42 PM (Q/qJ3)

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"I stopped trying to kill you three seconds ago. Why are you still shooting?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 02:43 PM (GBKbO)

147 Keep in mind the left's take on this is completely opposite to their take on:

The Michael Byrd shooting
The Daniel Perry shooting
The Charlotteville car collision

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 02:43 PM (sKqQm)

148 All of the leftist agitators are calling online for their allies to get on the streets of Minnesota and attack ICE

This was always the plan. They were just waiting for some useful idiot to lay down his or her life for the cause.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2026 02:41 PM (Riz8t)
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Even now they are printing up signs with this woman's name on them.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 07, 2026 02:43 PM (ESVrU)

149 Again, living life like a Grand Theft Auto cut scene usually leads to negative consequences.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

This is about me. Isn't it.

Paul Walker

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 07, 2026 02:43 PM (FxH7T)

150 I'm pretty sure there is video evidence that she tried to commit vehicular homicide and failed Tom Servo.

Posted by: PaleRider at January 07, 2026 02:43 PM (WorPe)

151
First shot was clearly justified. Second shot? That’s gonna be hard to justify.
Posted by: Tucker at January 07, 2026 02:42 PM (Q/qJ3)

Does the number of shots really matter in the case of attempted murder of a federal officer?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 02:43 PM (Zz0t1)

152
"Time to switch to riot guns." crew-served automatic weapons

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 07, 2026 02:43 PM (Cjt/F)

153 Surprised this didn't happen sooner.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 07, 2026 02:43 PM (C3IAS)

154 I saw Dead Karens 24/7 open up for Yeah Well back in 1997 at the Schmendrick House of Blues.

Posted by: ... at January 07, 2026 02:43 PM (Q4G+n)

155 140 There is a better video from the driver’s side of the car.

First shot was clearly justified. Second shot? That’s gonna be hard to justify.
Posted by: Tucker at January 07, 2026 02:42 PM (Q/qJ3)

If 1st shot is justified, all contemporaneous shots are justified.

Posted by: Nova Local at January 07, 2026 02:43 PM (tOcjL)

156 116 I'm a bit troubled by this; there's not a good view of the front of the vehicle, but I don't see evidence of her actually trying to run anyone over, just evidence of her trying to escape. It's a judgment call, but I hate to see police shoot someone just because circumstances say they can, not because they actually needed to.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Go out to X, there are a bunch of different angles that show her hitting the officer with her car. They also show her gunning it with an officer’s arm through the window when she is being ordered to exit the vehicle. There are links in the thread below. I am not super excited about watching it over and over, a life was lost, but there are less troubling views.

Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 02:43 PM (Wmg4n)

157 Fucking guns.

Posted by: Professor Lefty Retard Celebrity at January 07, 2026 02:43 PM (bIWgk)

158 I'm a bit troubled by this; there's not a good view of the front of the vehicle, but I don't see evidence of her actually trying to run anyone over, just evidence of her trying to escape. It's a judgment call, but I hate to see police shoot someone just because circumstances say they can, not because they actually needed to.
Posted by: Tom Servo

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It seems pretty textbook to me that force was justified. A team of uniformed law enforcement agents arrests you and you "gun it" while one is in front of your vehicle attempting to escape? It's not like these people snuck up on her, what the video probably cut off is all sorts of communication the agents had with her first.

But the goal of all of this is to wear down our resolve on enforcing illegal immigration. Sort of like showing illegals in cages.

Posted by: Leupold at January 07, 2026 02:43 PM (eIzlH)

159 Good afternoon Ace and everyone

Posted by: Skip at January 07, 2026 02:44 PM (Ia/+0)

160 144 Watch the vid at the link Jack Straw provided. It's a different angle and you can clearly see she did actually hit the cop, and pretty hard too. His body shudders. This changes everything. It's one thing to say "he got out of the way and still shot her!" But he didn't get out of the way. She hit him. Hard. Righteous shoot.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 02:42 PM (iFTx/)

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The AWFLs are going to burn down their local pilates gyms in response.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 02:44 PM (GBKbO)

161 Heh, any report on what those two boarded ships were transporting?
Posted by: Pudinhead

I've heard surprisingly little about this. You'd think it would be a bigger story, if only from all the leftists bitching about it.

Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2026 02:44 PM (77rzZ)

162 Seems a trip to the barrel is eminent.

*cough*imminent*cough*

Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2026 02:44 PM (Riz8t)

163 Insurrection Act

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at January 07, 2026 02:44 PM (eZwyX)

164 These idiot protestors are hassling hard men with loaded guns. And expecting nothing bad might result.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 07, 2026 02:44 PM (C3IAS)

165 I would have frowned on him walking to the crashed vehicle and administering the coup de grace.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 07, 2026 02:44 PM (jc0TO)

166 151 Does the number of shots really matter in the case of attempted murder of a federal officer?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 02:43 PM (Zz0t1)

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For Monday morning quarterbacks who weren't there?

Definitely.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 02:44 PM (GBKbO)

167 It's an AWFL tragedy.

Posted by: Dave's not here at January 07, 2026 02:44 PM (kp5iD)

168 You have a state full of fraud aided and abetted by the state government; they're trying to gin up a riot and attack ICE to change the narrative. This is the one to take a stand on; put it down hard; send the troops in. Arrest everybody; agitators and otherwise. This one has to be a lesson.

Posted by: Nelly at January 07, 2026 02:45 PM (7gpcF)

169 Marxists are declaring war, sent this woman ahead of the charge

Posted by: Skip at January 07, 2026 02:45 PM (Ia/+0)

170 This is about me. Isn't it.

Paul Walker
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 07, 2026 02:43 PM (FxH7T)


*fistbump*

Posted by: Ryan Dunn at January 07, 2026 02:45 PM (Zz0t1)

171 She won't ever try that again.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 02:45 PM (IGnEY)

172 Her vote will still be counted this coming November.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at January 07, 2026 02:45 PM (5yDGQ)

173 All of the leftist agitators are calling online for their allies to get on the streets of Minnesota and attack ICE
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 07, 2026 02:40 PM

Time to switch to riot guns.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 07, 2026 02:41 PM (jc0TO)

Bring out the firetrucks (confiscated if need be) and hose down antifa. Riots will be short-lived.

Posted by: Methos at January 07, 2026 02:45 PM (vSvIl)

174 Better angle video here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=K9CJY5p0xz4

Posted by: Tucker at January 07, 2026 02:45 PM (Q/qJ3)

175 Does the number of shots really matter in the case of attempted murder of a federal officer?

As we just had the left's 5th annual celebration of the murder of Ashli Babbitt it is darkly amusing that their line here is that cops aren't allowed to shoot you even if you are a danger to them and the people around you.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 02:45 PM (sKqQm)

176 Do ICE agents wear body cameras?

This has been happening since BLM.
The activists, Democrats and MSM have a narrative that police want to kill you. People then get hysterical when police take action and make the situation 10x worse .

Obey their orders - this is not some sassy girl boss 1st Amendment moment. It will end badly — and you’re too stupid to realize you’ve been set up to get shot. The activists need people to get shot for their revolution.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 07, 2026 02:45 PM (Hkcdp)

177 168 You have a state full of fraud aided and abetted by the state government; they're trying to gin up a riot and attack ICE to change the narrative. This is the one to take a stand on; put it down hard; send the troops in. Arrest everybody; agitators and otherwise. This one has to be a lesson.

Posted by: Nelly at January 07, 2026 02:45 PM (7gpcF)

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A justified military application of the Insurrection Act puts a lot of people in the MN state government, including judges, into prison really fast.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 02:45 PM (GBKbO)

178 Jackstraw's video up top and the whole yt video I posted last thread clearly show the ICE guy in front and shooting at the last second before he steps aside. The second shot while alongside was within one second of the first.

She was in fact stupid and of committing a forcible felony.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 02:45 PM (WDjG6)

179 She leared the hard way

Posted by: one hour sober at January 07, 2026 02:46 PM (Y1sOo)

180
*cough*imminent*cough*
Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2026 02:44 PM (Riz8t)


I used the first spelling that came to my addled brain.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 02:46 PM (Zz0t1)

181 The AWFLs are going to burn down their local pilates gyms in response.

What of all the trannys jacking it in the women's room?

Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2026 02:46 PM (Riz8t)

182 There is a better video from the driver’s side of the car.

First shot was clearly justified. Second shot? That’s gonna be hard to justify.
Posted by: Tucker at January 07, 2026 02:42 PM (Q/qJ3)
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"Well, my first shot missed so I guess I better let the criminal go free to kill again."

/sarc

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 07, 2026 02:46 PM (ESVrU)

183 Does the Insurrection Act allow for the arrest of those inciting, such as Mayor Gaye, and Timmah?

Posted by: Joe Mama at January 07, 2026 02:46 PM (TezPK)

184 "Time to switch to riot guns." crew-served automatic weapons 155mm flechette rounds.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 07, 2026 02:43 PM

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 07, 2026 02:46 PM (bFu5X)

185 165 would you really frown? Really?

Posted by: turambar at January 07, 2026 02:46 PM (Q0yOR)

186 If this woman's man had a strong Pimp Hand, this would never have happened.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 02:46 PM (ddphe)

187 I'm not going to cry for some bitch getting shot while failing to commit vehicular homicide any more than I would cry for some thug shooting at and missing LEO and getting shot and killed. Basically the same deal even though people don't normally think of SUVs as deadly weapons.

Posted by: PaleRider at January 07, 2026 02:46 PM (WorPe)

188 "Does the number of shots really matter in the case of attempted murder of a federal officer?"

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I never have understood this reasoning. It's almost like when someone says "why can't we just shoot them in the leg?"

Posted by: Leupold at January 07, 2026 02:46 PM (eIzlH)

189 I'm effing sick of Minnesota and the crooked pinko weirdos who control that state. Alberta wants to leave Canada, maybe we can make a swap.

Posted by: Pluskat's Dog at January 07, 2026 02:46 PM (7V0S/)

190 If we're gonna have a Civil War, can we do it somewhere other than Minnesota, in winter?

I don't have ANY wool pants.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 07, 2026 02:47 PM (dGCAG)

191
She was just trying to parallel park.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 07, 2026 02:47 PM (y9nCu)

192 178 Jackstraw's video up top and the whole yt video I posted last thread clearly show the ICE guy in front and shooting at the last second before he steps aside. The second shot while alongside was within one second of the first.

She was in fact stupid and of committing a forcible felony.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 02:45 PM (WDjG6)

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Yeah, but white privilege means that she can do whatever she wants, right?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 02:47 PM (GBKbO)

193 162 Seems a trip to the barrel is eminent.

*cough*imminent*cough*
Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2026 02:44 PM (Riz8t)

I claim eminent domain on this one!!!

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 07, 2026 02:47 PM (ukUWv)

194 Age restricted.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 02:47 PM (IGnEY)

195 eh, why not?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 07, 2026 02:47 PM (Cjt/F)

196 Watch the vid at the link Jack Straw provided. It's a different angle and you can clearly see she did actually hit the cop, and pretty hard too. His body shudders. This changes everything. It's one thing to say "he got out of the way and still shot her!" But he didn't get out of the way. She hit him. Hard. Righteous shoot.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 02:42 PM (iFTx/)

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The AWFLs are going to burn down their local pilates gyms in response.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 02:44 PM (GBKbO)
__________

"Hey, at least wait until I'm done jackhammering off in the ladies' locker room!"

-- Tranny Perv Jackhammering Off in Ladies' Room

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 02:47 PM (iFTx/)

197 >>Her vote will still be counted this coming November.


In MN she can vouch for the Votes of up to 9 other dead people, now.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 02:48 PM (ddphe)

198 Come on... isn't it Normal in Minnesota to stand outside in the cold and wet, and video a small random suburban street? Check their phones for the ap that shows where ICE is at...
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 02:34 PM

Apparently the term for this is being an ICE Informer. As near as I can figure out, these are the people that show up and create all the chaos with the screaming, whistles and impeding the ICE agents from doing their work. Of course, being an ICE Informer means the person has received extensive training in this well-recognized field and has demonstrated through written and field tests they are qualified to conduct this role. This is unlike people who just show up where law enforcement is conducting an operation and trigger a riot.

The MSNOW reporter on the scene stated that he was told by an ICE Informer that the driver of the car was also an ICE Informer. So it seems one law enforcement agent shot with another law enforcement agent. MN Atty. General Keith Ellison is going to do everything he can to to bury this ice agent in prison for the next 50 years.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at January 07, 2026 02:48 PM (HTCU3)

199 I still can't tell much from the two new videos added.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 07, 2026 02:48 PM (SSEhk)

200 If this woman's man had a strong Pimp Hand, this would never have happened.

I'm reminded of the video posted her a few weeks ago of a woman getting drunk and being thrown out of a restaurant and getting a bit of a throwdown because she started fighting with the restaurant staff.

Her boyfriend follows her around but at no point did he drag her away...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 02:48 PM (sKqQm)

201 Well, my first shot missed so I guess I better let the criminal go free to kill again."

/sarc
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 07, 2026 02:46 PM (ESVrU)

Not quite.

The first shot hit her. Second shot was once the car was no longer going towards the ice officer. He shot her kind of from the side while the car was driving away.

Posted by: Tucker at January 07, 2026 02:49 PM (Q/qJ3)

202 However, in my defense:

Eminent - Being such in full measure; complete; absolute


Someone going to the barrel in that instance was absolute.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 02:49 PM (Zz0t1)

203 First shot was clearly justified. Second shot? That’s gonna be hard to justify.

Posted by: Tucker at Januar
==
Incorrect thinking. If you conceed the first shot is justified then the rest are. This is not civilian self defense. Agents are authorized to use deadly force to effect felony arrests. If you say the first shot was self defense, she attempted murder. If she did not surrender, using the car to resist arrest flee justifies any additional shots. So thanks, but i can award you zero points.

Posted by: Cold, dark and unpleasant at January 07, 2026 02:49 PM (KdazR)

204 He should have just shot the car out of her hand.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 07, 2026 02:49 PM (jc0TO)

205 183 Does the Insurrection Act allow for the arrest of those inciting, such as Mayor Gaye, and Timmah?
Posted by: Joe Mama at January 07, 2026 02:46 PM (TezPK)

Easier. This talking point is now both Obstruction of Justice, and Aiding and Abetting.

Now, under the aiding and abetting statute, if you aid someone and they KILL someone, it's 20 years if they hurt someone... possible DEATH penalty if its part of a criminal conspiracy, like if you help a gang banger stay and they kill someone.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 02:49 PM (mP0Kj)

206 Missouri plates?
sHe CrOsSeD sTaTe Linezzzz~~!!!! ARGLE-BARGLE!!!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 07, 2026 02:49 PM (mlg/3)

207 This is what happens when you let the ladies vote.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 07, 2026 02:49 PM (pLaQB)

208 How did we ever get to this point?

Posted by: 12 million illegals flooding our southern border at January 07, 2026 02:49 PM (jhuQ/)

209 it does not really appear as though the driver was attempting to strike the agent; it seems that she can be seen to reverse her vehicle at first before pulling away, presumably to clear herself a path to drive around the officer without striking him.

with that being granted, i am not sure i can fault the officer responsible for the shooting for pulling his weapon and firing in a moment a vehicle seems to be pulling off in his immediate direction. it's a truly regrettable outcome...but induced primarily by a truly regrettable decision to take off with a law enforcement officer perhaps 3 feet in front of your vehicle's grill.

what i *am* sure of is that i don't want to hear so much as a peep about law enforcement restraint from the set that has repeatedly averred that ashley babbitt deserved to be shot for her illegal presence in the capitol.

if ms babbitt deserved to be shot for participating in a riot, surely the same logic should apply to this "legal observer" refusing compliance and attempting to evade detainment ?

Posted by: pH at January 07, 2026 02:49 PM (7sHk5)

210 > I think it will all come down to the angle at which the fatal bullet entered her body. If it was from the side or the sort of left-rear, ICE agent is in trouble.

I have no idea how this idea that you CANNOT shoot someone "in the back" and have the shoot be legal became so widespread.

First of all, prosecutors often have a very broad definition of, "the back." Imagine a plane perfectly dividing a person in half from the top down. They will define anything in the rear half of the body as, "the back," including what normal people would call, "the side."

Second, just watch any video of gang bangers shooting at each other as they run around, shooting wildly. They'll point the gun out to their side and shoot. They'll point the gun to their rear as they're running and shooting. Just because someone is generally turned away from you doesn't mean they're not an active threat.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 07, 2026 02:49 PM (Yp6az)

211 Posted by: BurtTC at January 07, 2026 02:47 PM (dGCAG)

LOL

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 07, 2026 02:49 PM (rZCVI)

212 175 Does the number of shots really matter in the case of attempted murder of a federal officer?

As we just had the left's 5th annual celebration of the murder of Ashli Babbitt it is darkly amusing that their line here is that cops aren't allowed to shoot you even if you are a danger to them and the people around you.
Posted by: 18-1
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Yes and no, you shoot to stop the attack. Once the attack is over, then no more shots. No coup d' grace for ordinary citizens to prevent escape.

In the case of law enforcement, it becomes after the officer's clear first shot in self defense, additional shots are allowed to prevent escape of a fleeing violent felon.

Cars are considered lethal weapons.

This was not a Rodney King or George Floyd moment.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 02:49 PM (WDjG6)

213 MN Atty. General Keith Ellison is going to do everything he can to to bury this ice agent in prison for the next 50 years./i]

Trump should be ready to handle this like an SC AG trying to arrest a soldier at Fort Sumter.

Of course I hope Trump's people are preparing to arrest Ellison for his cut of the Somali fraud anyway...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 02:50 PM (sKqQm)

214 The AWFLs are going to burn down their local pilates gyms in response.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026

Studios. Pilates studios. And heck no, they are not. That is their sacred space.

Ps. What I do is very much related to Pilates, but no where near as boring.

Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 02:50 PM (Wmg4n)

215 >>The first shot hit her. Second shot was once the car was no longer going towards the ice officer. He shot her kind of from the side while the car was driving away.


The sad thing is that people like you can get on a jury.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 02:50 PM (ddphe)

216 You have to understand the leftists' idiots here. They really think:

the illegals are innocent people.

They are being sent to gulags and being tortured.

ICE is the Gestapo

If ICE arrests them, they will be tortured and probably killed.

OR Nothing whatsoever will happen to them because they are white Americans.

They are brave heroes whose names will be written on the walls of Valhalla.

This is all narcissistic, juvenile, thinking, but it is what they believe.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 07, 2026 02:50 PM (C3IAS)

217 A justified military application of the Insurrection Act puts a lot of people in the MN state government, including judges, into prison really fast.
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We need to get to the point where Trump gives the Maduro press conference again, madlibbing the relevant names for Minnesotans.

Posted by: Methos at January 07, 2026 02:50 PM (vSvIl)

218 The problem with messing with any law enforcement is that they are constantly in danger. I am assuming ICE agents are constantly under threat by cartels, antifa, criminal organizations, etc.
you do not want to make them see you as a threat, or a distraction so that others can attack.

These NPCs have no idea how stupid they are being. She didn’t have to be shot.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 07, 2026 02:50 PM (Hkcdp)

219 156 Go out to X, there are a bunch of different angles that show her hitting the officer with her car. They also show her gunning it with an officer’s arm through the window when she is being ordered to exit the vehicle. There are links in the thread below. I am not super excited about watching it over and over, a life was lost, but there are less troubling views.
Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 02:43 PM (Wmg4n)

I agree Piper. Once you see the incident from different angles the shooting by ICE is justified as saving the life of the officer.

Posted by: Joemarine at January 07, 2026 02:50 PM (y171U)

220 She was coming right at him.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 02:50 PM (IGnEY)

221 Attempted assault with a deadly weapon.
Posted by: Sponge

Nitpick: attempted murder
Posted by: weft cut-loop


Picking nits: aggravated attempted murder on a law enforcement officer

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 02:50 PM (WC9t6)

222 This is what the Marxists want, hoping to charge ICE for murder, they don't care what their soldiers do as long as it helps their cause.

Posted by: Skip at January 07, 2026 02:50 PM (Ia/+0)

223 Trump has driven Minnesota liberals over the edge. They're so sure they're good liberals, that they think they're allowed to do anything to counter Trump. They've become unhinged & they're destroying the state.

Posted by: Dave at January 07, 2026 02:50 PM (sbsMc)

224 He should have just shot the car out of her hand.
Posted by: toby928(c)

Thread winnah ... until Ace pipes up.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 07, 2026 02:51 PM (mlg/3)

225
Seen it pretty often. People panic and do stupid things to try to avoid arrest when they realize they are going to jail even over a minor thing.

===============

It does seem to me like she made a panic move, not so much a deliberate attempt to kill a guy. But that's what happens when you're out there messing around with the law and you don't know wtf you're doing.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 07, 2026 02:51 PM (Uo+RY)

226 >>He should have just shot the car out of her hand.


Think of the trouble he would be in if he had mistakenly taken out her Catalytic Convertor?

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 02:51 PM (ddphe)

227 Not quite.

The first shot hit her. Second shot was once the car was no longer going towards the ice officer. He shot her kind of from the side while the car was driving away.
Posted by: Tucker

==

So what? A detained suspect is fleeing and tried to kill an agent, as if someone gets to freeze time and determine where the bullet hit and if it properly incapacitated them from continuing to try and kill people with her car.

These decisions happen within miliseconds. This is real life, not the Matrix.

Posted by: Leupold at January 07, 2026 02:51 PM (eIzlH)

228 Yes and no, you shoot to stop the attack. Once the attack is over, then no more shots. No coup d' grace for ordinary citizens to prevent escape.

That's my point. There was no attack in the Babbitt care. The officer could have just dragged her to the ground and cuffed her. Yet..."good shoot"

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 02:51 PM (sKqQm)

229 This is exactly what the left wants.

Make no mistake, just like the Mafia, they're going to take care of their good little soldier.

This Karen bitch's family will sue the state, and Walz will order them to 'settle' for millions.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at January 07, 2026 02:51 PM (setIA)

230 Ban assault SUVs.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 02:51 PM (IGnEY)

231 Posted by: Pudinhead at January 07, 2026 02:49 PM (pLaQB)

I'm glad that all men vote sensibly. None of the ladies here voted for this.

Unless you want a caliphate that genie isn't going back in the bottle.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 07, 2026 02:51 PM (rZCVI)

232 The Leftist idiots really see themselves as fighting Nazis. No self awareness .

Posted by: Lizzy at January 07, 2026 02:52 PM (Hkcdp)

233 210 > I think it will all come down to the angle at which the fatal bullet entered her body. If it was from the side or the sort of left-rear, ICE agent is in trouble.
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No, it won't. Because of the very close proximity of the shots. Basically, there have been instances where a body can literally turn just before the bullet hit them. This is not a citizen self defense case btw, this was a fleeing felon the moment she stepped on the gas and nearly hit the ICE officer. After, it does not matter what direction she is facing because of the fleeing violent felon rule.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 02:52 PM (WDjG6)

234 On that basis, if the gestapo ICE agent orders you out of your vehicle, you'd better gun it and if you're lucky, run over a couple of ICE agents in the process. They have become literally disconnected to reality and don't realize, at most, they might get a small fine if they got out of the vehicle.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 07, 2026 02:52 PM (C3IAS)

235 You have to understand the leftists' idiots here. They really think:

the illegals are innocent people.

They are being sent to gulags and being tortured.

ICE is the Gestapo

If ICE arrests them, they will be tortured and probably killed.

OR Nothing whatsoever will happen to them because they are white Americans.

They are brave heroes whose names will be written on the walls of Valhalla.

This is all narcissistic, juvenile, thinking, but it is what they believe.
Posted by: El Mariachi


I don't have to understand anything. Because it's not true.

And I could care less what a mental deficient thinks.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 02:52 PM (WC9t6)

236 Good. One less dumb ass yankee to worry about.

Good riddance.

Posted by: Ice Ice Baby at January 07, 2026 02:52 PM (GlDYx)

237 The sound on the third video posted above sounds like a water buffalo in heat! lol

Posted by: Joemarine at January 07, 2026 02:52 PM (y171U)

238 Jack Straw's video above shows an ICE agent being hit. Case closed.

She was clearly told to get out of the car on the video Ace posted,instead reverses, then drives off fast as the guy horks...just before his WTF.

I should be on the jury for this one.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 07, 2026 02:52 PM (WONhk)

239 A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms. Enthusiasms. Enthusiasms.

Posted by: ... at January 07, 2026 02:53 PM (Q4G+n)

240 Of course I hope Trump's people are preparing to arrest Ellison for his cut of the Somali fraud anyway...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026

I try not to hate people, because it’s a lot of energy wasted on someone who doesn’t deserve it. Ellison is up there with me, however. He should be shunned by every woman on the planet at a minimum. He is an abuser, and yet the left go girl crowd can’t be bothered to care.

Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 02:53 PM (Wmg4n)

241 He showed great restraint in not doing a mag dump.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 02:53 PM (IGnEY)

242 the illegals are innocent people.

They are being sent to gulags and being tortured.

The left = How dare Trump call these delightful Latin American countries shitholes

Also the left = If you send these refugees home the NAZIs running their countries will rape and murder them

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 02:53 PM (sKqQm)

243 Basically the same deal even though people don't normally think of SUVs as deadly weapons.

Posted by: PaleRider



How dare you!

- Greta Fetal Alcohol Thunderberg

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 07, 2026 02:53 PM (0U5gm)

244 Studios. Pilates studios.
Posted by: Piper

I wash my hands of those places.

Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2026 02:53 PM (77rzZ)

245 Not quite.

The first shot hit her. Second shot was once the car was no longer going towards the ice officer. He shot her kind of from the side while the car was driving away.
Posted by: Tucker at January 07, 2026 02:49 PM (Q/qJ3)

Yeah... uh... ever done any Police or Military training?

You shoot until you know the threat is neutralized... you don't shoot... wait awhile... access... then shoot again.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 02:53 PM (mP0Kj)

246 The # of shots matter if you're Amadou Diallo and Springsteen can make money off you

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 07, 2026 02:53 PM (ScJGb)

247 I wonder how the Left will distinguish this from the Charlottesville car ramming that ended the Unite the Right "riot."

I'm guessing:

"This time it was the Nazis doing the shooting!"

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 07, 2026 02:54 PM (44PvT)

248 This Karen bitch's family will sue the state, and Walz will order them to 'settle' for millions.
Posted by: DudeAbiding

It was ICE officers, federal lawsuit, federal courts and qualified immunity for the officer. No state action here. More likely a Go Fund Me for the family playing the new version of the ghetto lottery for perps.

I doubt they will see a thin dime as the entire doctrine was invented by the Rehnquist court to quell a lot of lawsuits under civil rights laws against officers.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 02:54 PM (WDjG6)

249 Don't need to slow the vid down! Just look at the reverse-angle link that Jackstraw posted. It clearly shows, in real time, that she hit the cop, and pretty hard too. All this "but I can't tell if she hit him" and "maybe the cop got out of the way" would go out the window if everyone just watched JS' video. She hit the cop, was still driving toward him, and then he fired. Righteous shoot all the way.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 02:54 PM (iFTx/)

250 Do you know who else lost a viewer?
Posted by: D. Crenshaw at January 07, 2026 02:25 PM (Q4G+n)

Fucking lol.

*golfclap*

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 07, 2026 02:54 PM (zZu0s)

251 The video Ace posted, the last one is zoomed in. Look at it unzoomed, gives better perspective and it’s not just a 20 second clip. Shows the before and after.

https://youtu.be/K9CJY5p0xz4

Posted by: Tucker at January 07, 2026 02:54 PM (Q/qJ3)

252 The woman engaged in resisting arrest the second she floored the car in reverse.

And she elevated that to attempted murder the second she put it in forward with an ICE agent in front of her

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 02:54 PM (sKqQm)

253 CNN

An ICE agent shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis, officials say

Posted by: Don Black at January 07, 2026 02:54 PM (ZxPkt)

254 This is exactly what the left wants.

Make no mistake, just like the Mafia, they're going to take care of their good little soldier.

This Karen bitch's family will sue the state, and Walz will order them to 'settle' for millions.
Posted by: DudeAbiding



Except it was federal. Not state.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 02:55 PM (WC9t6)

255 MSNOW:

ICE agent fatally shoots woman in Minneapolis enforcement surge

Posted by: Don Black at January 07, 2026 02:55 PM (ZxPkt)

256 The left wands dead people on the ground, don’t matter who , just so they’s dead.

Posted by: Eromero at January 07, 2026 02:55 PM (o2ZRX)

257 After she ran him over and turned around he could clearly see her Coexist bumpersticker. Bad shoot.

Posted by: ... at January 07, 2026 02:55 PM (Q4G+n)

258 249 Don't need to slow the vid down! Just look at the reverse-angle link that Jackstraw posted. It clearly shows, in real time, that she hit the cop, and pretty hard too. All this "but I can't tell if she hit him" and "maybe the cop got out of the way" would go out the window if everyone just watched JS' video. She hit the cop, was still driving toward him, and then he fired. Righteous shoot all the way.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 02:54 PM (iFTx/)

======

Trantifa is now going to try and take city hall in Portland in response to this!

ICE lit the match, guys!

Trantifa are going to take America starting tonight!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 02:55 PM (GBKbO)

259 I want to hear about the illegal ICE was after. Probably a Minnesota man getting his life together and planning on going to college.

Posted by: Ripley at January 07, 2026 02:55 PM (GUOwU)

260 241 He showed great restraint in not doing a mag dump.
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 02:53 PM (IGnEY)

This - 1000%. Most local cops would have mag dumped...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 07, 2026 02:55 PM (tOcjL)

261 210 > I think it will all come down to the angle at which the fatal bullet entered her body. If it was from the side or the sort of left-rear, ICE agent is in trouble.

Uh, no, because you can use deadly force to defend not only yourself, BUT OTHERS.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 02:55 PM (mP0Kj)

262 She hit the cop, was still driving toward him, and then he fired. Righteous shoot all the way.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 02:54 PM (iFTx/)

Ironically, the driver was rhe hardest hit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 07, 2026 02:55 PM (zZu0s)

263 When a man becomes preimminent, he is expected to arrive early.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 07, 2026 02:56 PM (jc0TO)

264 AP:

Live updates: ICE officer shoots and kills a woman during the Minneapolis immigration crackdown

Posted by: Don Black at January 07, 2026 02:56 PM (ZxPkt)

265 This presents an opportunity for a show of force ahead of the 26 midterms. Always remember, the electorate will back the strong horse.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 07, 2026 02:56 PM (pK8kj)

266 She was told to stop and exit the vehicle.

She backed up.

The officer stepped in to stop her from leaving against direction and unholstered his weapon.

She aggressively accelerated toward and struck the officer.

The odds of her getting shot rose exponentially when she put it back in drive and put her foot on the gas.

Then she hit him.

She asked for it...........

https://youtu.be/tyOC6LtvDZY

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 02:56 PM (Zz0t1)

267 >>The woman engaged in resisting arrest the second she floored the car in reverse.


She must have gotten confused.

Neutral on her Sybian is all the way to the left and down...but on her car, it's Up!

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 02:56 PM (ddphe)

268 the illegals are innocent people.

They are being sent to gulags and being tortured.

The left = How dare Trump call these delightful Latin American countries shitholes

Also the left = If you send these refugees home the NAZIs running their countries will rape and murder them
Posted by: 18-1


But turn Maduro loose!

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 02:56 PM (WC9t6)

269 Yeah... uh... ever done any Police or Military training?

You shoot until you know the threat is neutralized... you don't shoot... wait awhile... access... then shoot again.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 02:53 PM (mP0Kj)

I thought "Tucker" was a joke nic, cuz... you know.

Apparently not.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 07, 2026 02:56 PM (dGCAG)

270 225 Seen it pretty often. People panic and do stupid things to try to avoid arrest when they realize they are going to jail even over a minor thing.

There are literally hundreds of videos out there of people turning speeding tickets into arrests, and trespass into felonies. People think it is okay to just start manhandling a police officer or stand in the road arguing with him. Or simply ignoring him, and his lawful orders.

Don't fight the police, and heck, don't stand around and argue with them. The cop, usually, doesn't want to do the paperwork for your arrest - he wants you to either comply, or give you a ticket. Make his life easy, and he will make your life easy(er)

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 07, 2026 02:57 PM (C3IAS)

271 246 The # of shots matter if you're Amadou Diallo and Springsteen can make money off you
Posted by: Smell the Glove
--------
Eh, NYC and Mayor Stupid Fcking Lindsay are the reason for that. NYC was using full metal jacketed bullets because hollowpoints used by almost every other jurisdiction were regarded as inhumane.

FMJ are poor instant stoppers (and I do not mean killing here). The usual stop on someone is from massive blood loss which a person can survive. A CNS hit are generally not survivable no matter what type of bullet you use. However, FMJ does have the added bonus of often traveling through perps and hitting the innocent bystanders or other officers on richochets or shoot throughs.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 02:57 PM (WDjG6)

272 Tucker says this shoot happened because of gay marriage.

Posted by: ... at January 07, 2026 02:57 PM (Q4G+n)

273 266 The odds of her getting shot rose exponentially when she put it back in drive and put her foot on the gas.

Then she hit him.

She asked for it...........

https://youtu.be/tyOC6LtvDZY

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 02:56 PM (Zz0t1)

======

But the precise angle of the second shot!

From the grassy knoll!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 02:57 PM (GBKbO)

274 >>ICE agent fatally shoots woman in Minneapolis enforcement surge


...just to watch her die.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 02:57 PM (ddphe)

275 Damn, I wouldn't have the presence of mind to react as decisively as the ICE agent did.

Posted by: Fen at January 07, 2026 02:57 PM (ciYHQ)

276 >>> This is what happens when you let the ladies vote.
Posted by: Pudinhead

>Vote? Who thought it was a good idea to let them drive?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 07, 2026 02:57 PM (Ouxay)

277 If she were a friend of mine, I would most likely be sad.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 07, 2026 02:57 PM (jc0TO)

278 but on her car, it's Up!
Posted by: garrett

Her car has the thing that goes up?

Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2026 02:57 PM (77rzZ)

279 Put me on the jury. I'm looking to tell the shits of America off. My after trial statement will be Homeric.

Posted by: connected and litigious at January 07, 2026 02:57 PM (cS1cw)

280 It's not like he took five minutes between shots.. It went bang, bang...One right after the other...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2026 02:57 PM (VE6XX)

281 A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms. Enthusiasms. Enthusiasms.

Posted by: ... at January 07, 2026 02:53 PM (Q4G+n)

-------------

Preeminence and Enthusiasms > Penumbras and Emanations

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 07, 2026 02:57 PM (lYk5q)

282 >>Her car has the thing that goes up?


Just like her Sybian.

You can see how she got mixed up.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 02:58 PM (ddphe)

283 That's a legit shooting.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 07, 2026 02:58 PM (4p0Xq)

284 > Does the number of shots really matter in the case of attempted murder of a federal officer?

Self defense law is tricky and often stupid as hell. Self defense can go from justified, to not justified, and back to justified in a couple of seconds. Every single shot can be analyzed under this rubric in court. Police are often given much broader latitude than normies in court, but the general rules still apply.

A good expert can point out that a human can only process information at a certain speed and from the moment of choosing to shoot or not shoot to the moment your finger pulls on the trigger is half a second or more. In a very quick shooting like this, even when the car was past the officer, a shot or two is probably justified.

There's also law that cops can shoot at a dangerous (felonious?) fleeing individual if the cop reasonably thinks they're a danger to the public. Normies aren't covered by this law, though.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 07, 2026 02:59 PM (Yp6az)

285 256 The left wands dead people on the ground, don’t matter who , just so they’s dead.
Posted by: Eromero

I'm willing to compromise and have Feds gun most of the protestors down if it will make them happy.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 07, 2026 02:59 PM (44PvT)

286 Don't fight the police, and heck, don't stand around and argue with them. The cop, usually, doesn't want to do the paperwork for your arrest - he wants you to either comply, or give you a ticket. Make his life easy, and he will make your life easy(er)
Posted by: El Mariachi
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Yep. You don't have to help the cop with their job like burbling how much you were speeding, how much you drank, or consenting to a search of a vehicle, but you don't do ANYTHING to indicate a threat to officer while not in custody.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 02:59 PM (WDjG6)

287
I thought "Tucker" was a joke nic, cuz... you know.

Apparently not.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 07, 2026 02:56 PM (dGCAG)

It would be hilarious if Tucker started commenting here.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 07, 2026 02:59 PM (zZu0s)

288 277 If she were a friend of mine, I would most likely be sad.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 07, 2026 02:57 PM (jc0TO)

If she was a friend of mine, she'd have never been there, b/c I can smell set ups that the Uniparty sets up a mile away, where only you get screwed so they can benefit.

Posted by: Nova Local at January 07, 2026 02:59 PM (tOcjL)

289 News out of Minnesota...woman dies on ICEy roads

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 02:59 PM (sKqQm)

290 MSNOW:

ICE agent fatally shoots woman in Minneapolis enforcement surge
Posted by: Don Black at January 07, 2026 02:55 PM (ZxPkt)

Did they ASK her pronouns?

How do these media fools know if they didn't ask her?

Posted by: BurtTC at January 07, 2026 02:59 PM (dGCAG)

291 Free at last! Free at last!!!

Posted by: Karen's Cats at January 07, 2026 02:59 PM (bFu5X)

292 Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 07, 2026 02:57 PM (Ouxay

Thanks I laughed. At least she didn't run down an officer while trying to parallel park

And I feel sorry for the woman who died and her family but she shouldn't have been there in a car.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 07, 2026 02:59 PM (rZCVI)

293 Bold move Cotton, let's see how it works out.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 02:59 PM (IGnEY)

294 Did she hit the officer?
I really can’t tell if there was contact or not.

Posted by: Really?? at January 07, 2026 02:59 PM (/HZvU)

295 Put me on the jury. I'm looking to tell the shits of America off. My after trial statement will be Homeric.

Posted by: connected and litigious at January 07, 2026 02:57 PM (cS1cw)

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You're gonna end up creating a whole new victimhood class of Homericphobes.

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 07, 2026 02:59 PM (lYk5q)

296 News out of Minnesota...woman dies on ICEy roads
Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 02:59 PM

*groan*

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 07, 2026 02:59 PM (jc0TO)

297
Her car has the thing that goes up?
Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2026 02:57 PM (77rzZ)


Stairs?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 03:00 PM (Zz0t1)

298 If an AWFL can convince herself that murdering babies is a right, then any other action taken is easily justified.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 07, 2026 03:00 PM (cYBz/)

299 First shot was clearly justified. Second shot? That’s gonna be hard to justify.

Posted by: Tucker at Januar
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Incorrect thinking. If you conceed the first shot is justified then the rest are. This is not civilian self defense. Agents are authorized to use deadly force to effect felony arrests. If you say the first shot was self defense, she attempted murder. If she did not surrender, using the car to resist arrest flee justifies any additional shots. So thanks, but i can award you zero points.
Posted by: Cold, dark and unpleasant at January 0
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Wait, the nick is Tucker, is this someone trolling? I mean its pretty clear between whig and a bunch of others. Its a legal shoot. If you believe the first shot is valid so are the rest. Guess how many times the cops shot into someone in a fleeing car in cleveland a few years ago. Multiple 3 by 22... legal shoot.

Posted by: Cold, dark and unpleasant at January 07, 2026 03:00 PM (KdazR)

300 A funeral will be held at the Find Out Funeral Home

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 07, 2026 03:00 PM (4p0Xq)

301 "You did a murder"

Their English teach is going to be so proud of them.

They probably graduated from the Learing Center.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 07, 2026 03:00 PM (2ocoG)

302 207 This is what happens when you let the ladies vote.
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 07, 2026

I am pretty positive there are male democrats…and I have never voted democrat in my life.

Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 03:00 PM (Wmg4n)

303 The # of shots matter if you're Amadou Diallo and Springsteen can make money off you
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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Eh, NYC and Mayor Stupid Fcking Lindsay are the reason for that. NYC was using full metal jacketed bullets because hollowpoints used by almost every other jurisdiction were regarded as inhumane.

FMJ are poor instant stoppers (and I do not mean killing here). The usual stop on someone is from massive blood loss which a person can survive. A CNS hit are generally not survivable no matter what type of bullet you use. However, FMJ does have the added bonus of often traveling through perps and hitting the innocent bystanders or other officers on richochets or shoot throughs.
Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 02:57 PM (WDjG6)
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The cops thought that Diallo was a known, violent rapist. He surely looked like witness accounts of the rapist. Strangely, there were no more rapes by this particular rapists after Diallo was killed. Odd, that.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 03:00 PM (iFTx/)

304 >>There's also law that cops can shoot at a dangerous (felonious?) fleeing individual if the cop reasonably thinks they're a danger to the public. Normies aren't covered by this law, though.


Depends on the State.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 03:00 PM (ddphe)

305 283 That's a legit shooting.
Posted by: Minnfidel

Ah, you think the agents will justify the number of shots using the MC Hammer Defense? "Too legit to quit?"

Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 07, 2026 03:00 PM (44PvT)

306 It didn't look like she was trying to run him over.
She was trying to go around the vehicle in front of her. She committed a crime hitting the agent. Did she deserve to be shot?

Posted by: Eskimo at January 07, 2026 03:00 PM (h39WR)

307 246 The # of shots matter if you're Amadou Diallo and Springsteen can make money off you
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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Eh, NYC and Mayor Stupid Fcking Lindsay are the reason for that. NYC was using full metal jacketed bullets because hollowpoints used by almost every other jurisdiction were regarded as inhumane.

Posted by: whig

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I mean, that and the 17 shots at an unarmed man standing in his own doorway.

Unless everything I know about that incident is wrong, please don't defend every shooting.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 07, 2026 03:01 PM (bIWgk)

308 Agents are authorized to use deadly force to effect felony arrests.

Cite: Grady Judd's famous "Why did you shoot the suspect 68 times?" "We ran out of bullets".

Posted by: Ian S. at January 07, 2026 03:01 PM (2ocoG)

309 Who could have inspired this citizen?

These people are the anti america. Turning into non existence is their objective. Destroying until all humans. Pay.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 07, 2026 03:01 PM (EyfuW)

310 It would be hilarious if Tucker started commenting here.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 07, 2026 02:59 PM (zZu0s)

He'd have a hard time translating that laugh into AoSHQ style emojis.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 07, 2026 03:01 PM (dGCAG)

311 Trolls out in force today.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 03:01 PM (Zz0t1)

312 306 It didn't look like she was trying to run him over.
She was trying to go around the vehicle in front of her. She committed a crime hitting the agent. Did she deserve to be shot?
Posted by: Eskimo at January 07, 2026 03:00 PM (h39WR)

Tucker just became Eskimo.

Posted by: Nova Local at January 07, 2026 03:01 PM (tOcjL)

313 306 It didn't look like she was trying to run him over.
She was trying to go around the vehicle in front of her. She committed a crime hitting the agent. Did she deserve to be shot?

Posted by: Eskimo at January 07, 2026 03:00 PM (h39WR)

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She disobeyed a direct, lawful order. She hit an agent. She continued to not obey a direct, lawful order while controlling a deadly weapon (her SUV).

Honestly...yes. She did.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 03:01 PM (GBKbO)

314 You shoot until you know the threat is neutralized... you don't shoot... wait awhile... access... then shoot again.

I don't even think in Hollywood they pause after a volley of shots to admire the grouping and handiwork.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 07, 2026 03:02 PM (a6PrB)

315 Hopefully, she remembered to feed the cats before trying to run down guys in the street. I bet her cats are nice.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 07, 2026 03:02 PM (pLaQB)

316 MSNOW:

ICE agent fatally shoots woman in Minneapolis enforcement surge
Posted by: Don Black at January 07, 2026 02:55 PM (ZxPkt)

Did they ASK her pronouns?

How do these media fools know if they didn't ask her?

Posted by: BurtTC at January 07, 2026 02:59 PM (dGCAG)

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They're literally trying to dead-name her!

Too soon?

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 07, 2026 03:02 PM (lYk5q)

317

DOnt you understand these people are trying to save the blacks and browns!!!


Posted by: Rev DR E Buzz at January 07, 2026 03:02 PM (et1vG)

318 "You did a murder"

Honestly that sounds like something out of Ryan George comedy skit

"The first person to find out cops won't let you run them over"

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 03:02 PM (sKqQm)

319 There's also law that cops can shoot at a dangerous (felonious?) fleeing individual if the cop reasonably thinks they're a danger to the public. Normies aren't covered by this law, though.
Posted by: bonhomme

Yep. the Magic word is reasonable and the use of force must be proportionate to the degree necessary to stop the attack. Once the attack is over, then you cannot continue to engage unless the threat reappears. Never as a regular citizen ever try to stop a fleeing felon, burglar, etc. And yes, I know about TX law--it has a number of legal jeopardies attached via caselaw which lawyers know and the general public does not.

Don't shoot someone over stealing something or even if they are exiting the house after breaking in because the threat to you is essentially over.

Do call the police to make a report in such instances even though it is a hassle. You don't want the perp claiming that you were the one trying to use illegal force against them.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 03:02 PM (WDjG6)

320 Newsmax says Walz is to speak soon, should be a great speech

Posted by: Skip at January 07, 2026 03:02 PM (Ia/+0)

321 Tucker would just try to derail the thread by blaming the Jews for Prometheus.

Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2026 03:03 PM (77rzZ)

322 Did she deserve to be shot?

The officer deserves to defend himself.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 07, 2026 03:03 PM (a6PrB)

323 All the BLaMtifa shit over the last few years caused this.

Disobeying officers leads to bad things. Every. Single. Time.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 03:03 PM (Zz0t1)

324 "Did she deserve to be shot?"

Irrelevant to the real question, which could have prevented all this.

Why are you challenging guys with guns?

Posted by: Bad Andrew at January 07, 2026 03:03 PM (MSlZp)

325 It didn't look like she was trying to run him over.
She was trying to go around the vehicle in front of her. She committed a crime hitting the agent. Did she deserve to be shot?

Posted by: Eskimo at January 07, 2026 03:00 PM (h39WR)
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Is the agent a mind reader?

If only she would have said "Sorry, officer." this could all have been avoided.

/end of cynicism

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 07, 2026 03:03 PM (sdclT)

326 Too cold to riot I assume.

Posted by: mr tmz at January 07, 2026 03:03 PM (rJ48h)

327 Hopefully, she remembered to feed the cats before trying to run down guys in the street. I bet her cats are nice.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 07, 2026 03:02 PM (pLaQB)

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They're likely gonna be the entree at some Somali restaurant tonight.

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 07, 2026 03:03 PM (lYk5q)

328 The ultimate penalty for any criminal activity is death if you try hard enough.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 03:03 PM (GBKbO)

329 Mayor Frey has definitely concluded this shooting was not self defense. I guess all that is left to do is impeach Trump and jail him at Gitmo.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at January 07, 2026 03:04 PM (HTCU3)

330 321 Tucker would just try to derail the thread by blaming the Jews for Prometheus.
Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2026 03:03 PM (77rzZ)

Which could be a valid accusation!

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 03:04 PM (mP0Kj)

331 Tucker just became Eskimo.

Question: is it mighty cold ?

Posted by: Ray McKigney at January 07, 2026 03:04 PM (HcoTw)

332 Strangely, there were no more rapes by this particular rapists after Diallo was killed. Odd, that.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

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This is just post-hoc justification. Not every shooting is legit.

Next you guys will be saying Abner Louima was constipated and the PD were just helping a fella out.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 07, 2026 03:04 PM (bIWgk)

333 320 Newsmax says Walz is to speak soon, should be a great speech
Posted by: Skip

I hope he also speaks in Somali. Durka-durka click-click.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 07, 2026 03:04 PM (44PvT)

334 321 Tucker would just try to derail the thread by blaming the Jews for Prometheus.
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Well, the Joos are pretty bad in their selection of hats.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 07, 2026 03:04 PM (pLaQB)

335 She disobeyed a direct, lawful order. She hit an agent. She continued to not obey a direct, lawful order while controlling a deadly weapon (her SUV).

Another way to consider it.

Imagine if she had a gun instead of a car. The ICE agents tell her to drop the gun. In place of reversing the car she unholsters it. Again the ICE agents tell her to drop it.

She then raises it at the ICE agent in front of her and the ICE agents begin shooting.

Since a car in this situation is a weapon the comparison I think holds.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 03:04 PM (sKqQm)

336 Tucker would just try to derail the thread by blaming the Jews for Prometheus.
Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2026 03:03 PM (77rzZ)


Who produced it?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 03:04 PM (Zz0t1)

337 Tucker's teenage friends are responsible for that laugh of his.

My circle of friends bullied that crap right out of you if needed.

Posted by: connected and litigious at January 07, 2026 03:05 PM (cS1cw)

338 Minneapolis mayor its all ICE's fault, get out ICE

Posted by: Skip at January 07, 2026 03:05 PM (Ia/+0)

339 320 Newsmax says Walz is to speak soon, should be a great speech
Posted by: Skip at January 07, 2026 03:02 PM (Ia/+0)

This idiot is probably getting his talking points from Biden.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 07, 2026 03:05 PM (N39Ws)

340 They're literally trying to dead-name her!

Too soon?
Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 07, 2026 03:02 PM (lYk5q)

Not soon enough!

Obviously instead of shooting, he should have asked Xer pronouns first.

Stop the vehicle, ma'am. Turn off the engine, miss. Don't ram me with your overpriced SUV, lady!

So if you think about it, XHE was the one acting in self-defense.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 07, 2026 03:05 PM (dGCAG)

341 This is gonna be a shitshow for months. And every ice operation will have more wanna be martyrs showing up to protest/riot.


Posted by: Really?? at January 07, 2026 03:06 PM (/HZvU)

342 Walz is trying to remain in charge and deflect, deflect, deflect, because Jeni's eyeballs deep in the fraud.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 07, 2026 03:06 PM (rZCVI)

343 Well, I'm sure glad 2026 has calmed down from all the activity in 2025. We needed a break.

Posted by: Orson at January 07, 2026 03:06 PM (dIske)

344 Newsmax says Walz is to speak soon, should be a great speech
Posted by: Skip at January 07, 2026 03:02 PM

"Timmeh!!!"

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 07, 2026 03:06 PM (bFu5X)

345 There's also law that cops can shoot at a dangerous (felonious?) fleeing individual if the cop reasonably thinks they're a danger to the public. Normies aren't covered by this law, though.


Depends on the State.
Posted by: garrett at Janua
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Federal action federal law.

Posted by: Cold, dark and unpleasant at January 07, 2026 03:06 PM (KdazR)

346 Minneapolis mayor its all ICE's fault, get out ICE

Should be featured in a RICO case.

At the very least, inciting to riot. J6 everyone.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 07, 2026 03:06 PM (9Hs2w)

347 Did she deserve to be shot?
____________________________

No, but unfortunately we're not at the throw them out of helicopters stage. Yet.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 07, 2026 03:06 PM (rqw5t)

348 Newsmax says Walz is to speak soon, should be a great speech
Posted by: Skip at January 07, 2026 03:02 PM (Ia/+0)



It's not the rampant illegal immigration, fraud or overall law breaking going on.

It's ICE. It's THEIR fault that woman that attempted to run the officer over is dead. If they didn't have a JOB to do, nothing would be happening.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 03:06 PM (Zz0t1)

349 Good shoot, bad shoot, let's call the whole thing off.

Posted by: ... at January 07, 2026 03:06 PM (Q4G+n)

350 338 Minneapolis mayor its all ICE's fault, get out ICE
Posted by: Skip

Fuck you. War.

Posted by: Trump at January 07, 2026 03:07 PM (44PvT)

351 339 320 Newsmax says Walz is to speak soon, should be a great speech
Posted by: Skip at January 07, 2026 03:02 PM (Ia/+0)

This idiot is probably getting his talking points from Biden.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 07, 2026 03:05 PM (N39Ws)

Nah, Biden's payers are sending the points, not Biden. Considering the MN fraud hearings in Congress went terribly today, we're gonna hear about this nonstop from the MSM...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 07, 2026 03:07 PM (tOcjL)

352 I keep saying you don't have to shoot them all, but you have to shoot some. Who's next?

Posted by: connected and litigious at January 07, 2026 03:07 PM (cS1cw)

353 It was as a "day-care field trip" It was "for the children...."

Posted by: pahound at January 07, 2026 03:07 PM (eyOo6)

354 I just heard on AM radio that both the minneapolis mayor and walz condemn ICE and Trump as murderers and this was an innocent woman murdered while peacefully protesting against racist white people deporting brown people.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 07, 2026 03:07 PM (0N4FZ)

355 What a stupid way to throw one's life away.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 07, 2026 03:07 PM (N39Ws)

356 306 It didn't look like she was trying to run him over.
She was trying to go around the vehicle in front of her. She committed a crime hitting the agent. Did she deserve to be shot?

Posted by: Eskimo

While you are a troll, I used to teach Criminal Procedure for over twenty years to yutes. Once you commit a forcible felony to a cop, then the cop is allowed to shoot until the threat is stopped and that includes risks to others.

Idiots play this game all the time when they try to flee cops at high speed and then encounter either a PIT stop or run over spike strips and lose control which deads them. A fleeing car in the operation of perps is in itself a lethal weapon and a menace.

You need to read TN v. Garner where Scotus defines when police may use lethal force to stop a fleeing criminal. It is when a forcible felony has occurred and hitting a cop with your car whether you intended it or not in the course of your other crimes (failure to obey a lawful order to stop, dragging an officer a few feet while not stopping, etc. ). That made her a fleeing felon armed with a dangerous weapon, the car. Thus, she got deaded.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 03:07 PM (WDjG6)

357 Tucker would just try to derail the thread by blaming the Jews for Prometheus.

I assumed I could make a cheap joke that in fact someone Jewish was responsible for Prometheus but none of the writer, director, or producer were.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 03:07 PM (sKqQm)

358 The libs claimed Kirk *deserved* to be shot because he had unapproved mindthoughts. They lost their Murder Judgment Privileges.

Posted by: ... at January 07, 2026 03:07 PM (Q4G+n)

359 Not quite.

The first shot hit her. Second shot was once the car was no longer going towards the ice officer. He shot her kind of from the side while the car was driving away.
Posted by: Tucker at January 07, 2026 02:49 PM (Q/qJ3)


Nothing to stop her from reversing back at the officers. She was still in possession of the deadly weapon she had just used against law enforcement officers.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at January 07, 2026 03:08 PM (iIXK7)

360 The thing about the Karen is she's got black eyes, lifeless eyes, now.

Posted by: Quint the Eskimo at January 07, 2026 03:08 PM (jc0TO)

361 News out of Minnesota...woman dies on ICEy roads
Posted by: 18-1


Golf clap.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 03:08 PM (WC9t6)

362 "Marxists are declaring war"

Good. Can we NOT let them get up off the mat this time? They are play-testing how to overthrow the Republic, giving them infinite respawns is foolish.

Posted by: Fen at January 07, 2026 03:08 PM (ciYHQ)

363 Let not argue over 'oo kilt 'oo. . .

Posted by: Tonypete at January 07, 2026 03:08 PM (cYBz/)

364 FenelonSpoke at January 07, 2026 03:06 PM (rZCVI)

Darn autocorrect. Supposed to be "He's".

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 07, 2026 03:08 PM (rZCVI)

365 Legally justified but that won't matter in the public's view.

Posted by: Max Power at January 07, 2026 03:08 PM (SwyyQ)

366 Suicide by ICE.

Posted by: no one at January 07, 2026 03:08 PM (qFwJc)

367 What a stupid way to throw one's life away.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 07, 2026 03:07 PM

Most are.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 07, 2026 03:09 PM (jc0TO)

368 Isn't it normal for LE to fire two quick shots? I honestly don't know, but it seems normal (I watch TV).

As I said, it was only a matter of time for this to happen. Especially in crazy MN protecting their precious leeching Somolians.

While I am sorry for those who loved this woman, she was not using good sense to do this when an officer has his arm in your car and telling you to get out of the vehicle.

If she had nothing to hide, why back up and accelerate and hit an agent on your escape? To be a hero? Late hair appt?

If it was June there would be National Riot Month, especially if she's not white. Since it's cold and January, probably not. No matter than multiple videos show her being first told to get out of her car and she ignores that order, backs up recklessly, and accelerates into two ICE agents with guns drawn. Not smart.

I hope MORE ICE agents and the National Guard (if needed) are sent to MN to deport. I have no pity's to give for MN, after seeing them rip off of the nation with Walz and Co. GET OUT!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 07, 2026 03:09 PM (WONhk)

369 I love all these know-nothings arguing with Whig, here.

It is as entertaining as it must be frustrating to Whig.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 03:09 PM (ddphe)

370 They could br Cryptos.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 03:09 PM (IGnEY)

371 I keep checking power line blog since they’re out of MN, but those guys must actually work during the day.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 07, 2026 03:09 PM (Mxf84)

372 I get the feeling that these women think it's a game -- like throwing a chicken wing at their kid when they act up.

They have no sense of consequences until it is too late, and then they panic.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 07, 2026 03:09 PM (bIWgk)

373 Strangely, there were no more rapes by this particular rapists after Diallo was killed. Odd, that.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

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This is just post-hoc justification. Not every shooting is legit.

Next you guys will be saying Abner Louima was constipated and the PD were just helping a fella out.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 07, 2026 03:04 PM (bIWgk)
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Diallo was probably a rapist and thus probably got what he deserved. I shed no tears over his death.

Odd that you bring up Louima. He was most likely ass-raped at the gay club he was at. The media buried that angle of the story. The odds that straight cops would strip a guy naked and ass fuck him with a plunger are very low. The cops probably roughed him up. But the anal injuries were probably caused elsewhere.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 03:09 PM (iFTx/)

374 It was the fucking aroundest of times, it was the finding outest of times....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 07, 2026 03:09 PM (06Hmj)

375 Did she deserve to be shot?
____________________________


Deserved? No.

Earned? Absof*ckinglutely.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 03:09 PM (Zz0t1)

376 Dead Karen is a martyr now

gonna generate a lot of fund-raising

Posted by: Don Black at January 07, 2026 03:09 PM (ZxPkt)

377 What worries me most is that now some idiot is out there watching the clips and listening to Frey and other dems and deciding he’s gonna go out and play Sniper Johnnie now.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 07, 2026 03:10 PM (ukUWv)

378 Charging was justified as well. Didn’t matter.
If this is a trial with a Minneapolis jury the ice officer is fucked.

Posted by: Really?? at January 07, 2026 03:10 PM (/HZvU)

379 She put herself in that position to become a martyr.

She got her wish.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 03:10 PM (Zz0t1)

380
369 I love all these know-nothings arguing with Whig, here.

It is as entertaining as it must be frustrating to Whig.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 03:09 PM (ddphe)

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When Elric and whig are on the same side of a legal argument, their conclusions are probably very right.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 03:10 PM (GBKbO)

381 I hope he also speaks in Somali. Durka-durka click-click.

Durk, durk allah.

That version of Parker and Stone could be making some really good stuff now. Too bad we have the present-day version instead.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 07, 2026 03:10 PM (2ocoG)

382 White girls bleed a lot.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 07, 2026 03:10 PM (pLaQB)

383 Why didn't the cop step out of the way!

Posted by: Karen Know it all at January 07, 2026 03:10 PM (KXp7n)

384 Tucker/eskimo. Is a troll. Just home from high school and not doing his homework.

Dont bother...

Posted by: Cold, dark and unpleasant at January 07, 2026 03:11 PM (KdazR)

385 Diallo was probably a rapist and thus probably got what he deserved. I shed no tears over his death
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Elderly communist lesbian Bruce Springsteen wrote an ode to him; so he was definitely a turd.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 07, 2026 03:11 PM (rqw5t)

386 What worries me most is that now some idiot is out there watching the clips and listening to Frey and other dems and deciding he’s gonna go out and play Sniper Johnnie now.

BLM did that in Dallas in 2015.

Which led to the first kill be robot I think since the Dallas cops put a bomb on a bomb squad robot and drove it up to the sniper...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 03:11 PM (sKqQm)

387 I feel sorry for the folks whose parked cars got creamed by the SUV.
Posted by: Bulg

Chances are that they voted for this.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at January 07, 2026 03:11 PM (as0GS)

388 Depends on the State.
Posted by: garrett

The old common law rule before TN v. Garner was simply shooting an escaping felon. Committing what is called forcible felonies warrant up to lethal force to stop in every state.

Doesn't mean cops have to and in some cases, like trying to stop idiots in cars driving dangerously to escape being caught, are not in accordance to individual jurisdiction policies, they keep the old common law because of liability.

And those officers get qualified immunity too courtesy of Scotus.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 03:11 PM (WDjG6)

389 Stupid autocorrect.

Chauvin not Charging.

Posted by: Really?? at January 07, 2026 03:11 PM (/HZvU)

390 I love all these know-nothings arguing with Whig, here.

It is as entertaining as it must be frustrating to Whig.

Liberals pulling stuff like that on AtC is half the reason to follow her on X. It's wildly entertaining. You can tell they're losing when they start insisting she's male.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 07, 2026 03:11 PM (2ocoG)

391 This a just a couple of blocks away from Saint George of Fentanyl Square. My old stomping grounds. My church is a mere 500 feet from where this libtard got her head ventilated

Posted by: Truck Monkey at January 07, 2026 03:12 PM (Bo9Yf)

392
When Elric and whig are on the same side of a legal argument, their conclusions are probably very right.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 03:10 PM (GBKbO

Bonhomme, too. We have a legal trifecta!

Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 03:12 PM (Wmg4n)

393 343 Well, I'm sure glad 2026 has calmed down from all the activity in 2025. We needed a break.
Posted by: Orson

The Left is ramping-up their successful 2020 terror/hostage playbook for the midterms. Go apeshit crazy, burn the nation down, scare normal voters, and then promise a "return to normalcy" if the Dems win.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 07, 2026 03:12 PM (DFX0J)

394 This was clearly a War Crime.

Posted by: connected and litigious at January 07, 2026 03:12 PM (cS1cw)

395 Deserved? No.

Earned? Absof*ckinglutely.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 03:09 PM (Zz0t1)

Yeah, I'm a fan of the "YOU forfeited your right to live" perspective. I'm sorry you did. But you did that to yourself.

In fact, if there were other protesters in the area, I'm for charging them with her death.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 07, 2026 03:12 PM (dGCAG)

396 Need snipers with rubber bullets.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 07, 2026 03:12 PM (EyfuW)

397 That version of Parker and Stone could be making some really good stuff now. Too bad we have the present-day version instead.
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I guess you don't find "Trump has a small dick" jokes as endlessly hilarious as they apparently do.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 07, 2026 03:12 PM (rqw5t)

398 As whig noted, the time and place to determine whether the officer lawfully ordered her to exit the car is downtown, at the court house in front of a judge.

You don't get to decide.
And you absolutely do not get to make that choice at the scene.
Because being falsely arrested is one thing.
Tacking on an assault and evading is peak stupid.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 07, 2026 03:13 PM (HXT0k)

399 I am not so sure this was justified. He pulls his gun when he could be getting out the way.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 07, 2026 03:13 PM (1Nv0l)

400 Fucking dopes.

You throw your hands up with a sweet smile and go along with the cops, and then let the media and the lawyers do their jobs.

Didn't they teach you anything in agitator school?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 07, 2026 03:13 PM (06Hmj)

401 Which led to the first kill be robot I think since the Dallas cops put a bomb on a bomb squad robot and drove it up to the sniper...

Donut Operator calls that robot "R2-FU".

Posted by: Ian S. at January 07, 2026 03:13 PM (2ocoG)

402 Expected spin:

Karen is dead because of racist Trump's hate for black people


bet me

Posted by: Don Black at January 07, 2026 03:13 PM (ZxPkt)

403 They have no sense of consequences until it is too late, and then they panic
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What do you mean MY TITS WONT KEEP ME OUT OF JAIL!!!!!

Posted by: Cold, dark and unpleasant at January 07, 2026 03:13 PM (KdazR)

404 The odds that straight cops would strip a guy naked and ass fuck him with a plunger are very low
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So you're saying there's a chance!??

Posted by: Jonah G at January 07, 2026 03:13 PM (Q4G+n)

405
hitting a cop with your car whether you intended it or not in the course of your other crimes (failure to obey a lawful order to stop, dragging an officer a few feet while not stopping, etc. ). That made her a fleeing felon armed with a dangerous weapon, the car. Thus, she got deaded.
Posted by: whig

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Stupid idiot went there with NO IDEA of what she was in for. Uh-oh a cop is coming! I'd better get out of here before I get in trouble.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 07, 2026 03:14 PM (Uo+RY)

406 All the BLaMtifa shit over the last few years caused this.

Disobeying officers leads to bad things. Every. Single. Time.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 03:03 PM (Zz0t1)

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Absolutely -- along with D pols and talking heads who agitate for -- and celebrate & "justify" -- political violence.

I was consistent and harsh in my criticism of President Trump for not nipping this shit in the bud on Night One in Minneapolis in 2020.

The National Guard should have been sent in with orders to disperse or be shot. He should have invoked the Insurrection Act THEN -- and he needed not now needs no permission from Treasonous Insurrection-y Governors.

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 07, 2026 03:14 PM (lYk5q)

407 Deserved? No.

Earned? Absof*ckinglutely.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 03:09 PM (Zz0t1)

I disagree. If she had killed the ice officer backing up, would she have then deserved it?

She deserved it by trying to girl boss with her car.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 07, 2026 03:14 PM (zZu0s)

408 395 In fact, if there were other protesters in the area, I'm for charging them with her death.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 07, 2026 03:12 PM (dGCAG)

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There's video of one protestor grabbing for an officer's weapon and then immediately getting shot in the face.

It's with some kind of bean bag that explodes in yellow dust, not a hard round, but still.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 03:14 PM (GBKbO)

409 Is there any video of the very beginning of this?

How the car got sideways on the road? especially with the other car stopped in front of it?

Was the car in front, also ICE? Idiots have been closely following and filming ICE for weeks, reporting on their position... is that how this started?

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 03:14 PM (mP0Kj)

410 Owens will say it's either the Jews or the French Foreign Legion who fired the shots.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 07, 2026 03:14 PM (WONhk)

411 I am not so sure this was justified. He pulls his gun when he could be getting out the way.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 07, 2026 03:13 PM (1Nv0l)


He ordered her to exit the vehicle. She reversed. He ordered her again. She accelerated into him.

FAFO.

Justified.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 03:14 PM (Zz0t1)

412 399 I am not so sure this was justified. He pulls his gun when he could be getting out the way.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 07, 2026 03:13 PM (1Nv0l)

Man, Tucker became eskimo became don't blame the alligators. It never ends...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 07, 2026 03:14 PM (tOcjL)

413 Same as if she was waving a shotgun at the officers.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 07, 2026 03:14 PM (zZu0s)

414 >Witnesses claimed the woman and her wife were acting as legal observers and filming the protest when she was shot.

But ICE insisted the woman tried to use the SUV as a deadly weapon.

From Daily Mail

Posted by: mr tmz at January 07, 2026 03:14 PM (rJ48h)

415 White girls bleed a lot.
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 07, 2026 03:10 PM (pLaQB)

I said that to my ex once.

I didn't get any for the rest of that week, and most of the next!

Posted by: BurtTC at January 07, 2026 03:14 PM (dGCAG)

416 I am not so sure this was justified. He pulls his gun when he could be getting out the way.

There is no requirement for a cop to get out of the way.

Every now and then we get a video of someone tussling with a cop yelling something like "let me go! just let me go!" and those people universally get charged with resisting arrest and often assaulting a police officer

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 03:14 PM (sKqQm)

417 400 Fucking dopes.

You throw your hands up with a sweet smile and go along with the cops, and then let the media and the lawyers do their jobs.

Didn't they teach you anything in agitator school?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 07, 2026 03:13 PM (06Hmj)

While acting injured in the arrest and saying "that hurts" and letting a few tears down your cheeks...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 07, 2026 03:15 PM (tOcjL)

418 James Alex Fields Jr. needs to be sprung from prison and pardoned.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 07, 2026 03:15 PM (gKWVE)

419 416 I am not so sure this was justified. He pulls his gun when he could be getting out the way.

There is no requirement for a cop to get out of the way.

Every now and then we get a video of someone tussling with a cop yelling something like "let me go! just let me go!" and those people universally get charged with resisting arrest and often assaulting a police officer

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 03:14 PM (sKqQm)

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"You could have gotten out of the way of my gunshot, officer."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 03:15 PM (GBKbO)

420 "If this is a trial with a Minneapolis jury the ice officer is fucked."

The ICE officer is under federal jurisdiction. There will be no state trial. Is that hard to understand?

Posted by: Get real at January 07, 2026 03:15 PM (G+z4C)

421 Posted by: Cold, dark and unpleasant at January 07, 2026 03:13 PM (KdazR

I don't think any woman is thinking of her tits at the moment or that she's a woman She's an angry, stupid warrior.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 07, 2026 03:15 PM (rZCVI)

422
I feel sorry for the folks whose parked cars got creamed by the SUV.
Posted by: Bulg

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Definitely looked cooler in Chinatown.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 07, 2026 03:15 PM (Uo+RY)

423 When Elric and whig are on the same side of a legal argument, their conclusions are probably very right.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 03:10 PM (GBKbO

Bonhomme, too. We have a legal trifecta!
Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 03:12 PM (Wmg4n)
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Hell hath frozen over! But seriously, this isn't a close call to me. She aimed her car at the cop, actually hit him, was still driving towards him, and then he shot her. I think some of the skepticism of some of the (non-troll) comments here are because they didn't take my advice and watch JackStraw's vid.

Is this the most perfect shoot in the history of shoots? No, of course not. But that ain't the standard. It don't have to be perfect. It just as to be justified. This one clearly is.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 03:16 PM (iFTx/)

424 408 395 In fact, if there were other protesters in the area, I'm for charging them with her death.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 07, 2026 03:12 PM (dGCAG)

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There's video of one protestor grabbing for an officer's weapon and then immediately getting shot in the face.

It's with some kind of bean bag that explodes in yellow dust, not a hard round, but still.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 03:14 PM (GBKbO)

Check their phones for the 'Follow ICE' ap... bet its there. Then prosecute the site for Conspiracy to obstruct justice.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 03:16 PM (mP0Kj)

425 the woman and her wife

Way to live up to the stereotype Karen

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 03:16 PM (sKqQm)

426 Leftists are all going to blame it all.on ICE

Posted by: Skip at January 07, 2026 03:16 PM (Ia/+0)

427
I disagree. If she had killed the ice officer backing up, would she have then deserved it?

She deserved it by trying to girl boss with her car.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 07, 2026 03:14 PM (zZu0s)


Ah, but that's not the case here. It happened. We have the evidence in front of us. No need to play what if games.

She FA, then FO. Case closed.

I don't know if she deserved it or not. That's usually reseved for guys who play sports for a long time, then finally get themselves on an all-star team to win a championship.

She certainly earned it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 03:16 PM (Zz0t1)

428 What’s the likelihood that this shooting occurred in a roundabout?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 07, 2026 03:16 PM (Ouxay)

429 Minnesota defrauds the US taxpayers for billions.

They import and hide hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens.

They tell citizens to disobey ICE.

They tell police and the feds that they won't cooperate.

One of their citizens decides to run down an ICE agent and dies.

It is all ICE's fault.


Sure, Karen.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 07, 2026 03:16 PM (0U5gm)

430 >Witnesses claimed the woman and her wife were acting as legal observers and filming the protest when she was shot.
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Mental illness is to lesbians what promiscuity is to gay men.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 07, 2026 03:16 PM (rqw5t)

431 The woman killed was definitely MAGA.

Posted by: Jimmy Kimmel at January 07, 2026 03:16 PM (dIske)

432 I enjoyed the harpy screaming, too. And those filming. They needed a hickory shampoo treatment at the very least for just being there.

Posted by: turambar at January 07, 2026 03:16 PM (Q0yOR)

433 I get the feeling that these women think it's a game -- like throwing a chicken wing at their kid when they act up.

They have no sense of consequences until it is too late, and then they panic.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 07, 2026 03:09 PM


That's because until now they have not suffered any consequences for their actions and they haven't since the 1960's. There is literally a new sheriff in town now and he don't play by the old rules.


That woman committed a felony by not stopping when ICE told her to and then hitting a cop with her car trying to get away. From that point onward deadly force was authorized to stop the felon. She is dead now because she was stupid and thought she was immune from her actions.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 07, 2026 03:16 PM (0N4FZ)

434 420 "If this is a trial with a Minneapolis jury the ice officer is fucked."

The ICE officer is under federal jurisdiction. There will be no state trial. Is that hard to understand?

Posted by: Get real at January 07, 2026 03:15 PM (G+z4C)

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Oh, Ellison will try some state level charge. Frey will try some city level charge.

They will try.

Trump, Bondi, Noem, Miller, and head of ICE Bovino will not let anything happen to him.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 03:16 PM (GBKbO)

435 414 >Witnesses claimed the woman and her wife were acting as legal observers and filming the protest when she was shot.

But ICE insisted the woman tried to use the SUV as a deadly weapon.

From Daily Mail
Posted by: mr tmz at January 07, 2026 03:14 PM (rJ48h)

So, married lesbian female?

Posted by: Nova Local at January 07, 2026 03:17 PM (tOcjL)

436 Oh no, a stupid commie is dead.

I'll probably cry myself to sleep tonight.

Posted by: Jay in PA at January 07, 2026 03:17 PM (9mw3J)

437 I guess you don't find "Trump has a small dick" jokes as endlessly hilarious as they apparently do.

Recycling the entire Saddam bit from the South Park movie from 20 years ago is so lazy that that's what's actually offensive about this stuff. I'm down for actually funny jokes about Trump, but it's like they have Somalians writing the scripts now or something.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 07, 2026 03:17 PM (2ocoG)

438 Haven't seen a name, or anything about her yet

Posted by: Skip at January 07, 2026 03:17 PM (Ia/+0)

439 Should have been a complete mag dump into that b*tches face. I'm a bit disappointed.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 07, 2026 03:17 PM (abIsI)

440 Check their phones for the 'Follow ICE' ap... bet its there. Then prosecute the site for Conspiracy to obstruct justice.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 03:16 PM (mP0Kj)

I'm no legal beagle, but I would think murder charges (whichever version) are possible. For all of them. Anyone who was there.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 07, 2026 03:17 PM (dGCAG)

441 I said that to my ex once.

I didn't get any for the rest of that week, and most of the next!

Posted by: BurtTC at January 07, 2026 03:14 PM (dGCAG)

My girl wouldn't give me any for a while either if I was talking to my ex like that.

Posted by: ... at January 07, 2026 03:17 PM (Q4G+n)

442 I agree it was a legal shoot.
I worry about the consequences of it; but maybe this was inevitable, this game of defiance had to rip wide open sooner or later.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 07, 2026 03:17 PM (ukUWv)

443 Diallo was probably a rapist and thus probably got what he deserved. I shed no tears over his death.

Odd that you bring up Louima. He was most likely ass-raped at the gay club he was at. The media buried that angle of the story. The odds that straight cops would strip a guy naked and ass fuck him with a plunger are very low. The cops probably roughed him up. But the anal injuries were probably caused elsewhere.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

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I don't remember the details, but I think the plunger went in the mouth -- that wasn't disputed. Yes, he was a fag, but still there is something wrong when they tune-up a guy in the back room to that degree. Do it in an alley or something.

From what I read, Diallo was just a bystander. They were not approaching him until he showed up to see what was going on. Maybe he was a rapist, still. The story told (as I recall) is that one cop stumbled, another yelled "gun" for no reason, and they all started shooting.

I defend this current shooting, and Chauvin, and I did from day one, but still, not all shootings are legit and I think those two incidents from NYC are not worth defending.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 07, 2026 03:18 PM (bIWgk)

444 Minnesota defrauds the US taxpayers for billions.

They import and hide hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens.

They tell citizens to disobey ICE.

They tell police and the feds that they won't cooperate.

One of their citizens decides to run down an ICE agent and dies.

It is all ICE's fault.


Sure, Karen.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 07, 2026 03:16 PM (0U5gm)


This is a pretty righteous summation.

Well done.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 03:18 PM (Zz0t1)

445
Trump, Bondi, Noem, Miller, and head of ICE Bovino will not let anything happen to him.

I suspect you are correct, but here's where I would like to see Trump not just call but raise here.

If an ICE agent is prosecuted for doing his job level charges against the prosecutor

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 03:18 PM (sKqQm)

446 Is this the most perfect shoot in the history of shoots? No, of course not. But that ain't the standard. It don't have to be perfect. It just as to be justified. This one clearly is.

This is true, but it's also irrelevant to the left's cause. They wanted a body and they got one. Bloody shirt to follow.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2026 03:18 PM (Riz8t)

447 Anyone want to bet they threaten to bring charges against Trump for this one? Is this the planned Impachment III after all the R retirements?

Posted by: ... at January 07, 2026 03:18 PM (Q4G+n)

448 So the girlboss force field failed against reality and FAFO

Posted by: Josh Brolin's Blistered Taint at January 07, 2026 03:18 PM (Yoa13)

449 414 >Witnesses claimed the woman and her wife were acting as legal observers and filming the protest when she was shot.

But ICE insisted the woman tried to use the SUV as a deadly weapon.

From Daily Mail
Posted by: mr tmz at January 07, 2026 03:14 PM (rJ48h)

And there it is... Woman and HER WIFE... filming a Protest? While DRIVING?

CREATING a protest by impeding ICE, which is Obstruction of Justice.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 03:19 PM (mP0Kj)

450 It is as entertaining as it must be frustrating to Whig.

Posted by: garrett
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I had these arguments from students every time there was a police shooting. All the cameras around now make it a helluva lot easier to teach.

But the general rule is cooperate with the cops regarding their orders within reason (you do not have to admit to anything nor consent to a search of the car) to avoid any Courtroom of the Street where the cop is the judge, jury, and executioner if need be. Save it for the real courthouse if you are justified.

Cars, whether you think they are not, are considered lethal weapons when in operation. You cannot decide in the courtroom of the street to suddenly leave a cop when they are telling you to stop. You have to stop, you cannot try to move around vehicles to escape, and you have to definitely stop if an officer is in front of you. Its over. Now the reckoning of the charges will commence and the toll rises as you try more and more to get away. And the sentence can be all the way to death. No appeal.

I hope this saves some lives but generally this spiel and the funnier Chris Rock video, gets through to some folks .

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 03:19 PM (WDjG6)

451 442 I agree it was a legal shoot.
I worry about the consequences of it; but maybe this was inevitable, this game of defiance had to rip wide open sooner or later.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 07, 2026 03:17 PM (ukUWv)

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AWFLs are going to become very insistent that people not them rise up in arms against fascism.

But not them. They have boxes of wine to drink and influencer points to score.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 03:19 PM (GBKbO)

452 So, if the lady was a married lesbian female, was her spouse also in the car, or was she ditching her at the protest to fend for herself?

Posted by: Nova Local at January 07, 2026 03:19 PM (tOcjL)

453 Haven't seen a name, or anything about her yet
Posted by: Skip at January 07, 2026 03:17 PM (Ia/+0)
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Odds that she's a hairy dyke, or in education, or works for some government agency pushing paper, or all three? High.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 03:19 PM (iFTx/)

454 399 I am not so sure this was justified. He pulls his gun when he could be getting out the way.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators
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Go do your homework kid. You are to fat for an athletic scholarship.

Posted by: Cold, dark and unpleasant at January 07, 2026 03:19 PM (KdazR)

455 They should have brought AT ATs.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 03:19 PM (IGnEY)

456 I’m no laawwyaaahh but from what I see from the video looks like she was trying to get away. the ice officer in front of the suv reacted split second thinking she was trying to run him down. Seems justified. I don’t k ow if she even noticed he was there, he kinda appeared out of nowhere from the video angle.

Every leftist will look at the same video and say he could have easily got out of the way and did not need to shoot.

Posted by: Really?? at January 07, 2026 03:19 PM (/HZvU)

457 Recycling the entire Saddam bit from the South Park movie from 20 years ago is so lazy that that's what's actually offensive about this stuff. I'm down for actually funny jokes about Trump, but it's like they have Somalians writing the scripts now or something.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 07, 2026 03:17 PM (2ocoG)


Paramount paid them $1bn to do that shit. They're laughing all the way to the bank.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 03:19 PM (Zz0t1)

458 360 The thing about the Karen is she's got black eyes, lifeless eyes, now.
Posted by: Quint the Eskimo at January 07, 2026 03:08 PM (jc0TO)

Doubt it. At least one head/face shot.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 07, 2026 03:19 PM (N39Ws)

459 447 Anyone want to bet they threaten to bring charges against Trump for this one? Is this the planned Impachment III after all the R retirements?
Posted by: ...
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No. Probably charges related to Venezuela or some other shit.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 03:19 PM (WDjG6)

460 445
Trump, Bondi, Noem, Miller, and head of ICE Bovino will not let anything happen to him.

I suspect you are correct, but here's where I would like to see Trump not just call but raise here.

If an ICE agent is prosecuted for doing his job level charges against the prosecutor

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 03:18 PM (sKqQm)

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Oz cut off a bunch of federal funds to MN in the last day.

Might as well keep the party rolling.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 03:19 PM (GBKbO)

461 There's also law that cops can shoot at a dangerous (felonious?) fleeing individual if the cop reasonably thinks they're a danger to the public. Normies aren't covered by this law, though.


Depends on the State.
Posted by: garrett

There are at least two SCOTUS cases that affirm this.

Tennessee v Garner and Graham v Connor.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 07, 2026 03:20 PM (Yp6az)

462 Why are you challenging guys with guns?
Posted by: Bad Andrew

EXACTLY. Protesters have been playing stupid games with armed federal agents. This was inevitable.

I stay AWAY from LEOs who are doing their jobs. I do not interfere. Hell, Im terrified of local PD because they have poor safety training (almost accidentally shot TWICE by police). The moment a government agent with a gun steps into your scene your life expectancy takes a nosedive - mistakes happen, you were reaching for your wallet? Or a gun. I make the encounter as easy going as possible and then get out of their way.

These idiots have been poking them with a stick

Posted by: Fen at January 07, 2026 03:20 PM (ciYHQ)

463 FAFO Minnesota edition

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at January 07, 2026 03:20 PM (xcxpd)

464 We're going to see a bird hands epidemic unlike you've ever imagined.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 03:20 PM (GBKbO)

465 442 I agree it was a legal shoot.
I worry about the consequences of it; but maybe this was inevitable, this game of defiance had to rip wide open sooner or later.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January

Another Horde attorney is in agreement! I am slightly concerned now about the effects on the solar system with this situation.

Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 03:20 PM (Wmg4n)

466 What happens if mayors/ police comms/chiefs do not enforce the law?
What authority does POTUS have specifically over the Marines?

The second half of 'FAFO' is incoming.

Posted by: t-bird at January 07, 2026 03:21 PM (ZzBhN)

467 Too cold for a proper riot. Ah well.

Posted by: ocean's brassiere at January 07, 2026 03:21 PM (n9T9W)

468 Recycling the entire Saddam bit from the South Park movie from 20 years ago is so lazy that that's what's actually offensive about this stuff. I'm down for actually funny jokes about Trump, but it's like they have Somalians writing the scripts now or something.
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Nothing wrong with Trump jokes. He's a funny guy, and definitely has foibles. But when that's all you got , and the jokes aren't even funny... It's like eating a meal that's nothing but kimchi. I like a little kimchi on the side, but I wouldn't want to eat nothing but kimchi at every meal.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 07, 2026 03:21 PM (rqw5t)

469 Reliable dem voter in life; reliable dem voter in death.

Posted by: PabloD at January 07, 2026 03:21 PM (cFv0u)

470 Man, Tucker became eskimo became don't blame the alligators. It never ends...
Posted by: Nova Local

I prefer to think for myself. Sorry not sorry if that offends you and your herd mentality. It looks dubious to me. If he gets charged in state court, I think he's effed.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 07, 2026 03:21 PM (1Nv0l)

471 That said, it looked more like she was trying to drive around the agent, not over him.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at January 07, 2026 03:21 PM (xcxpd)

472 We're going to see a bird hands epidemic unlike you've ever imagined.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 03:20 PM (GBKbO)
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SIX-SEVEN, MOTHERFUCKER!

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 03:21 PM (iFTx/)

473 Another bad shooting was that Australian woman shot by a Somalian cop when he panicked. I think that was Minnesota too.

They happen and it does us no service to deny that mistakes happen. The best way to avoid it is to deport all these immigrants and when a cop tells you to stop, stop. The Left wants the opposite.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 07, 2026 03:21 PM (bIWgk)

474
They have no sense of consequences until it is too late, and then they panic.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)

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What's crazy is there's so much "training" about "tactics" and "How-to"s and shyt like that for protestors, illegal aliens, and random activists out there on the internet. In Spanish and English!

But she probably got the brilliant idea to "block ICE" from watching YouTube videos.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 07, 2026 03:22 PM (Uo+RY)

475 One count of fucking around and three of finding out.

Posted by: ... at January 07, 2026 03:22 PM (Q4G+n)

476 My girl wouldn't give me any for a while either if I was talking to my ex like that.
Posted by: ... at January 07, 2026 03:17 PM (Q4G+n)

Heh, ISWYDT.

Pre-ex, obviously. And now that I think about it, it may have had something to do with her eventual bug-out.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 07, 2026 03:22 PM (dGCAG)

477 I'll just say, this was the straw that made me leave all the Minnesota related reddits. It's been nothing but ICE "sightings" every single day for the last several weeks, but of course, now it's effectively calls for insurrection. This will not end well for them.

Posted by: Darury at January 07, 2026 03:22 PM (cWv7m)

478 I assumed I could make a cheap joke that in fact someone Jewish was responsible for Prometheus but none of the writer, director, or producer were.
Posted by: 18-1

Hebrew Money Men bankrolled it, like they always do.

Posted by: Der Volkischer Beobachter at January 07, 2026 03:22 PM (oftw2)

479 472 We're going to see a bird hands epidemic unlike you've ever imagined.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 03:20 PM (GBKbO)
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SIX-SEVEN, MOTHERFUCKER!

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 03:21 PM (iFTx/)

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In the car.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 03:22 PM (GBKbO)

480 All the driving around ideas kind of get nipped by the fact that she actual hit him with her car.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 07, 2026 03:22 PM (jc0TO)

481 Minnesota libs should feel shame and regret. Yet...

Talk about entitled.

Posted by: connected and litigious at January 07, 2026 03:22 PM (cS1cw)

482 SIX-SEVEN, MOTHERFUCKER!
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 03:21 PM (iFTx/)

6-7 is more of a juggling motion, not bird hands.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 07, 2026 03:22 PM (Mxf84)

483 BTW, if the others were in on the 'protest',

The felony murder rule is codified in 18 U.S.C. § 1111, which establishes that anyone who commits a qualifying felony and causes a death can be charged with murder even when the persons did not intend for a murder to occur.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 03:23 PM (WDjG6)

484 Can local prosecutors try a federal agent in the first place?

Posted by: Really?? at January 07, 2026 03:23 PM (/HZvU)

485 It will be hard to have a trial there after the mayor and governor said the officer was guilty. The defense should be able to get it moved.

Posted by: Eskimo at January 07, 2026 03:23 PM (h39WR)

486 The left: Only cops should have guns! They are the only ones that need them!

Also the left: Oh my GAIA cops and ICE agents just run around murdering people with their guns for no reason!

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 03:23 PM (sKqQm)

487 477 I'll just say, this was the straw that made me leave all the Minnesota related reddits. It's been nothing but ICE "sightings" every single day for the last several weeks, but of course, now it's effectively calls for insurrection. This will not end well for them.

Posted by: Darury at January 07, 2026 03:22 PM (cWv7m)

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*regards Trump commanding Delta Force to kidnap the de facto head of state of a nation and de jure head of a major drug cartel in the middle of the night.*

"Hey! Let's fight this guy!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 03:23 PM (GBKbO)

488 470 Man, Tucker became eskimo became don't blame the alligators. It never ends...
Posted by: Nova Local

I prefer to think for myself. Sorry not sorry if that offends you and your herd mentality. It looks dubious to me. If he gets charged in state court, I think he's effed.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 07, 2026 03:21 PM (1Nv0l)

Apparently, thinking does not involve reading the thread and seeing there is no state court charges possible (which wouldn't be state court anyway, it would be local jurisdiction...if it even applied, which it doesn't).

Posted by: Nova Local at January 07, 2026 03:23 PM (tOcjL)

489 Another bad shooting was that Australian woman shot by a Somalian cop when he panicked. I think that was Minnesota too.

Yup, famous case. Was indeed a Somali cop in Minneapolis.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 07, 2026 03:24 PM (2ocoG)

490 I don't think any woman is thinking of her tits at the moment or that she's a woman She's an angry, stupid warrior.
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This is incorrect thinking on her part, and the point. She is thinking wrong. I know sarcasm is a stumbling block for some.

Posted by: Cold, dark and unpleasant at January 07, 2026 03:24 PM (KdazR)

491 I hate to be the voice of reason. I don't wear it well. But, take a second and consider your reactions to Leftists responding to Charlie Kirk's death and compare it to your own. A woman is dead. A man will live with that memory. Acquaintances of both will share it.

Whether the woman deserved it or not will be evaluated, investigated, politicized, embellished, exploited etc.

That is all. Proceed with the rationalizations, denigrations, and the like. I have thick skin.

Posted by: Orson at January 07, 2026 03:24 PM (dIske)

492 > I'll just say, this was the straw that made me leave all the Minnesota related reddits. It's been nothing but ICE "sightings" every single day for the last several weeks, but of course, now it's effectively calls for insurrection.

Every single subreddit devoted to a city is a disgusting leftist cesspool. Far more than the average subreddit.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 07, 2026 03:24 PM (Yp6az)

493 Ok, its cheap and easy but I'll go there: women don't belong in combat zones, period. This woman rolled into a combat zone of her own accord and will be buried in a few days. She could have simply gone to work, or shopping, or home. But she went to a combat zone. Things happen in combat zones.

Posted by: Crusader at January 07, 2026 03:24 PM (TN0g+)

494 452 So, if the lady was a married lesbian female, was her spouse also in the car, or was she ditching her at the protest to fend for herself?
Posted by: Nova Local at January 07, 2026 03:19 PM (tOcjL)

My guestimate?

They knew ICE was going to be driving down that road via the track ICE ap.... Filmer who is screeching and posted the video really quickly? let out of the car to film, then driver purposely spun car to block the road.

Creating the 'viral moment'.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 03:24 PM (mP0Kj)

495 >>the woman and her wife


At least her cats won't be alone.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 03:24 PM (ddphe)

496 Guess we're gonna need some new Karens.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 07, 2026 03:24 PM (2UnvF)

497 MN is going to be the litmus test for the insurrection act.

I think SCOTUS has paved the way with it. Trump alluded to the insurrection act, saying it hasn't been used yet.

There's something specific in the language used in previous situations where the feds have been stymied. Like, locals and officials were given more than a chance to comply with federal law.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 07, 2026 03:24 PM (NwnyJ)

498 This country is at times like a giant steamroller.

Impleading evolution is not a gamble, it is suicide.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 07, 2026 03:24 PM (EyfuW)

499 I am so sick of these performative assholes yelling "Oh my f***ing God" and "What the f***". Also "here I am bravely whipping out my camera and recording". "I'm a resistance!".
Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2026 02:30 PM (Riz8t)

Yes, exactly.

The perfect, do-nothing, theater-kid, soy-based resistance evah!

Posted by: naturalfake at January 07, 2026 03:24 PM (iJfKG)

500 As judge assigned to this trial I hereby declare all the officers GUILTY.

Posted by: Judge Boasberg at January 07, 2026 03:24 PM (Q4G+n)

501 6-7 is more of a juggling motion, not bird hands.

I just saw a story yesterday about how 6-7 isn't cool anymore because the squares know about it now.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 07, 2026 03:25 PM (2ocoG)

502 That said, it looked more like she was trying to drive around the agent, not over him.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at January 07, 2026 03:21 PM

She actually hit him dipshit. GFY

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 07, 2026 03:25 PM (4p0Xq)

503

WHAT ABOUT PAUL WELLSTONE THE LION OF THE SENATE!!!

Posted by: Rev DR E Buzz at January 07, 2026 03:25 PM (et1vG)

504 Man, Tucker became eskimo became don't blame the alligators. It never ends...
Posted by: Nova Local

I prefer to think for myself. Sorry not sorry if that offends you and your herd mentality. It looks dubious to me. If he gets charged in state court, I think he's effed.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 07, 2026 03:21 PM (1Nv0l)
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Did you see the vid that JackStraw posted? He doesn't get out of the way. She actually hits him. It's only then that he fires.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 03:25 PM (iFTx/)

505 But she probably got the brilliant idea to "block ICE" from watching YouTube videos.

Didn't this happen before were some Karen tried to block ICE with her car and...I vaguely recall some muddled legal stuff...?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 03:25 PM (sKqQm)

506 It will be hard to have a trial there after the mayor and governor said the officer was guilty. The defense should be able to get it moved.
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98 year old Obama appointed judge disagrees.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 07, 2026 03:25 PM (rqw5t)

507 I for one, am glad she's dead.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 03:25 PM (IGnEY)

508 491 I hate to be the voice of reason. I don't wear it well. But, take a second and consider your reactions to Leftists responding to Charlie Kirk's death and compare it to your own. A woman is dead. A man will live with that memory. Acquaintances of both will share it.

Whether the woman deserved it or not will be evaluated, investigated, politicized, embellished, exploited etc.

That is all. Proceed with the rationalizations, denigrations, and the like. I have thick skin.

Posted by: Orson at January 07, 2026 03:24 PM (dIske)

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Finding moral equivalence between an assassination of the debate team captain and the legal shooting of a woman who attacked a federal officer is...an interesting choice.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 03:25 PM (GBKbO)

509 >> Minnesota Terrorist Tries to Ram ICE with Her Car, Gets Fatally Shot in Self-Defense

Alternate title;

>> Minnesota Terrorist Tries to Ram ICE with Her Car, Dies of Lead Poisoning

Posted by: Marcus T at January 07, 2026 03:25 PM (oAqqA)

510 Call me wacky, but if the cops are dancing around your car with their guns drawn, it's time to make decisions very carefully.

Posted by: Weasel at January 07, 2026 03:25 PM (Mmf4/)

511 Don't any of these miscreants have jobs?

Posted by: Truck Monkey at January 07, 2026 03:25 PM (Bo9Yf)

512 "Hey! Let's fight this guy!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 03:23 PM


Let me get this straight, Trump is the richest man to ever be President and has SEALS and Delta Force on his redial ... and you want to fight him?

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 07, 2026 03:25 PM (jc0TO)

513 Obviously he'll never get a fair trial in that venue.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 07, 2026 03:25 PM (s0JqF)

514 Lots of lawyers on this blog. We are a Smart Legal Blog.TM

Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2026 03:25 PM (77rzZ)

515 This looks like a nice ‘nabe. Wonder who they were arresting? Typically illegals live in the ghetto? Maybe some Somali “daycare operator” with enough money to live there.

Posted by: Really?? at January 07, 2026 03:26 PM (/HZvU)

516 Tell Walz, Ellison and Frey to expect the Fred Hampton special if they keep fucking with ICE.

Posted by: mr tmz at January 07, 2026 03:26 PM (rJ48h)

517 Don't any of these miscreants have jobs?

NGOs funded by Uncle Sugar

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 03:26 PM (sKqQm)

518 >>the woman and her wife


She is survived by her Wife, 13 Cats and her Transitioning adopted Kenyan Daughter.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 03:26 PM (ddphe)

519 501 6-7 is more of a juggling motion, not bird hands.

I just saw a story yesterday about how 6-7 isn't cool anymore because the squares know about it now.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 07, 2026 03:25 PM (2ocoG)

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Someone fucking tell my kids...I swear...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 03:26 PM (GBKbO)

520 "get the feeling that these women think it's a game -- like throwing a chicken wing at their kid when they act up."

After BLM died down there was a quote (or a meme?) about a Karen secretly wishing another black kid would be shot by police because the BLM riots gave her life meaning

Posted by: Fen at January 07, 2026 03:26 PM (ciYHQ)

521 It will be hard to have a trial there after the mayor and governor said the officer was guilty. The defense should be able to get it moved.
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There won't be a trial.

Posted by: Crusader at January 07, 2026 03:26 PM (TN0g+)

522 I just saw a story yesterday about how 6-7 isn't cool anymore because the squares know about it now.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 07, 2026 03:25 PM (2ocoG)

Maybe. We’ll see. I’m sure you still think “nice” when you hear 69, and “blaze it” when you hear 420. :-)

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 07, 2026 03:26 PM (Mxf84)

523 I just saw a story yesterday about how 6-7 isn't cool anymore because the squares know about it now.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 07, 2026 03:25 PM (2ocoG)

That's the way it always works.

That's why I hang out at the middle school. So I can learn the "new thing," and ruin it for them.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 07, 2026 03:26 PM (dGCAG)

524 Sent in a woman to get herself killed just to get ICE out of Minneapolis

Posted by: Skip at January 07, 2026 03:26 PM (Ia/+0)

525 I for one, am glad she's dead.
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 03:25 PM

Honestly, I am indifferent. People die every day.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 07, 2026 03:26 PM (jc0TO)

526 512 "Hey! Let's fight this guy!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 03:23 PM


Let me get this straight, Trump is the richest man to ever be President and has SEALS and Delta Force on his redial ... and you want to fight him?

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 07, 2026 03:25 PM (jc0TO)

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And his troops are willing to violate international law at his whim?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 03:27 PM (GBKbO)

527 I prefer to think for myself. Sorry not sorry if that offends you and your herd mentality. It looks dubious to me. If he gets charged in state court, I think he's effed.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 07, 2026

Good news! He won’t be charged in state court.

Also, when all the lawyers (real ones, not arm chair ones) on here agree, it’s either an apocalypse in the making, or there is pretty solid legal footing supporting the statements. Elric has noted the video to watch for doubts. He isn’t even charging his regular fee to ignore his advice!

Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 03:27 PM (OoFl2)

528 We've seen so many videos of stupid women that don't think they have to obey cops.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 07, 2026 03:27 PM (+mUZM)

529 Play stupid games.....

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2026 03:27 PM (VE6XX)

530 When you watch the video, one thing becomes clear:

Nobody NEEDED to die.

That someone did die in that situation is bonkers.

Bonkers I say!

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at January 07, 2026 03:27 PM (KbCG3)

531 Finding moral equivalence between an assassination of the debate team captain and the legal shooting of a woman who attacked a federal officer is...an interesting choice.

Also I don't see anyone here actually celebrating her death, just not treating it particularly reverently.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 07, 2026 03:27 PM (2ocoG)

532 Odds that she's a hairy dyke, or in education, or works for some government agency pushing paper, or all three? High.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 03:19 PM (iFTx/)

More sympathy if she/he's trans and a person of color. If Somolian, fleeing for her life, look out! The riots will be brief due to the cold. Rioting season is summer and has been since the late 60's when I started paying attention as a kid.

I know this is not the point, but I want to read the stickers on the back of the SUV.

I looked at TMZ and surprisingly there are people saying similar to what is said here vs the commie mosquito whines.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 07, 2026 03:27 PM (WONhk)

533 Finding moral equivalence between an assassination of the debate team captain and the legal shooting of a woman who attacked a federal officer is...an interesting choice.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 03:25 PM (GBKbO)

_________________________

Yeah well, call me crazy, but I fall in the category of "all life matters."

Posted by: Orson at January 07, 2026 03:27 PM (dIske)

534 I prefer to think for myself. Sorry not sorry if that offends you and your herd mentality. It looks dubious to me. If he gets charged in state court, I think he's effed.
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Ain't it funny when people who align 100% with the narrative of corporate media, the Democrat Party, Reddit and BlueSky accuse other people of "herd mentality."

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 07, 2026 03:28 PM (rqw5t)

535 He showed great restraint in not doing a mag dump.
Posted by: Boss Moss

This - 1000%. Most local cops would have mag dumped...
Posted by: Nova Local

He could have easily hit the other officers or bystanders in the background. The ofc trying to open the door was only a couple of feet off LOS. He showed great skill and restraint.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 07, 2026 03:28 PM (mlg/3)

536 The thing about the Karen is she's got black eyes, lifeless eyes, now.
Posted by: Quint the Eskimo at January 07, 2026 03:08 PM (jc0TO)

Doubt it. At least one head/face shot.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 07, 2026 03:19 PM

Fine. Blue eyes.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 07, 2026 03:28 PM (bFu5X)

537 And not a single news reporter or politician will state the obvious --

"When you see law enforcement at work, do not block the road, do not intervene, and do not scream at them."

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 07, 2026 03:28 PM (bIWgk)

538 I voted for this.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 03:28 PM (IGnEY)

539 6-7 is more of a juggling motion, not bird hands.

I just saw a story yesterday about how 6-7 isn't cool anymore because the squares know about it now.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 07, 2026 03:25 PM (2ocoG)

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Someone fucking tell my kids...I swear...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 03:26 PM (GBKbO)
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Which is odd, because the trend was started by some very white, very square kids in what looks like a very white suburban gym. It was always a thing for "squares."

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 03:28 PM (iFTx/)

540 533
Yeah well, call me crazy, but I fall in the category of "all life matters."

Posted by: Orson at January 07, 2026 03:27 PM (dIske)

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Also, please quote someone here celebrating her death.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 03:28 PM (GBKbO)

541 Getting popcorn ready for the Walz press conference.

Oh boy, this is gonna be great.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 07, 2026 03:28 PM (RIvkX)

542 Woman Dies in Minnesota Traffic Accident

- Every MSM if the perp were Republican

Posted by: Marcus T at January 07, 2026 03:28 PM (oAqqA)

543 > I just saw a story yesterday about how 6-7 isn't cool anymore because the squares know about it now.

Some kids have moved on, but a ton of them are still screaming SIX SEVEN and juggling every time someone says it.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 07, 2026 03:28 PM (Yp6az)

544 Thank Allah there's now a dead squirrel to redirect the heat and attention away from us.

Posted by: Governor Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey at January 07, 2026 03:28 PM (gLikB)

545 528 We've seen so many videos of stupid women that don't think they have to obey cops.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 07, 2026 03:27 PM (+mUZM)

There are so many moments in life where people find out that the internet is not real life, where consequences are very real and very swift.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at January 07, 2026 03:28 PM (KbCG3)

546 491 I hate to be the voice of reason. I don't wear it well. But, take a second and consider your reactions to Leftists responding to Charlie Kirk's death and compare it to your own. A woman is dead. A man will live with that memory. Acquaintances of both will share it.

Whether the woman deserved it or not will be evaluated, investigated, politicized, embellished, exploited etc.

That is all. Proceed with the rationalizations, denigrations, and the like. I have thick skin.

Posted by: Orson at January 07, 2026 03:24 PM

One was killed for giving his opinion. The other because she was impeding a federal operation and drove at an officer after being told to get out of the car. Her actions got her killed. Bummer. Charlie was murdered for his opinion.

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 07, 2026 03:28 PM (4p0Xq)

547 I think it is a tragedy that this woman was killed. But, she was following politicians who told her to impede the lawful arrests of illegal aliens.

They bear the blame.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 07, 2026 03:28 PM (0U5gm)

548 New one:

House Oversight Committee Takes Testimony About Somali Fraud (While Democrats Yammer about January 6th and White Supremacy)

Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2026 03:28 PM (Riz8t)

549 >>> WHAT ABOUT PAUL WELLSTONE THE LION OF THE SENATE!!!

Posted by: Rev DR E Buzz at January 07, 2026 03:25 PM (et1vG)

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I’m sorry, what???!!!

Posted by: Zombie Ted Kennedy at January 07, 2026 03:29 PM (CyFyf)

550 That said, it looked more like she was trying to drive around the agent, not over him.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at January 07, 2026 03:21 PM


And at exactly that point she made herself into a felon in possession of a deadly weapon. As soon as she started driving her car away from the ICE agent ordering her to stop she made herself a legitimate target to use deadly force on. If you drive a car at a cop you fvcked up.


It's pretty simple. Just like that chris rock bit he did years ago....how not to get your ass kicked by the police.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj0mtxXEGE8

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 07, 2026 03:29 PM (0N4FZ)

551 510 Call me wacky, but if the cops are dancing around your car with their guns drawn, it's time to make decisions very carefully.
Posted by: Weasel at January 07, 2026 03:25 PM (Mmf4/)

Yup. That is not the moment to do stupid stuff.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 07, 2026 03:29 PM (xcxpd)

552 She actually hit him dipshit. GFY

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 07, 2026 03:25 PM (4p0Xq)


Mark Andrew is a good dude and a longtime member in good standing.

Posted by: ... at January 07, 2026 03:29 PM (Q4G+n)

553 I bet the AG of Marxisota will try and bring charges

Posted by: Skip at January 07, 2026 03:29 PM (Ia/+0)

554 I once struck a woman, fairly hard. Didn't want to, but had to. No fun, not for either of us.

Women can stay out of those scenarios. Easily. To be frank, they have to go looking for that trouble, outside of a DV problem.

It's not hard, ladies. Don't go wading into a street fight. It's not a title 9 sport.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 07, 2026 03:29 PM (BI5O2)

555 I'm sorry she died but she seems to be to blame...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2026 03:29 PM (VE6XX)

556 Also I don't see anyone here actually celebrating her death, just not treating it particularly reverently.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 07, 2026 03:27 PM (2ocoG)

_______________________________

Re-read some of the comments above. I think you might change your opinion on that.

Posted by: Orson at January 07, 2026 03:29 PM (dIske)

557 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 03:29 PM (Zz0t1)

558 Honestly, I am indifferent. People die every day.
Posted by: toby928(c)

At a funeral I attended before Christmas, the preacher said that somebody dies every 15 seconds.

Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2026 03:30 PM (77rzZ)

559 Nood.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at January 07, 2026 03:30 PM (0BrN/)

560 Is the Wellstone Funeral still going?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 07, 2026 03:30 PM (IGnEY)

561 Play the video in super slow motion.

The wheels were turned to the right and away from the ice officer. I’m going with she didn’t intend to drive into him, but from the officer’s viewpoint you see SUV coming your general direction 3 feet away, you don’t start looking at angles you defend yourself.

Posted by: Really?? at January 07, 2026 03:30 PM (/HZvU)

562 But, take a second and consider your reactions to Leftists responding to Charlie Kirk's death and compare it to your own.
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Was Charlie Kirk trying to run down law enforcement officers with his car when he was shot?

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 07, 2026 03:30 PM (rqw5t)

563 >>I prefer to think for myself.


It's a shame you do such a poor job of it.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 03:31 PM (ddphe)

564 I prefer to think for myself. Sorry not sorry if that offends you and your herd mentality. It looks dubious to me. If he gets charged in state court, I think he's effed.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 07, 2026

Good news! He won’t be charged in state court.

Also, when all the lawyers (real ones, not arm chair ones) on here agree, it’s either an apocalypse in the making, or there is pretty solid legal footing supporting the statements. Elric has noted the video to watch for doubts. He isn’t even charging his regular fee to ignore his advice!
Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 03:27 PM (OoFl2)
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I charge $1200 a hour for my advice. $1500 if you ignore it.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 03:31 PM (iFTx/)

565 Somali fraud ? What fraud ?

Posted by: Media mourning innocent womans death at the hands of ICE at January 07, 2026 03:31 PM (VE6XX)

566 Honestly, I am indifferent. People die every day.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 07, 2026 03:26 PM (jc0TO)

So close to Pride Month??

Posted by: ... at January 07, 2026 03:31 PM (Q4G+n)

567 Man, Tucker became eskimo became don't blame the alligators. It never ends...
Posted by: Nova Local

I prefer to think for myself. Sorry not sorry if that offends you and your herd mentality. It looks dubious to me. If he gets charged in state court, I think he's effed.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators
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Well if you study hard and get lucky on the lsat you might make it into lawschool. But there wont be any state stuff. Federal. Even a tort claim would have to be federal. Now maybe spend a few minutes on the treadmill.

Posted by: Cold, dark and unpleasant at January 07, 2026 03:31 PM (KdazR)

568 Honestly, I am indifferent. People die every day.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 07, 2026

I am sorry a life was lost, there are people who did not have anything to do with this who are family or friends, and they are feeling pain in their heart right now. I certainly have sympathy for them. Especially as this will play out over and over again very publicly. I expect they will not say it is unfortunate but justified, of course. I still feel sorry for their loss.

Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 03:31 PM (OoFl2)

569 Play stupid games.....

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2026 03:27 PM

Win stupid prizes.

Posted by: Eskimo at January 07, 2026 03:31 PM (h39WR)

570 Did you see the vid that JackStraw posted? He doesn't get out of the way. She actually hits him. It's only then that he fires.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade
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I watched the videos in Ace's post. It looks to me as if she is attempting to avoid the cop. Yes she hits him, but it doesn't look intentional, and it certainly doesn't look as if she is trying to run him over.

Cop then shoots a second time when he is clearly not in danger. To me, that does not necessarily rise to the level of "a reasonable officer would believe the suspect poses an immediate threat of death or serious bodily harm to himself or others."

My first thought was literally "he didn't need to shoot".

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 07, 2026 03:31 PM (1Nv0l)

571 471 That said, it looked more like she was trying to drive around the agent, not over him.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
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See the Jackstraw video above from another angle, She hit him while trying to escape from another cop who had reached in teh window to try to turn off the car. She had it coming by playing a stupid game. She had plenty of time to stop initially but she played a stupid game, then she thought she would flee, that only gave her a split second to make a decision that would end up being fatal for her.

You take the ride downtown and get home for supper instead her ride was to the mortuary.


The ironic thing is that any seasoned street thug knew the rules that she ignored because of her karen 'privilege'. Too many of these gits think they are immune to law enforcement becuz they are some moral exemplar.

We really do have a deraged and deformed Gramscian Marxist version of aristocrats here with all their assumed privileges filling their brains.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 03:32 PM (WDjG6)

572 More like this!

Posted by: JTSmith at January 07, 2026 03:32 PM (reaJf)

573
23 I'm sorry but I must admit the shrill cries of WTF! from these idiots is very satisfying.
Posted by: Fen at January 07, 2026 02:26 PM (ciYHQ)

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The Federal response should include an embargo on soy products.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 07, 2026 03:32 PM (ES1Rb)

574 so...I tried to share a Robby Starbuck link with the best angle of the ICE agent actually getting hit, and short URL won't let me. are they anti X?

Posted by: zigggggy at January 07, 2026 03:34 PM (/Pwrg)

575 526 512 "Hey! Let's fight this guy!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 03:23 PM


Let me get this straight, Trump is the richest man to ever be President and has SEALS and Delta Force on his redial ... and you want to fight him?

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 07, 2026 03:25 PM (jc0TO)
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And his troops are willing to violate international law at his whim?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 03:27 PM (GBKbO)

There isn't a lot of debate over operations once they get handed down. Maybe there is when guys are talking but once you're in a briefing room, if they say 'we're going' then you are going or you're resigning.

Not a lot of resignations, even in the Biden or Obama years. Spec Ops guys get used to doing dirty stuff. Or they get out of Spec Ops.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 07, 2026 03:34 PM (xcxpd)

576 I watched the videos in Ace's post. It looks to me as if she is attempting to avoid the cop. Yes she hits him, but it doesn't look intentional, and it certainly doesn't look as if she is trying to run him over.

Cop then shoots a second time when he is clearly not in danger. To me, that does not necessarily rise to the level of "a reasonable officer would believe the suspect poses an immediate threat of death or serious bodily harm to himself or others."

My first thought was literally "he didn't need to shoot".
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators

And you are wrong. For a citizen correct, for an officer stopping a fleeing violent felon, which she was regardless of intent. Once she started that car and did not obey a lawful order to stop, she set the train in motion so her actions are viewed in a continuous decision tree after the initial illegal decision not to stop when an officer is reaching inside to do so. That, in an off itself are two crimes, then hitting the officer, whether or not intention, is a forcible felony of assault on an officer, then further trying to flee made her a fleeing forcible felon.

She put the bullets in her own body by her decision to run.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 03:34 PM (WDjG6)

577 This is a problem for Trump now. Because it's not a clearly justified shooting, he will lose a lot of support from those who agree with the immigration policy, but are repelled by the enforcement thereof.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 07, 2026 03:34 PM (1Nv0l)

578 See the Jackstraw video above from another angle, She hit him while trying to escape from another cop who had reached in teh window to try to turn off the car. She had it coming by playing a stupid game. She had plenty of time to stop initially but she played a stupid game, then she thought she would flee, that only gave her a split second to make a decision that would end up being fatal for her.

You take the ride downtown and get home for supper instead her ride was to the mortuary.


The ironic thing is that any seasoned street thug knew the rules that she ignored because of her karen 'privilege'. Too many of these gits think they are immune to law enforcement becuz they are some moral exemplar.

We really do have a deraged and deformed Gramscian Marxist version of aristocrats here with all their assumed privileges filling their brains.
Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 03:32 PM (WDjG6)

Thanks Whig, I'm coming in late to the thread I know. And I read from the bottom up, so may have missed things.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 07, 2026 03:35 PM (xcxpd)

579 >>This is a problem for Trump now. Because it's not a clearly justified shooting, he will lose a lot of support from those who agree with the immigration policy, but are repelled by the enforcement thereof.


Sure, Jan.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 03:35 PM (ddphe)

580 ok, tiny url works! https://tinyurl.com/3svarr9n

Posted by: zigggggy at January 07, 2026 03:36 PM (/Pwrg)

581 "But, take a second and consider your reactions to Leftists responding to Charlie Kirk's death and compare it to your own."

Nah. Not playing that game.

Posted by: Fen at January 07, 2026 03:37 PM (ciYHQ)

582 502 That said, it looked more like she was trying to drive around the agent, not over him.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at January 07, 2026 03:21 PM

She actually hit him dipshit. GFY
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 07, 2026 03:25 PM (4p0Xq)

Well that escalated quickly. I mean that really got out of hand fast.

Posted by: Unfriendly fire at January 07, 2026 03:37 PM (TbWk/)

583 And you are wrong.
Posted by: whig
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Quote the relevant SCOTUS cases. I just read them. I think you are wrong. This one is not as clear-cut as you claim.

* She was fleeing.

* She struck the officer but it did not appear likely to cause death or serious injury.

* The threat may have been momentary or avoidable.

But hey, volunteer your services to defend the cop. You are so convinced of your correctness, I am sure it will sway the jury.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 07, 2026 03:38 PM (1Nv0l)

584
My first thought was literally "he didn't need to shoot".
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators

And you are wrong. For a citizen correct, for an officer stopping a fleeing violent felon, which she was regardless of intent. Once she started that car and did not obey a lawful order to stop, she set the train in motion so her actions are viewed in a continuous decision tree after the initial illegal decision not to stop when an officer is reaching inside to do so. That, in an off itself are two crimes, then hitting the officer, whether or not intention, is a forcible felony of assault on an officer, then further trying to flee made her a fleeing forcible felon.

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Whig. You cant reason with trolls or high school students and this one is both.

Posted by: Cold, dark and unpleasant at January 07, 2026 03:40 PM (KdazR)

585 "My first thought was literally "he didn't need to shoot"

And how would you know? Do you have any relevant skill sets or experience?

Posted by: Fen at January 07, 2026 03:40 PM (ciYHQ)

586 He really didnt need to shoot is the wrong framing. The issue isnt need. Its not civilian self defense. Its a felony arrest, resisting with deadly force. It is justified case over.

Posted by: Cold, dark and unpleasant at January 07, 2026 03:43 PM (KdazR)

587 506 It will be hard to have a trial there after the mayor and governor said the officer was guilty. The defense should be able to get it moved.

We already played this game in the case of Lon Horiuchi. He was indicted in Idaho for shooting Randy Weaver's wife and son. He faced a trial, before the trial, federal government raised supremacy clause because Horiuchi did the shooting under his official duties of the FBI, the trial judge ended the trial before a jury. Idaho appealed and the 9th sent it back to Idaho for a ruling on whether qualified immunity existed, by that time, a new prosecutor was in office and dropped the state charges.

End result, which is much more murky than this as Lon who was shooting from a great distance had no personal threat, avoiding arrest, or other charges to file against the wife or son, was not tried, then these ICE agents are very unlikely to be. The case would be in federal court, not state in that case.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 03:43 PM (WDjG6)

588 Chances are good the dead cumt had cellphone video rolling because these types do. Her cellphone video probably has even more damning evidence against her.

I guarantee her last words were "you fuckerrrs!"

Posted by: melodicmetal1 at January 07, 2026 03:43 PM (61TgR)

589 Just got here, didn't see a thing but the lede
Speculating
It wasn't a Somali
It was a white person
My mind said female.

Going to check

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 03:44 PM (xvXg6)

590 Another AWFL who thought she could go through life free of the consequences of her actions. Rest in peace, dipshit.

Posted by: rechill at January 07, 2026 03:44 PM (K1zyu)

591 Consequences of the Reddit lifestyle

Posted by: melodicmetal1 at January 07, 2026 03:45 PM (61TgR)

592 Whig. You cant reason with trolls or high school students and this one is both.
Posted by: Cold, dark and unpleasant

It is more for the lurkers. Most people do not understand use of force law for civilians, let alone for police.

It matters because someone reading might try to flee cops in a car fearing arrest. That is always a bad call. What a person 'thinks' the law should be should never be confused with what it is.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 03:46 PM (WDjG6)

593 And how would you know? Do you have any relevant skill sets or experience?
Posted by: Fen

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Whig. You cant reason with trolls or high school students and this one is both.
Posted by: Cold, dark and unpleasant

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It's interesting how defensive you all are.

I'm as conservative as the next guy. I have plenty of experience with guns. If he is charged he still has to prove it was a reasonable decision that she posed immediate risk of serious bodily injury or death to himself or others.

I don't think she posed such a threat. Now, that's not saying the same thing as "would a reasonable officer think she posed such a threat", since I am making that assessment sitting in my chair in front of a computer.

But it's not clear-cut. That's all I am saying. Y'all can cry about that if you want but it's simply a fact.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 07, 2026 03:46 PM (1Nv0l)

594 My first thought was literally "he didn't need to shoot".
Posted by: Don't blame the alligator

Okay, I see the problem. Rookie mistake.

You were thinking literally instead of figuratively

Don't do that, your dick will shrivel and fall off.

Posted by: Fen at January 07, 2026 03:46 PM (ciYHQ)

595 Possibly already commented...

The UK DM has a wailing white womman with a dog screaming she was her wife. And has a 6yo in school (I don't know what that has to do with it).

A black man, trying to help her (she can't breathe) asks if "she's called any of her people." Woman answers that she's new here and knows no one. He then asks if she knows anyone on facebook of the shot wife. No answer.

A lesbian, race unknown.

I still want to know what the stickers on the SUV say.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 07, 2026 03:46 PM (WONhk)

596 Unless you want a caliphate that genie isn't going back in the bottle.


...Also pretty sure the south will never "rise again".

*eye roll*

Posted by: Yankee Woman at January 07, 2026 03:46 PM (JCLJi)

597 Hello idiot protesters here's a song for you:

This ain't no party, this ain't no disco
This ain't no fooling around
No time for dancing, or lovey dovey
Ain't got time for that now

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 03:48 PM (xvXg6)

598 Unless you want a caliphate that genie isn't going back in the bottle.

The majority of you broads keep voting for one so you may get your go-to slogan proven true eventually.

Posted by: Careful what you wish for at January 07, 2026 03:48 PM (TbWk/)

599 I guarantee her last words were "you fuckerrrs!"
Posted by: melodicmetal1
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I am guessing it was a CNS head shot. Dead immediately. She might have been dead already from the first shot through the windshield. That would have been the largest target appearing to the cop from the front of the car. The second shot might have been center mass or a head shot as the window was open and the target was closer.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 03:48 PM (WDjG6)

600 Don't do that, your dick will shrivel and fall off.
Posted by: Fen at January 07, 2026 03:46 PM (ciYHQ)

No that's that Indonesian junk that's going 'round.

Posted by: We all seem a little weird at January 07, 2026 03:49 PM (TbWk/)

601 A black man, trying to help her (she can't breathe) asks if "she's called any of her people." Woman answers that she's new here and knows no one. He then asks if she knows anyone on facebook of the shot wife. No answer.

A lesbian, race unknown.

I still want to know what the stickers on the SUV say.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
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In that case, could be hired kibitzers from other places. The left often mobilizes that way like in Kenosha riots. They put out the batsignal, pay for rooms, hotels, even cars, and then direct them where to go.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 03:50 PM (WDjG6)

602 "It's interesting how defensive you all are"

Yeah. Well. I'm tired of randos behind a computer screen passing judgement on better men when they don't have the first fucking clue of what they are talking about.

Posted by: Fen at January 07, 2026 03:50 PM (ciYHQ)

603 FA/FFO

(fuck around/family finds out)

Posted by: videosavant at January 07, 2026 03:53 PM (trD9m)

604 Yeah. Well. I'm tired of randos behind a computer screen passing judgement on better men when they don't have the first fucking clue of what they are talking about.
Posted by: Fen

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You've made up your mind. It's not about who is the better man. I suspect the ICE cop made an honest mistake. I am not judging him. If anything, putting ICE cops in this situation is the problem. They're not trained to deal with it the way regular cops are.

You may want to ponder the irony of judging people you have never met merely because they disagree with you.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 07, 2026 03:54 PM (1Nv0l)

605 But it's not clear-cut. That's all I am saying. Y'all can cry about that if you want but it's simply a fact.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators
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I don't cry about it. But your opinion does not comport with law because literally you do not know what you are watching.

Doesn't matter whether you play for team conservative or not. The woman in question committed a long line of offenses starting when she tried to flee--she failed to obey a lawful order to stop, she assaulted the officer while driving away with his arm inside the car doing a lawful attempt to stop her, she escalated the fact that she tried to pull around cars to affect an escape, she either intentionally or unintentionally hit an ICE officer whose job at that point was to stop a felon. Hitting him in the course of committing other crimes, she did a forcible felony at that point. And he shot her. Within another second, he shot her again to stop the threat to him and other officers as well as anyone else around the vehicle.

At each stage, she had the power to stop committing crimes, instead, she escalated them in an attempt to escape and hit an officer. She then got a fatal correction to her crimes.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 03:55 PM (WDjG6)

606 "You've made up your mind. It's not about who is the better man. I suspect the ICE cop made an honest mistake. I am not judging him. If anything, putting ICE cops in this situation is the problem. They're not trained to deal with it the way regular cops are. "

She made a stupid, life ending mistake. Do NOT block vehicles, obey officers, and you won't end up dead.

Posted by: zigggggy at January 07, 2026 03:59 PM (/Pwrg)

607 In that case, could be hired kibitzers from other places. The left often mobilizes that way like in Kenosha riots. They put out the batsignal, pay for rooms, hotels, even cars, and then direct them where to go.
Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 03:50 PM (WDjG6)

Ah. Good point.

The "wife" is sitting in the snow with a dog. She seems white from what I can tell with coat and hat.

Were they just there to "film" and make things worse? If they are from another state that will prove your point.

A lesbian wife was shot is the sympathy tag (so far). If Somolian fleeing it would be much worse.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 07, 2026 04:01 PM (WONhk)

608 It is more for the lurkers. Most people do not understand use of force law for civilians, let alone for police.

It matters because someone reading might try to flee cops in a car fearing arrest. That is always a bad call. What a person 'thinks' the law should be should never be confused with what it is.
Posted by: whig
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This place has an audience. Many passers by.
Context v out of context

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 04:01 PM (xvXg6)

609 Posted by: Don't blame the alligators

The relevant case at hand is Tennessee v. Garner where the case involved a burglary suspect that was fatally shot while trying to climb over a fence. Scotus defines and has not changed from the forcible felony std going forward for Civil Rights lawsuit liability.
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“Assault on a Federal Officer” Under 18 U.S.C. § 111

Using a vehicle to flee or break contact
During an attempted immigration arrest or traffic stop, the driver accelerates away with officers at the door, drags an officer who is partially inside the car, or collides with a pursuing government vehicle. DOJ routinely treats the car itself as a “dangerous weapon” and charges as a felony under § 111(b).

Felony assault on a federal officer
The statute allows enhanced penalties where there is:

Significant physical contact with the officer
or Use of a deadly or dangerous weapon
or Serious bodily injury
or Intent to commit another felony

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 04:01 PM (WDjG6)

610 At each stage, she had the power to stop committing crimes, instead, she escalated them in an attempt to escape and hit an officer. She then got a fatal correction to her crimes.
Posted by: whig

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At no point do you address what matters: would a reasonable officer consider her an immediate threat of serious injury or death?

You don't get to execute people just because they committed a felony.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 07, 2026 04:02 PM (1Nv0l)

611 A lesbian wife was shot is the sympathy tag (so far). If Somolian fleeing it would be much worse.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
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I assumed it would not be a Somalian from the get go. They are out to win not sacrifice. The protesters are sacrificial fools.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 04:03 PM (xvXg6)

612 https://x.com/sven10077/status/2009008022748844366

She bet her life on the cops not defending themselves, she chose poorly. She was a hero in her mind for 11 seconds.

Posted by: sven at January 07, 2026 04:07 PM (MUJd1)

613 It's a darn shame it was a nice enough vehicle.

Posted by: sven at January 07, 2026 04:07 PM (MUJd1)

614 Wonder if the shooter is a woman. Either way, that person will be in jail by EOD.

Would be interesting if he/she is black.

This is what matters to the left.

Posted by: MJ at January 07, 2026 04:07 PM (XOmY9)

615 611 Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 04:03 PM (xvXg6)

This is Karen AWFL's moment to shine, the Somalis are just doing what they were hire for laundering money for democrats.

Posted by: sven at January 07, 2026 04:08 PM (MUJd1)

616 614 Posted by: MJ at January 07, 2026 04:07 PM (XOmY9)

They are not going to jail or all hell will break loose.

Posted by: sven at January 07, 2026 04:09 PM (MUJd1)

617 Posted by: Don't blame the alligators
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They cull out alligators and nutria all the time.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 04:10 PM (xvXg6)

618 Rumors are flying. Lesbian appears certain and will get the liberals more inflamed.

"The wife of a prominent local activist" is one I saw.

Yet the "wife" sitting in the snow with a dog on the UK DM says she has no one to call, "new here."

No one knows, which must mean she's white.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 07, 2026 04:11 PM (WONhk)

619 604 Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 07, 2026 03:54 PM (1Nv0l)

The cop did not make an error in judgement, the person decided she was going to be a hero with a motor vehicle.

She struck a federal officer duly commissioned in the execution of their duties, precedent and logic immunize the agent.

That New Somalia will not preclude their political preferences from pursuing charges does not make them valid.

Posted by: sven at January 07, 2026 04:11 PM (MUJd1)

620 Posted by: Don't blame the alligators
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You ignore the fact that she was committing a forcible felony while fleeing from other crimes she committed. At that point, what she intended does not apply. Same with the officer, the officer shot to stop the threat and stepped aside while she was still committing the crime aka moving the vehicle. Both occurred within two seconds on a slippery icy road.

You either do not understand totality of circumstances requirement on reasonability or don't want to.

This is the reason why qualified immunity exists because someone second guessing a potentially lethal encounter means that the subjective view of the officer in that charged situation with short time span is what matters, not your opinion in the safety and pleasantry of your house.

It is frankly people like you that created the qualified immunity doctrine by insisting on immaculate law enforcement decisions in hindsight. It does not work that way.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 04:11 PM (WDjG6)

621 618 Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 07, 2026 04:11 PM (WONhk)

Quite, the person got cute and I am glad they are dead.

Posted by: sven at January 07, 2026 04:11 PM (MUJd1)

622 Speculating
Cop at car - a woman
Cop shooter - a man

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 07, 2026 04:11 PM (xvXg6)

623 614 Wonder if the shooter is a woman. Either way, that person will be in jail by EOD.

Would be interesting if he/she is black.

This is what matters to the left.
Posted by: MJ

Nope. Federal officers, federal case, federal DA. What will happen is the std. officer involved shooting investigation. Then there will be a lawsuit claiming civil right violations which the US DoJ will reply with officer qualified immunity. By that time, everyone will be bored with the case and something else will be new.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 04:13 PM (WDjG6)

624 The Ashlie Babbitt rule allows federal agents to shoot to kill any protester who looks mildly threatening.

Posted by: jwest at January 07, 2026 04:37 PM (KtqtS)

625 Video is out
Clearly shows agent was beside the car not in front of it

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at January 07, 2026 04:37 PM (5WW1s)

626 Mrs. Cop was watching a bit of the commentary about this on Fox News. Apparently Timmuh Waltz popped-up to say that he was thinking about activating the MN National Guard to oppose ICE operations in Minneapolis.

Timmuh is apparently unaware that there is plenty of precedent on this sort of thing. POTUS can federalize the National Guard to prevent this exact sort of action by a state governor. But since Timmuh is a retard, I'm not surprised that he's unaware of this little bit of history.

***

As far as the shooting goes, from my perspective: it's a good shooting --

The officer was at the left front corner of the SUV in a blocking position, and the other officer was reaching in to get the driver. Lesbian AWFL decided to actively resist arrest and drive away. The shooting officer got clipped on the knee by the SUV and the other officer was getting spun off balance.

Lesbian AWFL FAFO -- she dead.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 07, 2026 04:39 PM (pJWtt)

627 Saw 2 seconds of Walz's press conference.

The ASL "woman?" was my focus. Lots of frowny faces as Pedo Mouth tells Trump they need no more federal help, that they've "done enough."

Walz, I hope he sends in Federal Troops!

Paraphrased what he said, but that's all I could stand.

I now want to take ASL to check on these people. I don't see ASL at all with fingers, but lots of hand motions and frown faces. Of course Walz would hire anyone, like they did for Mandela's funeral.

I know one deaf person from birth (her mother had Rubella the first trimester). She learned to lip read and speak vs ASL. However, closed captioning (on most tv's for decades) helped her vocabulary. My deaf grandmother also used closed captioning, learning the word, "fellato" during Clinton's trial. Why are ASL weirdos needed in 2026 (look! I wrote the correct year!).

Walz mistakenly thinks this will take the focus off of bazillions of cash gone to Somolians in MN and kicked back to politicians. It won't, fraud leader dikhead!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 07, 2026 04:42 PM (WONhk)

628 Video is out
Clearly shows agent was beside the car not in front of it
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at January 07, 2026 04:37 PM (5WW1s)

You're lying, as usual.

There is video that clearly shows that the officer was struck on the knee by the left front bumper of the SUV.

Hopefully, President Trump invokes the Insurrection Act soon. Then we can hear the lamentations of your transgender weirdos of indeterminate sex.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 07, 2026 04:45 PM (pJWtt)

629 The Department of Homeland Security should put out a press release saying that after a thorough investigation, the officers involved acted with heroic valor and will be given medals for their actions. Republicans in congress should have a closed hearing in the morning and appear at lunch with their conclusions that the ICE agents are a national treasure and they will both be promoted immediately.

Posted by: jwest at January 07, 2026 04:46 PM (KtqtS)

630 Missouri car tag on the SUV. While it "could" be a rental, I doubt it due to all the stickers, which I still can't read and am bummed out.

Paid agitators R us lesbians. I guess the "wife" was at the hospital where woman pronounced dead.

The ICE agent hit by the car (knee?) is also at the hospital.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 07, 2026 04:48 PM (WONhk)

631 The ICE agent hit by the car (knee?) is also at the hospital.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 07, 2026 04:48 PM (WONhk)

The video shows the officer limping in the street after he fired his sidearm.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 07, 2026 04:51 PM (pJWtt)

632 You ignore the fact...

You either do not understand totality of circumstances requirement on reasonability or don't want to....

It is frankly people like you that created the qualified immunity doctrine by insisting on immaculate law enforcement decisions in hindsight....

Posted by: whig

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I am not ignoring facts. I do understand totality of circumstances. I am not insisting on immaculate law enforcement decisions in hindsight.

From all the vehicle-involved shootings I have seen, this one looks borderline to me. And if he's prosecuted, in Minnesota he will have trouble in front of a jury. This is not a Derek Chauvin case where it was doubtful he even caused George Floyd's death.

You're spending a lot of time justifying your position. Primarily because it's not as clear-cut as you claim. I suspect also because you think your law training makes you a superior judge in this case. I've met many pretty dumb lawyers and not very many smart ones, so you'll forgive me if I don't accept your implicit argument from authority.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 07, 2026 05:08 PM (1Nv0l)

633 You may want to ponder the irony of judging people you have never met merely because they disagree with you.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators

No need. As I've already said - it's not that we disagree, it's that you don't know what you're talking about. And your mischaracterization of that as mere disagreement is dishonest

As for "judging people I've never met", you've already proven yourself to be ignorant and deceitful. Is there anything else you would like to add?

Posted by: Fen at January 07, 2026 05:13 PM (ciYHQ)

634 Footnote: Remember Roseanne Boyland, the other January 6th protestor who was murdered by the Capital police.

Roseanne got caught in a crowd of people who were jammed in one of the tunnel walkways under the building and was trying to get out -- some Capital pigs started beating her savagely, especially a white female cop, as it happens -- so much so that Roseanne was literally beaten to death.

Beaten to death. Video here, from Dinesh d'Souza: https://tinyurl.com/uxyaamwh

Posted by: Beverly at January 07, 2026 05:14 PM (reMys)

635 632 Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 07, 2026 05:08 PM (1Nv0l)

You're a retard.

Byrd was feted for shooting an unarmed woman at 20 feet.

This federal officer faced a lethal force encounter at point blank range.

I am pleased by neither but understand the same set of laws protects both agents.

Posted by: sven at January 07, 2026 05:14 PM (MUJd1)

636 "I am not ignoring facts..And if he's prosecuted, in Minnesota-"


You are ignoring the fact that the ICE officer is under federal jurisdiction. And this is what Im talking about - we aren't even at the point where we could disagree. You are still trying to find a narrative at the expense of fact.

And Whig isn't just a lawyer, he taught this sht for 20 years. He is what we call a subject matter expert. Probably up there with Branca over at Legal Insurrection. You're a fool to dismiss him so casually

Posted by: Fen at January 07, 2026 05:23 PM (ciYHQ)

637 I don't think this woman should have died, but it's her fault she did.

I don't buy the "SHE WAS TRYING TO RUN HIM OVER" charge, far more likely, like every other stupid feminist pink hair fucking with ICE she thought she had the right to stand up to the gestapo, but didn't want to stick around for arrest.

So she tried to bounce, and, no question, struck the guy with her car.

And she had the option to de-escalate the situation at any time.

I feel bad for this woman dying. I don't love this whole "FUCK EM THEY DESERVE WHAT THEY GET" attitude going around, but all the same, this woman was convinced by an entire industry that not only was it her moral duty to stand up to ice, she could do it and get away with it consequence free. That she could LITERALLY RUN FROM THE COPS & DRAG ONE when they try to arrest her, and it not be a problem.

Posted by: EtcEtcEtc at January 07, 2026 05:42 PM (8Wo1i)

638 You're a retard.

Byrd was feted for shooting an unarmed woman at 20 feet.

This federal officer faced a lethal force encounter at point blank range.

I am pleased by neither but understand the same set of laws protects both agents.
Posted by: sven

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If you believe that "the same set of laws" determines the outcome then I have a bridge to sell you. Retard.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 07, 2026 05:46 PM (1Nv0l)

639 As for "judging people I've never met", you've already proven yourself to be ignorant and deceitful. Is there anything else you would like to add?
Posted by: Fen
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Rather too stupid to appreciate the irony.
You know what they say about arguing with fools and wrestling with pigs. Or perhaps you don't. You do seem rather unread. In that case look it up. Bye.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 07, 2026 05:49 PM (1Nv0l)

640 638 Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 07, 2026 05:46 PM (1Nv0l)

Ah yes, an unarmed woman shot from 20 plus feet away is a justified and righteous shoot but a retard activist trying to play Mario Kart with LE is not....

again you are a fucking retard.

Posted by: sven at January 07, 2026 05:55 PM (MUJd1)

641 Ah yes, an unarmed woman shot from 20 plus feet away is a justified and righteous shoot but a retard activist trying to play Mario Kart with LE is not....

again you are a fucking retard.
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I never said Ashley Babbit was "justified and righteous". But the reason Byrd wasn't feted rather than prosecuted had precious little to do with the the law and everything to do with politics.

That's what I meant by 'If you believe that "the same set of laws" determines the outcome then I have a bridge to sell you. '

It's a little subtle. Think about it. Maybe you'll finally get it and prove yourself a little more than a fucking retard, although I doubt it.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 07, 2026 06:12 PM (1Nv0l)

642 *was* feted rather than prosecuted

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 07, 2026 06:22 PM (1Nv0l)

643 Last address of victim is Virginia (last 3 addresses are in Viginia). Driving with Missouri tags on SUV...unsure about that twist. But I found her complete name and address in Virginia.

Maybe visiting family for the holidays to MN. Maybe driving there to be an activist (her "wife" is said to be one, although never named). A photo of "wife" is the butch of the pair. Not that that matters to anyone but me, as I try to always figure this part out.

For her "wife" to say "she's new here and knows no one"...and cannot handle calling her "wife's" family identifies them as "new here" and not residents.

reddit is, of course, in a total uproar and one sided. NY Post is telling it how it happened. TMZ now has commenters screaming Nazi.

And so it goes...

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 07, 2026 06:28 PM (WONhk)

644 https://x.com/sven10077/status/2009058873911484526?s=20

Minnesota Statutes § 609.02, subd. 6 defines a "dangerous weapon" as any device designed as a weapon and capable of producing death or great bodily harm, or any other device or instrumentality that, in the manner it is used or intended to be used, is calculated or likely to produce death or great bodily harm.Vehicles routinely qualify under this when weaponized (e.g., accelerating toward a person).

Minnesota Statutes § 609.066 governs peace officers' use of deadly force and defines "deadly force" as force that the actor uses with purpose of causing, or should reasonably know creates a substantial risk of causing, death or great bodily harm.This aligns with civilian self-defense under § 609.065 (justification in defense of person/property), allowing reasonable deadly force against perceived imminent threat.

Posted by: sven at January 07, 2026 07:38 PM (MUJd1)

645 Precedent: Vehicle as Dangerous Weapon
The Minnesota Supreme Court explicitly ruled in State v. Blevins (2024) that a vehicle can constitute a dangerous weapon under § 609.02 if its use is "likely to produce" death or great bodily harm, regardless of the driver's specific intent to cause harm.

The court rejected arguments that controlled operation (e.g., not full-speed ramming) prevents classification.
This upheld charges like second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon (§ 609.222) or first-degree assault (§ 609.221) involving vehicles.

Other cases (e.g., appellate decisions on vehicular assault) consistently treat cars as dangerous weapons in contexts like drive-by threats, ramming officers, or fleeing while endangering lives.

You're welcome counselor.

Posted by: sven at January 07, 2026 07:39 PM (MUJd1)

646 She reversed then turned to the right to avoid the ICE guy, who ran at her from the left and poked his gun thru the left side window.

Watch the video.

Posted by: pakisa at January 07, 2026 08:42 PM (/IBGI)

647 646 Posted by: pakisa at January 07, 2026 08:42 PM (/IBGI)

She does not have the right to escape PERIOD, further she struck the Fed....Good night Irene.

Posted by: sven at January 07, 2026 08:51 PM (MUJd1)

648 I really don't know what to think about this situation. I got into an argument over it with my wife. She thinks the woman was murdered, but I'm leaning toward self-defense.

Also, my wife says this woman's son is orphaned now.

Uh... She was a lesbian, "married" to another woman, so... the kid has a backup mom?

Posted by: RunRaggedFoo at January 08, 2026 12:59 PM (hvvzc)

"Biden" Signed an Executive Order Relieving "Day Cares" of the Need to Provide Verification of Their "Enrollees"

What? They just ended all requirements of verification of actual child enrollees and just sent out hundreds of millions of dollars based on a number written on a form?

This is intentional. This is the deliberate enabling of fraud.

This is conspiracy.


The Biden administration didn't require verification that kids were attending child care centers before sending them as much as $19 billion in federal funding, a stunning oversight the Trump administration is trying to reverse.

Trump Health and Human Services officials announced Monday it would restore "attendance-based billing" and reverse a Biden-era practice of states paying the child care centers without proper checks, the Post can exclusively reveal.

The President Biden rule took effect on April 30, 2024, meaning more than $19.3 billion in taxpayer dollars over 20 months may have been spent before President Trump could correct provisions that could have prolonged massive day care fraud in Minnesota.

"Congress appropriated this funding to support working families and ensure children have safe places to grow and learn," HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said.
U.S. President Joe Biden speaking from the Oval Office with the American flag and the Presidential Seal visible behind him. 7


"Loopholes and fraud diverted that money to bad actors instead. Today, we are correcting that failure and returning these funds to the working families they were meant to serve."

Between 2021 and 2024, the Administration for Children and Families shelled out more than $91.8 billion from its Child Care Development Fund (CCDF), a federal block grant program that helps fund child care in states, US territories and tribes, per HHS data.

A whopping $56 billion went out the door just in 2021, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Why would there be an urgent need to send out $56 billion for "day care" during the "height of covid," when 80% of the population was under orders to remain at home?

Yes, some people needed day care because Democrats also shut down the schools, and they were considered "essential workers."

But this would still mean that most children were now at home with their imprisoned parents. Only a fraction would need day care.

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1 Hello

Posted by: fourseasons at January 07, 2026 01:19 PM (3ek7K)

2 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 01:20 PM (Zz0t1)

3 If I told you that most of the inflation we say in the Biden era was related to immigration...you wouldn't dismiss me outright, would you?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 01:21 PM (GBKbO)

4 Haw! "Guess we early."

Posted by: Paco at January 07, 2026 01:21 PM (2L+MU)

5 Biden was God’s judgment on the US. A true plague.

Posted by: Jmel at January 07, 2026 01:21 PM (RWHIh)

6 This wasn't fraud, it was looting.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 07, 2026 01:22 PM (0XD7L)

7 >>Why would there be an urgent need to send out $56 billion for "day care"


I wonder...

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 01:22 PM (ddphe)

8 Unexpectedly . . .

Posted by: 2009Refugee at January 07, 2026 01:22 PM (8AONa)

9 RAP FOR THA CHIRRENS!!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 07, 2026 01:22 PM (Kt19C)

10
Another day, Another fraud

Posted by: fourseasons at January 07, 2026 01:22 PM (3ek7K)

11 What? They just ended all requirements of verification of actual child enrollees and just sent out hundreds of millions of dollars based on a number written on a form?

This is intentional. This is the deliberate enabling of fraud.

This is conspiracy.


Your goddamn right it is. And 10% for the bigguy tells me the Biden's aren't broke. Not by a long shot.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 01:22 PM (Zz0t1)

12 The hits keep coming; fraud was everywhere and intentional

Posted by: Zeera. I voted for ALL of this at January 07, 2026 01:22 PM (jvxGE)

13 Boy do we need a subject change... FBI, whatchagot?

Posted by: Democrat Fraud and Learing Center at January 07, 2026 01:23 PM (qUkBO)

14 Our tax dollars at....

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 01:23 PM (XuXeR)

15 Biden was God’s judgment on the US. A true plague.

Posted by: Jmel

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Biden was Obama, unchecked

Posted by: 2009Refugee at January 07, 2026 01:23 PM (8AONa)

16 Did he actually sign the E.O.? Or was it auto-pen?

Posted by: no one at January 07, 2026 01:23 PM (qFwJc)

17 I want to know how this money gets back up the chain. I asked Grok, but it only looks at news reports.

- Who owns the buildings and what are their rents?
- What consultants and legal services have they hired?
Etc.

It has to be more than just votes and campaign contributions.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 07, 2026 01:23 PM (bIWgk)

18
This is insane.

Congressional hearings right now have Dems carrying on about how Trump hobbled fraud investigation by firing thousands of federal workers.

What's to investigate if there is no data? Holy fvk, this is staggering.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 07, 2026 01:23 PM (Uo+RY)

19 >>Between 2021 and 2024, the Administration for Children and Families shelled out more than $91.8 billion from its Child Care Development Fund


That's quite the scam.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 01:23 PM (ddphe)

20 How many Learing Centers are run by Hunter?

Posted by: NCKate at January 07, 2026 01:24 PM (uQzkA)

21 4 Haw! "Guess we early."
Posted by: Paco at January 07, 2026 01:21 PM (2L+MU)

IT'S FUNNY, BECAUSE BLACK FOLK ARE NOTORIOUSLY NOT EARLY!

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at January 07, 2026 01:24 PM (zYpTz)

22 muslham women aren't allowed to work. They stay home, with the kids. Why the f*ck would muslham communities need day care assistance?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 01:24 PM (Zz0t1)

23 Wait?!?!?! Are you suggesting that Joe Biden was involved in fraudulent activity??!!! Preposterous!!!

Posted by: Margaret Brennan at January 07, 2026 01:24 PM (KdazR)

24 I was hoping Ace would fisk the Democrat Jan 6th Celebration.

What a fucking scene that was.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 01:24 PM (ddphe)

25 It’s a freaking hydra. We cut off USAIDS’s head, daycare fraud head took its place.

Posted by: Cray Cray at January 07, 2026 01:24 PM (yTtNX)

26 Vote buying.

Posted by: steevy at January 07, 2026 01:25 PM (YwEeS)

27 The good news is Joe set up several secret bank accounts to put all the bribes in.

The bad news is he refused to write anything down and just memorized the account numbers and passwords.

FML

Posted by: Jill Biden at January 07, 2026 01:25 PM (PH3st)

28 Black Americans are the ones who get screwed the most by all of the 3rd world immigration and social services fraud. It's funny and encouraging to see them fighting back so openly and publicly.

However, they may be surprised to see they aren't as high up on the liberal oppression stack as they once were, and they may start getting smacked down by the Leftist state.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 07, 2026 01:25 PM (JCZqz)

29 My home state is getting spicy again

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at January 07, 2026 01:25 PM (eZwyX)

30 Remember when these same people told us $5B was too much to spend on a border wall?

Posted by: Really?? at January 07, 2026 01:25 PM (Q/qJ3)

31 OT, but I have to get to work.

Comment of the week:
"The very obvious man pounded it out like he was John Bonham playing Kashmir at Wembley."

Near perfect poetry. (One quibble:you might have used 'Moby Dick' instead of 'Kashmir.' Would have worked better with the double entendre.)

*golfclap*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 07, 2026 01:25 PM (bss/y)

32 OK, serious question. This was a YUGE increase in block grant money, while Congress was just doing Continuing Resolutions.

How in the hell was that money Appropriated? In what budget bill was the huge increase in funding allocated? especially across multiple continuing resolutions?

And if the money in a funding bill has no amount on it, can the President then just zero it out?

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 01:26 PM (mP0Kj)

33 "Biden was God’s judgment on the US. A true plague."

No. Not a final judgment. Just a very loving chastisement.

"The father chastises the son he loves. It is the illegitimate child that receives no correction."

Posted by: no one at January 07, 2026 01:26 PM (qFwJc)

34 My assumption from the beginning of this was that all of this fraud was coordinated by the uniparty as a funding mechanism. There is a reason that the retard from Minnesota was chosen as VP and it wasn't brains. There is an interstate money laundering operation for their party using taxpayer money.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 07, 2026 01:26 PM (0U5gm)

35 I mentioned a couple days ago about the abuse of the 9/11 fund -- it was all corruption -- I think most of what SBA does is corrupt graft.

So all of this is part of a continuum. It all needs to end. How do we get it to end?

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 07, 2026 01:26 PM (bIWgk)

36 We've secretly replaced the nothing is happening guy with the HOLY SHIT EVERYTHING IS HAPPENING guy.

Let's see if anyone notices.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 07, 2026 01:26 PM (viF8m)

37 >>Black Americans are the ones who get screwed the most by all of the 3rd world immigration and social services fraud.


Not really. A fraction of them may have lost services...

But, the Funds were not stolen from them.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 01:26 PM (ddphe)

38 How many Learing Centers are run by Hunter?"

Yes. Yes indeed...

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 01:26 PM (XuXeR)

39 *shakes head*

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 07, 2026 01:27 PM (7/VSu)

40 [ii] 34 My assumption from the beginning of this was that all of this fraud was coordinated by the uniparty as a funding mechanism

funding sure bc they always get their cut

but mostly it was vote buying

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 07, 2026 01:27 PM (emBoF)

41 - Who owns the buildings and what are their rents?
- What consultants and legal services have they hired?
Etc.

It has to be more than just votes and campaign contributions.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 07, 2026 01:23 PM (bIWgk)

In many cases, the buildings and "legal services" are owned by the very same Somalis. It's crazy. It does have to be more than votes and campaign contributions. There must be direct payments to the enablers.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 07, 2026 01:27 PM (zYpTz)

42 "And 10% for the bigguy tells me the Biden's aren't broke. Not by a long shot."

Dr. Jill has control. Hunter gets nothing.

Posted by: no one at January 07, 2026 01:27 PM (qFwJc)

43 Why, it's almost as if all of our governments both Federal and local are giant money laundering machines for a bunch of f****** Crooks and thieves. DOGE was right and at least 80% of our tax money is being pissed away by these bastards. But what on Earth can we do about it? It's maddening.

Posted by: Beverly at January 07, 2026 01:27 PM (reMys)

44 and just memorized the account numbers and passwords.


1,2,3,4,5...

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 01:28 PM (XuXeR)

45 We've secretly replaced the nothing is happening guy with the HOLY SHIT EVERYTHING IS HAPPENING guy.

Let's see if anyone notices.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 07, 2026 01:26 PM (viF8m)


What, exactly, has happened?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 01:28 PM (Zz0t1)

46 $98 billion in three years to subsidize childcare is crazy, fraud or not.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 07, 2026 01:28 PM (6ydKt)

47
Really, the hearings are going utterly off the rails, all about Washington DC and not Minnesota, but if that's how it's gonna go, this is something Republicans should throw right back.

"Mr. Subramanyam" of Virginia's 10th is carrying on and on about every member of Trump's cabinet. Saudi-funded golf tournaments, Kash Patel holds stock in some company that manufactures clothes in China, some guy was hired to do something for something, Commerce Secretary--

and he's out of time. Never asked a question.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 07, 2026 01:28 PM (Uo+RY)

48 I've got a sensory deprivation closet. For the chirrun.
Pay me.

Posted by: 911 at January 07, 2026 01:28 PM (v0R5T)

49 This is intentional. This is the deliberate enabling of fraud.

This is conspiracy.

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And virtually no statute of limitations as long as they continue covering it up (in furtherance of the criminal conspiracy).

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 07, 2026 01:28 PM (3Ey7p)

50 I used to be a "heads on pikes" kind of guy. I'm trending to "skin the corrupt alive".

After trial and conviction of course. I'm not a barbarian.

Posted by: connected and litigious at January 07, 2026 01:28 PM (cS1cw)

51 It all needs to end. How do we get it to end?
we need to end the income tax

completely

the relationship between functional productive people and the govt is extremely dysfunctional so long as it remains.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 07, 2026 01:28 PM (emBoF)

52 >>but mostly it was vote buying


50+ billion.

That would buy a lot of Malt Liquor and Kools.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 01:29 PM (ddphe)

53 "This is intentional. This is the deliberate enabling of fraud. This is conspiracy."

Welcome to the party, pal! You can't just be realizing this, can you? It was obvious to The Blade from the get. You can't pull off a $10B fraud in one city, using a comically crude facade that anyone with any brains could easily have exposed, and not have very deep (and wide) participation by government actors.

I'll say it again: covid was a trillion+ dollar deliberate transfer of wealth from taxpayers to Democrap constituencies.

And it ain't just Somali daycare centers. All the politically connected were in on it. Manufacturing masks and testing kits at 100x the price and just sending in phony invoices.

Two guys in my car community had small testing-kit companies. During covid, they went from driving 3-series BMWs to million-dollar Ferraris and Lamborghinis. One of them sold the business for over $200M.

And the All-Time OG of covid wealth transfer, the phony vaccines.

We were all suckers for not having our beaks at the trough. I wish I could do it again.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 01:29 PM (iFTx/)

54 I’m convinced 75% of all govt spending is stolen somewhere along the way. Whether by outright theft like the Somalis or by fake disability claims, made up Medicaid billing, people working u see the table and collecting unemployment, etc.

Posted by: Really?? at January 07, 2026 01:29 PM (Q/qJ3)

55 That would buy a lot of Malt Liquor and Kools.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 01:29 PM (ddphe)


Those people tend not to vote, regardless.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 01:29 PM (Zz0t1)

56 the other day I posted a link to Mickey Rourke's GoFundMe, he is $60k in arrears on his rent. The fund is now up to $100k.

The only problem is, he never authorized it.

I thought something was sus when the write-up said the funds would be going to his manager...I'm like: wait, shouldn't the manager have been advising his spending/saving habits??

Posted by: kallisto at January 07, 2026 01:29 PM (dCxaZ)

57 My assumption from the beginning of this was that all of this fraud was coordinated by the uniparty as a funding mechanism. There is a reason that the retard from Minnesota was chosen as VP and it wasn't brains. There is an interstate money laundering operation for their party using taxpayer money.
=
Yep. That fat dope bought his way in. The creep from Penn, and the witch from Mich couldnt match him because Waltz had more somalians.

Posted by: Margaret Brennan at January 07, 2026 01:29 PM (KdazR)

58 @32

>>How in the hell was that money Appropriated? In what budget bill was the huge increase in funding allocated? especially across multiple continuing resolutions? And if the money in a funding bill has no amount on it, can the President then just zero it out?

As DOGE discovered, there over a dozen magic money machines that simply spit out checks and money transfers.

The fraud is on auto-pilot.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 07, 2026 01:30 PM (XV/Pl)

59 The left is desperately trying to pretend that American blacks won't notice that imported blacks are the new black.

I'm sure yelling "racist" louder will work....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 07, 2026 01:30 PM (IdKbt)

60 Just an analogy of how they cheat at everything, especially elections. The ones at the top change the rules to create the spaces where they know they crazy/lawless base will fill with fraud.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at January 07, 2026 01:30 PM (wGerL)

61 Democrats: The Party that "Cares"

Posted by: ... at January 07, 2026 01:30 PM (Q4G+n)

62 I'm trending to "skin the corrupt alive".

No rape? What are you, some sort of do goober?

/

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 01:30 PM (XuXeR)

63 Why would there be an urgent need to send out $56 billion for "day care" during the "height of covid," when 80% of the population was under orders to remain at home?

---------------

"Why do you h8 children, bigot!"

/While mandating masks, jabs, mutilations -- and closing schools for a couple of years.

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 07, 2026 01:30 PM (3Ey7p)

64 Do we know any more about that operation in the N. Atlantic in which we boarded that ship?

Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2026 01:31 PM (77rzZ)

65 I'll say it again: covid was a trillion+ dollar deliberate transfer of wealth from taxpayers to Democrap constituencies.

-

100%

Everyone thinks Covid was an op to get rid of Trump. That was the side benefit. The real op was stealing trillions of dollars disguised as Covid aid.

Posted by: Really?? at January 07, 2026 01:31 PM (Q/qJ3)

66 This reminds me of the scene in "American Madness" (1932) where ultra-lib bank president Walter Huston is suffering a run on his bank. He instructs the tellers not to fully check the IDs of the folks turning in withdrawal slips, and just to shovel out the cash to whatever unverified rando pushes in a slip.

Posted by: gp at January 07, 2026 01:31 PM (GHIyr)

67 Biden was non compos mentis. He signed anything stuck under his nose. Who was responsible?


Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 07, 2026 01:31 PM (7RYym)

68 Near perfect poetry. (One quibble:you might have used 'Moby Dick' instead of 'Kashmir.' Would have worked better with the double entendre.)

*golfclap*
Posted by: Aetius451AD

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Stop snoring, ye sleepers, and pull. Pull, will ye? pull, can’t ye? pull, won’t ye? Why in the name of gudgeons and ginger-cakes don’t ye pull?—pull and break something! pull, and start your eyes out!

Posted by: Stubbs at January 07, 2026 01:31 PM (bIWgk)

69 >>What, exactly, has happened?

Nothing. Just took Venezuela including all their oil while cock blocking China, Iran, Russia and Hezbollah and tossing Maduro in prison while beginning a years long uncovering of massive fraud in blue states, Clownafornia is on deck and it will dwarf MN, and the deportation machine rolls on. Oh and Iran is about to fall.

Seriously, anyone who still claims nothing is happening is just looking to complain while ignoring the biggest change in foreign and domestic policy in any of our lifetimes. And just getting started.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 07, 2026 01:31 PM (viF8m)

70 so some chick in MN tried to run down an ICE agent today ...

she died in the process

which btw - YAY

gene pool cleansing

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 07, 2026 01:31 PM (emBoF)

71 1,2,3,4,5...
Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 01:28 PM

That sounds like the sort of thing an idiot would have on his luggage.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 07, 2026 01:31 PM (bFu5X)

72
Ms. Boebert just flubbed in the hearing, asked why the DOJ failed to investigate MN fraud during the Biden administration.

Joe Thompson, federal prosecutor in MS, DID investigate and get convictions and guilty pleas. It was Keith Ellison and Tim Walz who failed.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 07, 2026 01:31 PM (Uo+RY)

73 Really??
The majority of government spending is on labor and overhead. But of the part that's supposed to go to recipients? Yeah, that's mostly fraud.

Posted by: Wally at January 07, 2026 01:32 PM (0e5Te)

74 Biden was non compos mentis"

Mentos? I like mentos.

/Joey "depends"

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 01:33 PM (XuXeR)

75 BREAKING: Liberals are furious at this rapper who threw a free concert for the kids at the Quality Learing Center in Minnesota.

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The only thing better would have been him doing his own rendition of "ICE, ICE, BABY!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 07, 2026 01:33 PM (3Ey7p)

76 Audit in MN apparently has already found evidence of much more aggressive fraud, ace. Backdating documents and creating fake ones to cover up huge $$ going out the door without any documentation of use or need.

And some cretin AWFL just got herself ventilated in South Mpls trying to run down ICE personnel.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 07, 2026 01:33 PM (U/Byj)

77 "If I told you that most of the inflation we say in the Biden era was related to immigration ..."

... then I'd tell you it was the giant, unprecedented spike in the US money supply in 2020. But I've said that a dozen times already.

Posted by: gp at January 07, 2026 01:33 PM (GHIyr)

78 70 so some chick in MN tried to run down an ICE agent today ...

she died in the process

which btw - YAY

gene pool cleansing
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And Mayor Frey is adding fuel to the fire with his statement condemning ICE after the woman died.

Posted by: beckster at January 07, 2026 01:33 PM (I7J98)

79 This is just a Republican attempt at distracting us from Teapot Dome.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 07, 2026 01:33 PM (s0JqF)

80 Who knew MN was so retarded?

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 07, 2026 01:34 PM (pLaQB)

81 Listen, I will take a backseat to no-one in the Nothing is Happening camp, but things are indeed happening.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 07, 2026 01:34 PM (XV/Pl)

82 And Mayor Frey is adding fuel to the fire with his statement condemning ICE after the woman died.


of course he is

these people have frozen brains

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 07, 2026 01:34 PM (emBoF)

83 Remember that part of the Constitution that talked about the federal government funding child care? It's in the penumbras or something.

Posted by: brak at January 07, 2026 01:34 PM (jGJov)

84 67 Biden was non compos mentis. He signed anything stuck under his nose. Who was responsible?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 07, 2026 01:31 PM (7RYym)

Uhhhh...

Posted by: The Autopen at January 07, 2026 01:34 PM (mP0Kj)

85 C'mon, they got away with it fair and square. Tell Pam, maybe she can go on Fox and talk about it.

Where's the 'nothing will happen' guy

Posted by: Don Black at January 07, 2026 01:34 PM (ZxPkt)

86 majority of government spending is on labor and overhead. "

You misspelled "housing and businesses in Fairfax and Loudoun counties "

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 01:34 PM (XuXeR)

87 Who knew MN was so retarded?
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 07, 2026 01:34 PM (pLaQB)


Retards with $100bn.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 01:35 PM (Zz0t1)

88 PDJT is apparently going to ban institutional investors from purchasing single-family homes.

this is interesting

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 07, 2026 01:35 PM (emBoF)

89 Madwoman from MN tries to run over ICE officer, tried to kill him.

Why is it always Minnesota? Progressive madhouse.

Posted by: Joemarine at January 07, 2026 01:35 PM (y171U)

90 83 Remember that part of the Constitution that talked about the federal government funding child care? It's in the penumbras or something.
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Emanations not Penumbras.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 07, 2026 01:35 PM (pLaQB)

91 54 I’m convinced 75% of all govt spending is stolen somewhere along the way. Whether by outright theft like the Somalis or by fake disability claims, made up Medicaid billing, people working u see the table and collecting unemployment, etc.
Posted by: Really?? at January 07, 2026 01:29 PM (Q/qJ3)

I'm convinced you may be on to something.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 07, 2026 01:35 PM (ClDUJ)

92 72
Ms. Boebert just flubbed in the hearing, asked why the DOJ failed to investigate MN fraud during the Biden administration.

Joe Thompson, federal prosecutor in MS, DID investigate and get convictions and guilty pleas. It was Keith Ellison and Tim Walz who failed.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 07, 2026 01:31 PM (Uo+RY)

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Biden's DOJ investigated some fraud in 1 of 14 welfare programs, going quiet about anything they did in the final couple years of the Biden presidency.

Why didn't Biden's DOJ investigate fraud in 13 of the 14 programs?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 01:35 PM (GBKbO)

93 Conspiracy against the United States?

Under Color of Law?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 07, 2026 01:35 PM (RIvkX)

94 Somali welfare numbers are eye-popping. What do they need day care for? Khat breaks?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 07, 2026 01:35 PM (SSEhk)

95 There had never been so many packs of Kools in one place at one time as the million man March.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 07, 2026 01:35 PM (Kt19C)

96 As DOGE discovered, there over a dozen magic money machines that simply spit out checks and money transfers.

The fraud is on auto-pilot.

Posted by: Thomas Bender

A sort of financial WMD launched by democrats to destabilize the US. And it's far from defused.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at January 07, 2026 01:35 PM (4DY5T)

97
Oh great, Rashida Tlaib up.

"As a Muslim American, do you believe every Somali in Minnesota is engaged in fraud right now?"

"Do you believe Muslims are demons?"

"Your job is to root out hate and divisive language."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 07, 2026 01:35 PM (Uo+RY)

98 Where's the 'nothing will happen' guy
Posted by: Don Black at January 07, 2026 01:34 PM (ZxPkt)


But this thread says everything is happening all at once!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 01:35 PM (Zz0t1)

99 Prove that Biden knew nothing about this EO and then RICO every other member of the Biden administration

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 07, 2026 01:36 PM (ScJGb)

100 Who knew MN was so retarded?
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 07, 2026 01:34 PM

*raises hand*

They elected Jessie Ventura and Al Franken. Kind of a giveaway, in my book.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 07, 2026 01:36 PM (bFu5X)

101 89 Madwoman from MN tries to run over ICE officer, tried to kill him.

Why is it always Minnesota? Progressive madhouse.

Posted by: Joemarine at January 07, 2026 01:35 PM (y171U)

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$5 says her psychiatrist told her that running over ICE agents would be good for her chakras.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 01:36 PM (GBKbO)

102 Airport worker in Minn claims to have seen suitcases full of cash loaded on flights out of country.

Wait isnt there a law against that???

Posted by: Off kinky shame whore sock at January 07, 2026 01:36 PM (KdazR)

103 Posted by: Pudinhead at January 07, 2026 01:35 PM (pLaQB)

Authorized under the Good and Plenty clause.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at January 07, 2026 01:36 PM (wGerL)

104 The majority of government spending is on labor and overhead. But of the part that's supposed to go to recipients? Yeah, that's mostly fraud.
Posted by: Wally at January 07, 2026 01:32 PM (0e5Te)

There has to be massive fraud there as well. We’re told x number of people work for the govt. Do they? Are there audits? I can say my department has 100 people. What if only hire 80 and pay 20 fake people who happen to have a bank account y I have access to?

And so much govt “work” is done by contractors. That has to be almost all fraud.

Posted by: Really?? at January 07, 2026 01:36 PM (Q/qJ3)

105 It has to be more than just votes and campaign contributions.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 07, 2026 01:23 PM (bIWgk)

Oh, and also, the NGOs that distribute the money. The directors of the NGOs, who are spouses and friends and relatives of congressional representatives and federal employees and "journalists," are raking in big salaries to distribute what they stole from us.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 07, 2026 01:36 PM (zYpTz)

106 Gonna be a HOT summer.

Freaks are gettin' frisky.

Posted by: Joe Mama at January 07, 2026 01:36 PM (TezPK)

107 I'll post this in parts (Part 1)

Any amount of spending of any size should have at least 3 sets of eyes on it. Not because "we won't be nosy", but because that's the *prudent* way to run a business and the prudent way to run a government, and because every dollar that gets WASTED or STOLEN is a dollar that can't go to whatever our "great cause" might be (even if that cause is corporate profits--those are necessary). So here's the levels of review that should accompany any organization of any monetary size:

1) INTERNAL AUDIT: Its awesome that an organization wants to do great things. But there needs to be an internal arm of the organization that makes sure that mission is working as intended. As such, an Internal Audit will review the organizations "Policies" (what we do), "Procedures" (here's how we do it), and "Internal Controls" (what checks/balances are in place to let us know if we messed something up?). So Internal Audit reviews Policies, Procedures, & Internal Controls and then makes its report to Management and the Board of Directors. Management then makes recommendations on what things need to be changed, and the Board ratifies the changes.

Posted by: Crusader, former Federal Bank Examiner at January 07, 2026 01:37 PM (TN0g+)

108 We've replaced your functioning government with a corrupt criminal enterprise. Let's see if the Americans notice!

Posted by: Don Black at January 07, 2026 01:37 PM (ZxPkt)

109 The only way out of this mess is Federal legislation that requires a permanent DOGE type framework for all 50 states. Fraud detection should be a part of automated reporting systems that send alarm bells ringing in Washington with airborne auditors inbound ready to kick in doors and trundle government flunkies into the backs of vans.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 07, 2026 01:37 PM (mlg/3)

110 $98 billion in three years to subsidize childcare is crazy, fraud or not.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 07, 2026 01:28 PM (6ydKt)

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'Here, hold by Chardonnay.'

/Califzuela Governor Gruesome "Trillions In Fraud Or Bust" Newscum 2028!

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 07, 2026 01:37 PM (3Ey7p)

111 Would it be wrong to hope FJB cancer is painful and will last a good long time.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 07, 2026 01:37 PM (abIsI)

112
I saw that Ilhan Omar championed the action erasing accountability for daycare funding.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 07, 2026 01:37 PM (biznJ)

113
Why didn't Biden's DOJ investigate fraud in 13 of the 14 programs?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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And why not investigate plain evidence that Ilhan Omar and numerous family members obtained their citizenship fraudulently?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 07, 2026 01:37 PM (Uo+RY)

114 >>Airport worker in Minn claims to have seen suitcases full of cash loaded on flights out of country.


Why would you not steal it?

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 01:37 PM (ddphe)

115 Every god damn thing democrats do is fraud.

Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at January 07, 2026 01:37 PM (P7Iz+)

116 Madwoman from MN tries to run over ICE officer, tried to kill him.

Why is it always Minnesota? Progressive madhouse.

Posted by: Joemarine at January 07, 2026 01:35 PM (y171U)

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$5 says her psychiatrist told her that running over ICE agents would be good for her chakras.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 01:36 PM (GBKbO)
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Her minotaur is gonna be sad

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 01:37 PM (iFTx/)

117 7 >>Why would there be an urgent need to send out $56 billion for "day care"


I wonder...
Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 01:22 PM (ddphe)

Never let a crisis go to waste.

Posted by: Prime looting time at January 07, 2026 01:38 PM (TbWk/)

118 An attempted murderess now taking a dirt nap is about to be awarded The George Floyd order of Sainthood....
5-4-3-2-1.......

Posted by: DOGGFISH at January 07, 2026 01:38 PM (hC7dH)

119
Tlaib is now close to tears. "It's incredibly dangerous!" she pleads.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 07, 2026 01:38 PM (Uo+RY)

120 Who knew MN was so retarded?

Posted by: Pudinhead

That's on you, brother.

Posted by: Jesse Ventura at January 07, 2026 01:38 PM (4DY5T)

121 "As a Muslim American, do you believe every Somali in Minnesota is engaged in fraud right now?"

Yes.

"Do you believe Muslims are demons?"

Yes.

"Your job is to root out hate and divisive language."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 07, 2026 01:35 PM (Uo+RY)


No. Their job is to tell us what to think, silly.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 01:38 PM (Zz0t1)

122 >> The only way out of this mess is Federal legislation that requires a permanent DOGE type framework for all 50 states.


And, Capital Punishment for ANY Fed Employee caught stealing from the Taxpayer Coffers.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 01:38 PM (ddphe)

123 interesting there is video of the AWFL getting shot in MN

agents are pulling someone over and this SUV/crossover covered in bumper stickers - you know the type! - just GUNS it at them! wild

bad idea lady

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 07, 2026 01:38 PM (emBoF)

124 Madwoman from MN aimed the SUV directly at the ICE officer standing in front of the vehicle tried to run over and ram him.

No way the media can spin this, it is what it is.
Kristy Noem says it was a act of domestic terrorism.

Posted by: Joemarine at January 07, 2026 01:39 PM (y171U)

125 105 It has to be more than just votes and campaign contributions.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 07, 2026 01:23 PM (bIWgk)

Oh, and also, the NGOs that distribute the money. The directors of the NGOs, who are spouses and friends and relatives of congressional representatives and federal employees and "journalists," are raking in big salaries to distribute what they stole from us.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 07, 2026 01:36 PM (zYpTz)

You think all that sudden wealth amongst Congressmen comes from no where?

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 01:39 PM (mP0Kj)

126 109 The only way out of this mess is Federal legislation that requires a permanent DOGE type framework for all 50 states. Fraud detection should be a part of automated reporting systems that send alarm bells ringing in Washington with airborne auditors inbound ready to kick in doors and trundle government flunkies into the backs of vans.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 07, 2026 01:37 PM (mlg/3)

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"Make a law that makes illegal things more illegal."

The problem wasn't the detection. All indications are that the state government knew.

The problem was the enforcement.

We don't have a surfeit of laws. We have a surfeit of law enforcement against law breakers.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 01:39 PM (GBKbO)

127 We have reached levels of spotlights on cockroaches never thought possible. Needs more squishing now. Unlike the 'nothing will happen' crowd I know the US Attorney in MN has convicted over 100 Somalis so far, but those are rookie numbers.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 07, 2026 01:39 PM (2ocoG)

128 Are there any auditors even working these days? They never seem to announce any big wins. Are there are finance pros or fund managers who still do HTG due diligence? There weren't any around in 2006-2008, that's for sure.

Posted by: gp at January 07, 2026 01:40 PM (GHIyr)

129 124 Madwoman from MN aimed the SUV directly at the ICE officer standing in front of the vehicle tried to run over and ram him.

No way the media can spin this, it is what it is.
Kristy Noem says it was a act of domestic terrorism.
Posted by: Joemarine at January 07, 2026 01:39 PM (y171U)

I once thought the same thing about a Drug dealer dying of a drug overdose while he was getting arrested.

Then suddenly... the Floyd effect.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 01:40 PM (mP0Kj)

130 Motherfuckers. I want asses.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 07, 2026 01:40 PM (jc0TO)

131 You have to listen to the video that goes with this tweet. The retaliation on whistleblower in MN, over 1000 of them from both sides of the aisle by the Walz administration is incredible. Walz better lawyer up.

>>@AndrewKolvet

>>NEW: Explosive testimony today in Congress from MN Rep. Marian Ruhrer on DHS whistleblowers living in fear under the Walz/Flanagan regime.

https://tinyurl.com/2sz37aed

Posted by: JackStraw at January 07, 2026 01:40 PM (viF8m)

132 Walz is literally retarded and it’s why his scheme was unraveled so easily.

Newsom is a slimy psychopath but also smart. His fraud is hidden and will be harder to unearth. And it’s easily 10X the size of the Walz operation.

Posted by: Really?? at January 07, 2026 01:40 PM (Q/qJ3)

133 The only way out of this mess is Federal legislation that requires a permanent DOGE type framework for all 50 states. Fraud detection should be a part of automated reporting systems that send alarm bells ringing in Washington with airborne auditors inbound ready to kick in doors and trundle government flunkies into the backs of vans.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 07, 2026 01:37 PM (mlg/3)

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... and capital punishment & public executions for convicted public treasury fraudsters & looters, but mostly ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 07, 2026 01:40 PM (3Ey7p)

134 118 An attempted murderess now taking a dirt nap is about to be awarded The George Floyd order of Sainthood....
5-4-3-2-1.......

Posted by: DOGGFISH at January 07, 2026 01:38 PM (hC7dH)

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Trying to run over an ICE agent isn't the same as the image of a police officer kneeling on a man's back (no matter the real cause of death).

ICE runner over will be forgotten in a day, only remembered by dedicated, overly online leftists who consider her a political murder or something.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 01:40 PM (GBKbO)

135 124 Kristy Noem says it was a act of domestic terrorism.

Arrest her entire family for terrorism. Make them pay for her crimes.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 07, 2026 01:40 PM (abIsI)

136 124 Madwoman from MN aimed the SUV directly at the ICE officer standing in front of the vehicle tried to run over and ram him.

No way the media can spin this, it is what it is.
Kristy Noem says it was a act of domestic terrorism.
Posted by: Joemarine at January 07, 2026 01:39 PM (y171U)

Yet they are spinning it.. The Gov. and the freaky Mayor

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2026 01:40 PM (VE6XX)

137 We don't have a surfeit of laws. We have a surfeit of law enforcement against law breakers.
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I don't get it. I've never seen a surfeit board.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 07, 2026 01:40 PM (pLaQB)

138 I can't wait for the inevitable clown judge to issue an illegal order that Trump can't revoke this EO of Biden because the Administrative Procedures Act holds that all Trump actions are racist.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 07, 2026 01:40 PM (HXT0k)

139
Biden ended any supervision or discretion of funds. Complete money laundering. RICO.

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 07, 2026 01:40 PM (IifOV)

140 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 07, 2026 01:38 PM (Uo+RY)

Oh, boo hoo. Let's just coverup all the fraud and pretend it never happened so her felz aren't hurt.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 07, 2026 01:40 PM (7RYym)

141 Oh, and also, the NGOs that distribute the money. The directors of the NGOs, who are spouses and friends and relatives of congressional representatives and federal employees and "journalists," are raking in big salaries to distribute what they stole from us.

Rubio a few weeks ago ordered that money going out must go to the actual recipient, not any NGO.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 07, 2026 01:40 PM (2ocoG)

142 Placing bets that Ilhan Omar got Biden to autopen the EO.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 07, 2026 01:41 PM (n5tGW)

143 I want asses.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 07, 2026 01:40 PM (jc0TO)


I'm your dingleberry.

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at January 07, 2026 01:41 PM (Zz0t1)

144 >>Airport worker in Minn claims to have seen suitcases full of cash loaded on flights out of country.


Why would you not steal it?
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I know why i wouldnt. I saw the movie A Simple Plan.

Posted by: Morals, ethics, a cautionary tale. Whatever works for you at January 07, 2026 01:42 PM (KdazR)

145 Even if you work from home, you need can’t watch your children. I mean if you are actually working. The reason why companies are rolling back WFH is because parents didn’t get child care so they were not actually working. They were watching their children

But didn’t daycares also close? Or did they just mask up poor little babies? I mean I walked away from my exec role during Covid because I couldn’t watch my child, work, make sure she was doing virtual school, etc. I ended up homeschooling because virtual public school was an absolute joke. There was no way I could legitimately do my job and homeschool my child.

Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 01:42 PM (Wmg4n)

146
Let's see if anyone notices.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 07, 2026 01:26 PM (viF8m)


What, exactly, has happened?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 01:28 PM (Zz0t1)

Some motherfucker replaced my regular coffee with Folger's crystals and you're GODDAMNED RIGHT I noticed! Bastards.

Posted by: I shall have my revenge at January 07, 2026 01:42 PM (TbWk/)

147
Oh, boo hoo. Let's just coverup all the fraud and pretend it never happened so her felz aren't hurt.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

===============

"My mother is afraid to go out without her passport because she wears a hijab!" (sob)

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 07, 2026 01:42 PM (Uo+RY)

148 @138 the judge will find the revoking of the EO will have a disparate impact on frauudsters

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 07, 2026 01:42 PM (ScJGb)

149 At Walmart today, I happened to see decks of standard Bicycle brand playing cards: $5.25 a deck. AYFKM with this shit?

Posted by: gp at January 07, 2026 01:42 PM (GHIyr)

150 (Part 2)

2) CPA FIRM'S REVIEW OF BOOKS:
Any entity of any size should employ an outside CPA firm to prepare (at a minimum) their end of year books (and most likely their quarterly ones as well. To properly prepare the books, one can't simply much around in the accounting systems. Instead one has to pull Policies, Procedures, and Internal Controls and confirm that what has been INPUT into the accounting systems is 1) Accurate; and 2) Complete. The process of confirming the data will require multiple uses of "statistical sampling" to ensure that the financial numbers that are ultimately asserted accurately reflect the state of the entity. Once the various sampling processes are complete, the CPA firm can confidently attest to the accuracy of the books.

Posted by: Crusader, former Federal Bank Examiner at January 07, 2026 01:42 PM (TN0g+)

151 Unlike the 'nothing will happen' crowd I know the US Attorney in MN has convicted over 100 Somalis so far, but those are rookie numbers.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 07, 2026 01:39 PM (2ocoG)

It's so widespread, in every state, it's going to take years to reduce it.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 07, 2026 01:42 PM (zYpTz)

152
6 $98 billion in three years to subsidize childcare is crazy, fraud or not.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 07, 2026 01:28 PM

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We should see a fast-growing race of superchildren as a result, right?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 07, 2026 01:42 PM (biznJ)

153 >>> interesting there is video of the AWFL getting shot in MN

actions have consequences? But I thought this was like posting on Reddit!!

Posted by: brak at January 07, 2026 01:43 PM (jGJov)

154 109 The only way out of this mess is Federal legislation that requires a permanent DOGE type framework for all 50 states. Fraud detection should be a part of automated reporting systems that send alarm bells ringing in Washington with airborne auditors inbound ready to kick in doors and trundle government flunkies into the backs of vans.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 07, 2026 01:37 PM (mlg/3)

The only way I see out of it is to put in a reward system. Help get a fraud conviction? you get 10% of what they stole, tax free.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 01:43 PM (mP0Kj)

155 Newsom is a slimy psychopath but also smart. His fraud is hidden and will be harder to unearth.

I'm gonna dispute the idea that Newsom is smart. He's petty and well trained in Democrat thievery, but there's no evidence he's smart.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 07, 2026 01:43 PM (2ocoG)

156 The only way out of this mess is Federal legislation that requires a permanent DOGE type framework for all 50 states. Fraud detection should be a part of automated reporting systems that send alarm bells ringing in Washington with airborne auditors inbound ready to kick in doors and trundle government flunkies into the backs of vans.

Posted by: weft cut-loop



Bounties. 15% of fraudulent waste found & shut down.
Nick Shirley should be looking at a $2.85 billion dollar paycheck for shutting down the Mn Daycare fiasco.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 01:43 PM (ujb09)

157 >>> $98 billion in three years to subsidize childcare is crazy, fraud or not.

that's a lot of juice boxes

Posted by: brak at January 07, 2026 01:43 PM (jGJov)

158 130 Motherfuckers. I want asses.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 07, 2026 01:40 PM (jc0TO)

Hah! GAAAAAAAY!

Posted by: Probably bedazzles his crocs at January 07, 2026 01:43 PM (TbWk/)

159
Minnesota went from Tim Pawlenty to Tim Walz in 14 years.

I seem to remember a GOP Convention in Minnesota, and the state was purple. The Somalis swung the state evidently.

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 07, 2026 01:44 PM (IifOV)

160 Fraud detection should be a part of automated reporting systems that send alarm bells ringing in Washington with airborne auditors inbound ready to kick in doors and trundle government flunkies into the backs of vans.

KYC for financial institutions is almost like this.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 07, 2026 01:44 PM (xE0sV)

161 Omar really seemed to increase her net worth after this EO.

But it was spread out across many. Where do you think the dem billionaire donors are really getting the money they donate to dems?

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 07, 2026 01:44 PM (n5tGW)

162 151 It's so widespread, in every state, it's going to take years to reduce it.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 07, 2026 01:42 PM (zYpTz)

======

It's been completely reduced.

HHS Director Oz announced he's cut off all funds for the programs to Minnesota.

Now, clawing back the money and throwing people in jail for doing it...well, the MN USA has been at work since August and announced that the first set of indictments he was bringing about 4 weeks ago were the first in a very large wave.

Also, there's a solid chance that Walz stepped down from running for re-election because he got a targeting letter from the DOJ informing him that he was the subject of a criminal investigation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 01:44 PM (GBKbO)

163 The only way I see out of it is to put in a reward system. Help get a fraud conviction? you get 10% of what they stole, tax free.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 01:43 PM (mP0Kj)

Bounties. 15% of fraudulent waste found & shut down.
Nick Shirley should be looking at a $2.85 billion dollar paycheck for shutting down the Mn Daycare fiasco.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 01:43 PM (ujb09)

^^^^^This^^^^^

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 07, 2026 01:44 PM (zYpTz)

164 88 PDJT is apparently going to ban institutional investors from purchasing single-family homes.

this is interesting
Posted by: BlackOrchid
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And he should. Basically Blackrock and others are screwing up the home market using under prime financing and their treasury window to out compete prospective home buyers by paying cash.

They don't maintain the homes properly, aim at getting direct Section 8 money and other subsidized housing for the left's pets, and overall treat their renters like dirt.

The goal behind home ownership is that people vested in their property take care of it, become more involved in the local community, and support private property in general.

Renters, by and large don't do those things. Home versus where you live at.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 01:44 PM (WDjG6)

165 Why didn't Biden's DOJ investigate fraud in 13 of the 14 programs?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison


Another question about Democrat behaviors that answers itself

Posted by: Gref at January 07, 2026 01:45 PM (5rh/l)

166 Minnesota went from Tim Pawlenty to Tim Walz in 14 years.

I seem to remember a GOP Convention in Minnesota, and the state was purple. The Somalis swung the state evidently.
Posted by: Frank Barone at January 07, 2026 01:44 PM (IifOV)

all started with the Franken senate seat steal.

Posted by: Really?? at January 07, 2026 01:45 PM (Q/qJ3)

167 Her minotaur is gonna be sad
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade
===
She was a shake weight enthusiast before she was a minotaur milkmaid.

Posted by: Just pulling ber life together at January 07, 2026 01:45 PM (KdazR)

168 Mayor of Minneapolis press conference, he is losing his mind, told ICE to get the F*** out of MN..

Posted by: Joemarine at January 07, 2026 01:45 PM (y171U)

169
As for #things #happening, Bondi has sued 23 states who haven't turned over voter records and such. And utter clown-show hearings are taking place on the MN fraud. I wish things could progress Operation Absolute Resolve style domestically.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 07, 2026 01:46 PM (Uo+RY)

170 I seem to remember a GOP Convention in Minnesota, and the state was purple. The Somalis swung the state evidently.

According to people who've run the numbers, MN is hard red except for the Somali districts. Those are just enough to push it over the (D) line. So if even a medium-scale amount of disruption of the Somalis occurs the state would flip.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 07, 2026 01:46 PM (2ocoG)

171 The problem wasn't the detection. All indications are that the state government knew.

The problem was the enforcement.

We don't have a surfeit of laws. We have a surfeit of law enforcement against law breakers.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 01:39 PM (GBKbO)

Deficit of law enforcement against law breakers, I think you mean. Yes the syntax on that sentence sucked. We seem to have too little enforcement of the laws that broadly protect society and overenforcement of laws that make money for enforcement agencies.

Posted by: Syntax deficit at January 07, 2026 01:46 PM (TbWk/)

172 I’m confused. His executive order can’t legalize fraud, can it?

Posted by: Unkaren at January 07, 2026 01:46 PM (512Y6)

173 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 07, 2026 01:42 PM (Uo+RY)

Morticia, I saw the picture that you posted of J6 yesterday. How did you manage to not get caught up in the dragnet?

Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2026 01:46 PM (77rzZ)

174 a stunning oversight the Trump administration is trying to reverse.

'Oversight', heh. It is the job of government- and NGO's are anything but "non-governmental"- at every level to shovel cash into each other's pockets.

Posted by: Conspiracy? 'Congressity'! at January 07, 2026 01:46 PM (n0T2b)

175 168 Mayor of Minneapolis press conference, he is losing his mind, told ICE to get the F*** out of MN..
Posted by: Joemarine at January 07, 2026 01:45 PM (y171U)

Arrest his ass

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2026 01:46 PM (VE6XX)

176 The ICE attacker has died. Good thing too.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 07, 2026 01:46 PM (jc0TO)

177 168 Mayor of Minneapolis press conference, he is losing his mind, told ICE to get the F*** out of MN..

Posted by: Joemarine at January 07, 2026 01:45 PM (y171U)

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"Dear lord...please let ICE pick them all up...I can't eat any more Somali food for cameras..."
-his secret thoughts

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 01:46 PM (GBKbO)

178 Madwoman from MN tries to run over ICE officer, tried to kill him.


The mayor is directly behind inciting this terrorist attack and attempted assassination.

J6 everyone there.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 07, 2026 01:46 PM (pUU4E)

179 If we returned to sound money, this fraud would end because the Fed couldn't counterfeit the llegal tender to pay for it.

Posted by: Oglebay at January 07, 2026 01:46 PM (2ap+5)

180 167 Her minotaur is gonna be sad
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade
===
She was a shake weight enthusiast before she was a minotaur milkmaid.
Posted by: Just pulling ber life together at January 07, 2026 01:45 PM (KdazR)

How about a little creme fraiche?

Posted by: Randy Marsh, chef d'cuisine at January 07, 2026 01:47 PM (TbWk/)

181 I'm still waiting for someone to give me a valid reason for taxpayers paying other peoples daycare.

Posted by: Orson at January 07, 2026 01:47 PM (dIske)

182 What people need to focus on is, this was not just the Somali community:

This was fraud gamed out, planned and executed in detail from the very top down.

Every single step of the way was planned.
Not just the funds but also how to circumvent and avoid any detection or audit.
All along the way there are rich, connected Democrats getting even richer.

At the bottom, there is a whole hidden, well-organized system, where the law is irrelevant, the people choose who gets what.

Where an illiterate, nearly retarded immigrant can get a free house, free food, free health care, free school, free daycare, free transportation--an entire life paid for by others.

While taxpaying American citizens in the west Carolinas spent the winter in tents...

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 07, 2026 01:47 PM (HXT0k)

183 Yeah, I'm thinking autopen.

Posted by: mrp at January 07, 2026 01:47 PM (rj6Yv)

184 Madwoman from MN aimed the SUV directly at the ICE officer standing in front of the vehicle tried to run over and ram him.

No way the media can spin this, it is what it is.
Kristy Noem says it was a act of domestic terrorism.

Posted by: Joemarine at January 07, 2026 01:39 PM (y171U)

------------

"DEAR GEOTUS TRUMP,

Make The Insurrection Act Great Again!

Thank you for your attention to this matter ...

-- ShainS, Struggling With A Learing Disability"

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 07, 2026 01:47 PM (3Ey7p)

185 This is intentional. This is the deliberate enabling of fraud.

This is conspiracy.

Indeed it is. And you'll find Dems, their family members, and their clients getting PAID for allowing this fraud to occur.

Now...is anyone outside of the Somali cutouts going to jail over this?

I say Keith Ellison touting that as prosecutor he stopped $70M in fraud.

Well...sorry, if $9-18B are being stolen under your watch and you stop $70M you were in on it. Has he been arrested yet?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 01:47 PM (sKqQm)

186 Mayor of Minneapolis also says any self defense claim by ICE officer is Bull****

Posted by: Joemarine at January 07, 2026 01:47 PM (y171U)

187 I wish things could progress Operation Absolute Resolve style domestically.

Trump 2.0's whole M.O. is following the rules and laws strictly to the letter. It makes it impossible for Democrats, even judges, to actually reverse much of it after appeal (aside from Maryland Man) but it also makes everything a lot slower than what the Dems did to set things up in the first place.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 07, 2026 01:47 PM (2ocoG)

188 We don't have a surfeit of laws. We have a surfeit of law enforcement against law breakers.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Yep. Plethora of laws, little will power to put the elected officials and their flying monkeys encouraging and pushing the fraud in prison.

The rot is coming from the politicians as much as it is from the fraudsters.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 01:48 PM (WDjG6)

189 >>We don't have a surfeit of laws. We have a surfeit of law enforcement against law breakers.


Consequences are how you change action.

Hang them. In the Public Square.

That's how you change actions.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 01:48 PM (ddphe)

190 I'll say it again: covid was a trillion+ dollar deliberate transfer of wealth from taxpayers to Democrap constituencies. Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

The Democrats created a massive feedback loop that allowed elections to be rigged by removing all checks and balances from how votes were collected and fed into the system and to incentivize this they paid their supporters with public money accessed through fraudulent schemes. This is what the Democrats meant when they set out to fortify democracy.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at January 07, 2026 01:48 PM (HTCU3)

191 So things are getting sporty up in Somalianapolis

Posted by: Don Black at January 07, 2026 01:48 PM (ZxPkt)

192 (Part 3)

3) EXTERNAL AUDIT:
With the exception of an entity that operates in a UNREGULATED INDUSTRY, there will be one of more state or Federal agencies that will also perform periodic evaluations of any organization of size. The process will be very similar to the "Internal Audit" process described above, but will also address things like the independence of the Board, the independence of the Internal Audit program, and other such niceties (you'd be amazed what kind of relationships you can dig up at your local courthouse, and External Auditors include such field activities in the scope of their work).
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The point of the above 3-part series is that its LAUGHABLE to pretend nobody knew this was going on. Instead, nobody WANTED to know this was going on. The Mafia has likely held long meetings asking "Where were WE when these grifters were getting their balls?".

Posted by: Crusader, former Federal Bank Examiner at January 07, 2026 01:48 PM (TN0g+)

193 Biden was Obama, unchecked
Posted by: 2009Refugee at January 07, 2026 01:23 PM (8AONa)

This. 100%. The Kalorama cartel.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 07, 2026 01:48 PM (g8Ew8)

194 189 >>We don't have a surfeit of laws. We have a surfeit of law enforcement against law breakers.


Consequences are how you change action.

Hang them. In the Public Square.

That's how you change actions.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 01:48 PM (ddphe)

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Yes. And that's a law enforcement question, not a legislature question.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 01:48 PM (GBKbO)

195
While taxpaying American citizens in the west Carolinas spent the winter in tents...

Apparently this is what white privilege looks like...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 01:48 PM (sKqQm)

196 Yeah, I'm thinking autopen.

Posted by: mrp at January 07, 2026 01:47 PM (rj6Yv)


Doesn't matter. It was done. It was fraud. It was money laundering.

Not one head above a f*cking inbred Somalian has been arrested.

NOTHING is happening.

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at January 07, 2026 01:48 PM (Zz0t1)

197 Meanwhile, more hilarity ...

Headline (BBC):

"Venezuela's interim leader sacks general in charge of Maduro's guard"

Posted by: mrp at January 07, 2026 01:48 PM (rj6Yv)

198 Mayor of Minneapolis also says any self defense claim by ICE officer is Bull****

The Mayor of Minneapolis is a gay who cosplays, poorly, as Somali. Probably for the BBC.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 07, 2026 01:49 PM (2ocoG)

199 yum yum shit
yummy shit pebbles
in my mouth

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at January 07, 2026 01:49 PM (QSd+D)

200 "Dear lord...please let ICE pick them all up...I can't eat any more Somali food for cameras..."
-his secret thoughts

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 01:46 PM

Everytime I see that idiot Frey out dancing and speaking Somali, I can't help but think of him as a white minstrel. Those Somali's know he is their clown.

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 07, 2026 01:49 PM (IifOV)

201 191 So things are getting sporty up in Somalianapolis
Posted by: Don Black at January 07, 2026 01:48 PM (ZxPkt)

Trying to whip up a riot to cover up the Somali fraud stuff...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2026 01:49 PM (VE6XX)

202 152
6 $98 billion in three years to subsidize childcare is crazy, fraud or not.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 07, 2026 01:28 PM

--------

We should see a fast-growing race of superchildren as a result, right?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 07, 2026 01:42 PM (biznJ)

$947 billion in total education funding for the US 2023. 54.1 million K-12 students US...

So, we're spending over $19 K per kid... and that is without school lunches and other programs...

Uh... 32% of High School seniors test out as sub standard on basic READING...

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 01:49 PM (mP0Kj)

203 Take over the town. Change to Barter Town.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 07, 2026 01:49 PM (EyfuW)

204 191 So things are getting sporty up in Somalianapolis

Posted by: Don Black at January 07, 2026 01:48 PM (ZxPkt)

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It's key to remember that Omar gets elected to Congress based on the votes mostly of white people.

Her district is 60% white. Only 17% black.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 01:49 PM (GBKbO)

205 Mayor of Minneapolis also says any self defense claim by ICE officer is Bull****

Fort Sumter.

Minnisomalia is in a state of Insurrection

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 07, 2026 01:49 PM (pUU4E)

206 We don't have a surfeit of laws. We have a surfeit of law enforcement against law breakers.


Yep.

Pretty much every scandal that comes to light was already illegal. So you don't address that by making new laws...you address it by putting people in prison for a long long time

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 01:49 PM (sKqQm)

207 >>I'm still waiting for someone to give me a valid reason for taxpayers paying other peoples daycare.


Taxes are ONLY about punishing specific portions of the population, at this point.

There is no justification for Taxation under current Policy.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 01:49 PM (ddphe)

208 I’m no fan of black rock and will shed no tears over the action Trump is taking. It’s a good move because it’s popular politically.

But their influence is over blown. They own less than 1% of single family homes in the country. They own a lot. But given the tens of millions of homes in existence it’s a drop in the bucket.

Plus it’s not like all those homes will now suddenly become owner occupied. They’ll just be sold to other investors, who are not “institutional” investors. Nothing will really chance on the ground.

It’s not a bad thing to have single family homes available for rent. Not everyone who rents wants to live in an apartment.

Posted by: Really?? at January 07, 2026 01:49 PM (Q/qJ3)

209
Morticia, I saw the picture that you posted of J6 yesterday. How did you manage to not get caught up in the dragnet?
Posted by: Bulg

==============

I honestly don't know! I was on the TOP of the Capitol steps later that day. I don't know how the goons picked their targets.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 07, 2026 01:50 PM (Uo+RY)

210 Damn.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 01:50 PM (Zz0t1)

211 Trump 2.0's whole M.O. is following the rules and laws strictly to the letter. It makes it impossible for Democrats, even judges, to actually reverse much of it after appeal (aside from Maryland Man) but it also makes everything a lot slower than what the Dems did to set things up in the first place.
Posted by: Ian S.

Pretty much. Much better legal team backing up the President than his first term. Most of those were resist types and Sleepy Jeff did not do shit to prevent shitweasel Roddie boy from running the DoJ to protect his political friendz on both sides of the aisle. Bagpipe Billy was even worse other than terminating the failed Mueller op.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 01:50 PM (WDjG6)

212 Biden was Obama, unchecked
Posted by: 2009Refugee at January 07, 2026 01:23 PM (8AONa)

This. 100%. The Kalorama cartel.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 07, 2026 01:48 PM


"If I could have a microphone with the next president and dictate his every move........"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 01:50 PM (Zz0t1)

213 >The ICE attacker has died. Good thing too.

Posted by: toby928(c)
----

sounds not good to me

it's a ball of confusion

Posted by: Don Black at January 07, 2026 01:50 PM (ZxPkt)

214 Uh... 32% of High School seniors test out as sub standard on basic READING.

But how many of them know all 72 genders now? See you aren't talking about that progress are you?

Posted by: Some lefty teacher at January 07, 2026 01:50 PM (sKqQm)

215 President Autopen strikes again!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 07, 2026 01:50 PM (xcxpd)

216
Laws mean nothing if they are not enforced.

It's going to be Militia enforced if they DOJ and government law enforcement don't step it up. People are getting fed up.

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 07, 2026 01:51 PM (IifOV)

217 Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at January 07, 2026 01:49 PM (QSd+D)


You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at January 07, 2026 01:51 PM (Zz0t1)

218 Remember:
These billions in fraud also funded billions more in administration.

Thousands and thousands of AWFLs hired for do-noting jobs in government agencies.
Thousand and thousands of "studies" degrees with 2.0 GPAs given cush government jobs.

Jobs you'll never even get considered for but you will pay for no matter how qualified you are.
While you were trying to choose between buying eggs or buying hamburger.
They were getting generous steady paycheck and giving a reliable vote for Democrats.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 07, 2026 01:51 PM (HXT0k)

219 Mayor Frey saids he's seen the video of the incident and any claims the ICE officer acted in self-defense is BULLSH!T.

The Minneapolis Chief of Police just repeated it.

Gosh, I thought it was wrong to call people guilty before the legal process plays-out? And wrong to taint the prospective jury pool? And wrong to make assertions like those that can incite violent public reaction? Welp, not in Minneapolis today.

Posted by: Gref at January 07, 2026 01:51 PM (5rh/l)

220
It's key to remember that Omar gets elected to Congress based on the votes mostly of white people.

Her district is 60% white. Only 17% black.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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100%. And yet she screams racism day and night.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 07, 2026 01:52 PM (Uo+RY)

221
Headline (BBC):

"UK forces helped US seizure of tanker, says MoD"

Following text:

"British armed forces supported the US seizure of a Russian-flagged oil tanker in the North Atlantic on Wednesday, the Ministry of Defence has said.

The Marinera, a Venezuelan-linked tanker previously known as the Bella 1, was stopped by the US Coast Guard, as it travelled through waters between Iceland and Scotland."

Posted by: mrp at January 07, 2026 01:52 PM (rj6Yv)

222 181 I'm still waiting for someone to give me a valid reason for taxpayers paying other peoples daycare.
Posted by: Orson at January 07, 2026 01:47 PM (dIske)

Oh... you mean day care day care... not the Department of Edumuhcation?

Which is... daycare.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 01:52 PM (mP0Kj)

223 Start renaming them D Care Centers

Posted by: ... at January 07, 2026 01:52 PM (Q4G+n)

224 Probably for the BBC."

I'm gonna guess... not the Brit broadcasting...

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 01:52 PM (XuXeR)

225 Why am I, or the Fed's fake money machine, funding daycares in the first place?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 07, 2026 01:52 PM (xcxpd)

226 If you were stupid enough to try to run down an ICE officer I think you probably deserve to be shot.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 07, 2026 01:52 PM (looXz)

227 Checks in

I've said since day one of the Shirley report, the fraud and corruption runs far deeper than we suspected. The tentacles of fraud are everywhere.
It will shake the Republic and have an impact (for better or worse) on the mid-terms.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 07, 2026 01:52 PM (2WIwB)

228 Thousands and thousands of AWFLs hired for do-noting jobs in government agencies.

The true beneficiaries of DEI have always been AWFLs, especially white ones. Anyone here who works in anything corporate has seen it play out.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 07, 2026 01:53 PM (2ocoG)

229
suicide, too many bills
hippies movin' to the hills
people all over the world
are shouting 'end the war'
and the band played on

Posted by: Don Black at January 07, 2026 01:53 PM (ZxPkt)

230 The youngsters still won't be able to afford a house. Unless we forgive all their debts. And fuck that.

Posted by: NCKate at January 07, 2026 01:53 PM (uQzkA)

231 A government allowing this massive, staggeringly offensive, fraud has no need for income taxes.

Income tax exists solely to punish the industrious.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 07, 2026 01:53 PM (HXT0k)

232 Mayor of Minneapolis press conference, he is losing his mind, told ICE to get the F*** out of MN..

Posted by: Joemarine at January 07, 2026 01:45 PM (y171U)

========

"Dear lord...please let ICE pick them all up...I can't eat any more Somali food for cameras..."
-his secret thoughts
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 01:46 PM (GBKbO)
___

That vid is hilarious. His expression was pure horror, like they were feeding him live worms, but he knew he had to hide it as best he could. In fact, when I ate live worms I had less of a grimace than he did.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 01:53 PM (iFTx/)

233 "Remember that part of the Constitution that talked about the federal government funding child care? It's in the penumbras or something."

Free child care is human right! Like free health care and housing. Every other industrialized nation has free shit, why can't we?

Posted by: Ripley at January 07, 2026 01:53 PM (GUOwU)

234 232
That vid is hilarious. His expression was pure horror, like they were feeding him live worms, but he knew he had to hide it as best he could. In fact, when I ate live worms I had less of a grimace than he did.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 01:53 PM (iFTx/)

=======

Ethiopian food >>>> Somali food

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 01:53 PM (GBKbO)

235 Consequences are how you change action.

Hang them. In the Public Square.

That's how you change actions.

Posted by: garrett
---------

Tough call. Pillory? Gibbet? Beheading?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 07, 2026 01:53 PM (XeU6L)

236 I blame the Autopen!

Posted by: Max Entropy at January 07, 2026 01:54 PM (oxDA9)

237 Well...sorry, if $9-18B are being stolen under your watch and you stop $70M you were in on it. Has he been arrested yet?
Posted by: 18-1
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A video came out where Ellison was telling his Somali peeps that he had their back.

Brave AI summary,

"Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison is facing scrutiny over a 2021 audio recording in which he met with members of the Somali community who were later convicted of defrauding millions of dollars in taxpayer funds through the "Feeding Our Future" program, a scandal estimated to involve up to $250 million.

In the recording, obtained by Fox News, individuals later convicted in the fraud scheme discuss securing more government funding and making campaign donations, with one stating the importance of “putting our dollars in the right place” to protect their interests. Ellison responded, “That’s right,” during the conversation."

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 01:54 PM (WDjG6)

238 Why am I, or the Fed's fake money machine, funding daycares in the first place?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 07, 2026 01:52 PM (xcxpd)


In a community who's women, by in large, don't work.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 01:54 PM (Zz0t1)

239 Thousands and thousands of AWFLs hired for do-noting jobs in government agencies.
Thousand and thousands of "studies" degrees with 2.0 GPAs given cush government jobs."

So, Tysons corner or Fair Oaks mall?

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 01:54 PM (XuXeR)

240 205 Mayor of Minneapolis also says any self defense claim by ICE officer is Bull****
==

It only counts if his statement was in English.

Posted by: mrp at January 07, 2026 01:54 PM (rj6Yv)

241 231 A government allowing this massive, staggeringly offensive, fraud has no need for income taxes.

Income tax exists solely to punish the industrious.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 07, 2026 01:53 PM (HXT0k)

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Fix the money and all this BS ends.

Posted by: Oglebay at January 07, 2026 01:54 PM (2ap+5)

242 Tough call. Pillory? Gibbet? Beheading?
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Pear of Anguish.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 07, 2026 01:54 PM (pLaQB)

243 Every msm headline is basically “ICE Shoots Woman” with no context.

Enemy of the people as usual.

Posted by: Tucker at January 07, 2026 01:54 PM (Q/qJ3)

244 I'm still waiting for someone to give me a valid reason for taxpayers paying other peoples daycare.

The argument is that if the government doesn't pay for it these women will have to stay home and raise their own kids.

Now, even at the middle class level it is only a slight bonus financially if a woman with young kids works outside the home. Yes if you are a lawyer or a tech-bro-ette then sure you make enough to easily pay for daycare.

But at lower economic levels this is fundamentally stupid. The kids would probably be better off at home with mom and so would the economy. As a way to think about it...imagine if FedGov argued it was too hard for working moms to cook and so instead gave everyone a voucher to McDs.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 01:54 PM (sKqQm)

245 It's key to remember that Omar gets elected to Congress based on the votes mostly of white people.

Her district is 60% white. Only 17% black.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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100%. And yet she screams racism day and night.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 07, 2026 01:52 PM (Uo+RY)
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I suspect 20% of her votes are pure fraud, though. Same as AOC.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 01:55 PM (iFTx/)

246 IT'S FUNNY, BECAUSE BLACK FOLK ARE NOTORIOUSLY NOT EARLY!

It was funny, anyway. Now, it's even more so!

Posted by: Paco at January 07, 2026 01:55 PM (2L+MU)

247 219 Mayor Frey saids he's seen the video of the incident and any claims the ICE officer acted in self-defense is BULLSH!T.

The woman was driving at the ICE officers.. It was a split second decision.. Frey can't see that

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2026 01:55 PM (VE6XX)

248 Squad member Ayanna Pressley went nuts at the Minnesota fraud hearing today.

https://is.gd/2AeZe1

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at January 07, 2026 01:55 PM (HTCU3)

249 If you were stupid enough to try to run down an ICE officer I think you probably deserve to be shot.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 07, 2026 01:52 PM (looXz)


Not if you think what the ICE agent was doing is wrong, silly.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 01:55 PM (Zz0t1)

250 I would imagine that the entire voter mobilization of the democrat party is funded by stolen taxpayer funds. For the entire country. In addition, multiple millions of dollars are being skimmed by politicians from both parties.

The reason they picked Walz for VP was because he was coordinating one of the interstate fraud networks.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 07, 2026 01:55 PM (0U5gm)

251
Charge J'Blowme.

Sue him for recovery of misappropriated funds.

Bankrupt his crooked ass.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at January 07, 2026 01:55 PM (xG4kz)

252 234 Yes, I've had American restaurant Ethiopian food. It was good. I don't think I'd try it in Ethiopia, but who knows?

Posted by: gp at January 07, 2026 01:55 PM (GHIyr)

253 Well at least the person who got shot in Minnesota was apparently a liberal white woman.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 07, 2026 01:55 PM (ScJGb)

254 I can't wait for Ace's thread on the ICE shooting in Minneapolis. The Left is melting down, calling it the modern "Boston Massacre" moment that will start a revolution, or something. 🙄

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 07, 2026 01:55 PM (JCZqz)

255 Income tax exists solely to punish the industrious"

So, taxing activities to suppress said activities is...

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 01:55 PM (XuXeR)

256 Assault on a Federal Officer is a Federal offense.

Going to be interesting to see if they try to pull the trigger on STATE charges against the ICE Officer, while he was doing his job.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 01:55 PM (mP0Kj)

257 249 Not if you think what the ICE agent was doing is wrong, silly.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 01:55 PM (Zz0t1)

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AWFLs are foot soldiers in a moral, holy war to protect their neighbors who have been in America since its founding.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 01:56 PM (GBKbO)

258 I cannot imagine being near a LEO pullover situation and deciding to RAM THE COPS

I mean, I know I'd be shot if I did that!

It makes NO SENSE

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 07, 2026 01:56 PM (emBoF)

259 Tough call. Pillory? Gibbet? Beheading?
Posted by: Mike Hammer
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Why choose, use something like the Wheel of Misfortune for sentencing.

Let the condemned spin the wheel, televise, sell ads, and use that money to reimburse the taxpayers.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 01:56 PM (WDjG6)

260 LOVE AND ROCKETS - BALL OF CONFUSION

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=NcfXWtI7ML0

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 01:56 PM (ddphe)

261 It's time we had a J7 candelight vigil for the attack on ICE officers in MN. Straight up insurrection attempt by the dems.

I mean I still live in fear of what happened this morning. PTSD for at least an hour now.

Remember J7 forever!!!!!

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 07, 2026 01:56 PM (n5tGW)

262 253 Well at least the person who got shot in Minnesota was apparently a liberal white woman.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 07, 2026 01:55 PM (ScJGb)

Good thing it wasn't a POC.. Of course they're still blaming ICE

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2026 01:56 PM (VE6XX)

263 252 234 Yes, I've had American restaurant Ethiopian food. It was good. I don't think I'd try it in Ethiopia, but who knows?

Posted by: gp at January 07, 2026 01:55 PM (GHIyr)

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I've had it in Rome. It was actually quite delicious.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 01:56 PM (GBKbO)

264 A government allowing this massive, staggeringly offensive, fraud has no need for income taxes.

Income tax exists solely to punish the industrious.

Not exactly the industrious, but those not in one of the Dem client groups.

The distinction isn't large but it is important. It is easier to view this as a racketing operation targeting those around them then just "socialism"

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 01:56 PM (sKqQm)

265 [snip]

All along the way there are rich, connected Democrats getting even richer.

At the bottom, there is a whole hidden, well-organized system, where the law is irrelevant, the people choose who gets what.

Where an illiterate, nearly retarded immigrant can get a free house, free food, free health care, free school, free daycare, free transportation--an entire life paid for by others.

While taxpaying American citizens in the west Carolinas spent the winter in tents...

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 07, 2026 01:47 PM (HXT0k)

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Goes all the way back (at least) to The Scum Clintons (*spits*) and their Dixie Mafia in the early 90s first darkening the White House.

Then DogEater and His Faggot Wingman weaponized the DOJ on steroids. Remember how they lawfarely sued the shit out of numerous, mostly conservative, businesses ("RACISM!" or whatever) and funneled the multi-million dollar fines (paid to settle) to favored anti-American Democrat-Communist organizations -- who in turn kickback large percentages to fund leftist causes and candidates? [h/t El Rushbo]

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 07, 2026 01:56 PM (3Ey7p)

266 Learing centers.

Because a mine is a terrible thing to waste.

Posted by: Paco at January 07, 2026 01:57 PM (2L+MU)

267 The Karens are thick on the ground in that place.

Posted by: Cold, dark and unpleasant at January 07, 2026 01:57 PM (KdazR)

268 257 249 Not if you think what the ICE agent was doing is wrong, silly.


ok but I want to live lol

there were multiple armed agents surrounding the targeted car. they are gonna shoot you if you try to run them over, numbnuts

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 07, 2026 01:57 PM (emBoF)

269 >>Plus it’s not like all those homes will now suddenly become owner occupied. They’ll just be sold to other investors, who are not “institutional” investors. Nothing will really chance on the ground.


Investors who aren't institutional investors don't tend to buy entire neighborhoods.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 07, 2026 01:57 PM (viF8m)

270 Did they ever call it Aethiopia? That would have rocked.

Posted by: gp at January 07, 2026 01:57 PM (GHIyr)

271 "Remember that part of the Constitution that talked about the federal government funding child care? It's in the penumbras or something."
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Emanations, pretty sure it is in the Emanations Clause.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 07, 2026 01:57 PM (XeU6L)

272 even at the middle class level it is only a slight bonus financially'

Nope. Still doesn't net out. But hey, she gets out of the house...or something. Gotta keep Starbucks going

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 01:57 PM (XuXeR)

273 254 I can't wait for Ace's thread on the ICE shooting in Minneapolis. The Left is melting down, calling it the modern "Boston Massacre" moment that will start a revolution, or something. 🙄
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions

Most of the left view any shooting by police as unjustified. In this case, trying to drive someone over while on tv is not going to be the Rodney King or St. Floyd moment they think it is.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 01:57 PM (WDjG6)

274 I always say that someone has to die before politicians attempt to do anything.

Posted by: Unkaren at January 07, 2026 01:57 PM (Ct9mZ)

275 The real lesson here: when Democrats start saying things that seem like non-sequiturs, like "we must pay for daycare", there's always a fraud angle.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 07, 2026 01:58 PM (2ocoG)

276 She definitely accelerated at the ICE agent, who then popped her.

Message sent.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 07, 2026 01:58 PM (Y1sOo)

277 I always say that someone has to die before politicians attempt to do anything.
Posted by: Unkaren at January 07, 2026 01:57 PM


Especially if it is a politician.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 07, 2026 01:58 PM (jc0TO)

278 So how much went to the killer Michael Byrd? The capital police POC imbecile.

Posted by: M. Gaga at January 07, 2026 01:58 PM (KiBMU)

279 I'm still waiting for someone to give me a valid reason for taxpayers paying other peoples daycare.


Taxes are ONLY about punishing specific portions of the population, at this point.

There is no justification for Taxation under current Policy.
Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 01:49 PM (ddphe)
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I'm still waiting for a valid reason for why taxpayers have to pay for anything for other people's kids. I have no kids and never did or will. Why am I paying tens of thousands of dollars a year that go right to public "education" for other people's kids? Which really isn't going to educate them anyway, but to keep incompetent DEI retard Democraps at full employment.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 01:59 PM (iFTx/)

280 271 "Remember that part of the Constitution that talked about the federal government funding child care? It's in the penumbras or something."
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Emanations, pretty sure it is in the Emanations Clause.
Posted by: Mike Hammer,
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Emanations from penumbras is what the previous thread was all about. Get a stall if you are going to do such a thing, preferably in a Planet Fitness restroom.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 01:59 PM (WDjG6)

281 236 I blame the Autopen!
Posted by: Max Entropy at January 07, 2026 01:54 PM (oxDA9)

Shit....

signed
Sean Penn's cousin...

Posted by: Otto Penn at January 07, 2026 01:59 PM (mP0Kj)

282 Ethiopian food >>>> Somali food

I had lunch in an Ethiopian restaurant in D.C. years ago: slightly spicy chicken, and it was delicious. As was the coffee.

Posted by: Paco at January 07, 2026 01:59 PM (2L+MU)

283 I mean, I know I'd be shot if I did that!

It makes NO SENSE

Every now and then I watch videos of where cops shoot people and almost all the time the person getting shot did everything they could to get shot.

For example, remember the Afghan refugee that got shot by the cops last spring? If you watch the video a cop pulled him over and tried taking with him politely for 5 minutes just trying to get the guy to give his ID even though the Afghan was fiddling with a gun the whole time

The Afghan didn't get shot until he drew the gun and tried to shoot the cop...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 01:59 PM (sKqQm)

284 The dangerous and inflammatory Mayor Jacob Frey of Minneapolis is pointing a finger at ICE, but they are trying to do their job.

Posted by: Joemarine at January 07, 2026 01:59 PM (y171U)

285 Is there video of the AWFL getting shot?

Posted by: Tucker at January 07, 2026 01:59 PM (Q/qJ3)

286 Noem was quick to say it was an act of terrorism so it seems she is backing the ICE agent

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2026 01:59 PM (VE6XX)

287 Why choose, use something like the Wheel of Misfortune for sentencing.

Let the condemned spin the wheel, televise, sell ads, and use that money to reimburse the taxpayers.
Posted by: whig
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You have hit on something. I like it.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 07, 2026 02:00 PM (XeU6L)

288 Ethiopian food in Ethiopia was good. But preferred it up in Eritrea. "National food" as it's called on the menus is the same, but in Eritrea you often also have Italian dishes on the menu and the Italian beer was perfect with it all. And the 10-cent espresso out of 70-yr old brass espresso machines was outstanding.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 07, 2026 02:00 PM (U/Byj)

289 All of the was possible because the people given the duty to enforce the law refused to do so.

And, as we found out during 2020, when the citizens file suits to demand the government enforce the law, the courts--every single one--said, "nah, you have no right to have the laws enforced. Fuck off and keep paying our generous salary and fund our golden pensions."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 07, 2026 02:00 PM (HXT0k)

290 273 Most of the left view any shooting by police as unjustified. In this case, trying to drive someone over while on tv is not going to be the Rodney King or St. Floyd moment they think it is.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 01:57 PM (WDjG6)

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The left was able to fold George Floyd into the narrative of institutional racism in America which got stoked and fed by the media in an already crazy year where everyone was inside because of covid.

Helped in no small part by the image of the officer kneeling on Floyd's neck, it was an easy image to rally around, no matter the details.

Here, instead, we have video of a woman trying to run down a federal agent in her expensive white SUV and getting her comeuppance.

The media may try to carry water for it, but there's no way it has the same power, or anything close to it, that Floyd was able to over the population.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 02:00 PM (GBKbO)

291 >>Yes, I've had American restaurant Ethiopian food. It was good. I don't think I'd try it in Ethiopia, but who knows?


I went out with a Model who was at Parsons School of Design in 1993.

She insisted on Ethiopian Food.

We both got food poisoning.
Her apartment was a Studio in the East Village that had a bathroom without a door...

It was an absolute nightmare.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 02:00 PM (ddphe)

292
It will shake the Republic and have an impact (for better or worse) on the mid-terms.
Posted by: Diogenes

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DOJ better get busy exposing fraud in other states. I've seen a few liberals a bit shaken over the magnitude of fraud in Minnesota.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 07, 2026 02:00 PM (Uo+RY)

293 I enjoy ME food, but sitting there in a restaurant, looking at all the stuff on the walls in Arabic, I wonder if any of it says "Poison the infidels!"

Posted by: gp at January 07, 2026 02:00 PM (GHIyr)

294 Taking a page straight out of the jihadi playbook, leftist commies are now ramming feds with vehicles.

But religion of peace or some shit, you guys.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 02:00 PM (Zz0t1)

295 273 254 I can't wait for Ace's thread on the ICE shooting in Minneapolis. The Left is melting down, calling it the modern "Boston Massacre" moment that will start a revolution, or something. 🙄
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions
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Somewhat related, the Heritage Foundation dropped a bit of a bomb today, stating that Chavez and Maduro provided over $1 Million to get BLM up and running back at its inception.

Posted by: Orson at January 07, 2026 02:00 PM (dIske)

296 The reason they picked Walz for VP was because he was coordinating one of the interstate fraud networks.
Posted by: Thomas Paine
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Seems likely now. I guess Shapiro in PA hasn't stolen enough money yet to qualify.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 02:01 PM (WDjG6)

297 Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 01:59 PM (iFTx/)

Somehow in the last 100 or so years, our Government decided the Tax system was there to redistribute wealth.

Posted by: Otto Penn at January 07, 2026 02:01 PM (mP0Kj)

298 The MN DFL-DNC Axis of Grift is being systematically defunded. Flunkies are squealing. The Walz are closed. Mayhem on the streets. Fraudsters are in despair. Kids are being shuttled to empty warehouses. And the voters are very angry, my friends.

Posted by: mrp at January 07, 2026 02:01 PM (rj6Yv)

299 We both got food poisoning.
Her apartment was a Studio in the East Village that had a bathroom without a door...

It was an absolute nightmare.
Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 02:00 PM (ddphe)


Progressive!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 02:01 PM (Zz0t1)

300 Are we twerking for the children now? Some gigs require a soft hand.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 07, 2026 02:01 PM (Ouxay)

301 296 The reason they picked Walz for VP was because he was coordinating one of the interstate fraud networks.
Posted by: Thomas Paine
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Seems likely now. I guess Shapiro in PA hasn't stolen enough money yet to qualify.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 02:01 PM (WDjG6)

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More likely:

Eric Holder hates Jews.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 02:01 PM (GBKbO)

302 Not if you think what the ICE agent was doing is wrong, silly.

Apparently, trying to get a vehicle out of a snowbank is wrong.

Posted by: Unkaren at January 07, 2026 02:01 PM (Ct9mZ)

303 >>Is there video of the AWFL getting shot?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9CJY5p0xz4

Posted by: one hour sober at January 07, 2026 02:01 PM (Y1sOo)

304 Somewhat related, the Heritage Foundation dropped a bit of a bomb today, stating that Chavez and Maduro provided over $1 Million to get BLM up and running back at its inception.

And I assume that money came originally from the US right?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 02:01 PM (sKqQm)

305
I read that the porridge the Somalis fed Frey is the Somali equivalent of Oliver Twist gruel. They fckin' pwned him.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 07, 2026 02:02 PM (Uo+RY)

306 The only way out of this mess is Federal legislation that requires a permanent DOGE type framework for all 50 states.
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1st, shut off the money.

Say, what ever happened to making all SNAP beneficiaries re-apply?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 07, 2026 02:02 PM (HXT0k)

307 >Is there video of the AWFL getting shot?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9CJY5p0xz4
Posted by: one hour sober at January 07, 2026 02:01 PM (Y1sOo)


Is there one that doesn't require age verification?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 02:02 PM (Zz0t1)

308 The media may try to carry water for it, but there's no way it has the same power, or anything close to it, that Floyd was able to over the population.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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That's my take as well.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 02:02 PM (WDjG6)

309 This really is Democrats just demanding that taxpayers "stand and deliver". It should ignite a rebellion, but I'm not sanguine about the prospects of such a development.

Posted by: Paco at January 07, 2026 02:03 PM (2L+MU)

310 That vid is hilarious. His expression was pure horror, like they were feeding him live worms, but he knew he had to hide it as best he could. In fact, when I ate live worms I had less of a grimace than he did.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 01:53 PM (iFTx/)

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Ethiopian food >>>> Somali food
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 01:53 PM (GBKbO)
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Ethiopian food is underrated. Great flavors, but it's presentation sucks and not using forks or utensils is weird to Americans.

Despite the pillow-biting mayor's grimacing, Somali food is actually good too. It's closer to Italian food (yes, that Italy) than most people think. But it too suffers from presentation.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 02:03 PM (iFTx/)

311 DOJ better get busy exposing fraud in other states. I've seen a few liberals a bit shaken over the magnitude of fraud in Minnesota.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 07, 2026 02:00 PM (Uo+RY)

Gov Grusome out here in Clownifornia is busy trying to distract people from the ongoing investigation into the amount of fraud here.

Looks like if we just got rid of fraud, we'd balance the budget.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 02:03 PM (mP0Kj)

312 Things are getting really heated in MN. Time to bring in the Guard.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 07, 2026 02:03 PM (viF8m)

313 I can't wait for Ace's thread on the ICE shooting in Minneapolis. The Left is melting down, calling it the modern "Boston Massacre" moment that will start a revolution, or something. 🙄

An ICE firing on someone trying to kill him = the Boston Massacre

A DC Cop shooting an unarmed protestor stuck in a doorway in the neck = FAFO

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 02:03 PM (sKqQm)

314 >>Somewhat related, the Heritage Foundation dropped a bit of a bomb today, stating that Chavez and Maduro provided over $1 Million to get BLM up and running back at its inception.


Mike Benz put up a 3 part Venezuela Series this week.

US AID was behind all of it.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 02:03 PM (ddphe)

315 The fraud is NOT that they stole this money from poor parents and kids in need.

No, the fraud is that THOSE KIDS NEVER EXISTED.
This is the lie that underpins it all. All of those poor, underserved kids who are locked into closets at home so their mama can work 8 jobs just to put cat food on the table for those kids - DO. NOT. EXIST. They never have. Not since at least the turn of the 20th century.

Stop believing all of the sob stories and the "statistics" on kids without lunch or breakfast, and how poor Americans are and how many need help taken from your wallet. It's primarily bullcarp. It's all a con game - "weaponized empathy" - to gain power over you and get your money, so they can line their pockets and the pockets of their "friends."

DO. NOT. BELIEVE. IT.

Posted by: GWB at January 07, 2026 02:04 PM (TVwv1)

316 "We both got food poisoning.
Her apartment was a Studio in the East Village that had a bathroom without a door... "

If you can eat it there
You'll eat it anywhere!
New York, New York, New Yoork!

Posted by: gp at January 07, 2026 02:04 PM (GHIyr)

317 Things are getting really heated in MN. Time to bring in the Guard.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 07, 2026 02:03 PM (viF8m)


Not a chance.

Posted by: Lord Emperor Boasberg at January 07, 2026 02:04 PM (Zz0t1)

318 Used to have Ethiopian/Eritrean 2-3 times a week at one point in DC. Office was short walk from most of the places in Adams-Morgan. Wasn't expensive. And pho in NoVa was still about $4.50 for a large bowl. Good times.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 07, 2026 02:04 PM (U/Byj)

319 I just went over to instapundit -- that blog is almost unreadable with those long posts leapfrogging each other with updates, and the constant droning on about the same damn things by that one guy, Ed.

You have to scroll and scroll and scroll to find new content, and when you do it autorefreshes and you have to start over.

Posted by: Stubbs at January 07, 2026 02:04 PM (bIWgk)

320 312 Things are getting really heated in MN. Time to bring in the Guard.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 07, 2026 02:03 PM (viF8m)

And arrest Frey for calling for more "protests"

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2026 02:04 PM (VE6XX)

321 MSNOW Is running with the narrative that an utterly innocent Minneapolis woman was simply trying to leave the area when she was shot, murdered really, by ICE agents who were not in danger.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at January 07, 2026 02:04 PM (HTCU3)

322 I can't wait for Ace's thread on the ICE shooting in Minneapolis. The Left is melting down, calling it the modern "Boston Massacre" moment that will start a revolution, or something. 🙄
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit
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George Floyd/Michael Brown redux.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 07, 2026 02:04 PM (XeU6L)

323 I enjoy ME food, but sitting there in a restaurant, looking at all the stuff on the walls in Arabic, I wonder if any of it says "Poison the infidels!"
Posted by: gp

I try to avoid any place that advertises that it serves halal food, just on principle. Sometimes, I'll eat at one that's an Indian place, or a Turkish one when I need to get my US RDA of doner kebab. Other than that, I stay away from them.

Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2026 02:04 PM (77rzZ)

324 yeah the wogs have a special way of brewing coffee
supposed to be very good
I read up on how to make Turkish coffee and deemed it too complicated to attempt

Posted by: Don Black at January 07, 2026 02:04 PM (ZxPkt)

325 These Biden people make me sick. This has to be criminal. It's like leaving piles of cash out for the taking. Taxpayers' cash. They have a fiduciary duty and they ignored it.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 07, 2026 02:04 PM (jRujf)

326 307 >Is there video of the AWFL getting shot?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9CJY5p0xz4
Posted by: one hour sober
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That video does not have the emotional punch of St. Floyd or Rodney King.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 02:04 PM (WDjG6)

327
Is there video of the AWFL getting shot?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9CJY5p0xz4
Posted by: one hour sober

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Errr, looks to me like she was driving away, not towards anyone.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 07, 2026 02:05 PM (Uo+RY)

328 Ethiopian food >>>> Somali food
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 01:53 PM (GBKbO)

Is incorrect. Ethiopians don't have food.

Posted by: Sally Struthers taught me this at January 07, 2026 02:05 PM (TbWk/)

329 As a way to think about it...imagine if FedGov argued it was too hard for working moms to cook and so instead gave everyone a voucher to McDs.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 01:54 PM (sKqQm)

....and all the McD's are personally owned by congress

Posted by: ... at January 07, 2026 02:05 PM (Q4G+n)

330 >>>Is there one that doesn't require age verification?

Did not require me to verify my age. Opened it via a link from Minnesota Reformer website.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 07, 2026 02:05 PM (Y1sOo)

331 Are AWFL's in Minneapolis now going to riot now and try to burn everything down? This should be interesting.

Posted by: Ripley at January 07, 2026 02:05 PM (GUOwU)

332 >Is there video of the AWFL getting shot?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9CJY5p0xz4
Posted by: one hour sober at January 07, 2026 02:01 PM (Y1sOo)


Is there one that doesn't require age verification?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 02:02 PM (Zz0t1)
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Fuck that bitch dead. Oh wait ....

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 02:05 PM (iFTx/)

333 302 Not if you think what the ICE agent was doing is wrong, silly.

Apparently, trying to get a vehicle out of a snowbank is wrong.
Posted by: Unkaren at January 07, 2026 02:01 PM (Ct9mZ)

Clearly the accident was caused by ice on the road?

Oh... wait..

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 02:05 PM (mP0Kj)

334 331 Are AWFL's in Minneapolis now going to riot now and try to burn everything down? This should be interesting.

Posted by: Ripley at January 07, 2026 02:05 PM (GUOwU)

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As long as they get back in time for box wine night.

Which is every night.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 02:06 PM (GBKbO)

335 This really is Democrats just demanding that taxpayers "stand and deliver". It should ignite a rebellion, but I'm not sanguine about the prospects of such a development.
Posted by: Paco at January 07, 2026 02:03 PM (2L+MU)
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The Voters are still unaware (as we all are) of the magnitude of the steal. Investigations are still ongoing. Trials have yet to be held.

Posted by: mrp at January 07, 2026 02:06 PM (rj6Yv)

336 Ethiopian food

Nyala restaurant in Los Angeles. Mmmmm

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 07, 2026 02:06 PM (Kt19C)

337 Watching the video, it's not the best shooting. The policeman was more or less dodging out of the way.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 07, 2026 02:06 PM (jc0TO)

338 Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 01:57 PM (WDjG6)

I do not see her trying to run the ICE officer down. She is driving away trying to escape, while an ICE officer has his hand inside her vehicle attempting to get her to come out.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at January 07, 2026 02:06 PM (wGerL)

339 Living life like you're in a cut scene from Grand Theft Auto will usually lead to negative consequences.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 02:06 PM (Zz0t1)

340 I would not eat in an Ethiopian restaurant on the off chance Ethiopians might be working there.

Posted by: Oglebay at January 07, 2026 02:06 PM (2ap+5)

341 I'm still waiting for a valid reason for why taxpayers have to pay for anything for other people's kids. I have no kids and never did or will. Why am I paying tens of thousands of dollars a year that go right to public "education" for other people's kids? Which really isn't going to educate them anyway, but to keep incompetent DEI retard Democraps at full employment.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 01:59 PM (iFTx/)

Someone could also argue I don’t own a car why should my taxes build roads?

Roads benefit everyone obviously as goods are transported on those roads that everyone buys, drivers and non drivers. Same goes with education in theory, a well educated population benefits everyone, I using people who have no kids of their own.

Posted by: Tucker at January 07, 2026 02:06 PM (Q/qJ3)

342 331 Are AWFL's in Minneapolis now going to riot now and try to burn everything down? This should be interesting.
Posted by: Ripley at January 07, 2026 02:05 PM (GUOwU)

Right after Judges said Trump can't deploy National Guards, as he is apparently no longer the Commander in Chief.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 02:06 PM (mP0Kj)

343 These Biden people make me sick. This has to be criminal. It's like leaving piles of cash out for the taking. Taxpayers' cash. They have a fiduciary duty and they ignored it.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 07, 2026 02:04 PM (jRujf)

On the contrary, they weren't ignoring it, they were stealing it.

How many of these daycares funded the various Steals? Elections don't fix themselves.

Posted by: ... at January 07, 2026 02:06 PM (Q4G+n)

344
If you can eat it there
You'll eat it anywhere!
New York, New York, New Yoork!
Posted by: gp
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The Battery's up
The Bathroom's down

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 07, 2026 02:06 PM (XeU6L)

345 Imma blame Sally Struthers.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 07, 2026 02:06 PM (pLaQB)

346
Errr, looks to me like she was driving away, not towards anyone.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 07, 2026 02:05 PM (Uo+RY)

That's what they are saying... Others said the angle makes it hard to tell... Not a slam dunk for ICE but you have to account for split second decisions...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2026 02:06 PM (VE6XX)

347
Errr, looks to me like she was driving away, not towards anyone.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

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Oh wait, second look, I see she was headed towards a guy -- but he got out of the way and shot her more like as she was driving away. I bet that bullet entered the side of her head.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 07, 2026 02:07 PM (Uo+RY)

348 >>Watching the video, it's not the best shooting.


Well, she ded.

That's good enough, right?

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 02:07 PM (ddphe)

349
We were all suckers for not having our beaks at the trough. I wish I could do it again.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07

You know what I did? I turned down the VP of HR for Moderna 1 month before Covid. 1 month.

I don’t know I would have been able to make it anyway, I have ethics that would have gotten in the way of millions.

Posted by: Piper at January 07, 2026 02:07 PM (OoFl2)

350 Subpoena Nedra Tanden.

She’s already testified before Congress that she used the auto pen.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 07, 2026 02:07 PM (Hkcdp)

351 >>Somewhat related, the Heritage Foundation dropped a bit of a bomb today, stating that Chavez and Maduro provided over $1 Million to get BLM up and running back at its inception.

Andy Ngo has been reporting they were also funding and supporting antifa. Probably with China's direction and blessing.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 07, 2026 02:07 PM (viF8m)

352 321 MSNOW Is running with the narrative that an utterly innocent Minneapolis woman was simply trying to leave the area when she was shot, murdered really, by ICE agents who were not in danger.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram
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Watched the video, she tried to escape and nearly ran over a ICE cop. Streets were icy as well with the cop nearly getting hit in front of her.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 02:07 PM (WDjG6)

353 Well, if the dead person is a Caucasian, I don't think Negroes will take it up as a cause celebre

Posted by: Don Black at January 07, 2026 02:07 PM (ZxPkt)

354 278 So how much went to the killer Michael Byrd? The capital police POC imbecile.

Posted by: M. Gaga

At the very least he got a medal, a promotion, and hasn't had to work a day since. He's still being paid. Not to mention the Kiddytime Learing Center in his large home.

Posted by: Murder!! at January 07, 2026 02:07 PM (oftw2)

355 Dead Karen's Don't Wear Plaid.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 02:07 PM (Zz0t1)

356 Ethiopian food >>>> Somali food




Ethiopian food >>>> Somali food>>>>> Grain of Rice

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 02:07 PM (WC9t6)

357 The media may try to carry water for it, but there's no way it has the same power, or anything close to it, that Floyd was able to over the population.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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That's my take as well.
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Was she a pretty white soccer mom? Or a towel head?
Soccer mom will get pumped to rile up the wine boxers. Towel head gets forgotten by next monday.

Posted by: Cold, dark and unpleasant at January 07, 2026 02:08 PM (KdazR)

358 315, this, in toto.

our national problem is "poor" people who are too obese to work.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 07, 2026 02:08 PM (Cjt/F)

359 353 Well, if the dead person is a Caucasian, I don't think Negroes will take it up as a cause celebre

Posted by: Don Black at January 07, 2026 02:07 PM (ZxPkt)

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Blacks are top of the intersectional stack.

White women always think they're second on that stack, but they're actually real far down.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 02:08 PM (GBKbO)

360
Ethiopian food >>>> Somali food>>>>> Grain of Rice
Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 02:07 PM (WC9t6)


At what point do we roll the doughnut down the street to get a population count?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 02:08 PM (Zz0t1)

361 337 Watching the video, it's not the best shooting. The policeman was more or less dodging out of the way.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 07, 2026 02:06 PM (jc0TO)

Sorry, but under the single standard of enforcing law, the Ashley Babbit precedent takes... uh... precedent.

Thus, the guy gets a medal.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 02:08 PM (mP0Kj)

362 "I try to avoid any place that advertises that it serves halal food, just on principle."

I avoid all restaurants now, only because they're too expensive. The juice ain't worth the squeeze anymore.

Posted by: gp at January 07, 2026 02:08 PM (GHIyr)

363 All of those poor, underserved kids who are locked into closets at home so their mama can work 8 jobs just to put cat food on the table for those kids - DO. NOT. EXIST. They never have"

This. X10,000.

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 02:08 PM (XuXeR)

364 Well, if the dead person is a Caucasian, I don't think Negroes will take it up as a cause celebre
Posted by: Don Black


Cracker be dumb.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 02:08 PM (WC9t6)

365 I cannot imagine being near a LEO pullover situation and deciding to RAM THE COPS

I mean, I know I'd be shot if I did that!

It makes NO SENSE

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 07, 2026 01:56 PM (emBoF)

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It makes no sense to YOU because YOU value & view life as sacred.

These mentally-ill death cultists are incapable of deriving ANY meaning from their otherwise meaningless lives -- other than than that derived from diabolical destruction, chaos, and death.

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 07, 2026 02:09 PM (j3Ll1)

366 357 Was she a pretty white soccer mom? Or a towel head?
Soccer mom will get pumped to rile up the wine boxers. Towel head gets forgotten by next monday.

Posted by: Cold, dark and unpleasant at January 07, 2026 02:08 PM (KdazR)

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The blacks aren't going to riot for her.

Intersectional stack says they don't have to give a shit about her.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 02:09 PM (GBKbO)

367
Not a slam dunk for ICE but you have to account for split second decisions...
Posted by: It's me donna

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I think this will not go well for ICE. He shot at her multiple times, the last shot(s) when he was well clear of her vehicle and she was driving away.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 07, 2026 02:09 PM (Uo+RY)

368
and the constant droning on about the same damn things by that one guy, Ed.

Posted by: Stubbs at January 07, 2026 02:04 PM (bIWgk)



Just don't mention The Beatles around Driscoll, he'll post John/Paul knob-gobbling for two weeks straight.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 07, 2026 02:09 PM (y9nCu)

369 Blacks ain't the top of the stack.

Right now it's islamists followed by illegals followed by trannies. Those are the top 3.

Every four years Democrats pretend blacks are at the top and they buy it.

Posted by: ... at January 07, 2026 02:09 PM (Q4G+n)

370 All of those poor, underserved kids who are locked into closets at home so their mama can work 8 jobs just to put cat food on the table for those kids - DO. NOT. EXIST. They never have"


ESPECIALLY in any muslham community.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 02:09 PM (Zz0t1)

371 Anything to buy votes and power. "By any means necessary." Indeed.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 07, 2026 02:09 PM (jRujf)

372 Oh wait, second look, I see she was headed towards a guy -- but he got out of the way and shot her more like as she was driving away. I bet that bullet entered the side of her head.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

There were two shots, the first was with the guy in front of her that nearly gets run over and he fires again when she is

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 02:09 PM (WDjG6)

373 303 >>Is there video of the AWFL getting shot?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9CJY5p0xz4
Posted by: one hour sober


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Dude should have shot that bitch screaming.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 07, 2026 02:10 PM (bIWgk)

374 The Voters are still unaware (as we all are) of the magnitude of the steal. Investigations are still ongoing. Trials have yet to be held.

I've got a slightly different take.

We've been talking about fraud for years. Hell the left does as well.

People going to jail for non-trivial amounts of money are rare and likely more importantly, the LIVs never see their taxes go down because of a successful crack down on fraud.

So its not so they are completely unaware, its that they've been burned repeatedly in the past...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 02:10 PM (sKqQm)

375 369 Blacks ain't the top of the stack.

Right now it's islamists followed by illegals followed by trannies. Those are the top 3.

Every four years Democrats pretend blacks are at the top and they buy it.

Posted by: ... at January 07, 2026 02:09 PM (Q4G+n)

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Blacks don't agree with this.

Ask those black people who went to Gaza and were insulting to the Palestinians because they weren't as oppressed as the American blacks.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 02:10 PM (GBKbO)

376 350 Subpoena Nedra Tanden.

She’s already testified before Congress that she used the auto pen.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 07, 2026 02:07 PM (Hkcdp)

Yeah, but she was into kinky shit...

Posted by: Otto Penn... at January 07, 2026 02:10 PM (mP0Kj)

377 you can't see where she guns it at the agent in the one view, so it seems weird like she is driving away and crashes, but that is after the part where she drives at him. she gets shot going at him then drives away but crashes bc she is badly shot.

and it's all slow bc city street and snow everywhere

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 07, 2026 02:10 PM (emBoF)

378
It's key to remember that Omar gets elected to Congress based on the votes mostly of white people.

Her district is 60% white. Only 17% black.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 01:49 PM

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Delusional Scandinavian Eloi who signal their virtue by committing suicide.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 07, 2026 02:10 PM (biznJ)

379 These mentally-ill death cultists are incapable of deriving ANY meaning from their otherwise meaningless lives -- other than than that derived from diabolical destruction, chaos, and death.

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 07, 2026 02:09 PM (j3Ll1)

And that's their good qualities

Posted by: ... at January 07, 2026 02:10 PM (Q4G+n)

380 Dead Karen's Don't Wear Plaid.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer



I saw Dead Karen's Don't Wear Plaid open for the Bay City Rollers at the Riverfront in Cleveland in '81.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 02:11 PM (WC9t6)

381 MSNOW Is running with the narrative that an utterly innocent Minneapolis woman was simply trying to leave the area when she was shot, murdered really, by ICE agents who were not in danger.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram
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Watched the video, she tried to escape and nearly ran over a ICE cop. Streets were icy as well with the cop nearly getting hit in front of her.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 02:07 PM (WDjG6)
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Agree. It's not the best shooting ever, but clearly she was aggressive, not obeying, and would have run that guy over. FAFO. I also wonder what happened before the vid began. Her car is at an odd angle, almost facing the wrong way, and the officers are already screaming at her to get out. I strongly suspect she already tried to ram them but failed, so the officers were already very suspicious.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 02:11 PM (iFTx/)

382 331 Are AWFL's in Minneapolis now going to riot now and try to burn everything down? This should be interesting.

Posted by: Ripley at January 07, 2026 02:05 PM (GUOwU)


They'll pay Somalis to riot for them.

Posted by: Gref at January 07, 2026 02:11 PM (5rh/l)

383 The guy who killed Babbit raked in over a hundredM running a home day care

Posted by: night lifted at January 07, 2026 02:11 PM (kJmLc)

384
Every four years Democrats pretend blacks are at the top and they buy it.
Posted by: ...
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I love it when a plan comes together.

Posted by: Zombie LBJ at January 07, 2026 02:11 PM (XeU6L)

385 381 Agree. It's not the best shooting ever, but clearly she was aggressive, not obeying, and would have run that guy over. FAFO. I also wonder what happened before the vid began. Her car is at an odd angle, almost facing the wrong way, and the officers are already screaming at her to get out. I strongly suspect she already tried to ram them but failed, so the officers were already very suspicious.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 02:11 PM (iFTx/)

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"I stopped trying to kill you three seconds ago. Why did you keep shooting?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 02:11 PM (GBKbO)

386
I think this will not go well for ICE. He shot at her multiple times, the last shot(s) when he was well clear of her vehicle and she was driving away.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 07, 2026 02:09 PM (Uo+RY)


Shooting at an attempted murderer that ends up in death at the scene usually means prevention of further murder 'down the road.'

The shooter will be suspended pending investigation. The investigation will be done and he will be deemed cleared in a good shoot.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 02:11 PM (Zz0t1)

387 regardless. she was stopped. just sit still you weirdo.

but she was inspired to attack the agents. she waited til they all got out of their vehicle and then gunned her SUV at them from a stationary position. to hit them.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 07, 2026 02:11 PM (emBoF)

388 Move over Mr Chauvin, 'cause we got a new cellmate for ya.

Posted by: M. Gaga at January 07, 2026 02:11 PM (KiBMU)

389
Three shots. Which one(s) hit her? Which one(s) killed her? The first shot MIGHT be justified because she was headed at him, but the second two, doubtful.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 07, 2026 02:12 PM (Uo+RY)

390 303 >>Is there video of the AWFL getting shot?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9CJY5p0xz4
Posted by: one hour sober at January 07, 2026 02:01 PM (Y1sOo)

Just watched that, then replayed the critical moment several times. In all honesty it doesn't look good for the ICE agent who opened fire. He placed himself in front of the car after it was in motion, and had ample time to move out of the way. Also shooting a driver of a moving car doesn't stop it in its tracks like in video games. Unfortunately in this climate ICE has zero room to make unforced errors like this.

Posted by: Just one idiot's opinion at January 07, 2026 02:12 PM (TbWk/)

391 I saw Dead Karen's Don't Wear Plaid open for the Bay City Rollers at the Riverfront in Cleveland in '81.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 02:11 PM (WC9t6)


Nicely done!

*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 02:12 PM (Zz0t1)

392 >>Her district is 60% white. Only 17% black.


Can't go by % with MN Election Law.

You are assuming that the Votes came exclusively from Citizens.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 02:12 PM (ddphe)

393 I don't think this ICE shooting thing is going to be the Floyd that the left desperately wants.

I say insurrection act in 3... 2.... 1..

Posted by: melodicmetal1 at January 07, 2026 02:12 PM (61TgR)

394 All of those poor, underserved kids who are locked into closets at home so their mama can work 8 jobs just to put cat food on the table for those kids - DO. NOT. EXIST. They never have"

I vaguely recall a case out of...GA?...where a mom let her 10(?) year old play in a park by herself while the mom went to work.

Someone called the cops and the mom was arrested.

And my thoughts at the time is when I was 10 I was usually out of the house for pretty much the whole day if I wasn't in school and no my parents didn't know where I was exactly either...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 02:12 PM (sKqQm)

395 I think this will not go well for ICE. He shot at her multiple times, the last shot(s) when he was well clear of her vehicle and she was driving away.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia


Felony attempted murder all in the same act? Yeah. He's good.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 02:12 PM (WC9t6)

396 338 Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 01:57 PM (WDjG6)

I do not see her trying to run the ICE officer down. She is driving away trying to escape, while an ICE officer has his hand inside her vehicle attempting to get her to come out.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson

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The one who shot was in front of the car. She was going to hit him, so hard to say. He could have moved out of the way, and did, but first he shot.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 07, 2026 02:13 PM (bIWgk)

397 My problem with Ethiopian food is that it doesn't use enough soy.

It's highly soyless-y.

Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2026 02:13 PM (77rzZ)

398 "341 I'm still waiting for a valid reason for why taxpayers have to pay for anything for other people's kids. I have no kids and never did or will. Why am I paying tens of thousands of dollars a year that go right to public "education" for other people's kids? Which really isn't going to educate them anyway, but to keep incompetent DEI retard Democraps at full employment.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 01:59 PM (iFTx/)

Someone could also argue I don’t own a car why should my taxes build roads?
Roads benefit everyone obviously as goods are transported on those roads that everyone buys, drivers and non drivers. Same goes with education in theory, a well educated population benefits everyone, I using people who have no kids of their own."

kinda with Elric on this one ... "in theory" is right!
in practice, education is bs and counterproductive; every year costs go up & performance goes down.
and I fund roads with every gallon of gasoline I buy.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 07, 2026 02:13 PM (Cjt/F)

399 Someone could also argue I don’t own a car why should my taxes build roads?

Roads benefit everyone obviously as goods are transported on those roads that everyone buys, drivers and non drivers. Same goes with education in theory, a well educated population benefits everyone, I using people who have no kids of their own.

Posted by: Tucker at January 07, 2026 02:06 PM (Q/qJ3)

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Not a great example. Roads are primarily built and maintained by taxes tacked onto gasoline purchase. The real gripe now is those driving EV's not contributing to that tax, but enjoying the roadways. Which merely means they are going to end up being taxed another way (per mile is my guess) eventually.

As for education. Education is guaranteed and mandatory, and and educated public (in theory) is a better public. SUBSIDIZED DAYCARE, on the other hand is just the result of poor planning on behalf of the parents. If they can't afford to stay at home with the new one, or can't afford daycare while they work...then having a kid was a poor personal decision that shouldn't be passed onto the taxpayer.

Posted by: Orson at January 07, 2026 02:13 PM (dIske)

400 395 I think this will not go well for ICE. He shot at her multiple times, the last shot(s) when he was well clear of her vehicle and she was driving away.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia


Felony attempted murder all in the same act? Yeah. He's good.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 02:12 PM (WC9t6)

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Immunity plus fed DOJ backing is going to make the officer very safe from any attempt by MN to charge him with anything.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 02:13 PM (GBKbO)

401 The guy who killed Babbit raked in over a hundredM running a home day care

Did he get the money before or after? Because if after that sounds a lot like hush money doesn't it?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 02:13 PM (sKqQm)

402 I saw Cracker Be Dumb open for Noise "R" Us at 91X X-Fest in '06.

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 07, 2026 02:13 PM (j3Ll1)

403 Wow.

$56 billion during covid for daycare.

Amazing what is being uncovered in the Biden litterbox.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 07, 2026 02:13 PM (WONhk)

404 Yea baby.

>>@RepNancyMace
·
1h
>>BREAKING: We just moved to subpoena Rep. Ilhan Omar and her brother/husband’s immigration records in the Oversight Committee.

>>Federal marriage fraud and knowingly entering a marriage to evade immigration laws is a serious felony punishable by prison time, steep fines, denaturalization and deportation. Marrying a sibling is illegal in every state. We intend to get to the bottom of it.

>>END THE FRAUD. DENATURALIZE AND DEPORT ILHAN OMAR.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 07, 2026 02:14 PM (viF8m)

405 And my thoughts at the time is when I was 10 I was usually out of the house for pretty much the whole day if I wasn't in school and no my parents didn't know where I was exactly either...
Posted by: 18-1


You could have found me at the city park fishing.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 02:14 PM (WC9t6)

406 Ethiopian food is underrated.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 02:03 PM (iFTx/)

Less so when they actually have any. I'm old enough to remember that crisis.

Posted by: GWB at January 07, 2026 02:14 PM (TVwv1)

407 Was she a pretty white soccer mom? Or a towel head?
Soccer mom will get pumped to rile up the wine boxers. Towel head gets forgotten by next monday.

Posted by: Cold, dark and unpleasant at January 07, 2026 02:08 PM (KdazR)

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The blacks aren't going to riot for her.

Intersectional stack says they don't have to give a shit about her.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 02:09 PM (GBKbO)
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Without a racial angle, this is another 80/20 issue that will be deader than that dumb cunt by the weekend. The vast majority of normals will watch the vid, shrug, and mutter "FAFO."

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 02:14 PM (iFTx/)

408 Where is the video? I can’t find it.

Posted by: Tucker at January 07, 2026 02:14 PM (Q/qJ3)

409 Bring back the gallows. I’ll provide the rope MN can’t afford one.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 07, 2026 02:14 PM (Ouxay)

410 He should be punished every bit as harshly as Michael Byrd.

Posted by: ... at January 07, 2026 02:15 PM (Q4G+n)

411 >>BREAKING: We just moved to subpoena Rep. Ilhan Omar and her brother/husband’s immigration records in the Oversight Committee.

>>Federal marriage fraud and knowingly entering a marriage to evade immigration laws is a serious felony punishable by prison time, steep fines, denaturalization and deportation. Marrying a sibling is illegal in every state. We intend to get to the bottom of it.

>>END THE FRAUD. DENATURALIZE AND DEPORT ILHAN OMAR.
Posted by: JackStraw


In light of the MN Daycare Fraud, this story now has legs.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 02:15 PM (WC9t6)

412 >>BREAKING: We just moved to subpoena Rep. Ilhan Omar and her brother/husband’s immigration records in the Oversight Committee.


Arrest one Dem at her level for fraud and you will see a seachange in how the left handles defrauding the government.

As of right now they believe they are all impervious.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 02:15 PM (sKqQm)

413 Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey on Wednesday told federal immigration authorities to "get the f---" out of the city following the fatal shooting of a woman by an ICE officer during an enforcement operation. 

The Department of Homeland Security said authorities were conducting an operation when rioters began blocking ICE vehicles. The driver of one vehicle allegedly attempted to "weaponize her vehicle" to hit law enforcement officials in what they described as an act of "domestic terrorism."

Posted by: SMOD at January 07, 2026 02:15 PM (RHGPo)

414 Ethiopian food is underrated.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 02:03 PM (iFTx/)

Less so when they actually have any. I'm old enough to remember that crisis.
Posted by: GWB


MRE - Meals Rejected by Ethiopians

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 02:16 PM (WC9t6)

415 The old joke was "what do they call an Ethiopian with a yeast infection?"

A quarter pounder with cheese.

Posted by: Oglebay at January 07, 2026 02:16 PM (2ap+5)

416
As of right now they believe they are all impervious.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 02:15 PM (sKqQm)


Because the only perp walks in the last 20 years have been Republicans.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 02:16 PM (Zz0t1)

417 407 Without a racial angle, this is another 80/20 issue that will be deader than that dumb cunt by the weekend. The vast majority of normals will watch the vid, shrug, and mutter "FAFO."

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 02:14 PM (iFTx/)

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"That could have been me!"
-all the AWFLs

"Yeah...we know."
-everyone else

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 02:16 PM (GBKbO)

418 MRE - Meals Rejected by Ethiopians
Posted by: rickb223

The few times I actually tried MREs, I thought they were pretty good.

Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2026 02:17 PM (77rzZ)

419
A quarter pounder with cheese.
Posted by: Oglebay at January 07, 2026 02:16 PM (2ap+5)


Are they on the metric system? Royal with cheese.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 02:17 PM (Zz0t1)

420 I think this will not go well for ICE. He shot at her multiple times, the last shot(s) when he was well clear of her vehicle and she was driving away.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Looks like twice. First in front of the vehicle and second alongside. We also do not see due to vantage point whether another ICE officer was downfield. Door was open on another vehicle which she narrowly avoids.

BTW, once you try to run over a cop on slippery streets while fleeing, you are now a fleeing felon where lethal force can be used to stop you. Both shots occurred in about two seconds.

See TN v. Garner. Her case was a misdemeanor until she almost runs over the ICE guy in front of her. And she did almost do that on a slippery street where that cop could have easily slipped in that split second.

Cars are considered lethal weapons btw and doing stupid shit like trying to flee with them to avoid being deported, getting a ticket or other stupid shit means you are playing stupid games and you win stupid prizes.

Watched it about six to seven times.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 02:17 PM (WDjG6)

421 Well the video doesn't look good for the ICE agent but the angle isn't the best... Need to know what happened before...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2026 02:17 PM (VE6XX)

422 RICO, RICO, RICO!

Then rope neckties.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 07, 2026 02:18 PM (xvV+O)

423 There is nothing to suggest that she was just going to drive away. Maybe, maybe not. Maybe she turns around and makes a b-line for the agents in the road.

You shoot to stop the threat.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 07, 2026 02:18 PM (Y1sOo)

424 Because the only perp walks in the last 20 years have been Republicans./i]

The last one I remember was Cold Cash Jefferson so likely we are on the same page.

Quite an amazing thing to see to - the formal argument that no Dem insider has committed fraud in the last generation isn't it?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 02:18 PM (sKqQm)

425 Three shots. Which one(s) hit her? Which one(s) killed her? The first shot MIGHT be justified because she was headed at him, but the second two, doubtful.
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This is incorrect thinking. If the first one was justified, she attempted to murder them. At that point, if she does not surrender get out car, she is attempting to esacpe and deadly force is justified to effect arrest.

Posted by: Cold, dark and unpleasant at January 07, 2026 02:19 PM (KdazR)

426 Roads benefit everyone obviously as goods are transported on those roads that everyone buys, drivers and non drivers. Same goes with education in theory, a well educated population benefits everyone, I using people who have no kids of their own.

Posted by: Tucker at January 07, 2026 02:06 PM (Q/qJ3)

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Poor analogy. The government has to build/maintain roads and collect taxes for it, because each road traverses numerous properties. There is no practical way to do this privately.

Privately funded education was the norm in this country until the early 1900s, and worked well. Literacy was much higher before government schools started. Nothing says that some tax money shouldn't go to poor kids for private schooling....vouchers. But there is no reason schools need to be government run. .

Posted by: Bigsmith at January 07, 2026 02:19 PM (1Au9i)

427
Not a great example.

Posted by: Orson

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Also roads are a form of commons, and they require some form of sovereign power to create. You can't just privatize all land and let people fight it out like some extreme libertarians suggest. Someone has to do it and so if falls on government. (there is a lot more here, but I don't want to give a lecture.)

Schools are not like that -- anyone can teach or raise their own kids. Yes, society has an interest in a well educated populace, but that is another matter.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 07, 2026 02:19 PM (bIWgk)

428 423 There is nothing to suggest that she was just going to drive away. Maybe, maybe not. Maybe she turns around and makes a b-line for the agents in the road.

You shoot to stop the threat.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 07, 2026 02:18 PM (Y1sOo)

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"I only tried to kill you once, officer."
-her defense, if she had survived

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 02:19 PM (GBKbO)

429 Agree. It's not the best shooting ever, but clearly she was aggressive, not obeying, and would have run that guy over. FAFO. I also wonder what happened before the vid began. Her car is at an odd angle, almost facing the wrong way, and the officers are already screaming at her to get out. I strongly suspect she already tried to ram them but failed, so the officers were already very suspicious.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 02:11 PM (iFTx/)

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"I stopped trying to kill you three seconds ago. Why did you keep shooting?"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 02:11 PM (GBKbO)
____

Yea. Something went down before the vid begins. In addition to what I said above, you also have the other girl (the one taking the vid?) screaming like a madwoman at something. Plus, something caused her to start filming. I'm taking bets that the dead bitch tried to ram the cops before the vid starts.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 02:19 PM (iFTx/)

430 you can find video on X

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 07, 2026 02:19 PM (emBoF)

431 Need to know what happened before...
Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2026 02:17 PM (VE6XX)


What? Full context? No. That's not a thing.

Posted by: The Media at January 07, 2026 02:19 PM (Zz0t1)

432 338 I do not see her trying to run the ICE officer down. She is driving away trying to escape, while an ICE officer has his hand inside her vehicle attempting to get her to come out.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at January 07, 2026 02:06 PM (wGerL)

Ted, take another look at the video, there is an ICE officer standing right in front of the car who shoots her when she accelerates and hits him.

There is also new video from a different angle that shows him clearly being hit by the SUV.

Posted by: Joemarine at January 07, 2026 02:19 PM (y171U)

433 421 Well the video doesn't look good for the ICE agent but the angle isn't the best... Need to know what happened before...
Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2026 02:17 PM (VE6XX)

Yup, and I'll bet there IS video from before, on the same phone... and this was edited to the exact time to make it look bad.

The immediate drawing of the weapon, shows they felt they were under some sort of threat.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 02:19 PM (mP0Kj)

434 421 Well the video doesn't look good for the ICE agent but the angle isn't the best... Need to know what happened before...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2026 02:17 PM (VE6XX)

Body cam vids from all the directly involved ICE officers plus those farther away, looking that direction should tell the tale.

Posted by: Gref at January 07, 2026 02:19 PM (5rh/l)

435 Potbellied Ethiopians are plugged up because of MREs. Just saying.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 07, 2026 02:19 PM (Ouxay)

436 https://x.com/nicksortor/status/
2008973759097733306

New angle from the ICE involved shooting in Minneapolis shows the woman CLEARLY hitting the agent with her car before he fires at her

Posted by: Don Black at January 07, 2026 02:20 PM (ZxPkt)

437 I do not see her trying to run the ICE officer down. She is driving away trying to escape, while an ICE officer has his hand inside her vehicle attempting to get her to come out.
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She disobeyed a lawful order.
Yes, they can use lethal force if necessary to cause compliance with a lawful order.
They're going to go hard on claiming that the order to exit the car wasn't lawful.
They'll lose.
If you're getting cuffed, and you swing at the cop with a knife, and he dodges, then shoots you, you don't get to claim the fact that he dodged your knife voids the lawful order.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 07, 2026 02:20 PM (HXT0k)

438 Mayor Jacob Frey is probably all in on the fraud as well.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 07, 2026 02:20 PM (rZCVI)

439 There is nothing to suggest that she was just going to drive away. Maybe, maybe not. Maybe she turns around and makes a b-line for the agents in the road.

You shoot to stop the threat.
Posted by: one hour sober at January 07, 2026 02:18 PM (Y1sOo)
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Yea, and see my comments above. I think she tried to ram the cops before the vid starts. Clearly there is more to this story that just what's shown in the vid.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 02:20 PM (iFTx/)

440 I would've shot the screeching chick filming the shooting just because

Posted by: NCKate at January 07, 2026 02:21 PM (uQzkA)

441
>>END THE FRAUD. DENATURALIZE AND DEPORT ILHAN OMAR.
Posted by: JackStraw

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I hope they have the goods on her.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 07, 2026 02:21 PM (fUDtc)

442 Body cam vids from all the directly involved ICE officers plus those farther away, looking that direction should tell the tale.
Posted by: Gref at January 07, 2026 02:19 PM (5rh/l)


Where's the fun in waiting for all the evidence to come in?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 02:21 PM (Zz0t1)

443 She was blocking the road with her SUV, preventing the ICE agents from passing. That is what happened before.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 07, 2026 02:21 PM (Y1sOo)

444 This is Minneapolis, where they let a Somali cop walk after he shot and killed a white woman who was approaching him to report a rape.
Whatever happens, justice ain't gonna have anything to do with it.

Posted by: Wally at January 07, 2026 02:21 PM (0e5Te)

445 Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 07, 2026 02:19 PM (bIWgk)

and yet we now see plenty of 'Private' Highways were you must pay a toll.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 02:22 PM (mP0Kj)

446 Totally diggin' the concert for the kids.

Posted by: bluebell at January 07, 2026 02:22 PM (79pEw)

447 @MayorFrey
·
2h
I am aware of a shooting involving an ICE agent at 34th Street & Portland. The presence of federal immigration enforcement agents is causing chaos in our city. We’re demanding ICE to leave the city immediately. We stand rock solid with our immigrant and refugee communities.

Posted by: Don Black at January 07, 2026 02:22 PM (ZxPkt)

448 443 She was blocking the road with her SUV, preventing the ICE agents from passing. That is what happened before.
Posted by: one hour sober at January 07, 2026 02:21 PM (Y1sOo)

I guess she FAFO

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2026 02:22 PM (VE6XX)

449 414 LOL!

Posted by: gp at January 07, 2026 02:22 PM (GHIyr)

450 Better video angle. She does appear to actually hit the ICE agent.

https://tinyurl.com/338smh3u

Posted by: JackStraw at January 07, 2026 02:22 PM (viF8m)

451 I would've shot the screeching chick filming the shooting just because
Posted by: NCKate at January 07, 2026 02:21 PM (uQzkA)


*BLAM BLAM*

"Threat neutralized!"


"OH MUY GAAHHHD!!!!!"

*BLAM*

"Also......neutralized."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 02:22 PM (Zz0t1)

452 Nood.

Posted by: Nazdar at January 07, 2026 02:22 PM (NcvvS)

453 @elonmusk
·
2h
You are a pathetic donkey

Posted by: Don Black at January 07, 2026 02:22 PM (ZxPkt)

454 Did he get the money before or after? Because if after that sounds a lot like hush money doesn't it?
Posted by: 18-1

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My recollection is that he got some kind of 7 figure bonus or settlement for the trauma of his experience after he was outed. He was well paid regardless of the daycare thing.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 07, 2026 02:22 PM (bIWgk)

455 nood

Posted by: gp at January 07, 2026 02:22 PM (GHIyr)

456 That person screaming needed some lead as well. Good lord. That shoot looked ok to me and maybe not ok. Either way, don't be stupid and try to run over agents or cops. What a maroon. A dead maroon now.

Posted by: turambar at January 07, 2026 02:23 PM (Q0yOR)

457 Sometimes we forget the basics...

One of the is- Don't go out of your way to challenge any guys with guns if it's not necessary.

Stupid waste of life.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at January 07, 2026 02:23 PM (MSlZp)

458 88 PDJT is apparently going to ban institutional investors from purchasing single-family homes.

this is interesting
Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 07, 2026 01:35 PM (emBoF)


That is interesting.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 07, 2026 02:23 PM (i0Hi3)

459 445 Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 07, 2026 02:19 PM (bIWgk)

and yet we now see plenty of 'Private' Highways were you must pay a toll.
Posted by: Romeo13


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That's just graft, justified by Chicago School BS

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 07, 2026 02:23 PM (bIWgk)

460 Body cam vids from all the directly involved ICE officers plus those farther away, looking that direction should tell the tale.

One of the amusing things about bodycam footage when the idea was originally proposed it was generally anti-police orgs in favor and pro-police orgs opposed.

Everyone expected it would show massive police criminality.

Not that no bad cop has been caught this way but in most cases the video seems to be bolster police officer's stories. And thinking it through, it is a good thing that the public can see what our public servants are doing in our name...so can we get these on IRS bureaucrats, ATF agents, etc?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 02:23 PM (sKqQm)

461 144 >>Airport worker in Minn claims to have seen suitcases full of cash loaded on flights out of country.


Why would you not steal it?
==
I know why i wouldnt. I saw the movie A Simple Plan.
Posted by: Morals, ethics, a cautionary tale. Whatever works for you at January 07, 2026 01:42 PM (KdazR)

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I think they actually started importing Somali's to Minnesota at a the behest of Delta Airlines to work at the airport.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 07, 2026 02:24 PM (Vh9CX)

462 Just watched that, then replayed the critical moment several times.
Posted by: Just one idiot's opinion
======
Occurred in two seconds total. Things move a lot faster when you are in the line of fire.

And btw, the federal agent is not required to remove himself, she is required to stop and trying to run him down makes her a fleeing felon.

Stupid yters tell people to do stupid things with the police.

You comply, period, you do what they say, period, and you take your fight to court. You do not do stupid things in the present of police officers.

You do not have to consent with police searches and shouldn't. You do not have to consent with field sobriety tests, and you do not have to consent to speak to them. But if they choose, you cannot use force to try to escape the trip downtown. They either have probable cause to stop you or they don't.

If they do, then whatever you say or do becomes unlawful resisting of arrest, obstructing law enforcement, etc. and other charges. Try to flee by running over an officer who is not required to get out the way by any law during a stop, you become a forcible felon.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 02:24 PM (WDjG6)

463 285 Is there video of the AWFL getting shot?
Posted by: Tucker

It's to a reddit post, but it has a video from a good angle:
https://tinyurl.com/ykmd953z

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 07, 2026 02:24 PM (44PvT)

464 Don't they teach not trying to run over cops in drivers ed?

Posted by: Weasel at January 07, 2026 02:25 PM (vt7xw)

465 Those people tend not to vote, regardless.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 01:29 PM (Zz0t1)

Those people's names are on completed ballots, however. That is what the Kools buy.

Posted by: GWB at January 07, 2026 02:25 PM (TVwv1)

466 Not that no bad cop has been caught this way but in most cases the video seems to be bolster police officer's stories. And thinking it through, it is a good thing that the public can see what our public servants are doing in our name...so can we get these on IRS bureaucrats, ATF agents, etc?
Posted by: 18-1
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Members of Congress and judges first.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 02:25 PM (WDjG6)

467 Yea, and see my comments above. I think she tried to ram the cops before the vid starts. Clearly there is more to this story that just what's shown in the vid.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 02:20 PM (iFTx/)

So, if the story is that she had used her car to block ICE, and there are people there filming it...

Lets see. Aiding and Abetting Illegals. Obstruction of Justice. CONSPIRACY (the filming as this now looks planned).

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 02:26 PM (mP0Kj)

468 465 Those people tend not to vote, regardless.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 01:29 PM (Zz0t1)

Those people's names are on completed ballots, however. That is what the Kools buy.
Posted by: GWB at January 07, 2026 02:25 PM (TVwv1)

Actually... there is no name on your ballot. It's like with mail in voting, the name is on the envelope, but once that envelope is open, all checks on voter ID, or even if it is counted, is dependent on who is doing the counting.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 07, 2026 02:28 PM (mP0Kj)

469 "I don't think this ICE shooting thing is going to be the Floyd that the left desperately wants."


Too cold for riots. Plus that is for the help.

Posted by: Ripley at January 07, 2026 02:28 PM (GUOwU)

470 Lets see. Aiding and Abetting Illegals. Obstruction of Justice. CONSPIRACY (the filming as this now looks planned).


yep

FAFO for Little Miss Can't-Be-Wrong

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 07, 2026 02:28 PM (emBoF)

471 Posted by: Weasel
====
Stupid people watch stupid videos on TikTok and YT to learn how to be stupid with the cops.

Whatever shit they do on the side of the road or on the street, you have to take it and fight another day in court where they can't shoot or maim you.

I had no patience for the sidewalk lawyer types when teaching criminal procedure.

I told them they did not have to speak and better that they did not other than id'ing themselves, they do not have to consent to searches. But trying to flee, any physical touching of officers, being belligerent as I know muh rights, and other stupidity could warrant a death sentence for them right there and right now.

Best to be a live dog in a courtroom arguing over probable cause than be a dead one on the side of the road.

Ironically, some of the law enforcement types in my classes got upset that I told students that they did not have to speak, consent to searches, etc. and that I was anti-cop because I discussed cases where Scotus said the cops got it wrong. Others thought I was too pro police when I discussed cases where the perp did not fare well in court or got deaded.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 02:31 PM (WDjG6)

472 The few times I actually tried MREs, I thought they were pretty good.
Posted by: Bulg


The best was from beef stew from '88 - '89 in the dark brown plastic. Wornick Company.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 02:32 PM (WC9t6)

473 So, if the story is that she had used her car to block ICE, and there are people there filming it...

Lets see. Aiding and Abetting Illegals. Obstruction of Justice. CONSPIRACY (the filming as this now looks planned).
Posted by: Romeo13

And those are federal charges.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 02:33 PM (WC9t6)

474 Longer yt link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9CJY5p0xz4
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Shooting occurs within the first minute.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 02:33 PM (WDjG6)

475 I think they actually started importing Somali's to Minnesota at a the behest of Delta Airlines to work at the airport.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken
======
Stealing from luggage was a job that Americans weren't willing to do.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 02:35 PM (WDjG6)

476 Not that no bad cop has been caught this way but in most cases the video seems to be bolster police officer's stories.
Posted by: 18-1

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There is another side though -- being on camera puts them on their best behavior. This is all good as far as I am concerned.

(And I am not concerned, I live in Japan where, if the popo show up at your door to arrest you they will remove their shoes before entering.)

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 07, 2026 02:37 PM (bIWgk)

477 All of the lefty groups are begging online for their pals to get on the streets of Minnesota and attack ICE

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 07, 2026 02:38 PM (0U5gm)

478 Lets see. Aiding and Abetting Illegals. Obstruction of Justice. CONSPIRACY (the filming as this now looks planned).
Posted by: Romeo13


Isn't this what the entire Left and Democrat Party wanted though -- a martyr?

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 07, 2026 02:40 PM (bIWgk)

479 She's clearly told to get out of the car on the video. Then she backs up and roars off.

Just before she drives off and the WTF guy horks a glob.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 07, 2026 02:42 PM (WONhk)

480 They're gonna name a park after that khunt aren't they?

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 07, 2026 02:52 PM (rqw5t)

481 We're missing the first half of the situation

Why is the Chardonnay wagon pointing in a weird direction?

Just because some dumb cunt starts screaming while holding a cell phone doesn't make it immediately bad for ICE

If the stupid cunt wasn't there to begin with (interference with law enforcement) she'd be alive and sipping Chive tea while posting complaints about her husband.

But she wasn't and now she's dead

Oh the fuck well

Posted by: melodicmetal1 at January 07, 2026 02:53 PM (61TgR)

482 Poor analogy. The government has to build/maintain roads and collect taxes for it, because each road traverses numerous properties. There is no practical way to do this privately.
_____________________

And the reason roads fall apart so easily instead of being built to last is because repairing and repaving is lucrative business.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 07, 2026 02:54 PM (rqw5t)

483 All that pesky paperwork...so much easier to just hand out bags of cash.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 07, 2026 03:00 PM (C3IAS)

484 Oh I shot a tard in Minni, just to watch her die,
But the ICE keeps a freezin', I hang my head and sigh.

Posted by: Martin Tell at January 07, 2026 03:22 PM (sFNX2)

A Trans "Woman" Beats His Pud In the Planet Fitness Woman's Bathroom; Planet Fitness Throws Out The Actual Woman Who Reported the Public Masturbator, Let the Public Masturbator Stay

The very obvious man pounded it out like he was John Bonham playing Kashmir at Wembley.

The male public masturbatior jerked off openly with women present. When one woman reported him to the staff, they kicked her out of the Planet Fitness and let the sex criminal stay.

Because he's "transgender" and so he's allowed to pull his dick like choad-flavored taffy.

The mentally-ill man and sex predator was in a stall, but you could see what he was doing in the shadows beneath him. It's obvious he's jerking off. Either that or he's trying to start an outboard motor he keeps on his belt.

Planet Fitness instructs its female clients to show "understanding" towards publicly-masturbating men invading their private spaces.


This took place near San Francisco -- of course. A place called Concord.


Below, you can really see the mentally-ill sex pest shadowboxing with his hog.

The woman sent in her boyfriend to confront his fellow penis-tugging man. He keeps saying "Dude, you're jerking off, everyone can see it" and "Bro, this is totally inappropriate." The "Transgender" doesn't really deny it, he just keeps saying "I was in the stall" as if when you're in a public stall, there are no rules. It's Dick Thunderdome.

Adam Carolla talked about this. When the transgender is asked "well if you weren't jerking off, what were you doing?!," Adam Carolla answers, "I was trying to pull this golf-ball through a sock."

By the way, he talks about his old left-wing lunatic co-hosts, Bald Brian and Gina Grad. Of Grad, he says that she engaged in straight-up denialism of the incident at the Wii spa, where a black woman famously complained of a transgender man showing off his dick to underaged girls in the women's rooms. Gina Grad simply claimed "it didn't happen." She likes transgenders and therefore, like a good communist, insists that any Identity Group she is an "ally" to is not capable of any crimes or bad behavior. If you claim they are, you're a racist or a transphobe.

There's a lot of that going 'round. Somalis, for example, are taking great advantage of this Minority Criminal Cheat Code.


Don't go to Planet Fitness. It's time for the Full Bud Light.


You might say, "But they're in a bind, California law demands they do this."

Well, sort of. California requires women to share intimate spaces with mentally-ill men, yes -- but I'm pretty sure that they haven't yet taken the step of making it official that transgenders are allowed to publicly masturbate in women's rooms next to women and girls.

Planet Fitness has implemented this policy on their own. They had an "excuse" -- if one is needed -- to kick the pervert out. They decided to excuse his behavior and eject the woman who reported him.

It's all insane.

Happy Humpday!

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1 Boned!

Posted by: Max Bone at January 07, 2026 12:11 PM (Gwl1K)

2 Hope he goes blind.

Posted by: Cray Cray at January 07, 2026 12:12 PM (JiBLQ)

3 Top o the noon to you.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 07, 2026 12:12 PM (jc0TO)

4 gay planet fitness it is.

Posted by: Kingsman at January 07, 2026 12:12 PM (ehY6c)

5 ‘ A Trans "Woman" Beats His Pud In the Planet Fitness Woman's Bathroom’

Where else is a girl supposed to beat her pud?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 07, 2026 12:13 PM (jbnUc)

6 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 12:13 PM (Zz0t1)

7 Soon Gavin Newsom will make sucking trans dick mandatory.

Posted by: steevy at January 07, 2026 12:14 PM (YwEeS)

8 mentally-ill sex pest shadowboxing with his hog

Bwahahahaha.

There's a lot of that going 'round. Somalis, for example, are taking great advantage of this Minority Criminal Cheat Code.

Willowed:

411 It's really not that hard to put the lie to the "diversity is our strength" horses***.

https://is.gd/PgjAWE

Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2026 12:14 PM (Riz8t)

9 We have a planet Fitness nearby. It's full of cottage cheese thighed Karen's all walking in with their stupid fucking Stanley mugs.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 07, 2026 12:14 PM (abIsI)

10 Bailiff, whack his pee-pee!

Posted by: Judge Hardy at January 07, 2026 12:15 PM (oftw2)

11 So glad I never joined PF.
Morning Ace.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 07, 2026 12:15 PM (xcxpd)

12 Afternoon, Ace. How's the back doing?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 07, 2026 12:15 PM (bFu5X)

13 >>> Throws Out The Actual Woman Who Reported the Public Masturbator, Let the Public Masturbator Stay


Most gym rats are homos.
May be buff homos, but homos.

Posted by: Operator Error at January 07, 2026 12:15 PM (dr97s)

14 And John Bonham was amazing.

His kid isn't bad at drumming either.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 07, 2026 12:15 PM (xcxpd)

15 like he was John Bonham playing Kashmir at Wembley

I'm stealing this.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 07, 2026 12:15 PM (jc0TO)

16 "Soon Gavin Newsom will make sucking trans dick mandatory."

Excuse me?!? The polite term is "Ladypenis"

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at January 07, 2026 12:16 PM (Vpqw1)

17 You might say, "But they're in a bind, California law demands they do this."

Well, sort of. California requires women to share intimate spaces with mentally-ill men, yes -- but I'm pretty sure that they haven't yet taken the step of making it official that transgenders are allowed to publicly masturbate in women's rooms next to women and girls.

Public masturbation is illegal, or men in women's rooms (or anywhere else) can masturbate publicly. Pick one.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2026 12:16 PM (Riz8t)

18 Afternoon Ace.

Planet Fitness: our brains don't work but we've got sixpack abs

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 07, 2026 12:16 PM (ScJGb)

19 9 We have a planet Fitness nearby. It's full of cottage cheese thighed Karen's all walking in with their stupid fucking Stanley mugs.
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The funny part is that the peak of the Stanley cup fad was a year or two ago. If their sense of time elapsing weren't affected by massive box wine consumption, they'd be aware of this.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at January 07, 2026 12:16 PM (Dg7ng)

20 I'm sure this is just a misunderstanding.

Xhe was probably just trying to pull off Xer junk, realizing that it doesn't belong on a woman's body, after seeing actual women's bodies.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at January 07, 2026 12:17 PM (5yDGQ)

21 "Gina Grad simply claimed "it didn't happen." She likes transgenders and therefore, like a good communist, insists that any Identity Group she is an "ally" to is not capable of any crimes or bad behavior."

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Yes! The SCIENCE is settled, you angry bigot!!!!

Posted by: Jay in PA at January 07, 2026 12:18 PM (9mw3J)

22 >>>2 Hope he goes blind.
Posted by: Cray Cray

based on my own extensive N=1 experimentation, he probably won't, though he will need reading glasses as soon as he hits 40.

(Seriously, it was OVERNIGHT)

Posted by: ace at January 07, 2026 12:18 PM (1wjle)

23 The funny part is that the peak of the Stanley cup fad was a year or two ago.

When the Vegas Golden Knights won? That's hard to believe.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 07, 2026 12:18 PM (jc0TO)

24
#CaliforniaIsAsshoe

Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 07, 2026 12:18 PM (wtvvX)

25 Forget it Jake, it's Californication.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 07, 2026 12:18 PM (MvBjh)

26 I suspect the complaining woman was kicked out for videotaping in the bathroom.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 07, 2026 12:18 PM (qufQU)

27 Hmmmm....seems like we've tossed a marker down for Iran and Pooty-poot. U.S. airborne forces began helicopter landings on the tanker minutes ago. An operation is currently underway to seize the tanker belonging to Russia’s shadow fleet.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at January 07, 2026 12:18 PM (luW68)

28 Public masturbation is illegal, or men in women's rooms (or anywhere else) can masturbate publicly. Pick one.
Posted by: Archimedes
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You never saw any of Zombie's Gay Pride march photos have you. Beating the bishop is the very least of what they get up to in public.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 12:18 PM (WDjG6)

29 2 Hope he goes blind.
Posted by: Cray Cray

based on my own extensive N=1 experimentation, he probably won't, though he will need reading glasses as soon as he hits 40.

(Seriously, it was OVERNIGHT)
Posted by: ace

Don't forget hair on the knuckles.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 07, 2026 12:19 PM (abIsI)

30 I saw Dick Thunderdome open for Ricky Martin at Miami Arena in '99.

I lost a bet.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 12:19 PM (Zz0t1)

31 Pud light.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 07, 2026 12:19 PM (Kt19C)

32 ‘Beating it like it owed him money’

That was always the euphemism that made me laugh.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 07, 2026 12:19 PM (jbnUc)

33 >>>12 Afternoon, Ace. How's the back doing?

pretty good, thanks for asking. I got out for a walk yesterday, and am going again today, because it's in the high fifties.

Afternoon to you!

Posted by: ace at January 07, 2026 12:19 PM (1wjle)

34 Give the guy credit. He wasn't wanking in the handicap stall.

Posted by: ADA Compliance Ossifer at January 07, 2026 12:19 PM (oftw2)

35 You never saw any of Zombie's Gay Pride march photos have you. Beating the bishop is the very least of what they get up to in public.

I have seen them. I wish I hadn't.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2026 12:19 PM (Riz8t)

36 Xhe was probably just trying to pull off Xer junk, realizing that it doesn't belong on a woman's body, after seeing actual women's bodies.
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at January 07, 2026 12:17 PM

Fine. Arrest Xer for attempting to practice medicine without a license.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 07, 2026 12:19 PM (bFu5X)

37 In My Time of Dying > Kashmir

Posted by: dantesed at January 07, 2026 12:19 PM (Oy/m2)

38 Xhe was probably just trying to pull off Xer junk, realizing that it doesn't belong on a woman's body, after seeing actual women's bodies.
Posted by: Curly Shuffle
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That is the excuse that someone would use in the rest of the country, not San Francisco vicinity.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 12:19 PM (WDjG6)

39 No way I’m watching any of those videos. Disgusting

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 07, 2026 12:20 PM (fQUiK)

40 Planet Fitness won't kick an "it" out for jackin' it, but they will sound the "Lunk Alarm" if you grunt loudly while lifting weights. I guess "it" was jackin' it quietly.

Posted by: Chuck C at January 07, 2026 12:20 PM (D0HYP)

41 Hmmmm....seems like we've tossed a marker down for Iran and Pooty-poot. U.S. airborne forces began helicopter landings on the tanker minutes ago. An operation is currently underway to seize the tanker belonging to Russia’s shadow fleet.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working

Surprised that subject wasn't first up today.

Posted by: Tuna at January 07, 2026 12:20 PM (lJ0H4)

42 It's not "chode"? I've been spelling it wrong all these years?

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at January 07, 2026 12:20 PM (IhL8c)

43 "IT'S "GIRLCOCK!""

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 12:20 PM (Zz0t1)

44 pretty good, thanks for asking. I got out for a walk yesterday, and am going again today, because it's in the high fifties.


The warm weather has removed my last excuse for not taking down the Christmas lights. This sucks.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2026 12:20 PM (Riz8t)

45 >>>37 In My Time of Dying > Kashmir
Posted by: dantesed

disagree but I sure don't want to denigrate In My Time of Dying. it's great, obvs.

Posted by: ace at January 07, 2026 12:20 PM (1wjle)

46 Isn't it Planet Fitness that puts out pizza and bagels for their members?

Posted by: Stu Podaso at January 07, 2026 12:21 PM (as0GS)

47 You might say, "But they're in a bind, California law demands they do this."

Well, sort of. California requires women to share intimate spaces with mentally-ill men, yes




Not my monkey. Not my circus.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 12:21 PM (WC9t6)

48
Only the Shadow knows!

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 07, 2026 12:21 PM (IifOV)

49
OUT: Working Out
IN: Wanking Out

Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 07, 2026 12:21 PM (wtvvX)

50 Is this real? Serious question. The perfectly lighted and sighted shadow showing ferally obvious jerking off that ... was he holding a flashlight on his dick?

The three employees (?) standing there in formation, as if they took pre-assigned positions.

The sorta-canned dialogue from the "boyfriend" confronting the perv.

I dunno. I'm skeptical this wasn't staged. I could be wrong. Maybe.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 12:21 PM (iFTx/)

51 A bucket of cold water dumped on his head would have put an end to the pud pulling pronto.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 07, 2026 12:21 PM (Wxl9t)

52 He took it out.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 07, 2026 12:21 PM (jc0TO)

53 22 >>>2 Hope he goes blind.
Posted by: Cray Cray

based on my own extensive N=1 experimentation, he probably won't, though he will need reading glasses as soon as he hits 40.

(Seriously, it was OVERNIGHT)
Posted by: ace at January 07, 2026 12:18 PM (1wjle)

50 was when everything just kinda stopped working for me. And yes, it was almost literally overnight. Like a metabolic switch got flipped.

Thankfully the South Beach Diet works, that and some kettlebell/weight work and I'm trying to clawback what I can.

That what we are, we are.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 07, 2026 12:21 PM (xcxpd)

54 Bud-lit

Posted by: profligatewaste at January 07, 2026 12:21 PM (6ks8c)

55 >You never saw any of Zombie's Gay Pride march photos have you. Beating the bishop is the very least of what they get up to in public.

Remember me?

Posted by: scrotal inflation man at January 07, 2026 12:22 PM (rJ48h)

56 At least Kramer had the decency to go back to his apartment before engaging in the action that caused him to lose “the contest bet”… beautiful naked woman walking around in her apartment across the way. Says to Jerry: She’s gonna get you too, buddy!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 07, 2026 12:22 PM (fQUiK)

57 A modest proposal,
In order for Planet Fitness to continue to allow self pleasuring in its stalls, I suggest they warn others by playing Beat It by Michael Jackson when such is going on.

Turn on the warning music with a switch like vent fans when a little private deviant lovemaking is desired.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 12:22 PM (WDjG6)

58 Planet Fitness,

Putting the futa...

Never mind

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 07, 2026 12:22 PM (MvBjh)

59 >>>39 No way I’m watching any of those videos. Disgusting

Understood. So I will describe them for you.

the shadows show him jacking his dick with the remorseless mechanical fury of a misfiring industrial robot

Posted by: ace at January 07, 2026 12:22 PM (1wjle)

60 Relieve all women!

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 07, 2026 12:22 PM (EXyHK)

61 22
‘ he will need reading glasses as soon as he hits 40.’

Is it easier to see the Forward and Reverse buttons on the drill now?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 07, 2026 12:22 PM (jbnUc)

62 Perverts are welcome at Planet Fitness, where exercize is now defined as wanking in front of minors and women.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at January 07, 2026 12:22 PM (H0l69)

63 Remember me?
Posted by: scrotal inflation man at January 07, 2026 12:22 PM

Brother!

Posted by: Naked Testicle Spiderman at January 07, 2026 12:22 PM (jc0TO)

64 pretty good, thanks for asking. I got out for a walk yesterday, and am going again today, because it's in the high fifties.

Afternoon to you!
Posted by: ace at January 07, 2026 12:19 PM

Good to hear. We have cold and freezing rain up here. But, hey, New England in January.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 07, 2026 12:22 PM (bFu5X)

65 >>>50 Is this real? Serious question. The perfectly lighted and sighted shadow showing ferally obvious jerking off that ... was he holding a flashlight on his dick?

it's real. Adam Carolla says they just have those can-style lights directly over every stall.

Posted by: ace at January 07, 2026 12:23 PM (1wjle)

66 I'm sorry to say that until women have enough of this to vote differently as a whole, they'll get more of it. And no amount of male sanity can save them.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 07, 2026 12:23 PM (SSEhk)

67 37 In My Time of Dying > Kashmir
Posted by: dantesed at January 07, 2026 12:19 PM (Oy/m2)

They're different kinds of songs. Zep has amazing variety.

Kashmir is almost trance-like. Listening to it while on a road trip can be almost magical, no drugs or booze required.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 07, 2026 12:23 PM (xcxpd)

68 disagree but I sure don't want to denigrate In My Time of Dying. it's great, obvs.
Posted by: ace at January 07, 2026 12:20 PM (1wjle)

I do like Kashmir though.

Posted by: dantesed at January 07, 2026 12:23 PM (Oy/m2)

69 >40 Planet Fitness won't kick an "it" out for jackin' it, but they will sound the "Lunk Alarm" if you grunt loudly while lifting weights. I guess "it" was jackin' it quietly.

Posted by: Chuck C at January 07, 2026 12:20 PM (D0HYP)

In the before times, xhe would have been carried out of the locker room on a stretcher.

Posted by: Living Color at January 07, 2026 12:23 PM (NgqoH)

70 like he was John Bonham playing Kashmir at Wembley.
______
I have no idea what that means.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 07, 2026 12:23 PM (s0JqF)

71 >>>39 No way I’m watching any of those videos. Disgusting

Understood. So I will describe them for you.

the shadows show him jacking his dick with the remorseless mechanical fury of a misfiring industrial robot
Posted by: ace at January 07, 2026 12:22 PM

And this is why we keep coming back here every day.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 07, 2026 12:23 PM (bFu5X)

72 In order for Planet Fitness to continue to allow self pleasuring in its stalls, I suggest they warn others by playing Beat It by Michael Jackson when such is going on.

Alternative: Whip it!

Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2026 12:23 PM (Riz8t)

73 This seems fitting.........instant classic.


https://youtu.be/5_PoTOzrYEk


Might be NSFW, so, low volume.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 12:24 PM (Zz0t1)

74 46 Isn't it Planet Fitness that puts out pizza and bagels for their members?
Posted by: Stu Podaso at January 07, 2026 12:21 PM (as0GS)

They do. Still doesn't offset their stance in allowing sausages in a meat free area.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 07, 2026 12:24 PM (N39Ws)

75 Wait until you see this guy's finger puppets!

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 07, 2026 12:24 PM (NwnyJ)

76 Unwillingness to embarrass yourself is a sign of a healthy civilization. I guess if you pretend to be a woman, dress in women's clothing, and yank your crank in the presence of actual women, you are beyond embarrassment. This is a breakdown in civilization.

Posted by: huerfano at January 07, 2026 12:24 PM (98kQX)

77 In the Light is really good

Posted by: ace at January 07, 2026 12:24 PM (1wjle)

78 The very obvious man pounded it out like he was John Bonham playing Kashmir at Wembley
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OMG. I DIDNT MAKE IT PAST THE FIRST SENTENCE!!!!🤣

Posted by: Winning at January 07, 2026 12:25 PM (KdazR)

79 "jacking his dick with the remorseless mechanical fury of a misfiring industrial robot"

Sidebar worthy

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 07, 2026 12:25 PM (xcxpd)

80 50 Is this real? Serious question. The perfectly lighted and sighted shadow showing ferally obvious jerking off that ... was he holding a flashlight on his dick?

The three employees (?) standing there in formation, as if they took pre-assigned positions.

The sorta-canned dialogue from the "boyfriend" confronting the perv.

I dunno. I'm skeptical this wasn't staged. I could be wrong. Maybe.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

Nowadays, the zeal for reality tv and fleeting fame via video posts means all of reality is uncertain unless you had the misfortune to be there.

But this video will undoubtedly then be copied by AI models so you can make your own Happy Ending video at home and then post.

The shame is the kink.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 12:25 PM (WDjG6)

81 Rainbow Dash pony girl was the least disturbing of zombie's photos.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 07, 2026 12:25 PM (MvBjh)

82 In the before times, xhe would have been carried out of the locker room on a stretcher.
Posted by: Living Color at January 07, 2026 12:23 PM

He Goes in Through the Out Door, so to speak.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 07, 2026 12:25 PM (jc0TO)

83 Don't even talk to the local staff. They don't know diddly squat. Go straight to corporate. That's where action will be taken...to include some firings.

I had an issue with a gym. My wife signed up for a trial and at the end she told them she wasn't going to continue and was there anything more she needed to do. "No. You're good to go." But they continued to charge her card for another year at least until I noticed the charge.

Called the local gym and they said too bad, so sad. Nothing you can do.

BS.

I contacted corporate and their resident agent in my state and got all my money back. Screw the local staff. Corporate is the only way to go.

Posted by: RobertM at January 07, 2026 12:25 PM (btIS/)

84 season 1 of the Netflix serial-killer-hunter show ended with the main character having a heart attack as In the Light plays.

Posted by: ace at January 07, 2026 12:25 PM (1wjle)

85 The boyfriend that confronted him gets a gold star in my book.

Posted by: pookysgirl, posting from her sickbed at January 07, 2026 12:25 PM (Wt5PA)

86 Concord used to be a bit more conservative than the 'inner' bay area, had lower housing costs and the BART line into SF and Oakland, etc. Guess things have changed there.

Posted by: beckster at January 07, 2026 12:25 PM (I7J98)

87 If they kicked the pervert out he would sue Planet Fitness and won a multi million dollar law suit. That's the way it works now. The new lawfare. And yes it's fucked up.

Posted by: Case at January 07, 2026 12:25 PM (4rWc3)

88 Don't go to Planet Fitness. It's time for the Full Bud Light.
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And don't go to California.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 07, 2026 12:26 PM (s0JqF)

89 It's crazy that 'Thank You' and 'Whole Lotta Love' come from the same band.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 07, 2026 12:26 PM (xcxpd)

90 Fine. Arrest Xer for attempting to practice medicine without a license.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 07, 2026 12:19 PM (bFu5X)

*snort

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 07, 2026 12:26 PM (zYpTz)

91 "jacking his dick with the remorseless mechanical fury of a misfiring industrial robot"

Sidebar worthy
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 07, 2026 12:25 PM (xcxpd)


William Shakespeare be damned.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 12:26 PM (Zz0t1)

92
I see no problem with this.

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at January 07, 2026 12:26 PM (IifOV)

93 42 It's not "chode"? I've been spelling it wrong all these years?
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus

It's Mrs. CHOATE! And hands off my Marble Rye!

Posted by: Mrs. Choate at January 07, 2026 12:26 PM (oftw2)

94 I'm sorry to say that until women have enough of this to vote differently as a whole, they'll get more of it.

And no amount of male sanity can save them.
Posted by: bear


Which is why I say, not my monkey, not my circus. Because I can't do anything for them.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 12:26 PM (WC9t6)

95 As a young Capitol Hill staffer in the mid/late 90's I worked at the local sports club part-time to supplement my income. When gay men aren't shadowboxing themselves in the shower, they are helping each other in the sauna.

We had to confront and revoke multiple memberships over this. The idea that gay men want to be married and can be monogamous as portrayed on TV and in film is just so laughable. Most people have no idea how degenerate and fiendish these people are.

Posted by: Jay in PA at January 07, 2026 12:26 PM (9mw3J)

96 Either that or he's trying to start an outboard motor he keeps on his belt.

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That sounds like AOP.

/I keed, I keed ... and was privileged to meet, chat, and hang out with him (and many others -- you know who you are!) at the October TX MoMe.

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 07, 2026 12:26 PM (z6HQS)

97 Alternative: Whip it!
Posted by: Archimedes
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Whip it Good!!! Devo was right, humans are de-evolving. At least at Planet Fitness.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 12:26 PM (WDjG6)

98 Strokin' in the girls' room
I was strokin' in the girls' room
Call me ma'am, though born a him
'Cuz strokin's now allowed at the gym

Posted by: Stu Podaso at January 07, 2026 12:26 PM (as0GS)

99 Too bad that background music wasn't "Turning Japanese."

Posted by: Rex B at January 07, 2026 12:27 PM (C9oTe)

100 82 In the before times, xhe would have been carried out of the locker room on a stretcher.
Posted by: Living Color at January 07, 2026 12:23 PM

He Goes in Through the Out Door, so to speak.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 07, 2026 12:25 PM (jc0TO)

He wore a raspberry beret???

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 07, 2026 12:27 PM (xcxpd)

101 I don't know... Might have been staged...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2026 12:27 PM (VE6XX)

102 I wonder how many of these "gyms" and fitness centers -- especially in very gay-friendly locations -- are really shadow sex clubs and cover for perverts.

I tried to do some research for my comment above, but the search results were almost all social media posts about "which are the best gyms to masterbate in?" Not joking.

I know for sure there are a few "spas" that are notorious for being thinly-disguised sex clubs.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 12:27 PM (iFTx/)

103 season 1 of the Netflix serial-killer-hunter show ended with the main character having a heart attack as In the Light plays.
Posted by: ace at January 07, 2026 12:25 PM (1wjle)


Season 2 has a lot of white on black violence and homosexual encounters between high school sophomores.

You're welcome.

Posted by: Barack Owebama - Board Member and Executive Producer at January 07, 2026 12:27 PM (Zz0t1)

104 Xhe Bop

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 07, 2026 12:28 PM (Cw/ar)

105 Who farted?

Posted by: Just the Punchline at January 07, 2026 12:28 PM (jc0TO)

106 he who is without sin cast the first load

or something like that

Posted by: Rick in SK at January 07, 2026 12:28 PM (FZYNt)

107 We had to confront and revoke multiple memberships over this. The idea that gay men want to be married and can be monogamous as portrayed on TV and in film is just so laughable. Most people have no idea how degenerate and fiendish these people are.
Posted by: Jay in PA
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Saw some statistics recently that were ironic. Gay men have the lowest divorce rate in marriage, Straights, next highest, Lesbian, the highest by far.

That the gays in marriages actually don't practice monogamy might have something to do with their low divorce rate.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 12:28 PM (WDjG6)

108
Planet Fitness is aptly named. It really is like another planet, not to be confused with Earth.

Why is their management actually doing this? Access to DEI-conditioned loans? Personal homo philosophy? Drugs?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 07, 2026 12:28 PM (azNOR)

109 PSA:

If you have any health issues you need to see a dr about or have been putting it off, go see a dr.

My SIL procrastinated in seeing a Dr for a leg infection and now she has journeyed on far too soon.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 07, 2026 12:28 PM (XV/Pl)

110 Xhe Bop
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 07, 2026 12:28 PM

*snort*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 07, 2026 12:29 PM (bFu5X)

111 Why don't people like that get a stern lecture in the parking lot? Stern as in getting their ass kicked.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at January 07, 2026 12:29 PM (luW68)

112 I tried to do some research for my comment above, but the search results were almost all social media posts about "which are the best gyms to masterbate in?" Not joking.

I know for sure there are a few "spas" that are notorious for being thinly-disguised sex clubs.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade
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ChatGPT and reddit are there to serve your needs!!!

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 12:29 PM (WDjG6)

113 A place called Concord.

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I lived there and neighboring Walnut Creek for 10 years during the 90s (about 30 miles east of Oakland on the right side of the Oakland Hills)

At that time, Contra Costa County was primarily conservative, even the local newspaper.

I'm sure it's now a third-world shithole since I escaped ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 07, 2026 12:29 PM (z6HQS)

114 I think the stroker’s most heinous crime was that he wasn’t sporting Crocs. Dude. Have some decency.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 07, 2026 12:29 PM (Ouxay)

115 >>>Season 2 has a lot of white on black violence and homosexual encounters between high school sophomores.

i think we're talking about different shows. I mean the one with John Goff where he's playing FBI profiler John Douglass (but they don't call the character that). It's called Mindhunter, I think.

Posted by: ace at January 07, 2026 12:29 PM (1wjle)

116
I contacted corporate and their resident agent in my state and got all my money back. Screw the local staff. Corporate is the only way to go.
Posted by: RobertM at January 07, 2026 12:25 PM (btIS/)

When I've joined a gym I refused to give them access to a card or my bank for this very reason. my friends have had to cancel cards to get the gym to stop charging them.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 07, 2026 12:29 PM (8+C2v)

117 Good. Told y'all letting them dirty homos getting married would lead to this.

Only a matter of time until the sodomites come for the children.

Nasty, nasty, nasty.

Posted by: Slippery Slope at January 07, 2026 12:29 PM (GlDYx)

118 PF has been in the news about 5 times in the last 10 years, punishing women who complain about men in their women's changing rooms. Why would any woman ever go there? Why are they still in business?

Posted by: Gorthanc at January 07, 2026 12:29 PM (8Q86n)

119 "like he was John Bonham playing Kashmir at Wembley"

Like he was Alex Van Halen playing "Hot For Teacher" at the Hollywood Bowl.

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at January 07, 2026 12:29 PM (Vpqw1)

120 King missile or maybe some They Might Be Giants.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 07, 2026 12:29 PM (MvBjh)

121 So, if a man is working out at Planet Fitness and he grunts while lifting weights hell be thrown out because "grunting makes other guests uncomfortable."

But that sane did can pull his Toobin in the women's locker room and they'll kick a woman out for complaining about it.


https://youtube.com/shorts/bB4QpNLSCKI

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 07, 2026 12:29 PM (NSPoe)

122 he who is without sin cast blow the first load

or something like that
Posted by: Rick in SK at January 07, 2026 12:28 PM (FZYNt)


Corrected for thread topic consistency.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 12:29 PM (Zz0t1)

123 111 Why don't people like that get a stern lecture in the parking lot? Stern as in getting their ass kicked.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead

Self selected crowd at Planet Fitness that tacitly ignore antics like this.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 12:30 PM (WDjG6)

124 Why don't people like that get a stern lecture in the parking lot? Stern as in getting their ass kicked.

Because they don't want to go to prison for fighting against something that most of the "victims" vote for.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2026 12:30 PM (Riz8t)

125 Planet Fitness deserves the Bud Light treatment.

If they want to apologize, close EVERY California location and do the right thing in the 49 states that remain. Or keep the California locations open, do the right thing with those locations as well WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY filing at least a DOZEN lawsuits against the state of California for recklessly endangering their businesses.

Posted by: Crusader at January 07, 2026 12:30 PM (TN0g+)

126 Give the guy credit. He wasn't wanking in the handicap stall.
Posted by: ADA Compliance Ossifer

More like the handie stall.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 07, 2026 12:30 PM (cYBz/)

127 >>>Like he was Alex Van Halen playing "Hot For Teacher" at the Hollywood Bowl.

double tracked drums, I have found out

Posted by: ace at January 07, 2026 12:30 PM (1wjle)

128 I know for sure there are a few "spas" that are notorious for being thinly-disguised sex clubs.
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LA Fitness has entered the chat

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 07, 2026 12:31 PM (0ZXaJ)

129 124 Why don't people like that get a stern lecture in the parking lot? Stern as in getting their ass kicked.

Because they don't want to go to prison for fighting against something that most of the "victims" vote for.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2026 12:30 PM (Riz8t)

Yeah, count me out when it comes to potentially defending the honor of women who have none.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 07, 2026 12:31 PM (SSEhk)

130 Extra info:

Planet Fitness did not actually "kick out" the woman who complained. She left of her own volition (as she herself described in a recent video). But ye, Planet Fitness did NOTHING to penalize the jerkin' tranny, nor did they call the police.

Planet Fitness therefore needs to be boycotted into bankruptcy.

BTW, Concord is a mild-mannered suburb, and although not "conservative" on a national scale, compared to SF and Oakland it's practically MAGA-friendly.

Posted by: zombie at January 07, 2026 12:31 PM (se8lQ)

131 - You want biologically intact males to be banned from women's locker room and bathrooms.
- You'll accept regulation that would require businesses to provide alternative facilities for trans individuals.
- You'll get dicks in your wife and daughter face in their locker rooms and bathrooms.
Until you vote out the insane progressives who pass laws allowing this to happen.

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at January 07, 2026 12:31 PM (MNCvZ)

132 This is grotesque.
For something beautiful, look at the new food pyramid

Posted by: night lifted at January 07, 2026 12:31 PM (kJmLc)

133 From the Planet Fitness policy letter:

Planet Fitness staff shall strive to address transgender members with names, titles, pronouns, and other terms consistent with their self-reported gender identity, if reasonably known to the Planet Fitness staff.
- For Example
-- A transgender woman shall be referred to by her preferred name and female pronouns
-- A transgender man shall be referred to by his preferred name and male pronouns

Planet Fitness reserves the right to terminate a person's membership immediately for any violation of this policy.


That policy applies to the STAFF. It does NOT apply to the customers ("members") and yet they're saying that they can terminate a person's membership (ie, a customer's) if the policy is violated.

Full Bud Light treatment entirely justified. Planet Fitness is ASSHOE.

I'd say "fuck these people" but you'd probably catch something there's no cure for.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 07, 2026 12:32 PM (O7YUW)

134 He/she has a bad case of loving you.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 07, 2026 12:32 PM (pLaQB)

135 "like he was John Bonham playing Kashmir at Wembley"

Like he was Alex Van Halen playing "Hot For Teacher" at the Hollywood Bowl.
Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at January 07, 2026 12:29 PM (Vpqw1)


Like he was Mel Taylor playing Wipe Out live in Japan.

https://youtu.be/3bKG0p6Tv9Q

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 12:32 PM (Zz0t1)

136 Well...this comment has it all lol

I’ve seen the video, and it’s clear what she was doing. I’m NB...Having been in enough truck stop bathrooms myself throughout my travels with IBS, I know a wank-shadow when I see one. Whether she has a penis or vagina, she got caught rubbing one out. It happens.

Do I get slightly annoyed when the person in the stall next to me is having a go at it? Kinda, I guess. I don’t see it as harassment, nor do I think their sexuality or gender identity is relevant. But I have headphones and my mask on, so I create my own barriers if a stall wall isn’t enough.

That being said, there are plenty of voyeuristic videos of guys catching each other jacking it in stalls that get posted to porn sites (holding the phone camera above/below the stall walls). So, we violate and inconvenience each other in many ways. I support floor to ceiling stalls.

I get what people are saying that “It’s not transphobic to call it out”, but it’s being called out because of transphobia. The fact that we’re “condemning” it, when there’s a high likelihood that the men’s locker room has had a guy jerking it at one point is the transphobia.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 07, 2026 12:32 PM (JCZqz)

137 Planet Retard

Posted by: Weasel at January 07, 2026 12:32 PM (3RLOR)

138
the shadows show him jacking his dick with the remorseless mechanical fury of a misfiring industrial robot
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OMG STOP IT!! I AM AT WORK FFS!!!!

Posted by: Winning at January 07, 2026 12:32 PM (KdazR)

139 Hate Has No Home Here!

Posted by: Planet Fitness at January 07, 2026 12:33 PM (GlDYx)

140 William Shakespeare be damned.
Posted by: Sponge
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Shakespeare's blue R and X rated work was mysteriously destroyed after his death. The stuff we inherited was rated PG by the royal censors.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 12:33 PM (WDjG6)

141 SOMEONE IS GOING TO ASK WHAT I AM LAUGHING AT!!!

Posted by: Winning at January 07, 2026 12:33 PM (KdazR)

142 choad-flavored taffy.


Maybe don't take the kids trick or treating at ace's

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at January 07, 2026 12:33 PM (w/O5Q)

143 109 PSA:

If you have any health issues you need to see a dr about or have been putting it off, go see a dr.

My SIL procrastinated in seeing a Dr for a leg infection and now she has journeyed on far too soon.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 07, 2026 12:28 PM (XV/Pl)

I'm sorry for your loss.

But, this is very, very sound advice. When in doubt, call a doc. When a doc is not available, just go to the ER. Infections can become sepsis, and sepsis warning signs are sometimes hard for people to see in themselves.

Posted by: Nova Local at January 07, 2026 12:33 PM (tOcjL)

144 Sometimes a chick has to milk one out.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 07, 2026 12:34 PM (pLaQB)

145 I get what people are saying that “It’s not transphobic to call it out”, but it’s being called out because of transphobia. The fact that we’re “condemning” it, when there’s a high likelihood that the men’s locker room has had a guy jerking it at one point is the transphobia.

I'm 29. I have NEVER sat in a stall next to a guy jerking it.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2026 12:34 PM (Riz8t)

146 Is this real? Serious question. The perfectly lighted and sighted shadow showing ferally obvious jerking off that ... was he holding a flashlight on his dick?

The three employees (?) standing there in formation, as if they took pre-assigned positions.

The sorta-canned dialogue from the "boyfriend" confronting the perv.

I dunno. I'm skeptical this wasn't staged. I could be wrong. Maybe.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

Nowadays, the zeal for reality tv and fleeting fame via video posts means all of reality is uncertain unless you had the misfortune to be there.

But this video will undoubtedly then be copied by AI models so you can make your own Happy Ending video at home and then post.

The shame is the kink.
Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 12:25 PM (WDjG6)
______

Yea, that's sorta my point and why I'm skeptical. That, plus as a guy who maybe mighta kinda sorta maybe spanked the monkey maybe once or twice or 7 million times as a horny teenager, it seems very unusual to get a perfectly framed shadow showing unnatural exaggerated nuclear jackhammer jerking off that would tear the skin off a normal dick.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 12:34 PM (iFTx/)

147 Bald Brian was dumb ass. He just dragged that show down. He would start to hyperventilate when a political topic came up, sounding like a barely literate middle schooler. And he sucked at his supposed job of covering movies. He fell for the 'review bombing' hoax at Rotten Tomatoes like a twit.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 07, 2026 12:34 PM (mlg/3)

148 "like he was John Bonham playing Kashmir at Wembley"

Like he was Alex Van Halen playing "Hot For Teacher" at the Hollywood Bowl.
Posted by: CTHillary
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Well, no one will say he was like Keith Moon playing drums because Keith always wrecked his equipment after finishing.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 12:34 PM (WDjG6)

149 I’ve seen the video, and it’s clear what she was doing. I’m NB...Having been in enough truck stop bathrooms myself throughout my travels with IBS, I know a wank-shadow when I see one. Whether she has a penis or vagina, she got caught rubbing one out. It happens.


Any time now, Lord.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 12:35 PM (Zz0t1)

150 I'm pretty sure that they haven't yet taken the step of making it official that transgenders are allowed to publicly masturbate in women's rooms next to women and girls.

Scott Weiner is probably already trying to fix that.

Posted by: Barack Obama, Man's Country Lifetime Member at January 07, 2026 12:35 PM (2ocoG)

151 They need Drill Instructors. This is totes a shit can thrown down the squad bay moment. Lots of yelling and questions concerning you're manliness.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 07, 2026 12:35 PM (pLaQB)

152 In the before times, xhe would have been carried out of the locker room on a stretcher.
Posted by: Living Color at January 07, 2026 12:23 PM

He Goes in Through the Out Door, so to speak.
Posted by: toby928
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There was a time when brothers, fathers, and uncles took care of these matters.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 07, 2026 12:36 PM (XeU6L)

153 You know that the girls that filmed this, complete with not one but two snout rings, voted for the tranny agenda by a straight donk ticket in every election she was a part of.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 07, 2026 12:36 PM (xvV+O)

154 Yea, that's sorta my point and why I'm skeptical. That, plus as a guy who maybe mighta kinda sorta maybe spanked the monkey maybe once or twice or 7 million times as a horny teenager, it seems very unusual to get a perfectly framed shadow showing unnatural exaggerated nuclear jackhammer jerking off that would tear the skin off a normal dick.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade
=======
OMG, Skynet AI has created Terminator as a sex droid. He can't be reasoned with, He cannot be stopped.

Linda Hamilton save us.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 12:36 PM (WDjG6)

155 148 "like he was John Bonham playing Kashmir at Wembley"

Like he was Alex Van Halen playing "Hot For Teacher" at the Hollywood Bowl.
Posted by: CTHillary
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Well, no one will say he was like Keith Moon playing drums because Keith always wrecked his equipment after finishing.
Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 12:34 PM (WDjG6)

Moon was also a killer drummer but his mental problems keeps him out of the rarefied heights of Bonham and Peart.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 07, 2026 12:36 PM (xcxpd)

156 Glad to hear you were out for a walk, ace. Back problems are the worst, and complicated. Hope your situation is the kind where activity helps.

Meanwhile, MN gets spicier.

Auditor's report - surprise! - seems to confirm rampant, blatant, crude criminal corruption in administration of state funds. Was obvious the type/scale of looting going on at Somali and other "non-profits" required collusion, this seems to be first concrete evidence thereof.

Oh - and local idiots in Mpls obstructing federal immigration actions, local "police"* doing nothing. Haven't perused latest "court" rulings on use of NG, but umm.

* a "police" department that lynches its own personnel as part of a racist pogrom should be disbanded anyway

Posted by: rhomboid at January 07, 2026 12:36 PM (U/Byj)

157 Old shaitan smiles.

Posted by: Eromero at January 07, 2026 12:36 PM (o2ZRX)

158 https://tinyurl.com/4s8npuxt

Posted by: night lifted at January 07, 2026 12:36 PM (kJmLc)

159 In the before times, xhe would have been carried out of the locker room on a stretcher.
Posted by: Living Color at January 07, 2026 12:23 PM

He Goes in Through the Out Door, so to speak.
Posted by: toby928
------
There was a time when brothers, fathers, and uncles took care of these matters.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 07, 2026 12:36 PM (XeU6L)
________

Women really do need the bear

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 12:36 PM (iFTx/)

160 143

>>I'm sorry for your loss.


Thank you, been experiencing too many deaths lately.

As Ace has intoned, people need to stop dying.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 07, 2026 12:37 PM (XV/Pl)

161 Gross and creepy. These are men dressing up as women to get their rocks off being in a space that was once for only BIOLOGICAL women.

Similar to guys that put on women's underwear.
It's a sick kink.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 07, 2026 12:37 PM (NpAcC)

162 Let the Public Masturbator Stay
—Ace


It's your Blog, yo.


Posted by: IRS at January 07, 2026 12:37 PM (ddphe)

163 In more serious news:

Gaming chair in pink and white with a neko theme.

Yes or No?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 07, 2026 12:37 PM (MvBjh)

164 @ whig 107 -

Yes. This is a bit dated, but I'm sure it is still true:

"The Gay Couples Study out of San Francisco State University—which, in following over 500 gay couples over many years is the largest on-going study of its kind—has found that about half of all couples have sex with someone other than their partner, with their partner knowing."

Posted by: Jay in PA at January 07, 2026 12:37 PM (9mw3J)

165
Holy carp, are we listening to the hearing on Minnesota fraud? It's surreal.

"What percentage of rapes nationwide are committed by white men?"

"Should George Santos have been pardoned by Trump?"

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 07, 2026 12:37 PM (Uo+RY)

166 Well Planet Fitness seems to be between a rock and a a the thing.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 07, 2026 12:37 PM (EyfuW)

167 "like he was John Bonham playing Kashmir at Wembley"

Like he was Alex Van Halen playing "Hot For Teacher" at the Hollywood Bowl.
Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at January 07, 2026 12:29 PM (Vpqw1)

Like he was Mel Taylor playing Wipe Out live in Japan.

https://youtu.be/3bKG0p6Tv9Q

That guy is good, but this guy is of a different species.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0BVB9i-XbB4?feature=share

Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2026 12:37 PM (Riz8t)

168 There has been a boom of independent gyms opening in the last 10 years. There is almost always a better option than Planet Fitness. It is hard to beat their price, but you get what you pay for.

Posted by: brak at January 07, 2026 12:38 PM (jGJov)

169 Mace or pepper spray in the eyes and on the tackle might have been an appropriate reaction. Rub it out now, pal.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 07, 2026 12:39 PM (O7YUW)

170 70 like he was John Bonham playing Kashmir at Wembley.
______
I have no idea what that means.
----

John had the reputation of playing his drum kit like he was beating red-headed mules.

Posted by: clarence at January 07, 2026 12:39 PM (JhlRS)

171 Let the Public Masturbator Stay

Dems are now forced to cheer, "Let him finish!"

Posted by: t-bird at January 07, 2026 12:39 PM (o5jAD)

172 https://tinyurl.com/4s8npuxt
Posted by: night lifted at January 07, 2026 12:36 PM (kJmLc)


That's bullshit. I don't see any Red Bull or sugary cereals listed......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 12:39 PM (Zz0t1)

173 has found that about half of all couples have sex with someone other than their partner, with their partner knowing."
---------------
Tag Team Wrestling is a thing.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 07, 2026 12:39 PM (pLaQB)

174 BTW, Concord, CA is the location of a Naval Weapons Station where a massive explosion occurred at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine on July 17, 1944.

The blast -- caused by the detonation of approximately 429 tons of explosive (including bombs, depth charges, and ammunition) -- on the Liberty ship SS E.A. Bryan, killed 320 people including sailors, merchant seamen, and civilians, and injured 390 others.

The explosion, which registered 3.4 on the Richter scale, was felt as far as 50 miles away and destroyed two ships, the SS E.A. Bryan and the SS Quinault Victory.

The incident is recognized as the largest homefront disaster of World War II (and frequently cited as "the deadliest incident involving black service members in a single event during the war").

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 07, 2026 12:39 PM (x/kxZ)

175
You know that the girls that filmed this, complete with not one but two snout rings, voted for the tranny agenda by a straight donk ticket in every election she was a part of.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable

=============

She probably didn't vote. Politics is dull and divisive, and she's trying to live her best life.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 07, 2026 12:39 PM (Uo+RY)

176 > Don't go to Planet Fitness. It's time for the Full Bud Light.

Planet Fitness was weird before they decided to embrace Tranny Tyranny. They claim to be a judgment free zone, but they are openly disdainful of gymbros and gymrats. They used to have a bowl full of Tootsie Rolls or Frooties at the front desk. They also used to have free pizza on Mondays. That ended with Covid.

The vast majority of their equipment is cardio, which isn't too different than some other gyms. The machines they have are low quality and max out easily for most reasonably strong people. Until VERY recently, you couldn't find many plates and the only bars they had were smith machines. I've seen some videos online that show a few PF gyms are starting to stock weight plates.

The lunk alarm famously gets used to shame anyone who makes any noise. I have mixed feelings about this. People who slam their weights or make orgasm sounds when lifting are super annoying. But it's not a library, so some noise is fine.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 07, 2026 12:39 PM (Yp6az)

177 Can you imagine working at Planet Fitness and NEEDING that job and having to put up with shit policies like they have?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 07, 2026 12:40 PM (O7YUW)

178 120 King missile or maybe some They Might Be Giants.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 07, 2026 12:29 PM (MvBjh)

I'm curious about which TMBG song you have in mind here.
King Missile, I get.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 07, 2026 12:40 PM (xcxpd)

179 The funny part is that the peak of the Stanley cup fad was a year or two ago. "

/Dicks sporting goods looks at inventory. Whimpers

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 12:40 PM (XuXeR)

180 >>That guy is good, but this guy is of a different species.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0BVB9i-XbB4?feature=share


El Estepario is unreal.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 12:40 PM (ddphe)

181 Planet Fitness should just change its name to "Place to Tug-on-This."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 07, 2026 12:41 PM (NwnyJ)

182
Hope he goes blind.
Posted by: Cray Cray

based on my own extensive N=1 experimentation, he probably won't, though he will need reading glasses as soon as he hits 40.

(Seriously, it was OVERNIGHT)
Posted by: ace

=============

This is why I come to this site.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 07, 2026 12:41 PM (Uo+RY)

183 Speaking of jerk offs

Zohran Mamdani’s woke, privileged tenant advocate Cea Weaver breaks down crying when asked about hypocritical gentrification comments

https://
trib.al/IySAVuk

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 07, 2026 12:41 PM (0ZXaJ)

184 For situations like this, we need more women like my sister M - I've told this story before:

Long ago, in a land far, far away, some idiot flashed my sis in a grocery store's parking lot. Being of Italian extraction, she took the logical, immediate action. She whipped out a box of Velveeta and proceed to beat the ever-loving shit out of the guy. The beating went on for so long and was so thorough, that the cops showed up and eventually told her, "Lady, I think he's had enough."

Posted by: Tonypete at January 07, 2026 12:41 PM (cYBz/)

185 I watched Mr. Ed in his stall for years and he was always well-behave even when Connie Hines was about.

Posted by: Wilbur Post at January 07, 2026 12:41 PM (oftw2)

186 113 A place called Concord.

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I lived there and neighboring Walnut Creek for 10 years during the 90s (about 30 miles east of Oakland on the right side of the Oakland Hills)

At that time, Contra Costa County was primarily conservative, even the local newspaper.

I'm sure it's now a third-world shithole since I escaped ...
----------------------
It's still more right leaning than west of the Caldecott tunnel. I lived in the Oakland hills for 30+ years and neighbors were considering moving to CCC but feared the schools wouldn't be 'diverse' enough (e.g., too many white kids).

Posted by: beckster at January 07, 2026 12:42 PM (I7J98)

187 https://tinyurl.com/4s8npuxt

Posted by: night lifted at January 07, 2026 12:36 PM

No Cheetos?

Posted by: huerfano at January 07, 2026 12:42 PM (98kQX)

188 Sometimes a chick has to milk one out.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 07, 2026 12:34 PM (pLaQB)
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LOL!

Poetry like that is why I come to this wonderful place!

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 07, 2026 12:42 PM (xvV+O)

189 Concord is just about as far as you can go east and still call it Bay area.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 07, 2026 12:42 PM (RIvkX)

190 has found that about half of all couples have sex with someone other than their partner, with their partner knowing."
Posted by: Jay in PA
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And the other half had sex with someone else without their partner knowing.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 12:42 PM (WDjG6)

191 whig 107 -

Yes. This is a bit dated, but I'm sure it is still true:

"The Gay Couples Study out of San Francisco State University—which, in following over 500 gay couples over many years is the largest on-going study of its kind—has found that about half of all couples have sex with someone other than their partner, with their partner knowing."
Posted by: Jay in PA at January 07, 2026 12:37 PM (9mw3J)
______

Absolutely true. The entire gay culture is based on insanely promiscuous sex (often in groups), no monogamy at all, and heavy drug use.

The party-boy gays I know can line up a dozen sex partners in a weekend, with barely any effort. Just a few clicks on an app or 5 minutes in a gay-friendly club.

The vast majority of gays are not like heteros. Even the most successful hetero Chads and Tyrones aren't getting as much sex as the average gay guy.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 12:42 PM (iFTx/)

192 Like he was Mel Taylor playing Wipe Out live in Japan."

"Dreaming" by Blondie

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 12:42 PM (XuXeR)

193 "Holy carp, are we listening to the hearing on Minnesota fraud? It's surreal.

"What percentage of rapes nationwide are committed by white men?"


============

Note how the Democrats just can't condemn fraud. It would upset their base too much.

Posted by: Jay in PA at January 07, 2026 12:42 PM (9mw3J)

194 163 In more serious news:

Gaming chair in pink and white with a neko theme.

Yes or No?
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 07, 2026 12:37 PM (MvBjh)

if it makes you happy, it can't be that bad.
Go for it.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 07, 2026 12:43 PM (xcxpd)

195 Looks like we are taking action in Minneapolis Somalia. From the AP:

Authorities reported a shooting Wednesday involving federal agents in Minneapolis, where immigration enforcement has been conducting a major crackdown.

Live video posted online showed a large presence of federal and local officers, yellow police tape and cars that had been in a crash. Cmdr. Gregory Bovino of U.S. Customs and Border Protection was in the group.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 07, 2026 12:43 PM (wtvvX)

196 Over at Insty this morning Sarah Hoyt linked a tweet that talked about the hierarchy of which group the radical left supports in any situation. Basically whichever one is more destructive to social norms. So for example

Women > men
Liberal women > other women
Fake women > real women

Posted by: Oddbob at January 07, 2026 12:43 PM (CSOdI)

197
I have no idea how it is now, but it used to be that the gym business model was to sign people up any way they could and then balance the hassle of canceling a membership against the cost of dues/fees.

I was good friends with the business/sales manager at my very nice gym through the 1990s. She told me that they voluntarily capped their membership at 50x of what they estimated for facility capacity if every member used the gym daily.

The only time the gym ever felt crowded was the first two weeks of the year and the two weeks after the first really nice spring day. The bulk of their revenue came from non-active paying members.

My point is that the best way to fuck over Planet Fitness may be to go after inactive paying members by helping them navigate membership cancellation.

Posted by: biteme at January 07, 2026 12:43 PM (xWS9V)

198 177 Can you imagine working at Planet Fitness and NEEDING that job and having to put up with shit policies like they have?
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant
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Wouldn't want to touch cleaning the bathrooms. UV light would show ghastly evidence.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 12:44 PM (WDjG6)

199 though he will need reading glasses as soon as he hits 40.
(Seriously, it was OVERNIGHT)
Posted by: ace at January 07, 2026 12:18 PM (1wjle)
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Don't worry ace. Once he hits 60 he won't need reading glasses anymore. The cataracts will take care of that. Then he'll only need glasses for distance.

Posted by: IrishEi at January 07, 2026 12:44 PM (3ImbR)

200 194 163 In more serious news:

Gaming chair in pink and white with a neko theme.

Yes or No?
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 07, 2026 12:37 PM (MvBjh)

I'd say yes .. Sounds fun...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2026 12:44 PM (VE6XX)

201 @176/bonhomme: "The lunk alarm famously gets used to shame anyone who makes any noise."

Which could cause someone else working out quietly to flinch at just the wrong moment, tearing a muscle, a tendon, causing nerve damage, etc... I heard about their lunk alarm as soon as they opened up in my town. That alone stopped me from wanting to give them my money. Now it's looking like they have a ton of wrong-headed policies.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 07, 2026 12:44 PM (O7YUW)

202 I put TMBG in there to see if anyone would notice.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 07, 2026 12:44 PM (MvBjh)

203
Concord is Contra Costa County (north of Alameda County) and just behind the Berkeley Hills.

Consider the whole Bay Area as a fetid sewer and you won't be surprised.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at January 07, 2026 12:44 PM (xG4kz)

204 shadowboxing with his hog.

Now that I've stopped laughing, I'm filing that one away for future use.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at January 07, 2026 12:44 PM (MZ+PY)

205 >>>Gross and creepy. These are men dressing up as women to get their rocks off being in a space that was once for only BIOLOGICAL women.

Similar to guys that put on women's underwear.
It's a sick kink.

>How is that even possible unless you have a micropenis?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 07, 2026 12:44 PM (Ouxay)

206 Minneapolis-
Violent rioters attacked ICE with car. An agent shot and killed person in self defense

Posted by: redridinghood at January 07, 2026 12:44 PM (NpAcC)

207 Whig 107 - Most married gays treat their marriage like the home field. They play a lot of away games and host a lot of other teams.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 07, 2026 12:44 PM (0ZXaJ)

208 Ace, I hope you are now posting on X as Dick Thunderdome.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 07, 2026 12:45 PM (xD85g)

209 I know for sure there are a few "spas" that are notorious for being thinly-disguised sex clubs.
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LA Fitness has entered the chat

Yep. I was a LA Fitness member for a while. I STRONGLY suspected many of the old dudes were just trolling for dick. I'd go into the lock room to change and they'd be in there, fully nude. I'd go work out and an hour later, the same guys are in there, fully nude.

Some people will argue that it's a locker room and you should get over seeing nudity there. Sure, it's fine to be nude in the locker room for a few minutes. When you're changing, taking a shower, or in transit between those two areas. Otherwise, put some damn clothes on.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 07, 2026 12:45 PM (Yp6az)

210 I lived there and neighboring Walnut Creek"

Used to have a standing reservation at the Marriott... was a nice area.

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 12:45 PM (XuXeR)

211 "The entire gay culture is based on insanely promiscuous sex (often in groups), no monogamy at all, and heavy drug use."

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Yes. When I lived in DC the guy who cut my hair was gay and the stories he would tell me about his weekends were unreal.

Doing coke until 5am. Waking up naked with strangers. Orgies. This was totally normal to him.

When I worked at the gym, there was a very flamboyant gay guy who would tell me about sex parties and point out people in the gym who were there. He had to have died of AIDS.

Posted by: Jay in PA at January 07, 2026 12:45 PM (9mw3J)

212 Sometimes a lady needs to burp the worm.

Posted by: Planet Fitness Management at January 07, 2026 12:45 PM (1wjle)

213
My point is that the best way to fuck over Planet Fitness may be to go after inactive paying members by helping them navigate membership cancellation.

Posted by: biteme at January 07, 2026 12:43 PM (xWS9V)


I got this.

Posted by: Rocket Money at January 07, 2026 12:45 PM (Zz0t1)

214 I'd considered a membership there. Thankfully, I resisted.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 07, 2026 12:46 PM (BpO1e)

215 Mitch Mitchell does some quality drumming on Manic Depression and many other JHE songs.

Posted by: Is You Experienced? at January 07, 2026 12:47 PM (oftw2)

216 There has been a boom of independent gyms opening in the last 10 years. There is almost always a better option than Planet Fitness. It is hard to beat their price, but you get what you pay for.
Posted by: brak at January 07, 2026 12:38 PM

Meh...depends. My local PF in a small affluent burb is pretty good. No obvious weirdos or shenanigans. Mostly middle aged normies and younger gym bunnies. Sadly, my local gun club is somewhat short of range babes.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 07, 2026 12:47 PM (bFu5X)

217 Like he was Mel Taylor playing Wipe Out live in Japan.

https://youtu.be/3bKG0p6Tv9Q

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 12:32 PM (Zz0t1)

I'll show that to Pookette when she's feeling better (because she's going to want to immediately try it).

Posted by: pookysgirl, posting from her sickbed at January 07, 2026 12:47 PM (Wt5PA)

218 Yep. I was a LA Fitness member for a while. I STRONGLY suspected many of the old dudes were just trolling for dick. I'd go into the lock room to change and they'd be in there, fully nude. I'd go work out and an hour later, the same guys are in there, fully nude.

The trays of martinis and chaise longues should have been a clue.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2026 12:47 PM (Riz8t)

219 Wouldn't want to touch cleaning the bathrooms. UV light would show ghastly evidence"

/Jackson Pollock winces

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 12:47 PM (XuXeR)

220 Last year Minneapolis area had three shootings at high school graduations that were held on a college campus.

All shooters were Somali.

And this past October, the college said they are no longer hosting high school graduations.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 07, 2026 12:47 PM (MvBjh)

221
if it makes you happy, it can't be that bad.
Go for it.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 07, 2026 12:43 PM (xcxpd)


I have a feeling the guy attempting to paint the inside of that stall white had a similar sentiment.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 12:48 PM (Zz0t1)

222 All shooters were Somali.

And this past October, the college said they are no longer hosting high school graduations.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 07, 2026 12:47 PM (MvBjh)


Because it was the ceremony's fault.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 12:48 PM (Zz0t1)

223 A bucket of cold water dumped on his head would have put an end to the pud pulling pronto.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 07, 2026 12:21 PM (Wxl9t)

Oh...I doubt that.

Posted by: Every Teenage Boy at January 07, 2026 12:48 PM (n9ltV)

224 Minneapolis-
Violent rioters attacked ICE with car. An agent shot and killed person in self defense
Posted by: redridinghood at January 07, 2026 12:44 PM (NpAcC)
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Whoa. Just heard on the radio that there was "an ICE involved shooting" but they didn't know any details except that Mayer Frey came out saying ICE was causing chaos in Minneapolis.

Posted by: IrishEi at January 07, 2026 12:49 PM (3ImbR)

225 if it makes you happy, it can't be that bad.
Go for it.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 07, 2026 12:43 PM (xcxpd)


I have a feeling the guy attempting to paint the inside of that stall white had a similar sentiment.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 12:48 PM (Zz0t1)

Fair correction.

But Anna wanting a pink and white gaming chair seems far more....mild.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 07, 2026 12:49 PM (xcxpd)

226 59 >>>39 No way I’m watching any of those videos. Disgusting

Understood. So I will describe them for you.

the shadows show him jacking his dick with the remorseless mechanical fury of a misfiring industrial robot
Posted by: ace at January 07, 2026 12:22 PM (1wjle)

And I'm dead.

Posted by: Nelly at January 07, 2026 12:49 PM (7gpcF)

227 also RIP Sheryl Crow's hotness.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 07, 2026 12:49 PM (xcxpd)

228
A Trans "Woman" Beats His Pud In the Planet Fitness Woman's Bathroom

It owed him money

-- just the punch line

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at January 07, 2026 12:49 PM (xG4kz)

229 Yep. I was a LA Fitness member for a while. I STRONGLY suspected many of the old dudes were just trolling for dick. I'd go into the lock room to change and they'd be in there, fully nude. I'd go work out and an hour later, the same guys are in there, fully nude.
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This sounds like the old days at the YMCA. Old guys swimming naked in the pool.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 07, 2026 12:49 PM (pLaQB)

230
I'll show that to Pookette when she's feeling better (because she's going to want to immediately try it).
Posted by: pookysgirl, posting from her sickbed at January 07, 2026 12:47 PM (Wt5PA)


Just don't show her The Safari's version after that. It's a HUGE disappointment.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 12:50 PM (Zz0t1)

231 Women really do need the bear

The bear is so a year ago. Now women want the minotaur.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 07, 2026 12:50 PM (2ocoG)

232 like he was John Bonham playing Kashmir at Wembley

I might have gone with Moby Dick just because.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 07, 2026 12:50 PM (6ydKt)

233 Blood pressure's too high, I'm gonna wait for the next thread.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 07, 2026 12:50 PM (O7YUW)

234 Isn't it Planet Fitness that puts out pizza and bagels for their members?
Posted by: Stu Podaso at January 07, 2026 12:21 PM (as0GS)

Maybe whackin' tranny was fitting bagels to his member?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 07, 2026 12:50 PM (8zz6B)

235 Concord, CA? More like Conquered California, am I right?

Posted by: Pete in Texas at January 07, 2026 12:51 PM (p9rFX)

236 You guys made Weaver the NYC Marxist property apparatchik cry. The theater kid can't handle being asked about her families $1.5m home. Poor poser

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 07, 2026 12:51 PM (ScJGb)

237 There has been a boom of independent gyms opening in the last 10 years. There is almost always a better option than Planet Fitness. It is hard to beat their price, but you get what you pay for.
Posted by: brak at January 07, 2026 12:38 PM

Meh...depends. My local PF in a small affluent burb is pretty good. No obvious weirdos or shenanigans. Mostly middle aged normies and younger gym bunnies. Sadly, my local gun club is somewhat short of range babes.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 07, 2026 12:47 PM (bFu5X)
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My sister went to a suburban PF for years. She liked it because (i) it was cheap and (ii) it was mostly people in average shape (like her) and very few gymbro douchebags grunting, sweating, and posing.

There's another gym in the area where all the sweating grunting gymbros and half-whore THOTs go.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 12:52 PM (iFTx/)

238 I saw Remorseless Mechanical Fury open for Money Pox Disseminator last year in San Fran at the Fillmore. It wasnt pleasant.

Posted by: Winning at January 07, 2026 12:52 PM (KdazR)

239 Moon was also a killer drummer but his mental problems keeps him out of the rarefied heights of Bonham and Peart.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
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Depends. I have been listening to a lot of Who live shows that have been released lately. Keith was on another planet doing shit that neither Bonham nor Peart could do because they were not batshit insane.

Keith hated playing the song the same way twice and part of that is why Roger hated Pete's later work which relied on synthesizers. Keef had to wear headphones to a click track (first) and then later to the recorded synth which constrained his ability to follow either John, Keith, or Roger.

Pete, as the composer as much as musician, disliked Keith and John going freeform because he felt that he had to play rhythm simply to keep time for the band. I think, in part, Pete used the synths to constrain the Keith and John to its timing.

Try watching the Who's Isle of Wight live show, better than Zep at its best. The new extended release of Live at Leeds also show the Who at its peak.

Also hilarious but wicked, Keef playing drums in the Who's Quick One While He's Away at the Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus.



Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 12:52 PM (WDjG6)

240 We had to confront and revoke multiple memberships over this. The idea that gay men want to be married and can be monogamous as portrayed on TV and in film is just so laughable. Most people have no idea how degenerate and fiendish these people are.

Posted by: Jay in PA

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Back in the 00s there was a humorous gay conservative local talk radio show host in SoCal named Al Rantel.

He explained it thusly: men's sexual nature and drive are generally analogous to a vehicle's accelerator -- while women's are generally analogous to a vehicle's brake.

The problem with gay men -- whether as a couple or group -- is that sex is all accelerator and no brake.

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 07, 2026 12:52 PM (beXRF)

241 This is is an unaired Seinfeld episode.

George: "I'm in the stall. No rules in the stall."

Kramer: "He's in the stall, Jerry."

Jerry: "That doesn't seem right. What else can you do in the stall."

Kramer: "Well, anything. Sovereign territory in the stall."

Posted by: Orson at January 07, 2026 12:53 PM (dIske)

242 I don't always masturbate, but when I do I do it in public restroom stalls.

Posted by: wth -the most interesting masturbator in the world at January 07, 2026 12:53 PM (v0R5T)

243 So, if a man is working out at Planet Fitness and he grunts while lifting weights hell be thrown out because "grunting makes other guests uncomfortable."

But that sane did can pull his Toobin in the women's locker room and they'll kick a woman out for complaining about it.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo

Obviously the proper solution is to pull the Lunk Alarm when any man is spanking his monkey in the Women's bathroom

Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 07, 2026 12:53 PM (a+4eV)

244 Fair correction.

But Anna wanting a pink and white gaming chair seems far more....mild.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 07, 2026 12:49 PM (xcxpd)


Valid.

Much less harmful to the surrounding public.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 12:53 PM (Zz0t1)

245 Why not, Anna?

as long as it's comfortable, as a chair.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 07, 2026 12:53 PM (Cjt/F)

246 Sheryl "Two Sheets" Crow was hot?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 07, 2026 12:53 PM (MvBjh)

247 Yep. I was a LA Fitness member for a while. I STRONGLY suspected many of the old dudes were just trolling for dick. I'd go into the lock room to change and they'd be in there, fully nude. I'd go work out and an hour later, the same guys are in there, fully nude.
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This sounds like the old days at the YMCA. Old guys swimming naked in the pool.
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 07, 2026 12:49 PM (pLaQB)
_______

"We wrote a song about it, bruh!"

-- Village People

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 12:53 PM (iFTx/)

248 It is hard to beat their price, but you get what you pay for.
Posted by: brak at January 07, 2026 12:38 PM

ISWYDT

Posted by: Just the Punchline at January 07, 2026 12:53 PM (jc0TO)

249 "The entire gay culture is based on insanely promiscuous sex (often in groups), no monogamy at all, and heavy drug use."

Had some acquaintances back in my 20's that I would occasionally hang out with. When the evening grew late, and the talk turned to the first time one of them got fisted, I excused myself and went home.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at January 07, 2026 12:53 PM (MZ+PY)

250
From the hearing putatively regarding Minnesota fraud...

"Can you please speak to how President Trump's actions contradict his promises to the American people?"

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 07, 2026 12:54 PM (Uo+RY)

251 Go to Planet Fitness to Pump Iron and your dick anywhere you like. PF needs a major boycott over this. The cops should have been called. The "workers" there are useless.

Posted by: Cheri at January 07, 2026 12:54 PM (oiNtH)

252 I'll ask it again, what is it with these mentally ill people and public restrooms?

Posted by: wth at January 07, 2026 12:54 PM (v0R5T)

253 Remember "The War on Women," circa 2008?

Posted by: Pepperidge Farms at January 07, 2026 12:54 PM (qUkBO)

254 You guys made Weaver the NYC Marxist property apparatchik cry. The theater kid can't handle being asked about her families $1.5m home. Poor poser
Posted by: Smell the Glove

LOL. LMAO, even.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 07, 2026 12:54 PM (a+4eV)

255 also RIP Sheryl Crow's hotness.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 07, 2026 12:49 PM (xcxpd)


She sounds vaccinated.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 12:54 PM (Zz0t1)

256 It's like they get boners when they smell shit.

Posted by: wth at January 07, 2026 12:55 PM (v0R5T)

257 252 I'll ask it again, what is it with these mentally ill people and public restrooms?
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Semi-captive audience.

Posted by: Look at Meeeeeeee!!!! at January 07, 2026 12:56 PM (qUkBO)

258 Sheryl "Two Sheets" Crow was hot?"

Steve McQueen video....

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 12:56 PM (XuXeR)

259 >>Live at Leeds also show the Who at its peak.


It is.

I prefer Bill Ward to all the Drummers mentioned.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 12:56 PM (ddphe)

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith... the anal behind anal sex at January 07, 2026 12:56 PM (QSd+D)

261 Sheryl "Two Sheets" Crow was hot?
Posted by: Anna Puma
.......

Mediocre. Before the dingleberries.

Posted by: wth at January 07, 2026 12:57 PM (v0R5T)

262 Minneapolis- Violent rioters attacked ICE with car.

MPR playing an eye witness account right now of ICE shooting directly through the windshield at her face and not giving her medical care for 10 minutes. It's murder!

They want protests and they should absolutely get it. This is terrorism plain and simple.

It's not protests that "they" want. It's a civil war. And so many of our "countrymen" would prefer violent anarchy over having to pay child support, or their truck loan, or whatever

My landlord just mass texted this, sharing here in case anyone is in the area to observe and record/document

ICE ALLERT: SHOTS FIRED and PEOPLE TRAPPED IN CAR, 32ND AND CHICAGO. Need more people there for observers if you are rapid response.

Now that Walz is free to do whatever, I’d love it if he sent the state police to round up every ICE person in the state. Including the puppy killer if she steps foot in the state. Charge them with treason and murder.

The cruelty is the point. ICE doesn't care about your health or your rights, they are power tripping wannabe soldiers who relish hurting people and separating families.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 07, 2026 12:57 PM (JCZqz)

263 Similar to guys that put on women's underwear.
It's a sick kink.

>How is that even possible unless you have a micropenis?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

Same way one would put on men's underwear, one would think.

No one said it had to fit well.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 07, 2026 12:57 PM (a+4eV)

264 they get boners when they smell shit."

"Let me push that stool in for you"..

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 12:57 PM (XuXeR)

265 Some poor ICE dude is gonna get Derek Chauvined

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 07, 2026 12:57 PM (ZEz+n)

266 I'll ask it again, what is it with these mentally ill people and public restrooms?
Posted by: wth
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A question which answers itself.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 07, 2026 12:57 PM (XeU6L)

267 Planet Fitness. Come for the workout. Stay for Caligula in the locker room.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 12:58 PM (Zz0t1)

268 FWIW, Maestro producer, Glyn Johns, when asked about Keith and John Bonham by Rick Beato, remarked, Bonham was very particular about tuning his drums for the best sound, Keith did not care about tuning but wanted his drum skins as tight as they could be so Keith could play faster and hit harder.

Recording in the studio, Glyn Johns mentioned when miking Keith's drums, you simply aimed at having the mikes survive the recording session rather than placement as much.

A lot of dispute in the musical world comes from who is the technical master of the instrument and who is the best person to play that role in a particular band to make it great. Keith could not play in another band probably and make the grade because his technique inevitably Whoized the song. You can tell that from Pete's demos to the actual Who recording. Sometimes Pete's demos are better than the Who version because of the excess. Sometimes transformed by the band---The Real Me is an example--Pete's demo is kind of jazzy and light, the Who's recorded version is John and Keith competing to get to the finish line first with the honors. Roger and Pete stay out of their way.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 12:58 PM (WDjG6)

269
MPR playing an eye witness account right now of ICE shooting directly through the windshield at her face and not giving her medical care for 10 minutes. It's murder!

I'm sure this is an accurate account...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2026 12:58 PM (VE6XX)

270 Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at January 07, 2026 12:56 PM (QSd+D)


You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at January 07, 2026 12:58 PM (Zz0t1)

271 The US is seizing tankers and the UK is posting " We helped too!" LOL

Posted by: steevy at January 07, 2026 12:58 PM (YwEeS)

272
I'll ask it again, what is it with these mentally ill people and public restrooms?

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Restrooms AND dressing rooms. Even the women's and girls' area in Wal-Mart. They love to hang around picking out "cute tops" and asking fellow shoppers and salesgirls for advice on fitting a bra.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 07, 2026 12:59 PM (Uo+RY)

273 She whipped out a box of Velveeta and proceed to beat the ever-loving shit out of the guy. The beating went on for so long and was so thorough, that the cops showed up and eventually told her, "Lady, I think he's had enough."
Posted by: Tonypete

... is Velveeta the recommended weapon for such a scenario, or will any box of processed cheese product work?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 07, 2026 12:59 PM (a+4eV)

274 Why don't people like that get a stern lecture in the parking lot? Stern as in getting their ass kicked.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at January 07, 2026 12:29 PM (luW6

This. A quick call to the local biker bar. "Want to come out and play?"

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 07, 2026 12:59 PM (8zz6B)

275 I think we need to all band together and create a "Trump to Rushmore" Committee just to troll the shit out of the leftists.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at January 07, 2026 12:59 PM (Da7Vv)

276 Gays like to drill holes in restroom stalls. PF got off easy with this one.

Posted by: Hole Hogg at January 07, 2026 12:59 PM (oftw2)

277 I'm sure this is an accurate account..."

You question us? We have an Emmy!

/

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 12:59 PM (XuXeR)

278 271 The US is seizing tankers and the UK is posting " We helped too!" LOL
Posted by: steevy at January 07, 2026 12:58 PM (YwEeS)

LOL... More like "Don't throw us in the brier patch Brer Trump."

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2026 01:00 PM (VE6XX)

279 ... is Velveeta the recommended weapon for such a scenario, or will any box of processed cheese product work?
Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 07, 2026 12:59 PM

Blessed are the cheesemakers.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 07, 2026 01:00 PM (jc0TO)

280 207 Whig 107 - Most married gays treat their marriage like the home field. They play a lot of away games and host a lot of other teams.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo
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Snort. LOL. I don't want to contemplate how they would remake Field of Dreams.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 01:01 PM (WDjG6)

281 It must have been the smell of feces from the commode that got the tranny’’s motor cranked.

I have never heard of anybody rubbing one out on the shitter.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 07, 2026 01:01 PM (Ouxay)

282 or will any box of processed cheese product work?"

Kerrygold's "Dubliner" cheese. Weighs a ton per brick...

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 01:02 PM (XuXeR)

283 Jerking off in public, shooting cum all over the place like Spiderman, is a time-honored American tradition.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 07, 2026 01:02 PM (HXT0k)

284 You can draw a straight line from this sick shit to the radical feminists of 15 years ago.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at January 07, 2026 01:02 PM (pohLc)

285 It WAS a mostly PEACEFUL ramming!

Posted by: Woman Shot Dead by ICE at January 07, 2026 01:02 PM (Bo9Yf)

286 Snort. LOL. I don't want to contemplate how they would remake Field of Dreams.
Posted by: whig

Field of Creams?

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at January 07, 2026 01:02 PM (JCZqz)

287
No way I’m watching any of those videos. Disgusting
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Understood. So I will describe them for you.
the shadows show him jacking his dick with the remorseless mechanical fury of a misfiring industrial robot
Posted by: ace


OMG. ^^^^this^^^^ is the cruelty VDH lurkes here for. I sincerely hope he didn't tear any stitches laughing his recovering ass off.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at January 07, 2026 01:02 PM (QVmho)

288
I'm sure this is an accurate account...
Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2026 12:58 PM (VE6XX)


And if it is, it's fitting for someone attempting to murder a federal agent with a vehicle while doing their job.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 01:02 PM (Zz0t1)

289
Now that Walz is free to do whatever, I’d love it if he sent the state police to round up every ICE person in the state.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions

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Heh, is Walz free to do whatever? Maybe he's not exiting politics altogether. A few people have pointed out that if Amy Klobuchar becomes the next MN governor, she gets to appoint her replacement in the Senate. Tampon Tim?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 07, 2026 01:02 PM (Uo+RY)

290 Poor guy was just grooming his wookie in that stall. Leave him alone.

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at January 07, 2026 01:03 PM (V362x)

291 You guys made Weaver the NYC Marxist property apparatchik cry. The theater kid can't handle being asked about her families $1.5m home. Poor poser

Iowahawk has a great X thread this morning where he's doing an extended joke about Weaver being hot, just like Alice the Goon from Popeye.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 07, 2026 01:03 PM (2ocoG)

292 Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 07, 2026 12:32 PM (JCZqz)

I went into a New Jersey truck stop men's room once, long ago. Some South Asian looking guy was pounding his pud at the extend urinal. There were about 8 or so guys in line for a empty stall, doing their best to ignore him. I got a stall, did my business and when I left, he was still at it.

Posted by: javems at January 07, 2026 01:03 PM (8Jwks)

293 Gaming chair in pink and white with a neko theme.

Yes or No?
Posted by: Anna Puma

That sounds adorable! Is it also comfortable? If so, yes.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 07, 2026 01:03 PM (a+4eV)

294 Jerking off in public, shooting cum all over the place like Spiderman, is a time-honored American tradition.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 07, 2026 01:02 PM (HXT0k)


Are you saying he was building his web?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 01:03 PM (Zz0t1)

295 Snort. LOL. I don't want to contemplate how they would remake Field of Dreams.
Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 01:01 PM

Barley an inconvenience. "If you build it, they will come."

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 07, 2026 01:03 PM (bFu5X)

296 I'm sure others have noted, this is absolute proof that transgender is nothing more than a form of deviant sexual arousal.

The guy was jerking off because he is aroused at pretending to be a woman--and in a space restricted to women.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 07, 2026 01:03 PM (HXT0k)

297 >> Some poor ICE dude is gonna get Derek Chauvined

Doubtful. ICE just put out a statement that someone tried to run over ICE agents and one responded in self-defense by shooting the driver.

New sheriff in town and they are not going to throw an ICE agent under the bus for defended himself and others.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 07, 2026 01:04 PM (viF8m)

298 "Concord, CA? More like Conquered California, am I right?"

Si.

Posted by: connected and litigious at January 07, 2026 01:04 PM (cS1cw)

299 Can a fitness facility disassociate themselves from Planet Fitness and switch to another company? I mean, some other company that is not insane might like to pick up some more locations.

We have a PF in my conservative town. I don't know if they follow the immoral and unsafe policies of some of the other locations, but you'd think there might be community support for a more wholesome company.

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at January 07, 2026 01:04 PM (FMtrg)

300 I might have gone with Moby Dick just because.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
=====
Thar she blows!!!!

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 01:04 PM (WDjG6)

301 You can draw a straight line from this sick shit to the radical feminists of 15 years ago."

*recalls pics of Andrea Dworkin... yank'n it looks pretty good now, huh?

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 01:04 PM (XuXeR)

302 Iowahawk has a great X thread this morning where he's doing an extended joke about Weaver being hot, just like Alice the Goon from Popeye.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 07, 2026 01:03 PM (2ocoG)


He should've stuck to that schtick.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 01:04 PM (Zz0t1)

303 Understood. So I will describe them for you.
the shadows show him jacking his dick with the remorseless mechanical fury of a misfiring industrial robot
Posted by: ace

OMG. ^^^^this^^^^ is the cruelty VDH lurkes here for. I sincerely hope he didn't tear any stitches laughing his recovering ass off.
Posted by: BifBewalski

5 Nights at Freddy's Planet Fitness wasn't the sequel I was expecting.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at January 07, 2026 01:05 PM (JCZqz)

304 We need to install trebuchets that launch these freaks right into the Pacific

Posted by: melodicmetal at January 07, 2026 01:05 PM (61TgR)

305 Barley an inconvenience. "If you build it, they will come."
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
=======
I thought that was Nancy Mace?

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 01:05 PM (WDjG6)

306 911, there's a guy publicly masterbating at this address. That isn't hard.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 07, 2026 01:05 PM (sDNVV)

307 A dude jerking off is VERY vulnerable. Very.

Posted by: connected and litigious at January 07, 2026 01:05 PM (cS1cw)

308 >10 Bailiff, whack his pee-pee!
Posted by: Judge Hardy at January 07, 2026 12:15 PM (oftw2)

Now there's a blast from the past

Posted by: kactus at January 07, 2026 01:05 PM (twS2i)

309 297 Agreed but the likelihood of one being murdered at some point is high...

Posted by: steevy at January 07, 2026 01:05 PM (YwEeS)

310
Doubtful. ICE just put out a statement that someone tried to run over ICE agents and one responded in self-defense by shooting the driver.

New sheriff in town and they are not going to throw an ICE agent under the bus for defended himself and others.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 07, 2026 01:04 PM (viF8m)

Time for the National Guard.. This is out of control

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2026 01:05 PM (VE6XX)

311 >> I might have gone with Moby Dick just because.


He was just warming up...

when his friends arrive, he'll segue into Four Sticks.

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 01:06 PM (ddphe)

312
Democrats in this hearing have not asked a single question about Minnesota fraud.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 07, 2026 01:06 PM (Uo+RY)

313 En fappo!

Posted by: That Guy who shouts "En fappo!" at January 07, 2026 01:06 PM (lEAvH)

314 "If you build it, they will come."

Or "Frankie goes to Hollywood "

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 01:06 PM (XuXeR)

315 Did anyone ask if it was a guy named Pete from AOSHQ?

Posted by: Doof at January 07, 2026 01:06 PM (dP47V)

316 Heh, is Walz free to do whatever? Maybe he's not exiting politics altogether. A few people have pointed out that if Amy Klobuchar becomes the next MN governor, she gets to appoint her replacement in the Senate. Tampon Tim?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Kind of like Caligula putting his horse in the Roman Senate.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 01:06 PM (WDjG6)

317 Barley an inconvenience. "If you build it, they will come."
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
=======
I thought that was Nancy Mace?
Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 01:05 PM

That's the obligatory gender swapped remake.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 07, 2026 01:06 PM (bFu5X)

318 Kashmir. Greatest Zeppelin song. Period. I will die on this hill.

Hot dog.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at January 07, 2026 01:07 PM (luW68)

319
Time for the National Guard.. This is out of control
Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2026 01:05 PM (VE6XX)



Nope. Not a chance.

Posted by: Lord Emperor Boasberg at January 07, 2026 01:07 PM (Zz0t1)

320 I might have gone with Moby Dick just because.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 07, 2026 12:50 PM (6ydKt)

Your Time is Gonna Come

Posted by: Doof at January 07, 2026 01:07 PM (dP47V)

321 Now that Walz is free to do whatever, I’d love it if he sent the state police to round up every ICE person in the state. Including the puppy killer if she steps foot in the state. Charge them with treason and murder.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 07, 2026 12:57 PM (JCZqz)

======

Now that's a take.

"Just start another civil war, Walz. The guy who just kidnapped the head of state of Venezuela in the middle of the night won't be able to respond."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 01:07 PM (GBKbO)

322 911, there's a guy publicly masterbating at this address. That isn't hard.
Posted by: Ben Had at January 07, 2026 01:05 PM

Um...phrasing?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 07, 2026 01:08 PM (bFu5X)

323 Are you saying he was building his web?
Posted by: Sponge
=======
Coming soon to a theater near you, the new Charlotte's Web.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 01:08 PM (WDjG6)

324 I went into a New Jersey truck stop men's room once, long ago...

In a galaxy far, far away? I once visited a truck stop men's restroom in New Jersey. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.

Posted by: Obi-Wan at January 07, 2026 01:08 PM (JCZqz)

325 >>Kashmir. Greatest Zeppelin song. Period. I will die on this hill.


It's not even the best song on that LP

Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 01:08 PM (ddphe)

326 Funs fact: the Planet Fitness in Pullman WA got a special dispensation from the parent company to do the building in crimson and gray (WSU's colors) instead of PF's purple and gold (also University of Washington's colors, Wazzu's bitter rivals).

Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 07, 2026 01:08 PM (a+4eV)

327
Your Time is Gonna Come
Posted by: Doof at January 07, 2026 01:07 PM (dP47V)


Momma told me not to come.

Posted by: ASS Troll at January 07, 2026 01:08 PM (Zz0t1)

328 320 I might have gone with Moby Dick just because.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 07, 2026 12:50 PM (6ydKt)

Your Time is Gonna Come
Posted by: Doof
====
That's the Great White Whale's job.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 01:09 PM (WDjG6)

329 Coming soon to a theater near you, the new Charlotte's Web"

Frodo couldn't cut his way out of that!

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 01:09 PM (XuXeR)

330 Insurrection act. Teed up. Just a matter of time before one of these cities gets a major deployment of troops. Wonder if the progressives will lay low this summer, or riot....

Posted by: Winning at January 07, 2026 01:09 PM (KdazR)

331 ====
That's the Great White Whale's job.
Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 01:09 PM (WDjG6)


Free My Willie!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 01:09 PM (Zz0t1)

332 Squeeze my lemon,
til the juice runs down my leg

Posted by: Doof at January 07, 2026 01:09 PM (dP47V)

333 That's the obligatory gender swapped remake.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
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Like if you come, they will build it?

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 01:10 PM (WDjG6)

334 RMBS, I should have said difficult.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 07, 2026 01:10 PM (sDNVV)

335 Personally, I love to see these Blessings of Liberty. And jizz.
But mostly jizz.

Posted by: David French at January 07, 2026 01:10 PM (0e5Te)

336 .. is Velveeta the recommended weapon for such a scenario, or will any box of processed cheese product work?
Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 07, 2026 12:59 PM (a+4eV)

It's an allegory, really, it could refer to any kind of processed cheese product...

Posted by: hobbitopoly at January 07, 2026 01:10 PM (k9OZB)

337 307 A dude jerking off is VERY vulnerable. Very.
Posted by: connected and litigious

The dude has an unstable bio-weapon liable to explode at any moment. Sounds more dangerous than vulnerable.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at January 07, 2026 01:10 PM (JCZqz)

338 Wonder if the progressives will lay low this summer, or riot...."

Hmm. No USAID cash, so...

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 01:10 PM (XuXeR)

339 Free My Willie!
Posted by: Sponge

[unzips], That's what I said!!!

Posted by: Bill Clinton at January 07, 2026 01:10 PM (WDjG6)

340 Of course Walz and that commie Mayor Frey are blaming ICE for the "caos."

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2026 01:11 PM (VE6XX)

341 >>Kashmir. Greatest Zeppelin song. Period. I will die on this hill.


It's not even the best song on that LP
Posted by: garrett at January 07, 2026 01:08 PM (ddphe)

You mean side 2 of Zeppelin 4?
- Mike Damone

Posted by: Doof at January 07, 2026 01:11 PM (dP47V)

342 Now that Walz is free to do whatever, I’d love it if he sent the state police to round up every ICE person in the state. Including the puppy killer if she steps foot in the state. Charge them with treason and murder.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 07, 2026 12:57 PM (JCZqz)

======

Now that's a take.

"Just start another civil war, Walz. The guy who just kidnapped the head of state of Venezuela in the middle of the night won't be able to respond."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 01:07 PM (GBKbO)
_________

"... and your plan is to blackmail this person? Good luck."

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 01:11 PM (iFTx/)

343 Hmm. No USAID cash, so...
Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 01:10 PM (XuXeR)


"I got this......"

- - - - - Soros Enterprises, INC.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 01:11 PM (Zz0t1)

344 "I wanna be your backdoor man!"

Posted by: Peter Buutyjuice at January 07, 2026 01:11 PM (Q+gd/)

345 "caos." chaos

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2026 01:11 PM (VE6XX)

346 Doubtful. ICE just put out a statement that someone tried to run over ICE agents and one responded in self-defense by shooting the driver.

New sheriff in town and they are not going to throw an ICE agent under the bus for defended himself and others.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 07, 2026 01:04 PM (viF8m)


Perp is deceased. The Lefty has its martyr.

The Leftists will now take their Ashley Babbitt, RIP, talking points that she deserved to die and Byrd /spit/ was totes justified in shooting her talking points, and turn them 180 degrees to attack Trump, ICE, etc.

Posted by: Gref at January 07, 2026 01:11 PM (5rh/l)

347 unzips], That's what I said!!!
Posted by: Bill Clinton"

Don't you have an astroturf lined truck bed you can defile?

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 01:12 PM (XuXeR)

348 Perp is deceased. The Lefty has its martyr.

yeah this is all over Reddit and FB

oh wells!

Darwin smiles

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 07, 2026 01:12 PM (emBoF)

349 329 Coming soon to a theater near you, the new Charlotte's Web"

Frodo couldn't cut his way out of that!
Posted by: man
======
Frodo would do like Marlon Perkins on Wild Kingdom, he'd send Sam to do the dirty work.

"Sam's seems to be having some trouble there."

Posted by: Bill Clinton at January 07, 2026 01:12 PM (WDjG6)

350 or he's trying to start an outboard motor he keeps on his belt.

squeezebox she keeps in her chest > outboard motor he keeps on his belt

Posted by: anachronda at January 07, 2026 01:12 PM (oY6Yp)

351 You mean side 2 of Zeppelin 4?
- Mike Damone
Posted by: Doof at January 07, 2026 01:11 PM (dP47V)


LITTLE PRICK!

- - - - Linda Barrett

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 01:12 PM (Zz0t1)

352 342
"... and your plan is to blackmail this person? Good luck."

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 01:11 PM (iFTx/)

======

I understood this reference.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 01:13 PM (GBKbO)

353 L❤️ve is L❤️ve H8ers!!

Posted by: Tucker at January 07, 2026 01:13 PM (Q/qJ3)

354 Free My Willie!
Posted by: Sponge

[unzips], That's what I said!!!
Posted by: Bill Clinton at January 07, 2026 01:10 PM (WDjG6)

***

PARTAY!!!!

Posted by: Jeffrey Toobin at January 07, 2026 01:13 PM (Bo9Yf)

355 "caos." chaos"

Kaos

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 01:13 PM (XuXeR)

356 A dude jerking off is VERY vulnerable. Very.
---
1) I'm not a meat gazer.
2) touching another man's erect weiner is gay.
3) if you're gonna go that far, you might as well harden up and start a sword fight.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 07, 2026 01:13 PM (HXT0k)

357 Zepplin....Ramble on is a great song

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at January 07, 2026 01:13 PM (luW68)

358 Planet Fitness instructs its female clients to show "understanding" towards publicly-masturbating men invading their private spaces."


Well, it's about time !

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 07, 2026 01:14 PM (S+j2h)

359 Zepplin....Ramble on is a great song
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at January 07, 2026 01:13 PM (luW6


Achilles Last Stand

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 01:14 PM (Zz0t1)

360 Now that Walz is free to do whatever, I’d love it if he sent the state police to round up every ICE person in the state. Including the puppy killer if she steps foot in the state. Charge them with treason and murder
=
This would literally be a perfect scenario for the insurrection act and a midnight snatch and grab of that fat ass waltz. Bullet proof legal.

Jeez they are stoopid over there.

Posted by: Winning at January 07, 2026 01:14 PM (KdazR)

361 Not to worry. It was a female penis.

Posted by: No Name Today at January 07, 2026 01:14 PM (8mulE)

362 outboard motor he keeps on his belt"

Olaf Evenrude frowns

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 01:14 PM (XuXeR)

363 Below, you can really see the mentally-ill sex pest shadowboxing with his hog."


Heh

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 07, 2026 01:15 PM (S+j2h)

364 330 Wonder if the progressives will lay low this summer, or riot....

in the run-up to the elections? my money's on riot.

Posted by: anachronda at January 07, 2026 01:15 PM (oY6Yp)

365 Zepplin....Ramble on is a great song
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at January 07, 2026 01:13 PM (luW6


Achilles Last Stand
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 01:14 PM (Zz0t1)

Ten Years Gone

Posted by: Doof at January 07, 2026 01:15 PM (dP47V)

366 unzips], That's what I said!!!
Posted by: Bill Clinton"

Don't you have an astroturf lined truck bed you can defile?
Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 01:12 PM (XuXeR)


--------------

"He was a phony, me-age, dodging hack
With an El Camino -- astroturf in back
But I knew we'd all need Prozac
The day that Justice died."

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 07, 2026 01:16 PM (beXRF)

367 I think we've beaten this subject enough...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 07, 2026 01:16 PM (VE6XX)

368
206 Minneapolis-
Violent rioters attacked ICE with car. An agent shot and killed person in self defense
Posted by: redridinghood at January 07, 2026 12:44 PM

----------

The driver got carried away. In a bag.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 07, 2026 01:16 PM (biznJ)

369 OT: If I wanted to legally export firearms to someplace like Iran, how would I go about getting an export license?

Posted by: No one at January 07, 2026 01:16 PM (qFwJc)

370 342
"... and your plan is to blackmail this person? Good luck."

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 01:11 PM (iFTx/)

======

I understood this reference.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 01:13 PM (GBKbO)
_____

It's a good scene in part because the dorky accountant is the only person in apparently the entire world who figures out that Bruce Wayne is Batman. That should be fairly obvious, but then again they still don't know who superman is despite the fact that he walks around in public without any disguise.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 01:16 PM (iFTx/)

371 355 "caos." chaos"

Kaos
Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 01:13 PM (XuXeR)

Hmmm... missed it by thaaatttt much...

Posted by: Maxwell Smart at January 07, 2026 01:16 PM (mP0Kj)

372 FWIW, I think Kashmir was one of Zep's greatest live. There are other better studio songs.

Posted by: Bill Clinton at January 07, 2026 01:16 PM (WDjG6)

373 362 outboard motor he keeps on his belt"

Olaf Evenrude frowns

he's just puttin' the "rude" in "evinrude"

Posted by: anachronda at January 07, 2026 01:17 PM (oY6Yp)

374 Women need to cancel their memberships and boycott Planet Fitness across the country. They won't because a very large number support this bullshit or are too afraid to get kicked out of their Oprah book club circle to say anything about it.

Posted by: Pop goes the weasel at January 07, 2026 01:17 PM (TbWk/)

375 Below, you can really see the mentally-ill sex pest shadowboxing with his hog."


Do it light, taking me through the night
Shadow dancing, baby you do it right
Give me more, drag me across the floor
Shadow dancing, all this and nothing more

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 07, 2026 01:17 PM (S+j2h)

376 370 It's a good scene in part because the dorky accountant is the only person in apparently the entire world who figures out that Bruce Wayne is Batman. That should be fairly obvious, but then again they still don't know who superman is despite the fact that he walks around in public without any disguise.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 01:16 PM (iFTx/)

======

Harold Lloyd went unrecognized by just taking off his signature glasses.

Charlie Chaplin once came third in a Charlie Chaplin look-a-like contest.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 01:17 PM (GBKbO)

377 Did the dude say "Doesn't anybody f*cking knock anymore"?

Posted by: Doof at January 07, 2026 01:17 PM (dP47V)

378 .. is Velveeta the recommended weapon for such a scenario, or will any box of processed cheese product work?
Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 07, 2026 12:59 PM (a+4eV)

It's an allegory, really, it could refer to any kind of processed cheese product...
--------

Monty Python smiles.

Posted by: Crusader at January 07, 2026 01:17 PM (TN0g+)

379
Wonder if the progressives will lay low this summer, or riot....

in the run-up to the elections? my money's on riot.
Posted by: anachronda

=============

100%.

"The country is burning down under President Trump! We're more divided than ever! It's not safe for anyone!!"

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 07, 2026 01:18 PM (Uo+RY)

380 No one, I 've got 5,000 empty wine bottles to send for the molotov cocktail supply.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 07, 2026 01:18 PM (sDNVV)

381 911, there's a guy publicly masterbating at this address. That isn't hard.
Posted by: Ben Had

Tell him to keep trying.

Posted by: 911 at January 07, 2026 01:18 PM (v0R5T)

382 They won't because a very large number support this bullshit"

Stanley's sales of pink water bottles rates this statement as "true"

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 01:18 PM (XuXeR)

383 Sheryl had it all wrong with two sheets. It's three sheets. One front, one back, and one polish.

Posted by: Old Blue at January 07, 2026 01:19 PM (up14Y)

384 911, there's a guy publicly masterbating at this address. That isn't hard.

*snort* ISWYDT

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at January 07, 2026 01:19 PM (luW68)

385 Who amongst us, etc?

Posted by: Farmer Bob at January 07, 2026 01:19 PM (AtZ2l)

386 Oh let the hand beat down on my meat
My hand will fill with cream
[ba da da da da da da DAA]

Posted by: R. Plant at January 07, 2026 01:19 PM (wGerL)

387 In The Light and Ten Years Gone on Physical Graffiti are good, too.

I like most of the songs on that record(s).

Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 07, 2026 01:19 PM (6ydKt)

388 Posted by: ShainS
======
So we'd be singing,
Bye Bye this Bill Clinton guy,
Took his Chevy to the levy,
Til he was blown dry,

Them good ole Dems saying what a great guy,
Saying when he leaves I'm gonna cry,
When he leaves, I'm gonna cry.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 01:20 PM (WDjG6)

389 Jack it, jack it, jackety-jack
Spankin' it, spankin' it, smackety-smack
Jackin' it, jackin' it, jackety-jack
Jackin' it, spankin' it, smackety-smack (Jackin' for the Lord!)

The cars are passin' me by, they honk and say "hello" (Hey, that guy's jackin' it!)
From his window, there's a guy shootin' video (Video of him jackin')
And if the good Lord, Jesus, comes knockin' on my door,
Just tell him that I'm jackin' it in San Diego

Posted by: San Diego, San Francisco, wherever at January 07, 2026 01:20 PM (TbWk/)

390 I'm curious. Have any of you 'ettes experience this live yet? I did, in a well-known theater a couple of years ago. After the show, everyone's gotta go, right? So I do my business and as I'm walking out there's this teenage-looking kid (ugly, overweight male in a dress) walking out the women's room door ahead of me, turning around and smirking at us all as we exit.

I had to hold myself back.

Next time I'll do a sweep first and announce the "PENIS IN THE ROOM!" if I see that scenario again.

Posted by: Lady Who Knows Exactly Where to Deliver a Swift, Hard Kick at January 07, 2026 01:20 PM (JCLJi)

391
New one

Posted by: fourseasons at January 07, 2026 01:20 PM (3ek7K)

392 The Leftists will now take their Ashley Babbitt, RIP, talking points that she deserved to die and Byrd /spit/ was totes justified in shooting her talking points, and turn them 180 degrees to attack Trump, ICE, etc.

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Whatever.

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at January 07, 2026 01:20 PM (3gg5a)

393 Kaos

Posted by: Maxwell Smart at January 07, 2026 01:20 PM (qFwJc)

394 Who amongst us, etc?
Posted by: Farmer Bob"

That field isn't as big as you think...

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 01:20 PM (XuXeR)

395 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 01:20 PM (Zz0t1)

396 It's a good scene in part because the dorky accountant is the only person in apparently the entire world who figures out that Bruce Wayne is Batman. That should be fairly obvious, but then again they still don't know who superman is despite the fact that he walks around in public without any disguise.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 01:16 PM (iFTx/)

======

Harold Lloyd went unrecognized by just taking off his signature glasses.

Charlie Chaplin once came third in a Charlie Chaplin look-a-like contest.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 01:17 PM (GBKbO)
________

True, but different times when film looked like shit, there was no social media, and few people really knew what actors looked like. There's no way today any recognizable actor could walk in public and not be noticed at least by someone.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 01:21 PM (iFTx/)

397 383 Sheryl had it all wrong with two sheets. It's three sheets. One front, one back, and one polish.
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Red Dwarf has entered the chat.

Posted by: clarence at January 07, 2026 01:21 PM (JhlRS)

398
Kind of like Caligula putting his horse in the Roman Senate.
Posted by: whig

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Another possibility is Senator Ilhan.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 07, 2026 01:21 PM (Uo+RY)

399 Oh let the hand beat down on my meat
My hand will fill with cream
[ba da da da da da da DAA]
Posted by: R. Plant at January 07, 2026 01:19 PM (wGerL)

hahaha

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 07, 2026 01:21 PM (S+j2h)

400 Buddy Rich had nothing on this guy when it came to solos. More cowbell!

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 07, 2026 01:22 PM (Ouxay)

401 I realize that I don't have any Led Zeppelin albums or even songs recorded. I think that they were so overplayed in my youth, I just assumed that any time I changed radio stations there would be one playing.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 07, 2026 01:23 PM (0U5gm)

402 Every msm headline is basically “ICE Shoots Woman” with no context.

Enemy of the people as usual.

Posted by: Tucker at January 07, 2026 01:54 PM (Q/qJ3)

403 If those women didn’t see that kind of shit coming from their ‘compassion’ being weaponized at the voting both this dude sure made sure they at least heard it. AWFLs are so stupefyingly naive yet so powerful. It’s a mess.

Posted by: Denny Crane! at January 07, 2026 02:01 PM (DSfAb)

404 "It's Dick Thunderdome."

One man enters. One man leaves.

Posted by: Dodd at January 07, 2026 02:07 PM (1hSg1)

405 This is why I come to this site.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 07, 2026 12:41 PM (Uo+RY)

ME TOO!!

Posted by: guy in stall with laptop open to AOS at January 07, 2026 02:25 PM (5xuJ/)

406 Concord is the hometown of Tom Hanks. Is he still presenting as a male or has he had his danglers removed? If you're a male and hate Trump you should get your danglers removed and sent to the WH. That'll show'em.

Posted by: Sweetie at January 07, 2026 05:05 PM (DePyg)

407 “Dick Thunderdome” is a great porn name.

Posted by: Cybernetic at January 07, 2026 06:55 PM (aL31n)

408 The women would probably be better off in the men's dressing room where men would be more polite.

Posted by: thesgm at January 08, 2026 10:14 AM (VhDvQ)

Wednesday Morning Rant

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Exposure

In the wake of the US's audacious raid on Venezuela and it's successful capture of that country's dictator, many countries now face a difficult question: "what is our exposure to Venezuela?" For some countries, it's significant. Executing an American arrest warrant against Maduro for drug trafficking is the official purpose of the raid, but as many have pointed out, there is much more than that going on. Venezuela is much more than a drug nexus.

Venezuela is also an oil producer and sits in a geographically convenient place for coordinating trade amongst various enemies and rivals of the United States. There is a complex web of trade between these countries, and Venezuela is often involved. It sometimes finds itself in the trade system between Red China, Iran and Russia, and is a major supplier of oil to Red China. This oil moves in a "dark fleet" of tankers under US sanction, and they sometimes operate without flag or transponder on the high seas to run US blockades.

That oil has a common destination: Red China, and it serves a purpose beyond that country's endless need for energy. As everyone knows, Red China has numerous major projects throughout the world, using infrastructure and development deals in pursuit of its diplomatic objectives as its global reach continuous to expand. It has found a willing partner in Maduro's Venezuela, and Red Chinese investment has flooded into Venezuela over the years. Red China, however, doesn't usually extend credit for these projects willy-nilly and there is often security involved. In Venezuela's case, that security is oil.

So what happens now that this oil supply is threatened? Not only have the initial US actions against Venezuela's "dark fleet" threatened oil shipments to Red China, the US raid on Venezuela has caused them to essentially stop. Venezuelan state-owned oil company PDVSA's primary external partner - Chevron - has resumed oil shipments, but per recent shipping data, none of those shipments are flowing to the Orient. PDVSA's production continues to fall and its exports to Asia - which is to say, its exports to Red China - are in free-fall.

This poses a problem for Red China, which has major investments in Venezuela backed by oil-for-loans deals between those two countries. Red China invests in Venezuela's infrastructure (and gains an important foothold in this hemisphere and a means to coordinate and enable trade with major partners), and protects its capital exposure by using oil as security. With the oil trade between the two countries now collapsing, risk is back in a big way. Red China has now demanded that its major lenders assess their exposure to Venezuela and determine their risks in the new environment:

The National Financial Regulatory Administration (NFRA) also advised banks to strengthen risk monitoring of all Venezuela-related credit, seeking to assess potential dangers to China's lenders, the report added.
...
The Bloomberg report said the NFRA's move highlights growing concerns among regulators over potential shocks to the banking sector as geopolitical risks mount. Billions in loans have been extended over the past decade by China to the South American country, primarily led by policy banks such as China Development, the report added.
I have no idea if any banks in Red China are going to collapse if (likely when) Venezuela defaults and PDVSA can't ship oil to cover the shortfall, but Red China's regulators are trying to find out. There is a ton of exposure to Venezuela and the odds of repayment - and of non-capital diplomatic and geopolitical power returns - on their major capital investment is now very much in question. So are other Chinese investments in other Latin American countries like Cuba, which may collapse on their own absent Venezuela as a backer.

All of Red China's investments in Venezuela and Cuba, and some of its investments elsewhere in Latin America, could end up being total losses for Red China's lenders, and that may be a major blow. Time will tell. No wonder Red China has been so loud about this action as, per Reuters, it "tests [the] limits of China's diplomatic push." That may be putting it mildly.

Many of America's rivals and enemies have capital or operational exposure to Venezuela, but Red China leads the pack. Red China's external noise masks its internal scrambling to determine just how much exposure it has to Venezuela - and underscores how big a blow toppling Maduro may have been.

Posted by: Joe Mannix at 10:50 AM




Comments

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1 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at January 07, 2026 10:50 AM (LdBR/)

2 2nd?

Posted by: Thanatopsis at January 07, 2026 10:50 AM (LdBR/)

3 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 07, 2026 10:51 AM (sdclT)

4 And that's not even the top story of the day. What a time to be alive.

Posted by: Are you sure about this sir? at January 07, 2026 10:51 AM (U/7CP)

5 Nooding

Posted by: Thanatopsis at January 07, 2026 10:51 AM (LdBR/)

6 Early rant. Tricksy monkey.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 07, 2026 10:51 AM (2UnvF)

7 Blasphemy!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 10:52 AM (GBKbO)

8 "Tampon Tim, the Musical." Brought to you by the White House Rapid Response X account:

https://tinyurl.com/3w4xr97h

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 07, 2026 10:52 AM (sdclT)

9 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 10:52 AM (Zz0t1)

10 Early monkey.

Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2026 10:53 AM (77rzZ)

11 We'll always have Cuba!

Posted by: American Commies at January 07, 2026 10:53 AM (TezPK)

12 Brother!

Posted by: the insensible rock at January 07, 2026 10:53 AM (jc0TO)

13 "Immigrants do the jobs Americans don't wanna do anymore, like ___________________"
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Fill in the blank:

https://tinyurl.com/8usck2et

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 07, 2026 10:54 AM (sdclT)

14 The Russians sending a sub to escort that tanker was nuts. Lucky they didn't SAM our helicopters.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 07, 2026 10:54 AM (tL5sl)

15 11 We'll always have Cuba!
Posted by: American Commies at January 07, 2026 10:53 AM (TezPK)

Until they collapse in on themselves so hard we have to start calling them Square-a.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 07, 2026 10:54 AM (06Hmj)

16 A Liberal Hivemind post from yesterday showed the explicit hypocrisy of the left and this whole Maduro thing. They have no shame. None whatsoever. Zip. Zilch. Nada.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 10:54 AM (Zz0t1)

17 Anxious to post today, or just tired of the art. Understandable.

Posted by: From about That Time at January 07, 2026 10:54 AM (sl73Y)

18 14 The Russians sending a sub to escort that tanker was nuts. Lucky they didn't SAM our helicopters.
Posted by: gKWVE
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My guess is the Russians lied. The Russian fleet is in really bad shape.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 10:55 AM (WDjG6)

19 I have no idea if any banks in Red China are going to collapse if (likely when) Venezuela defaults



Why does Red China need any banks at the state level?

F'n head commie says "do it" and minions commies do it or die. WTF is a bank involved for?

What good is being a dictator if you have to follow rules? Kim Jong Il MAKES rules.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 10:55 AM (WC9t6)

20 Having banks in a communist country has always seemed a bit odd.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 07, 2026 10:56 AM (jc0TO)

21 The Russians sending a sub to escort that tanker was nuts. Lucky they didn't SAM our helicopters.

Posted by: gKWVE

The Chinese and Russians better hope the reason nothing got shot down was because of the Venezuelans operating the systems they provided, because otherwise they have a whole hell of a lot to rethink right now...

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 07, 2026 10:56 AM (OUMaO)

22 Wonder if Beijing is going to call in the markers they have on our congresscritters over this.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 07, 2026 10:56 AM (+4yJ5)

23 "Immigrants do the jobs Americans don't wanna do anymore, like ___________________"


service Amy Schumer.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 10:57 AM (WC9t6)

24 That Venezuela provided a training ground for Islamic terrorists is the only reason I need for the attack and capture of Maduro.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 07, 2026 10:57 AM (KDPiq)

25 Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, it's all free at last!

https://is.gd/SEdTYx

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 07, 2026 10:57 AM (L/fGl)

26 If I remember my history, there was another ambitious Asian power that we isolated and cut off from petroleum supplies just prior to some unpleasantness in the Pacific circa 1941.

Stay alert, America.

Posted by: Joe Mama at January 07, 2026 10:57 AM (TezPK)

27 16 A Liberal Hivemind post from yesterday showed the explicit hypocrisy of the left and this whole Maduro thing. They have no shame. None whatsoever. Zip. Zilch. Nada.
Posted by: Sponge
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If you consider their perfect idea of existence is a worldwide combination of the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, San Francisco's Castro district, and Iran, and that anything opposing that is evil, then you get the gist of how they will come out on any action by the US.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 10:57 AM (WDjG6)

28
"Tampon Tim, the Musical." Brought to you by the White House Rapid Response X account:

https://tinyurl.com/3w4xr97h

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey

Catchy tune!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at January 07, 2026 10:58 AM (xG4kz)

29 20 Having banks in a communist country has always seemed a bit odd.
Posted by: toby928(c)

Communism isn't "no property" unless you're Khmer. It's "workers veto where the property goes". Then they lie about who the "workers" are.
China is no different from the US with a DEI vanguard.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 07, 2026 10:58 AM (tL5sl)

30 We'll always have Cuba!
Posted by: American Commies at January 07, 2026 10:53 AM (TezPK)

Until they collapse in on themselves so hard we have to start calling them Square-a.
Posted by: Warai-otoko


ISWYDT. 2 D.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 10:58 AM (WC9t6)

31 Why would you announce that you sent a military escort when your enemy can see clear as day that you didn't?

I can almost chalk it up to Russia being Russia, but it's still an incredibly flaccid thing to do.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 07, 2026 10:58 AM (06Hmj)

32 Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, it's all free at last!

https://is.gd/SEdTYx
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 07, 2026 10:57 AM (L/fGl)


You can find all that and more.......in Africa.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 10:58 AM (Zz0t1)

33 So ... USA wins and China loses? Fine with me. Whatever happens in Vene over the coming months (and years), it has to be better than it was. And who knows, a Bukele might arise and turn the country around.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 10:59 AM (iFTx/)

34 F'n head commie says "do it" and minions commies do it or die. WTF is a bank involved for?

I remember Richard Trumka saying something similar when he was gushing about how wonderful China was. And I remember him having to recant that statement about 24 hours later.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 07, 2026 10:59 AM (+4yJ5)

35 Early funky munkey!!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 07, 2026 10:59 AM (NuV6c)

36
22 Wonder if Beijing is going to call in the markers they have on our congresscritters over this.
Posted by: NR Pax
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The risk is that those plants get found, charged, and executed. Trump ain't playing around anymore.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 10:59 AM (WDjG6)

37 China has been using large loans to third world countries that can’t pay them back in order to take them over. I assume that was their intention with Venezuela.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 07, 2026 10:59 AM (KDPiq)

38 Exposure

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[Have mentioned this before but a fun childhood memory:]

The comic impersonator Rich Little used to have a TV show in the early 70s I think?

In one skit he's doing a Batman and Robin imitation (from that old TV show) and as Robin at one point he says:

"Holy Exposure, Batman -- I've got a rip in my leotard!" Hilarious to an innocent 7-year-old ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 07, 2026 10:59 AM (2xu9U)

39 "Immigrants do the jobs Americans don't wanna do anymore, like ___________________"
-

Fill in the blank:


Finally find a use for all those America tax dollars.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 10:59 AM (Zz0t1)

40 Maybe you ought to speak with my... maneger.

https://tinyurl.com/39wxaspz

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 07, 2026 11:00 AM (sdclT)

41 China, whatever. Boring.
I need to know how are the Jews profiting from all of this?

Posted by: Tucker at January 07, 2026 11:00 AM (Q/qJ3)

42 This oil moves in a "dark fleet" of tankers under US sanction

And where does the EU get its oil? Venezuela, Iran, Russia? All sanctioned (with the EU's help), all eager to get some cash under the table.

Posted by: t-bird at January 07, 2026 11:00 AM (o5jAD)

43 No Mr. Xi, I want you to die.

You know what else I want? I want you to stop flooding the US with fetanyl and stop trying to take over the Panama Canal.

Do these for starters and we can talk about selling you oil at market prices. Don't and embargo on.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 07, 2026 11:00 AM (viF8m)

44 Hell, im wondering how antifa and the teachers unions are taking this!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 07, 2026 11:00 AM (NuV6c)

45
POKER MONKEY

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 07, 2026 11:01 AM (y9nCu)

46 Thank You Joe Mannix for the info and explaining this stuff. AOS is the best.

Posted by: JROD at January 07, 2026 11:01 AM (IlL6s)

47 Wasn't Russia selling oil to Europe? Then Biden cut the pipeline because of Ukraine?

Posted by: Case at January 07, 2026 11:01 AM (4rWc3)

48 I'm actually kind of fascinated as to what was on that ship, now. Should be finding out fairly soon, given how everything seems to go these days.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 07, 2026 11:02 AM (06Hmj)

49 So we have the environmental left defending the VZ dictatorship so that VZ can still ship oil to China.

Oh the lulz....

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 11:02 AM (sKqQm)

50 Wonder if Beijing is going to call in the markers they have on our congresscritters over this.
Posted by: NR Pax at January 07, 2026 10:56 AM (+4yJ5)

No ifs. The calls have already been made. Be prepared for bitter disappointment with our own government. So many are in on the grift -- dems and repubs alike.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 07, 2026 11:02 AM (g8Ew8)

51 EU has become more dependent on the US for its LNG than on anyone else. I think Venezuela under its Bolivarian REVOLUTION has no choice but to burn off its natural gas like they did in the 1920s. Venezuela just exports crude.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 07, 2026 11:02 AM (tL5sl)

52 Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, it's all free at last!

https://is.gd/SEdTYx
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 07, 2026 10:57 AM (L/fGl)


You can find all that and more.......in Africa.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 10:58 AM (Zz0t1)
_____

The Blade proposes ... SUCK MY BALLS

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 11:02 AM (iFTx/)

53 Wonder if Beijing is going to call in the markers they have on our congresscritters over this.
Posted by: NR Pax
=====
The risk is that those plants get found, charged, and executed. Trump ain't playing around anymore.
Posted by: whig


Maduro is spilling his guts. Names. Dates. Amounts.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 11:03 AM (WC9t6)

54 "Holy Exposure, Batman -- I've got a rip in my leotard!"

OT: are we still allowed to use the word 'leotard'?

Posted by: t-bird at January 07, 2026 11:03 AM (o5jAD)

55 Russia’s two biggest customers are China and India. I think they have completed or close to it, a second pipeline to China.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 07, 2026 11:03 AM (KDPiq)

56 52 Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, it's all free at last!

https://is.gd/SEdTYx
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 07, 2026 10:57 AM (L/fGl)

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"Genetic trauma" sounds so sciency.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 11:04 AM (GBKbO)

57 Wonder if Beijing is going to call in the markers they have on our congresscritters over this.
Posted by: NR Pax

=====

That would constitute a quorum

Posted by: 2009Refugee at January 07, 2026 11:04 AM (8AONa)

58 Red China has numerous major projects throughout the world, using infrastructure and development deals in pursuit of its diplomatic objectives as its global reach continuous to expand.

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The Belt and Road Initiative AKA The One Belt One Road (and sometimes called the New Silk Road) -- a "global infrastructure and economic development strategy" of the ChiComms.

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 07, 2026 11:05 AM (OuabM)

59 Maduro is spilling his guts. Names. Dates. Amounts.
Posted by: rickb223

I hope you are right and that the people on the take are fitted for a fashionable tar and feathering.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 07, 2026 11:05 AM (+4yJ5)

60 How much of China's refusal to turn over the Panama Canal was due to needing it to ship (fee-free?) Venezuelan oil?

Now that all that oil is going to go the US refineries, maybe they give us back our canal?

I don't think we have scratched the surface of the follow-on effects of this raid.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 07, 2026 11:05 AM (HXT0k)

61
Maduro is spilling his guts. Names. Dates. Amounts.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 11:03 AM (WC9t6)


In exchange for his release and installation as president of Mexico.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 11:05 AM (Zz0t1)

62 OT: are we still allowed to use the word 'leotard'?
Posted by: t-bird


It's not very nice. The current Pope may be a lefty, but he's got full cognitive function.

Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2026 11:05 AM (77rzZ)

63 Wonder if Beijing is going to call in the markers they have on our congresscritters over this.

We've two notable congress-scum identified as working with China - Feinstein and Swallwell.

But...nothing happened to them so I'm guessing the rest of the bought and paid for lot have no worries if China does ask them to try and somehow sabotage our government over Maduro

Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 11:05 AM (sKqQm)

64 No ifs. The calls have already been made. Be prepared for bitter disappointment with our own government. So many are in on the grift -- dems and repubs alike.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons
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The problem for China is that our politicians don't stay bought. Plus, Trump needs nothing from Congress on foreign affairs to f@ck China up pretty severely. Existing authority under law and the Constitution relegate Congress to the bleachers. They don't even have funding over the Defense Dept either. NDAA runs for two years and was just passed in December.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 11:06 AM (WDjG6)

65 Maybe you ought to speak with my... maneger.

https://tinyurl.com/39wxaspz
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 07, 2026 11:00 AM (sdclT)

There's another spelling error as well. Medical "Transpotation ". in nice big letters.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 07, 2026 11:06 AM (lFFaq)

66 Mamdani Claims He Was “Briefed” on Maduro Operation – But He Doesn't Have Federal Security Clearance

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Trump doesn't make a move without running it by Zohran.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 07, 2026 11:06 AM (L/fGl)

67 Seriously, though, how much will this disrupt our own domestic revolutionaries?
https://tinyurl.com/yvyku9ys (to view video)

@its_The_Dr
Heritage Foundation makes us aware Hugo Chavez was working with Nicolas Maduro to fund political Chaos in America, they also Funded BLM.

Hugo Chavez gave one of the founders of Black Lives Matter 1 million dollars for Street protests!
Only months later, BLM was founded and started creating Turmoil in America

BLM directly works with Democrats, even using ACT BLUE!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 07, 2026 11:06 AM (NuV6c)

68 A Liberal Hivemind post from yesterday showed the explicit hypocrisy of the left and this whole Maduro thing. They have no shame. None whatsoever. Zip. Zilch. Nada.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 10:54 AM

I've been enjoying that channel.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 07, 2026 11:06 AM (bFu5X)

69
I hope you are right and that the people on the take are fitted for a fashionable tar and feathering.
Posted by: NR Pax at January 07, 2026 11:05 AM (+4yJ5)



In before the "nothing will happen" guy.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 11:06 AM (Zz0t1)

70 Shove a chip into Maduro's brain and plug him back into Venezuela, where he can be a good little boy for us.

That's what I'd do.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 07, 2026 11:06 AM (06Hmj)

71 Regarding Chinese ownership of American politicians, I will let the immortal words of Molly Ivans speak for me:

"As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 11:06 AM (GBKbO)

72 >>The Belt and Road Initiative AKA The One Belt One Road (and sometimes called the New Silk Road) -- a "global infrastructure and economic development strategy" of the ChiComms.

Also Hunter Biden's former business partner.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 07, 2026 11:06 AM (viF8m)

73 60 How much of China's refusal to turn over the Panama Canal was due to needing it to ship (fee-free?) Venezuelan oil?

Now that all that oil is going to go the US refineries, maybe they give us back our canal?

I don't think we have scratched the surface of the follow-on effects of this raid.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 07, 2026 11:05 AM (HXT0k)

The rest of BRICS might just turn on them if they did that.

(I couldn't find a way to make a "Shitting BRICS" pun...)

Posted by: XTC at January 07, 2026 11:06 AM (UnA8+)

74 Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, it's all free at last!

https://is.gd/SEdTYx
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 07, 2026 10:57 AM (L/fGl)


You can find all that and more.......in Africa.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 10:58 AM (Zz0t1)


The US now has several large tankers available as transports to Liberia. Consider it a return of defective products.

Posted by: Joe Mama at January 07, 2026 11:06 AM (TezPK)

75 We've two notable congress-scum identified as working with China - Feinstein and Swallwell.

But...nothing happened to them so I'm guessing the rest of the bought and paid for lot have no worries if China does ask them to try and somehow sabotage our government over Maduro

Posted by: 18-1
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Feinstein is dead, Swallwell is no longer on the House Intel committee and is running for CA governor. That might preclude him continuing in Congress.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 11:07 AM (WDjG6)

76 Give the drugs to China.

How can they not take the drugs since they sold a good deal of it them selves.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 07, 2026 11:07 AM (EyfuW)

77 In exchange for his release and installation as president of Mexico.
Posted by: Sponge


In exchange we don't turn him over to the people of Venezuela.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 11:08 AM (WC9t6)

78 I thought that we had already thwarted China on the Panama Canal front.

Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2026 11:08 AM (77rzZ)

79 Not to mention that Venezuela is where Smartmatic (and eventually Dominion) Voting Systems were created to not only steal Venezuelan elections -- but elections all across The West in general and American particular for several decades now.

The only reason 2024 wasn't stolen from Trump was because a group of patriotic white hats disabled the election fraud & theft server used in Belgrade, Serbia.

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 07, 2026 11:08 AM (OuabM)

80 >>Mamdani Claims He Was “Briefed” on Maduro Operation – But He Doesn't Have Federal Security Clearance


Trump didn't tell anyone in the 'Gang of Eight' who oversee Intelligence for Congress, and this chud thinks he can pretend Trump had time to brief *him* afterward???

Posted by: Lizzy at January 07, 2026 11:08 AM (NuV6c)

81 >>BLM directly works with Democrats, even using ACT BLUE!

Maduro was also a big supporter of antifa going so far as to host meetings of antifa scumbags and speaking at the events.

No doubt all of this was done in conjunction with China.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 07, 2026 11:08 AM (viF8m)

82 77 In exchange for his release and installation as president of Mexico.
Posted by: Sponge


In exchange we don't turn him over to the people of Venezuela.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 11:08 AM (WC9t6)

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In exchange, federal charges get reduced, he takes a plea deal.

And then the feds hand him over to Florida to face state charges there, including the death penalty.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 11:08 AM (GBKbO)

83 Maybe you ought to speak with my... maneger.

https://tinyurl.com/39wxaspz
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 07, 2026 11:00 AM (sdclT)

There's another spelling error as well. Medical "Transpotation ". in nice big letters.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 07, 2026 11:06 AM

Good grief...the emails I get from Nigerian princes have fewer misspellings than that.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 07, 2026 11:08 AM (bFu5X)

84 Mamdani Claims He Was “Briefed” on Maduro Operation – But He Doesn't Have Federal Security Clearance

What a maroon, the word is "pantsed".

Posted by: t-bird at January 07, 2026 11:08 AM (o5jAD)

85 Trump didn't tell anyone in the 'Gang of Eight' who oversee Intelligence for Congress, and this chud thinks he can pretend Trump had time to brief *him* afterward???
Posted by: Lizzy at January 07, 2026 11:08 AM (NuV6c)

100% Theater Kid.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 07, 2026 11:08 AM (06Hmj)

86 Not only has China lost access to Venezuelan oil, their air defense systems (including the Russian SAMs) have been shown to be about as effective as a kid with a slingshot. Taiwan must be breathing a big sigh of relief.

Posted by: The Mullahs at January 07, 2026 11:09 AM (Riz8t)

87 So we have the environmental left defending the VZ dictatorship so that VZ can still ship oil to China.

Oh the lulz....
Posted by: 18-1 at January 07, 2026 11:02 AM (sKqQm)

And in a minute the pro-Ukraine left defending Russia.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 07, 2026 11:09 AM (lFFaq)

88 Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, it's all free at last!

https://is.gd/SEdTYx
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 07, 2026 10:57 AM (L/fGl)

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"Genetic trauma" sounds so sciency.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 11:04 AM (GBKbO)
_____

Blacks are traumatized by their own genetics? The list is so insane -- and odd -- that I find it hard to believe even DEI morons came up with it.

This was made by retarded AI, right? Or this is an op to get non-blacks to think blacks are retarded slothful deadbeats?

I think the tell is that white supremacy was put in scare quotes, as if even the authors don't really believe it's a thing.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 11:09 AM (iFTx/)

89 72 >>The Belt and Road Initiative AKA The One Belt One Road (and sometimes called the New Silk Road) -- a "global infrastructure and economic development strategy" of the ChiComms.

Also Hunter Biden's former business partner.
Posted by: JackStraw

And like the US largesse back in the day on foreign aid, the Chicoms are finding that it doesn't buy the love of the local populace because Chicoms are asshoes, the foreigners can't maintain the systems so they don't pay back the loans, and the overall quality of these large infrastructure projects sucks. I think that initiative failed on multiple levels. The high speed railway system in Kenya is an amusing example.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 11:09 AM (WDjG6)

90 Oops

Posted by: Archimedes = The Mullahs at January 07, 2026 11:09 AM (Riz8t)

91 80 Trump didn't tell anyone in the 'Gang of Eight' who oversee Intelligence for Congress, and this chud thinks he can pretend Trump had time to brief *him* afterward???
Posted by: Lizzy at January 07, 2026 11:08 AM (NuV6c)

There are also claims that Hakeem Jeffries tried to directly tip Maduro off...

Posted by: XTC at January 07, 2026 11:09 AM (UnA8+)

92
I've been enjoying that channel.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 07, 2026 11:06 AM (bFu5X)


There was something about his voice that got me listening quite a while back. He's pretty spot on.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 11:09 AM (Zz0t1)

93 85 Trump didn't tell anyone in the 'Gang of Eight' who oversee Intelligence for Congress, and this chud thinks he can pretend Trump had time to brief *him* afterward???
Posted by: Lizzy at January 07, 2026 11:08 AM (NuV6c)

100% Theater Kid.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 07, 2026 11:08 AM (06Hmj)

=======

One of his early acts as mayor was to explain to the voters of New York that he was going to make it a top priority to make sure that World Cup tickets are equitable.

Not one World Cup event is in New York City.

He is only going to dance for his four years in office.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 11:10 AM (GBKbO)

94 Sounds like China's tit is in the squeezer.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 07, 2026 11:10 AM (pLaQB)

95 Maybe you ought to speak with my... maneger.

https://tinyurl.com/39wxaspz
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 07, 2026 11:00 AM (sdclT)

There's another spelling error as well. Medical "Transpotation ". in nice big letters.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 07, 2026 11:06 AM

Good grief...the emails I get from Nigerian princes have fewer misspellings than that.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 07, 2026 11:08 AM (bFu5X)
_____

They need Learing Centers too!

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 11:10 AM (iFTx/)

96 The Chinese Banks are already teetering under the weight of bad real estate loans - they make the Japanese Banks of the late 80's look AAA.
The Central Government will prop them up, but the skyscraper of cards that is the CCP adds another 10 floors.

Posted by: Little Larry Sellers at January 07, 2026 11:10 AM (xaNfJ)

97
In exchange we don't turn him over to the people of Venezuela.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 11:08 AM (WC9t6)

======

In exchange, federal charges get reduced, he takes a plea deal.

And then the feds hand him over to Florida to face state charges there, including the death penalty.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 11:08 AM (GBKbO)


I have zero faith of anything happening to the guy. The CIA won't allow it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 11:10 AM (Zz0t1)

98 I have no doubt Mayor Jihadi was informed that Maduro would be held in NYC. His embellishment is juvenile

Posted by: Ben Had at January 07, 2026 11:10 AM (sDNVV)

99 Venezuela has been neutralized, for the moment. Much more work needs to be done, but at least their ability to cause international trouble for us is over.

The next big bang (hopefully) is going to be the Iranian Govm't, although I imagine the best to hope for is the Ayatollah's flee and a military junta takes over. At least they may stop trying to fund terror throughout the world.

and then Cuba. In this hemisphere, the fall of Cuba is going to be huge.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 07, 2026 11:11 AM (uWKK8)

100 Sounds like China's tit is in the squeezer.
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 07, 2026 11:10 AM (pLaQB)


China needs a mammogram?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 11:11 AM (Zz0t1)

101 22 Wonder if Beijing is going to call in the markers they have on our congresscritters over this.
Posted by: NR Pax at January 07, 2026 10:56 AM (+4yJ5)

There's a chorus of about five with notoriety, but I'm sure there's more than that. Mark Kelly seems to reliably squawk whenever Xi stubs his toe. Just my observations, ymmv.

Also, if Liawatha was any deeper in the Pharma companies pocket she could start a night job as a jazz drummer.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at January 07, 2026 11:11 AM (w/O5Q)

102 85 Trump didn't tell anyone in the 'Gang of Eight' who oversee Intelligence for Congress, and this chud thinks he can pretend Trump had time to brief *him* afterward???
Posted by: Lizzy at January 07, 2026 11:08 AM (NuV6c)

100% Theater Kid.
Posted by: Warai-otoko
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Not required under the War Powers resolution. A letter fits the reporting requirement as does an oral mass announcement. Trump does not even need to do that until 48 hours after the action commences.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 11:11 AM (WDjG6)

103 89 And like the US largesse back in the day on foreign aid, the Chicoms are finding that it doesn't buy the love of the local populace because Chicoms are asshoes, the foreigners can't maintain the systems so they don't pay back the loans, and the overall quality of these large infrastructure projects sucks. I think that initiative failed on multiple levels. The high speed railway system in Kenya is an amusing example.
Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 11:09 AM (WDjG6)

I legit thought that China was doing a "Lebensraum" thing where they were going to exterminate all of the African tribes to claim the continent for the Han people.

Maybe they've decided it's not worth it.

Posted by: XTC at January 07, 2026 11:11 AM (UnA8+)

104 How much of China's refusal to turn over the Panama Canal was due to needing it to ship (fee-free?) Venezuelan oil?

Ah. The term "Panamox" re-enters all the chats.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 07, 2026 11:11 AM (zdLoL)

105 88 Blacks are traumatized by their own genetics? The list is so insane -- and odd -- that I find it hard to believe even DEI morons came up with it.

This was made by retarded AI, right? Or this is an op to get non-blacks to think blacks are retarded slothful deadbeats?

I think the tell is that white supremacy was put in scare quotes, as if even the authors don't really believe it's a thing.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 11:09 AM (iFTx/)

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I think black activists are raging idiots who don't actually know much of anything and have been coddled by white progressives to fester in their own perceived injustices for decades to the point where black only intellectual spaces are riddled with obvious nonsense.

If one were being malicious, one could say that white progressives did this on purpose to demean the black man, letting them dress up in progressive mantles while being no more than jesters.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 11:11 AM (GBKbO)

106 >>There are also claims that Hakeem Jeffries tried to directly tip Maduro off...

Oh, hadn't seen that.
Would explain why he was so pissed off he wasn't informed of the operation in advance.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 07, 2026 11:12 AM (NuV6c)

107 Mamdani says he will arrest Netanyahu at the same time condemning the arrest of Maduro.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 07, 2026 11:12 AM (KDPiq)

108 93 One of his early acts as mayor was to explain to the voters of New York that he was going to make it a top priority to make sure that World Cup tickets are equitable.

Not one World Cup event is in New York City.

He is only going to dance for his four years in office.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 11:10 AM (GBKbO)

It wouldn't be hard for New Yorkers to swallow up all of the Philly tickets, though.

Posted by: XTC at January 07, 2026 11:12 AM (UnA8+)

109 Just wanted to say: I’m not yet tired of all the winning….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 07, 2026 11:12 AM (xT8gx)

110
What a maroon, the word is "pantsed".
Posted by: t-bird at January 07, 2026 11:08 AM (o5jAD)


I believe, during a Trump administration, the correct word is "schlonged."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 11:12 AM (Zz0t1)

111 Gud speeling is overated.

Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein, Proud Product of the Brattleboro Education System at January 07, 2026 11:12 AM (PiwSw)

112 or is it 'schlonged.' I never rememeber.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 11:13 AM (Zz0t1)

113 If one were being malicious, one could say that white progressives did this on purpose to demean the black man, letting them dress up in progressive mantles while being no more than jesters.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 11:11 AM (GBKbO)

it may have taken them over a century, but they've finally gotten black people to stand up and declare "Yes, we ARE racially inferior!"

It's pretty gross, really.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 07, 2026 11:13 AM (06Hmj)

114 102 Not required under the War Powers resolution. A letter fits the reporting requirement as does an oral mass announcement. Trump does not even need to do that until 48 hours after the action commences.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 11:11 AM (WDjG6)

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How much does he have to do regarding notifications for actions against cartel assets, including leadership? Cartels that he's classified as foreign terrorist organizations under his authority from the 2001 AUMF?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 11:13 AM (GBKbO)

115 There are also claims that Hakeem Jeffries tried to directly tip Maduro off...
Posted by: XTC

Remind me of the punishment for treason.

Posted by: Joe Mama at January 07, 2026 11:13 AM (TezPK)

116 26 If I remember my history, there was another ambitious Asian power that we isolated and cut off from petroleum supplies just prior to some unpleasantness in the Pacific circa 1941.

Stay alert, America

Also the Joos.

Posted by: Tucker Carlson at January 07, 2026 11:13 AM (Riz8t)

117 If the US can justify invading Venezuela as a 'police action' to arrest a leader, what stops China from using the exact same excuse to move on Taiwan? I understand the military logistics are totally different, but strictly from a legal standpoint, didn't the US just validate the 'special police operation' excuse?

military reporters have stated that china's timeline to be ready to do that is 2027. They're apparently already building the giant landing craft they would need for a large scale island invasion. That's why the US stopping Venezuelan oil from reaching China is a big deal.

This is a case of "might makes right", unfortunately. We do it because we *can*. I don't personally agree with it, but the main question is "who can stop us?"

For China...The US *can* stop them, and likely will if it's seen by the administration to be in our interest.

"International law" was never a real thing. It's just a polite veneer various power blocs use to keep rogue states, (which are states that deliberately choose not to fall in line with the power structure) from getting to big for their britches or rocking the boat to much (i.e. getting nukes).

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 07, 2026 11:13 AM (JCZqz)

118 There's a chorus of about five with notoriety, but I'm sure there's more than that. Mark Kelly seems to reliably squawk whenever Xi stubs his toe. Just my observations, ymmv.

Also, if Liawatha was any deeper in the Pharma companies pocket she could start a night job as a jazz drummer.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls

Mr. Senator Penis Head got circumcized by his demotion and likely legal problems related to the 100 million bucks he received from ActBlue smurfs.

If that money is stripped out from his campaign as illegal contributions, he is personally liable for the if his treasury does not have the money to return to the purported givers.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 11:13 AM (WDjG6)

119 "No, no, dag blame it, gol darn it, the sheriff Dean of Harvard is a ni..."

https://tinyurl.com/y4smfd2w

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 07, 2026 11:14 AM (sdclT)

120 Trump didn't tell anyone in the 'Gang of Eight' who oversee Intelligence for Congress, and this chud thinks he can pretend Trump had time to brief *him* afterward???
Posted by: Lizzy at January 07, 2026 11:08 AM (NuV6c)

100% Theater Kid.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 07, 2026 11:08 AM (06Hmj)

=======

One of his early acts as mayor was to explain to the voters of New York that he was going to make it a top priority to make sure that World Cup tickets are equitable.

Not one World Cup event is in New York City.

He is only going to dance for his four years in office.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 11:10 AM (GBKbO)
________

Bro, the games are at Metlife stadium. That's where the New York Jets and New York Giants play. That's a New York stadium, bro.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 11:14 AM (iFTx/)

121 >>100% Theater Kid.


"Office of the President Elect" vibes.
Obama was always saying, with his faux gravitas, that he has been fully briefed about blah blah blah after it happened, such as a big terror attack oversees or a local tragedy in a flyover state. Like, congratulations, buddy! Someone told you what happened!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 07, 2026 11:14 AM (NuV6c)

122 113 it may have taken them over a century, but they've finally gotten black people to stand up and declare "Yes, we ARE racially inferior!"

It's pretty gross, really.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 07, 2026 11:13 AM (06Hmj)

Horseshoe Theory tying the Left and Groypers together.

Posted by: XTC at January 07, 2026 11:14 AM (UnA8+)

123
Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, it's all free at last!

https://is.gd/SEdTYx
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 07, 2026 10:57 AM (L/fGl)



It won't be as much of a burden as it seems. I'd be surprised if there were more than 3-400 taxpaying black folks living within the Frisco city limits. On the other hand, they pretty much dominate the cities in the East Bay like Oakland.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 07, 2026 11:15 AM (y9nCu)

124 Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, it's all free at last!

https://is.gd/SEdTYx
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 07, 2026 10:57 AM

You have got to be effin' kidding me.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 07, 2026 11:15 AM (bFu5X)

125 Fortress Greenland.

EU Leaders Vow to Defend Greenland as Denmark Says U.S. Takeover Would End NATO

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 07, 2026 11:15 AM (L/fGl)

126 I use Reddit tears as lotion.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 07, 2026 11:15 AM (tL5sl)

127 All of Maduro’s thugs are hunting anti Maduro Venezuelans. Trump needs to tell his selected replacement she needs to put a stop to it or she’s next.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 07, 2026 11:15 AM (KDPiq)

128 Horseshoe Theory tying the Left and Groypers together.
Posted by: XTC at January 07, 2026 11:14 AM (UnA8+)

I think the right image there isn't so much a horseshoe bent all they way around, so much as a set of nesting dolls with different faces painted on them.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 07, 2026 11:15 AM (06Hmj)

129 117 If the US can justify invading Venezuela as a 'police action' to arrest a leader, what stops China from using the exact same excuse to move on Taiwan? I understand the military logistics are totally different, but strictly from a legal standpoint, didn't the US just validate the 'special police operation' excuse?

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissi

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This idea that China was just looking for international law excuses to take over Taiwan always amuses me.

They've been flaunting international law regarding their artificial island creation and fishing fleet behaviors for years.

The only reason they haven't invaded Taiwan is because they didn't think they could pull it off, that either the logistics of the actual action were too great or that the reaction would be too strong to hold back.

Running to the UN after invading Taiwan, destroying who knows how much infrastructure and manufacturing capability of things like super conductors in the process, and then saying "Trump took Maduro" would convince no one not already on China's side.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 11:16 AM (GBKbO)

130 This Early Monkey thing could be looked on as a novelty, or lark, but I fear for repercussions in the future.

Posted by: Nervous Ned at January 07, 2026 11:16 AM (oftw2)

131 How much does he have to do regarding notifications for actions against cartel assets, including leadership? Cartels that he's classified as foreign terrorist organizations under his authority from the 2001 AUMF?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Arguably none. But if it doesn't cost Trump anything, he will simply announce it after the fact.

Basically most if not all presidents have claimed the War Powers Resolution is unconstitutional (dunno about Biden or Obama). But they have more or less complied with the reporting requirements to keep the peace. Ultimately, both Congress and the President have avoided testing the constitutionality in court (if teh court would even accept the case under the political question doctrine).

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 11:16 AM (WDjG6)

132
Bro, the games are at Metlife stadium. That's where the New York Jets and New York Giants play. That's a New York stadium, bro.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 11:14 AM (iFTx/)


East Rutherford, NEW JERSEY. Bro.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 11:16 AM (Zz0t1)

133 Denmark Says U.S. Takeover Would End NATO
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

I'm already in favor of it, you don't have to oversell it.

Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2026 11:16 AM (77rzZ)

134 China fully expected to be able to sail warships into the Gulf of America as a big F-U to us. Maybe even tie up resources here while they move on Taiwan.

Are we able to protect both Taiwan and the homeland?

Maybe, maybe not. It's a moot point as of a few days ago.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 07, 2026 11:16 AM (NwnyJ)

135 125 Fortress Greenland.

EU Leaders Vow to Defend Greenland as Denmark Says U.S. Takeover Would End NATO
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 07, 2026 11:15 AM (L/fGl)

Well, I'm sold now.

Because NATO needs to f***ing end before we're stuck supporting a Jihad on behalf of Turkey.

Posted by: XTC at January 07, 2026 11:16 AM (UnA8+)

136 120 Bro, the games are at Metlife stadium. That's where the New York Jets and New York Giants play. That's a New York stadium, bro.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 11:14 AM (iFTx/)

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Which is in...New Jersey.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 11:17 AM (GBKbO)

137 Mamdani Claims He Was “Briefed” on Maduro Operation – But He Doesn't Have Federal Security Clearance

-
Trump doesn't make a move without running it by Zohran.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 07, 2026 11:06 AM (L/fGl)

Hey, he can follow the WH twitter feed, same as everyone else.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 11:17 AM (ExV1e)

138 Bro, the games are at Metlife stadium. That's where the New York Jets and New York Giants play. That's a New York stadium, bro.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 11:14 AM (iFTx/)

Still in NJ.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 07, 2026 11:17 AM (KDPiq)

139 EU Leaders Vow to Defend Greenland as Denmark Says U.S. Takeover Would End NATO

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 07, 2026 11:15 AM (L/fGl)

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Your terms are acceptable!

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 07, 2026 11:17 AM (GSV+h)

140 126 I use Reddit tears as lotion.
Posted by: gKWVE

I'm pretty sure you can get herpes, AIDS, low-T/high estrogen, and severe brain damage from that.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 07, 2026 11:17 AM (JCZqz)

141 China can buy oil from the U.S. Win/Win!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 07, 2026 11:18 AM (Dv3i1)

142 Bro, the games are at Metlife stadium. That's where the New York Jets and New York Giants play. That's a New York stadium, bro.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 11:14 AM (iFTx/)

Still in NJ.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 07, 2026 11:17 AM (KDPiq)

---------------

Also where Jimmy Hoffa is buried.

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 07, 2026 11:18 AM (GSV+h)

143 One of his early acts as mayor was to explain to the voters of New York that he was going to make it a top priority to make sure that World Cup tickets are equitable.

Not one World Cup event is in New York City.

He is only going to dance for his four years in office.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 11:10 AM (GBKbO)

It wouldn't be hard for New Yorkers to swallow up all of the Philly tickets, though.
Posted by: XTC at January 07, 2026 11:12 AM (UnA8+)
________

NYers don't care about soccer. It's for homos. (Full disclosure: I played soccer through high school and was good enough to field some minor scholarship offers.)

The WC tix will be in high demand for the same reason F1 is suddenly a thing in USA: it's been successfully marketed as a Veblen good that all the cool people like. Sure, you may think it's boring and fake, but those very cool Eurofags think it's great!

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 11:18 AM (iFTx/)

144 >>EU Leaders Vow to Defend Greenland as Denmark Says U.S. Takeover Would End NATO


You've already sold it!
This would be icing on the cake.

And what would this do about Ukraine/Russia, as it was Ukraine's possible entry into NATO that triggered the war?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 07, 2026 11:18 AM (NuV6c)

145 It is way past time that the Cuba shit gets sorted out.

Posted by: pawn at January 07, 2026 11:18 AM (Rmqfl)

146 88 Blacks are traumatized by their own genetics? The list is so insane -- and odd -- that I find it hard to believe even DEI morons came up with it

The best I can come up with is that they're mad because they think whites selectively bred the big, strong, and stupid ones. IOW, exactly what Jimmy the Greek was pilloried for saying. There is simply no point in indulging this nonsense, or any of their demands, because that will simply result in more demands. If the BLM loons died and went to heaven, they'd be demanding that St. Peter pay them reparations and give them admittance quotas.

Posted by: Tucker Carlson at January 07, 2026 11:19 AM (Riz8t)

147 Are we able to protect both Taiwan and the homeland?

Maybe, maybe not. It's a moot point as of a few days ago.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 07, 2026 11:16 AM (NwnyJ)

It's probably part of the bigger strategic posture of America. You mess around in Taiwan, we send all our fancy toys and gadgets and nerds and grunts to go ruin your day and make headlines.

You mess with the mainland, we give the Sun a new baby brother.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 07, 2026 11:19 AM (06Hmj)

148 If the US can justify invading Venezuela as a 'police action' to arrest a leader, what stops China from using the exact same excuse to move on Taiwan?


Legitimate leader vs illegitimate leader.
Illegitimate leaders do not enjoy sovereignty.
Snatching a legitimate leader is an act of war.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 11:19 AM (WC9t6)

149 >>NYers don't care about soccer. It's for homos.


And foreigners.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 07, 2026 11:19 AM (NuV6c)

150 Bro, the games are at Metlife stadium. That's where the New York Jets and New York Giants play. That's a New York stadium, bro.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 11:14 AM (iFTx/)

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Which is in...New Jersey.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 11:17 AM (GBKbO)
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The joke. You missed it.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 11:19 AM (iFTx/)

151 I didn’t go to law school (or stay in a holiday inn)… but I’m pretty sure that “gang of eight” appears nowhere in the US Constitution. It’s also a retarded moniker….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 07, 2026 11:19 AM (xT8gx)

152 150 The joke. You missed it.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 11:19 AM (iFTx/)

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I didn't get it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 11:20 AM (GBKbO)

153 Bro, the games are at Metlife stadium. That's where the New York Jets and New York Giants play. That's a New York stadium, bro.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 11:14 AM (iFTx/)

Still in NJ.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 07, 2026 11:17 AM (KDPiq)
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The joke. You missed it.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 11:20 AM (iFTx/)

154 "International law" was never a real thing. It's just a polite veneer various power blocs use to keep rogue states, (which are states that deliberately choose not to fall in line with the power structure) from getting to big for their britches or rocking the boat to much (i.e. getting nukes).
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 07, 2026 11:13 AM

Glad to see the left admitting this finally. "International Law"...*snort*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 07, 2026 11:20 AM (bFu5X)

155 I used to go to Jets games. They had a designated area at one of the access stairs where everyone would smoke weed. Always went out of my way to get to our seats.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 07, 2026 11:20 AM (KDPiq)

156 The joke. You missed it.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

Where's Ben R. when you need him?

Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2026 11:21 AM (77rzZ)

157 Bro, the games are at Metlife stadium. That's where the New York Jets and New York Giants play. That's a New York stadium, bro.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 11:14 AM (iFTx/)


East Rutherford, NEW JERSEY. Bro.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 11:16 AM (Zz0t1)
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It seems literally everyone missed the joke ....

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 11:21 AM (iFTx/)

158 It won't be as much of a burden as it seems. I'd be surprised if there were more than 3-400 taxpaying black folks living within the Frisco city limits. On the other hand, they pretty much dominate the cities in the East Bay like Oakland.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 07, 2026 11:15 AM (y9nCu)

The funniest part of this is that the San Francisco Board of Commissioners (I think that's who did it) voted in favor of creating this fund for reparations, and then in the next breath said "Oh by the way we're broke and we don't have any money to put into this fund, but we hope someone somewhere someday finds some money for this and isn't it wonderful that we at least said we thought it was a great idea?"

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 07, 2026 11:21 AM (uWKK8)

159 Unless Mamdani plans on using tax dollars to buy scores of WC tickets and offer them at a 'flat rate' or discount to NYC'ers, that dude can't do one f*cking thing about the price of admission to ANY WC match.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 11:21 AM (Zz0t1)

160 Well, I'm sold now.

Because NATO needs to f***ing end before we're stuck supporting a Jihad on behalf of Turkey.
Posted by: XTC

EU versus NATO shows the two faces of Euroland where the EU says US bad and NATO says please defend us is probably coming to an end. I think part of why Trump wants Euroland to meet NATO spending guidelines is so that the US can withdraw over time. The silly EU loan to Ukraine while we are down to basically no spending on Ukraine is a sign that Trump is cutting Euroland, if not specific Euro countries like Poland, Hungaria, etc. adrift.

He ignored them on Iran and Gaza as well.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 11:21 AM (WDjG6)

161 154 "International law" was never a real thing. It's just a polite veneer various power blocs use to keep rogue states, (which are states that deliberately choose not to fall in line with the power structure) from getting to big for their britches or rocking the boat to much (i.e. getting nukes).
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 07, 2026 11:13 AM

Glad to see the left admitting this finally. "International Law"...*snort*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 07, 2026 11:20 AM (bFu5X)

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International Law isn't big nations bullying small nations.

It's small nations bullying large nations.

It's only allowed because the big nations like to be bullied. When big nations stop liking it, they exert influence instead.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 11:21 AM (GBKbO)

162
It seems literally everyone missed the joke ....
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 11:21 AM (iFTx/)


It seems the joke is on you, then.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 11:21 AM (Zz0t1)

163 yum yum shit
yummy shit pebbles
in my mouth

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at January 07, 2026 11:21 AM (665yf)

164 The joke. You missed it.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 11:19 AM (iFTx/)

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I didn't get it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 11:20 AM (GBKbO)
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Be better, bro

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 11:21 AM (iFTx/)

165 The joke. You missed it.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 11:20 AM (iFTx/)

I definitely did.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 07, 2026 11:21 AM (KDPiq)

166 EU Leaders Vow to Defend Greenland as Denmark Says U.S. Takeover Would End NATO

They're finally getting the hint. Get out of the house and get a job!

Posted by: t-bird at January 07, 2026 11:22 AM (o5jAD)

167 If the US can justify invading Venezuela as a 'police action' to arrest a leader, what stops China from using the exact same excuse to move on Taiwan? I understand the military logistics are totally different, but strictly from a legal standpoint, didn't the US just validate the 'special police operation' excuse?

Right, they're exactly the same. Well, except the Taiwanese aren't sending drugs, gangs, and millions of refugees bent on destroying the existing way of life to China. But other than that...

Posted by: Tucker Carlson at January 07, 2026 11:22 AM (Riz8t)

168 164 Be better, bro

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 11:21 AM (iFTx/)

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I still don't know how to read, bruh.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 11:22 AM (GBKbO)

169 143 NYers don't care about soccer. It's for homos. (Full disclosure: I played soccer through high school and was good enough to field some minor scholarship offers.)

The WC tix will be in high demand for the same reason F1 is suddenly a thing in USA: it's been successfully marketed as a Veblen good that all the cool people like. Sure, you may think it's boring and fake, but those very cool Eurofags think it's great!
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 11:18 AM (iFTx/)

There are plenty of Theater Kid Poofters in NY.

Posted by: XTC at January 07, 2026 11:22 AM (UnA8+)

170 A wise man once said, if you have to explain the joke, it isn't.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 11:22 AM (Zz0t1)

171 This is a case of "might makes right", unfortunately. We do it because we *can*. I don't personally agree with it, but the main question is "who can stop us?"

For China...The US *can* stop them, and likely will if it's seen by the administration to be in our interest.

"International law" was never a real thing. It's just a polite veneer various power blocs use to keep rogue states, (which are states that deliberately choose not to fall in line with the power structure) from getting to big for their britches or rocking the boat to much (i.e. getting nukes).
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the

Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 07, 2026 11:13 AM (JCZqz)

Unusual accuracy from those redditors.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 07, 2026 11:22 AM (lFFaq)

172 170 A wise man once said, if you have to explain the joke, it isn't.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 11:22 AM (Zz0t1)

HEY SCREW YOU BUDDY I DON'T COME TO WHERE YOU WORK AND SLAP THE TWENTY DOLLARS OUT OF YOUR HAND

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at January 07, 2026 11:23 AM (06Hmj)

173
Many of America's rivals and enemies have capital or operational exposure to Venezuela, but Red China leads the pack. 

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Mmmmmm, including the EU?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 07, 2026 11:23 AM (tgvbd)

174 EU Leaders Vow to Defend Greenland as Denmark Says U.S. Takeover Would End NATO

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 07, 2026 11:15 AM

Hmm...so I guess the past 4 years of demanding we put money and arms into Ukraine or Putin would roll over Europe were kind of BS, eh? I mean, if you don't need NATO anymore, I guess Russia isn't really a threat. Right?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 07, 2026 11:23 AM (bFu5X)

175
"International law" was never a real thing. It's just a polite veneer various power blocs use to keep rogue states, (which are states that deliberately choose not to fall in line with the power structure) from getting to big for their britches or rocking the boat to much (i.e. getting nukes).
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions


Check out the big brain on Brad.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 11:23 AM (Zz0t1)

176 Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at January 07, 2026 11:21 AM (665

Retard says what?

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 07, 2026 11:23 AM (KDPiq)

177 175 Check out the big brain on Brad.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 11:23 AM (Zz0t1)

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Great. Now I want a Big Kahuna Burger.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 11:24 AM (GBKbO)

178 They've been flaunting international law regarding their artificial island creation and fishing fleet behaviors for years.

*considers mocking TJM about flaunting vs flouting, but decides it's kind of a d*** move*

*Does it anyway*

Bwahahaha

Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2026 11:24 AM (Riz8t)

179 Blacks are traumatized by their own genetics?

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So Sidney Sweeney was right.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 07, 2026 11:24 AM (L/fGl)

180 If the US can justify invading Venezuela as a 'police action' to arrest a leader, what stops China from using the exact same excuse to move on Taiwan?
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Nothing.

The answer has always been "nothing", and always will be "nothing". But with one huge asterisk: whatever one does comes with *consequences*.

The US did what it did with Venezuela because it determined it could live with the consequences. I'm not sure China can make the same determination with regard to Taiwan.

But the correct answer is still "nothing".

Posted by: Crusader at January 07, 2026 11:24 AM (TN0g+)

181 A wise man once said, if you have to explain the joke, it isn't.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 11:22 AM (Zz0t1)
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Or it's just too suave and sophisticated and blade-y and packed full of delightful awesome

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 11:24 AM (iFTx/)

182 If one were being malicious, one could say that white progressives did this on purpose to demean the black man, letting them dress up in progressive mantles while being no more than jesters.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen

I figure half are dumb enough to believe them, and the other half just know a good opportunity for grift when they see one.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 07, 2026 11:24 AM (OUMaO)

183 Glad to see the left admitting this finally. "International Law"...*snort*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Diplomacy always has to have real military power to back the check as an enforcement of agreements. Basically a credit line on a country's real influence on the rest of the world.

Neo Realist Kenneth Waltz (disciple of Hans Morgenthau who described realism), more or less says at the end of the day, power (economic and military) are what determines what international law is in practice.

Kantian moralism, if it is publicly cited, always ends up being a facade for realism in action.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 11:24 AM (WDjG6)

184 88 Blacks are traumatized by their own genetics? The list is so insane -- and odd -- that I find it hard to believe even DEI morons came up with it.

This was made by retarded AI, right? Or this is an op to get non-blacks to think blacks are retarded slothful deadbeats?

I think the tell is that white supremacy was put in scare quotes, as if even the authors don't really believe it's a thing.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 11:09 AM (iFTx/)

I mean, they're right for the wrong reasons.

Crime Statistics. IQ Realism.

I wake up every day wishing I wasn't half black.

That said, I don't want to be patronized.

Posted by: XTC at January 07, 2026 11:25 AM (UnA8+)

185 147 Are we able to protect both Taiwan and the homeland?
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Mmm, we have some friends in the area. Japan and Korea say 'hey'.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 07, 2026 11:25 AM (pLaQB)

186 Or it's just too suave and sophisticated and blade-y and packed full of delightful awesome
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 11:24 AM (iFTx/)


Or one huffing too much of ones own......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 11:25 AM (Zz0t1)

187 Or it's just too suave and sophisticated and blade-y and packed full of delightful awesome
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

Just take the L on this one, Dude.

Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2026 11:26 AM (77rzZ)

188 Too infantile yet still funny:

https://tinyurl.com/yz3ypy6a

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 07, 2026 11:26 AM (sdclT)

189 43
‘I want you to stop flooding the US with fetanyl and stop trying to take over the Panama Canal.

Do these for starters and we can talk about selling you oil at market prices. Don't and embargo on.’

Lovely, lovely leverage. It’s better than money.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 07, 2026 11:26 AM (jbnUc)

190 Reddit can sometimes be useful. Last night I got interested in Leslie Groves (Manhattan Project general) so I poked around the web and learned he was once “dressed down” by Ike… well that’s interesting I wanted more detail and found it on Reddit….. turns out Groves was an asshole dictator type leader which worked great in wartime but not desirable in peacetime so Ike told him no more promos….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 07, 2026 11:26 AM (xT8gx)

191 187 Just take the L on this one, Dude.
Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2026 11:26 AM (77rzZ)

That would kill the gimmick.

Posted by: XTC at January 07, 2026 11:26 AM (UnA8+)

192
If one were being malicious, one could say that white progressives did this on purpose to demean the black man, letting them dress up in progressive mantles while being no more than jesters.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 11:11 AM (GBKbO)



The Donk commies have been doing this since 1865. Which is why the NAACP was formed in 1910 by a bunch of pasty white people (along with that shit-heel WEB DuBois as the token negro). That's also why it took another 60+ years for the NAACP to have a black President.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 07, 2026 11:27 AM (y9nCu)

193 Or it's just too suave and sophisticated and blade-y and packed full of delightful awesome
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I'm flattered.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 07, 2026 11:27 AM (pLaQB)

194 It’s not some esoteric philosophical issue. The differences are the differences between good and evil.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 07, 2026 11:27 AM (KDPiq)

195 China can buy oil from the U.S. Win/Win!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 07, 2026 11:18 AM (Dv3i1)

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OUT: OPEC (Organization of Petroleum-Exporting Countries).
IN: USEA (United Smega-Exports of America).

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 07, 2026 11:27 AM (3Gbwc)

196 *considers mocking TJM about flaunting vs flouting, but decides it's kind of a d*** move*

*Does it anyway*

Bwahahaha
Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2026 11:24 AM

I DON'T GET IT.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at January 07, 2026 11:27 AM (0sNs1)

197 If one were being malicious, one could say that white progressives did this on purpose to demean the black man, letting them dress up in progressive mantles while being no more than jesters.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 11:11 AM (GBKbO)

An Ideological Minstrel Show, one might say.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 11:28 AM (ExV1e)

198 NYers don't care about soccer. It's for homos. (Full disclosure: I played soccer through high school and was good enough to field some minor scholarship offers.)

The WC tix will be in high demand for the same reason F1 is suddenly a thing in USA: it's been successfully marketed as a Veblen good that all the cool people like. Sure, you may think it's boring and fake, but those very cool Eurofags think it's great!
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 11:18 AM (iFTx/)

There are plenty of Theater Kid Poofters in NY.
Posted by: XTC at January 07, 2026 11:22 AM (UnA8+)
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Oh sure, but they don't like soccer. They've been trying to make soccer a thing in NY -- and USA generally -- since I was a kid. Still trying. Any rise in popularity of soccer is solely due to illegal invaders who have fond memories of watching soccer drunk as fuck and beating up rival fans. Soccer is boring to watch. Hell, even in many Euro soccer-obsessed countries, sports like rugby and even basketball are starting to take over.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 11:28 AM (iFTx/)

199 167 If the US can justify invading Venezuela as a 'police action' to arrest a leader, what stops China from using the exact same excuse to move on Taiwan?"

The answer is actually extremely simple and obvious. What stops them? Their fear of what Trump might do if they try it. Nothing more, and nothing less.

With Biden, they knew exactly what would happen - nothing. Having seen that Trump is willing to launch a secret, daring, middle of the night attack on what was perceived as a powerful enemy without hesitation, do you think the Chinese are more or less worried about what his response may be if they attack Taiwan?

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 07, 2026 11:28 AM (uWKK8)

200 If the US can justify invading Venezuela as a 'police action' to arrest a leader, what stops China from using the exact same excuse to move on Taiwan?

And Russia-Ukraine. Nothing. It's the same thing.

Posted by: t-bird at January 07, 2026 11:29 AM (o5jAD)

201 Very good essay. Thanks!

We're not going to get in hostilities with Russia or China over the tanker, are we?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 07, 2026 11:29 AM (L2PcB)

202 I wake up every day wishing I wasn't half black.

That said, I don't want to be patronized.
Posted by: XTC at January 07, 2026 11:25 AM (UnA8+)

Screw that, man. Wake up every day glad you're crushing the curve. Be glad that all your ancestors came together and gave you good genes to not be a degen or an imbecile.

I don't run around all day yodeling or invading Scythia or getting smallpox from blankets, because I'm American. And damn happy for it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 07, 2026 11:29 AM (06Hmj)

203 Or it's just too suave and sophisticated and blade-y and packed full of delightful awesome
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

Just take the L on this one, Dude.
Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2026 11:26 AM (77rzZ)
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STILL not getting the joke ....

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 11:29 AM (iFTx/)

204 They've been trying to make soccer a thing in NY -- and USA generally
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at

The metric system has entered the chat.

Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2026 11:29 AM (77rzZ)

205 Thx Joe
Theater Kid Mamdani didn't realize his BS stops at the NYC border. Not surprised he was ignorant of that fact

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 07, 2026 11:29 AM (ScJGb)

206 Just take the L on this one, Dude.
Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2026 11:26 AM (77rzZ)

That would kill the gimmick.
Posted by: XTC at January 07, 2026 11:26 AM (UnA8+)
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XTC gets it, he does (I think it's a "he")!

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 11:30 AM (iFTx/)

207 With Biden, they knew exactly what would happen - nothing.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 07, 2026 11:28 AM

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Posted by: That Guy who sonorously intones "Nothing will happen." at January 07, 2026 11:30 AM (0sNs1)

208 205 Thx Joe
Theater Kid Mamdani didn't realize his BS stops at the NYC border. Not surprised he was ignorant of that fact

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 07, 2026 11:29 AM (ScJGb)

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City governments that spend their time making declarations about issues way outside their sphere of influence are not taking time to make sure that the city government's core functions are actually performing well.

I'm just looking forward to Mamdani's government selling fire engines at a loss to New Jersey cities to make up the budget shortfalls from all the corruption.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 11:31 AM (GBKbO)

209 EU Leaders Vow to Defend Greenland as Denmark Says U.S. Takeover Would End NATO
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 07, 2026 11:15 AM (L/fGl)

And I say, although I am a peace-loving man, with nothing but goodwill to all peoples... Invade Greenland Now!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 07, 2026 11:31 AM (ExV1e)

210 They've been trying to make soccer a thing in NY"

Pele tried..

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 11:31 AM (cGjQu)

211 XTC gets it, he does (I think it's a "he")!

I'm too lazy to go back and find out what the original joke was. Please to encapsulate.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2026 11:31 AM (Riz8t)

212 199 If the Chinks attack Taiwan the Three Gorges Dam will be on the menu. And just for funsies, that pesky germ lab in Wu Han.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 07, 2026 11:31 AM (gm9Sb)

213 They've been trying to make soccer a thing in NY -- and USA generally
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at

The metric system has entered the chat.
Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2026 11:29 AM (77rzZ)
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That too ... until they basically gave up pushing that faggotry

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 11:31 AM (iFTx/)

214 IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE....

Nobody got it.

Posted by: Reforger at January 07, 2026 11:32 AM (gKsV+)

215 It won't be as much of a burden as it seems. I'd be surprised if there were more than 3-400 taxpaying black folks living within the Frisco city limits. On the other hand, they pretty much dominate the cities in the East Bay like Oakland.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 07, 2026 11:15 AM (y9nCu)

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* East Palo Alto -- even bac6in the mid-80s -- has entered the chat *

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 07, 2026 11:32 AM (g5T0J)

216 210 They've been trying to make soccer a thing in NY"

Pele tried..
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Yep. It went nowhere.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 07, 2026 11:32 AM (pLaQB)

217 I'm too lazy to go back and find out what the original joke was. Please to encapsulate.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2026 11:31 AM (Riz8t)

I think the upshot was that liking the New York Football Giants is akin to being a soccer fan in terms of sexuality implications.

Right?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 07, 2026 11:32 AM (06Hmj)

218 199 With Biden, they knew exactly what would happen - nothing. Having seen that Trump is willing to launch a secret, daring, middle of the night attack on what was perceived as a powerful enemy without hesitation, do you think the Chinese are more or less worried about what his response may be if they attack Taiwan?

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 07, 2026 11:28 AM (uWKK

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China has a rapidly aging population with massive internal fissures.

I don't think it can project military power on a sustained basis outside of its own borders anymore.

They should have tried it in the 90s. Now? Could they hold onto Taiwan in a military junta with massive military presence across the entire island for 20 years to retain control?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 11:32 AM (GBKbO)

219 If the US can justify invading Venezuela as a 'police action' to arrest a leader, what stops China from using the exact same excuse to move on Taiwan?"

The answer is actually extremely simple and obvious. What stops them? Their fear of what Trump might do if they try it. Nothing more, and nothing less.

Posted by: Tom Servo
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Yes, and the fact that the raid showed up the air defense systems they supplied to Venezuela gives them additional fear.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 07, 2026 11:32 AM (XvL8K)

220 147 Are we able to protect both Taiwan and the homeland?
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I think the speed of which Ukraine v. Russia has become a war of drones has shocked the military planners across the globe. We simply do not know how Chinese ships, for example, can fend off a bunch of cheap, kamikaze drones. Without the ships, there can be no invasion of Taiwan.

The relative success of missile defense of Israel also means that China's plan for massive missile bombardment might not work either absent a physical invasion.

Now throw in Japan, US military, the vulnerability of 3 Gorges Dam, the uncertainties of a massive amphibious assault, whether the absence of Taiwan causes a worldwide depression in economics hurting China's exports, and so on makes it less likely over time.

Military planners hate uncertainty, the only joker in the deck is whether Xi wants to roll the dice with only a small chance of success for his legacy or whether the uncertainties lead him to stick with the longer time span of trying to corrupt Taiwan from within.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 11:32 AM (WDjG6)

221 Going to a soccer game in the US reveals very little actual Americans.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 11:32 AM (Zz0t1)

222 Pele was a fine man and a great soccer player.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 07, 2026 11:32 AM (L2PcB)

223 >>Unless Mamdani plans on using tax dollars to buy scores of WC tickets and offer them at a 'flat rate' or discount to NYC'ers, that dude can't do one f*cking thing about the price of admission to ANY WC match.



IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE FIFA IS LIKELY THE MOST CORRUPT INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION THERE IS. OK, MAYBE SECOND TO THE UN.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at January 07, 2026 11:33 AM (NuV6c)

224 UK and France Will Deploy Troops to Ukraine if Ceasefire Reached

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Well, it's not like they have existential crises at home.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 07, 2026 11:33 AM (L/fGl)

225 It was a joke.

Posted by: People who say stupid shit then claim it was a "joke" at January 07, 2026 11:33 AM (Y1sOo)

226 @208 TJM, then Mamdani won't understand why half the city is burning and the NYFD can't stop the flames

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 07, 2026 11:33 AM (ScJGb)

227 The WC tix will be in high demand

You've got 50 million people in the neighborhood. People from all over the world will travel for the World Cup. I went to four, myself, back when I was a soccer fan. Zoron will supply these tickets at an 'equitable' price so that scalpers can thrive.

Posted by: t-bird at January 07, 2026 11:34 AM (o5jAD)

228 Could they hold onto Taiwan"

Serious question... could they even reach Taiwan? I'm doubtful

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 11:34 AM (cGjQu)

229 International Law isn't big nations bullying small nations.

It's small nations bullying large nations.

It's only allowed because the big nations like to be bullied. When big nations stop liking it, they exert influence instead.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

You think so? I'd argue it only exists to allow powerful countries to do what their leaders want. If the EU wants to import millions of 3rd world invaders, against the will of the people, "international law" is a piece of the propaganda campaign to justify it. If they want to bomb Libya, or intervene in the breakup of Yugoslavia, powerful nations can use international law as a pretext. But, if the law didn’t exist, they could (and would) just do it anyway. When has a powerful country relented to a weaker one on something important just because of international law? I can think of plenty of examples where the opposite (powerful nations ignoring the law) occurred.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 07, 2026 11:35 AM (JCZqz)

230 228 Could they hold onto Taiwan"

Serious question... could they even reach Taiwan? I'm doubtful

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 11:34 AM (cGjQu)

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That's a major question.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 11:35 AM (GBKbO)

231 Military planners hate uncertainty, the only joker in the deck is whether Xi wants to roll the dice with only a small chance of success for his legacy or whether the uncertainties lead him to stick with the longer time span of trying to corrupt Taiwan from within.

The problem with that strategy is that China in the form of the CCP is having serious structural problems, so the question becomes who's going to corrupt whom?

Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2026 11:35 AM (Riz8t)

232 225 It was a joke.
Posted by: People who say stupid shit then claim it was a "joke" at January 07, 2026 11:33 AM (Y1sOo)

I didn't think it was medically possible to read a sentence with that many "Bro"s in it and not take it as being comedically obtuse.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 07, 2026 11:35 AM (06Hmj)

233 I heard that Metric Ton Of Faggotry opened for George Michael at the bathrooms in Central Park West around 2011.

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 07, 2026 11:36 AM (g5T0J)

234
China has a rapidly aging population with massive internal fissures.

I don't think it can project military power on a sustained basis outside of its own borders anymore.

They should have tried it in the 90s. Now? Could they hold onto Taiwan in a military junta with massive military presence across the entire island for 20 years to retain control?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 11:32 AM (GBKbO)



I don't think the ChiComs really care about holding onto Taiwan. They just want to destroy the Kuomintang to wipe out the shame of getting their asses kicked and being forced to undertake the Long March in order to survive 90+ years ago.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 07, 2026 11:36 AM (y9nCu)

235 Soccer.

Where a ball going out of bounds doesn't stop the clock, and the point of exit doesn't really mean much as the player throwing it back in can move around quite a bit, all while the entire thing isn't a time saving move as 'stoppage time' is added onto the end of the half, giving the 'lost time' back.

Seems, stupid.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 11:36 AM (Zz0t1)

236
Mr. Senator Penis Head got circumcized by his demotion and likely legal problems related to the 100 million bucks he received from ActBlue smurfs.

If that money is stripped out from his campaign as illegal contributions, he is personally liable for the if his treasury does not have the money to return to the purported givers.
Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 11:13 AM (WDjG6)

Well ain't that a damn shame.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at January 07, 2026 11:36 AM (w/O5Q)

237 >>I'm just looking forward to Mamdani's government selling fire engines at a loss to New Jersey cities to make up the budget shortfalls from all the corruption.


First blizzard, where he tries to schedule snow-clearing based on "equity" and "fairness."

First tango with the trash collection unions.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 07, 2026 11:36 AM (NuV6c)

238 UK and France Will Deploy Troops to Ukraine if Ceasefire Reached

I just think it's funny that France will deploy its military only with the assurance that there will be no gunfire.

Posted by: t-bird at January 07, 2026 11:36 AM (o5jAD)

239 Pele was a fine man and a great soccer player."

Reggie had a candy bar...

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 11:37 AM (cGjQu)

240 I'm surprised that China hasn't gone more nuclear by now. Not THAT kind of nuclear, although it does come to mind.

Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at January 07, 2026 11:37 AM (P7Iz+)

241 Brazil (5 Fifa) v Morocco (11 Fifa)
6/13/2026 East Rutherford, NJ

Lowest price on Stub Hub is $872.

Posted by: mr tmz at January 07, 2026 11:37 AM (rJ48h)

242 Serious question... could they even reach Taiwan? I'm doubtful

They'd have to have already knocked out most of Taiwan's defenses, established air supremacy, and possibly conducted a coup. Otherwise, those cross-strait ships are just so many ducks in a barrel. Dieppe provides an object lesson in the perils of not achieving those preliminary objectives.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2026 11:37 AM (Riz8t)

243 Military planners hate uncertainty, the only joker in the deck is whether Xi wants to roll the dice with only a small chance of success for his legacy or whether the uncertainties lead him to stick with the longer time span of trying to corrupt Taiwan from within.
Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 11:32 AM (WDjG6)
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I don't think China is "trying" to corrupt Taiwan from within. They are succeeding. They already have important politicians and company boards in their pocket.

Apart from the payoffs, Taiwan is an odd country, in some ways like Uke. There's a substantial percentage of Taiwan citizens who identify more as Chinese than Taiwanese, and don't have bad feelings about the CCP like older generations did. That, and there's been a lot of interbreeding between Taiwan citizens and Chinese citizens.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 11:37 AM (iFTx/)

244 240 I'm surprised that China hasn't gone more nuclear by now. Not THAT kind of nuclear, although it does come to mind.

Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at January 07, 2026 11:37 AM (P7Iz+)

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Coal fired plants are cheap, and the Chinese government doesn't give a shit about the environment.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 11:37 AM (GBKbO)

245 I don't think the ChiComs really care about holding onto Taiwan. They just want to destroy the Kuomintang to wipe out the shame of getting their asses kicked and being forced to undertake the Long March in order to survive 90+ years ago.

Man, I thought I could hold a grudge, but those guys...

Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2026 11:38 AM (Riz8t)

246 I hate soccer… I coached my kids teams when they were that age and I hated every minute of it… stupid game. This was confirmed for me when I got picked up at DFW airport over the holiday by a Jordanian uber driver who couldn’t stop chattering about the upcoming WC and how great it was that Dallas is hosting some games. Yawn…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 07, 2026 11:39 AM (xT8gx)

247 That's a major question"

Indeed. Logistics simply cannot be overstated as the key issue, and focus on press releases seems to indicate they can't...

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 11:39 AM (cGjQu)

248 UK and France, did we miss the battle?

Ukraine, you missed the war

Posted by: Ben Had at January 07, 2026 11:39 AM (sDNVV)

249 Mr. Senator Penis Head got circumcized by his demotion and likely legal problems related to the 100 million bucks he received from ActBlue smurfs.



Call me when these 'legal problems' start and there's a chance he might wind up in a court of law facing actual consequences.

I won't hold my breath, tho.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 11:40 AM (Zz0t1)

250
Man, I thought I could hold a grudge, but those guys...
Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2026 11:38 AM (Riz8t)


Word. They still have a case of the ass when it comes to the Limeys and the Opium Wars.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 07, 2026 11:40 AM (y9nCu)

251 246 I hate soccer… I coached my kids teams when they were that age and I hated every minute of it… stupid game. This was confirmed for me when I got picked up at DFW airport over the holiday by a Jordanian uber driver who couldn’t stop chattering about the upcoming WC and how great it was that Dallas is hosting some games. Yawn…
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Sort of fun to play but as a spectator sport it sucks ballz.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 07, 2026 11:40 AM (pLaQB)

252 First tango with the trash collection unions"

Rocky, Moose, help the mayor find his wallet...

/heh

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 11:41 AM (cGjQu)

253

What the heck is international law? Is there an international police force to enforce it? An international court to sentence violators to international jail?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 07, 2026 11:41 AM (pkeXY)

254 I think the upshot was that liking the New York Football Giants is akin to being a soccer fan in terms of sexuality implications.

Right?
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The Giants have some Super Bowl titles that didn't come from 1969. I consider Jets fans to be more likely to be homosexuals.

Posted by: Crusader at January 07, 2026 11:41 AM (TN0g+)

255 Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 11:37 AM (cGjQu)

I don't understand what that means. Sorry.

Some people like soccer. Some don't. Not everybody who plays soccer is a fag It isn't worth arguing about.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 07, 2026 11:41 AM (L2PcB)

256 Going to a soccer game in the US reveals very little actual Americans.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 11:32 AM

It does seem to be mostly kids, doesn't it?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 07, 2026 11:41 AM (bFu5X)

257
Coal fired plants are cheap, and the Chinese government doesn't give a shit about the environment.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 11:37 AM (GBKbO)

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And "environmental activists" don't give a shit about the fact that the Chinese government doesn't give a shit about the environment.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 07, 2026 11:41 AM (tgvbd)

258 UK and France, did we miss the battle?

Ukraine, you missed the war"

Yeah, but they won't sacrifice bulls in Trump's honor...

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 11:42 AM (cGjQu)

259 Because of course she is!

Looks like Cea Weaver, Mamdani's white female who went to Bryn Mawr NYC white-property seize-master, is playing the victim card. She cried and ran home when a reporter asked her about her mother's $1.4M home in Nashville. Mamdani and all his mayoral underlings are execrable scum.

https://tinyurl.com/2mznpkhb

Posted by: Gref at January 07, 2026 11:42 AM (5rh/l)

260 and how great it was that Dallas is hosting some games.

Dallas, hand over your man card, now.

Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2026 11:42 AM (77rzZ)

261 Set your calendars fellow hordlings! Houston's bodacious and always holesomely respected gAy PrIdE celebration will be moved to the beginning of June instead of its usual end of June!
Apparently bringing in international kickball tournaments may cause friction in several ways or something.

Posted by: DanMan at January 07, 2026 11:42 AM (8uzBS)

262 >>I don't think the ChiComs really care about holding onto Taiwan.


They definitely want to seize all the Chinese antiquities that were smuggled out, saved from destruction, and now proudly displayed at Taiwan's Nation Palace Museum.

Gotta suck that your former great leader had his hordes smash all the valuable art/antiquities that demonstrated what a long and majestic civilization you've been. Oops!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 07, 2026 11:42 AM (NuV6c)

263 Serious question... could they even reach Taiwan? I'm doubtful
Posted by: man
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Overlord succeeded because it had control of the air and managed to prevent large enough breaches of opsec regarding the target and timing so that the invasion could be launched. Chicoms will not be able to hide massing thousands of troops and ships for the invasion.

If the initial attack, as believed, is cyber, missiles, and space, including US and Japanese assets in the Pacific, that has to succeed first like in Pearl Harbor. Even then suddenly the Chicoms have to protect their own fleet as it makes it way across the sea for 81-140 miles to a small number of beaches capable of landing troops (much of Taiwan's coasts are rocky cliffs).

They can't pull it off without both naval and air supremacy and there is reason to believe neither can occur with much chance of success.

Adding drones into the issue make even air and naval supremacy much less likely. Ukraine has exhibited successful underwater drones and so also air drones that can work below any jet canopy above.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 11:42 AM (WDjG6)

264 TJM, then Mamdani won't understand why half the city is burning and the NYFD can't stop the flames
Posted by: Smell the Glove


Damn cow.

Wait. Wrong city.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 11:42 AM (WC9t6)

265 256 Going to a soccer game in the US reveals very little actual Americans.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 11:32 AM

It does seem to be mostly kids, doesn't it?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 07, 2026 11:41 AM (bFu5X)

It's mostly Mexicans. Most apparent when we have a "friendly" in the US against their squad. It's pretty much still a home game for Mexico, and actually nicer b/c they can go and get home safely.

Posted by: Nova Local at January 07, 2026 11:42 AM (tOcjL)

266 It was a joke.
Posted by: People who say stupid shit then claim it was a "joke" at January 07, 2026 11:33 AM (Y1sOo)

I didn't think it was medically possible to read a sentence with that many "Bro"s in it and not take it as being comedically obtuse.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 07, 2026 11:35 AM (06Hmj)
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This. I thought all the "bros" made it obvious I was lampooning Bomb Daddy. Plus the fact that everyone knows where the Jets and Giants play. I drive past Metlife all the time. I know which state it's in.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 11:43 AM (iFTx/)

267
It does seem to be mostly kids, doesn't it?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 07, 2026 11:41 AM (bFu5X)


Heh.

And very few speak English.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 11:43 AM (Zz0t1)

268 It isn't worth arguing about.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

You do realize that you're talking to the Horde, right, Fen?

Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2026 11:43 AM (77rzZ)

269 266 I drive past Metlife all the time. I know which state it's in.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 11:43 AM (iFTx/)

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Well, it's bigger than Rhode Island, so it can't be in Rhode Island...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 11:43 AM (GBKbO)

270 I don't understand what that means. Sorry."

Tried to make Pele a thing, but Reggie (Yankee) was clearly more popular...

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 11:44 AM (cGjQu)

271 And "environmental activists" don't give a shit about the fact that the Chinese government doesn't give a shit about the environment.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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Many of those organizations indirectly or directly are financed by China and other nations to interfere with our politics.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 11:44 AM (WDjG6)

272 wow...didn't realize a soccer theme was already in order

Posted by: DanMan at January 07, 2026 11:44 AM (8uzBS)

273 and how great it was that Dallas is hosting some games.

Dallas, hand over your man card, now.
Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2026 11:42 AM (77rzZ)


The games will actually be in Frisco, but how many teams actually play in the city they're named after anyway.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 11:44 AM (Zz0t1)

274 This Babylon Bee headline made me laugh:

https://tinyurl.com/bd5mdxwf

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 07, 2026 11:45 AM (L2PcB)

275 and how great it was that Dallas is hosting some games.

Dallas, hand over your man card, now.
Posted by: Bulg


Que?

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 11:45 AM (WC9t6)

276 On the C-SPAN website the MN fraud feed keeps switching to other live events. Ridiculous

Posted by: jhawk90 at January 07, 2026 11:45 AM (ggOdn)

277 China's infiltration of Taiwan is likely more complete and robust than their infiltration of the US.

And China's infiltration here is fairly substantial. Politically. Infrastructure wise. Socially.

Any kinetic action over there would be met with corrupted and compromised resistance.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 07, 2026 11:45 AM (NwnyJ)

278 Dallas, hand over your man card, now"

Dallas has a man card?

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 11:45 AM (cGjQu)

279 263 I've heard that the Japanese Naval Self Defense Force (fuck it, call it the IJN) are scary good and their presence during hostilities over Taiwan would be quick and entertaining.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 07, 2026 11:45 AM (gm9Sb)

280
Why are we hosting the WC? So that this country will be crawling with Eurotrash coming here and sneering at us the whole time?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 07, 2026 11:46 AM (tgvbd)

281
Dallas has a man card?

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 11:45 AM (cGjQu)


Well, we know Mark "Rachel Maddow" Cuban doesn't have it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 11:46 AM (Zz0t1)

282
Man, I thought I could hold a grudge, but those guys...
Posted by: Archimedes

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When tyrannical regimes don't have enough food for their people, they fill their larders with hate for past wrongs.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 07, 2026 11:46 AM (bIWgk)

283 279 263 I've heard that the Japanese Naval Self Defense Force (fuck it, call it the IJN) are scary good and their presence during hostilities over Taiwan would be quick and entertaining.
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There main focus is sinking submarines. They're an island nation, you know?

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 07, 2026 11:47 AM (pLaQB)

284 280
Why are we hosting the WC? So that this country will be crawling with Eurotrash coming here and sneering at us the whole time?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 07, 2026 11:46 AM (tgvbd)

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"You fucking Americans your huge grocery stores with more fresh produce than I've ever seen in one place at one time in my life..."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 11:47 AM (GBKbO)

285 I hate soccer… I coached my kids teams when they were that age and I hated every minute of it… stupid game. This was confirmed for me when I got picked up at DFW airport over the holiday by a Jordanian uber driver who couldn’t stop chattering about the upcoming WC and how great it was that Dallas is hosting some games. Yawn…
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Sort of fun to play but as a spectator sport it sucks ballz.
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 07, 2026 11:40 AM (pLaQB)
____

Yea, see my comment above. I was a serious player of soccer. But watching it is very boring, and the rules are just stupid. Just randomly adding time to the end of a game? Wtf is that?

I think the popularity of soccer outside the USA is based more on tribal rivalry than any true love of watching the game. It's an excuse to get drunk and scream and rant like feral morlocks ... and occasionally get into bloody brawls with rival fans.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 11:47 AM (iFTx/)

286 Just saw there are large protest marches going on in Tehran right now. Apparently, the government thinks that if they mostly ignore them, they'll go away, but they don't understand the nature of their problem now. The louder the protests get, and the longer they go on with no serious pushback, the weaker and more ineffectual the government looks.
They need to do something, and if they are unwilling or unable (I suspect the latter) they need to get on that plane to Moscow quick.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 07, 2026 11:47 AM (uWKK8)

287 Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2026 11:43 AM (77rzZ)

That's true. They could probably argue about which raindrop could go down pains faster.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 07, 2026 11:47 AM (L2PcB)

288 280
Why are we hosting the WC? So that this country will be crawling with Eurotrash coming here and sneering at us the whole time?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 07, 2026 11:46 AM (tgvbd)

Money. And Trump likes all sports and sporting events.

Posted by: Nova Local at January 07, 2026 11:47 AM (tOcjL)

289 >>but how many teams actually play in the city they're named after anyway.

Detroit Lions, Detroit Tigers, Detroit Pistons, Detroit Red Wings.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 07, 2026 11:47 AM (Y1sOo)

290 Why are we hosting the WC? So that this country will be crawling with Eurotrash coming here and sneering at us the whole time?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 07, 2026 11:46 AM (tgvbd)


So the US National Team gets an automatic bid.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 11:47 AM (Zz0t1)

291 Any kinetic action over there would be met with corrupted and compromised resistance."

Probably, yes. Getting to land, however... it ain't easy.

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 11:47 AM (cGjQu)

292 286 Just saw there are large protest marches going on in Tehran right now. Apparently, the government thinks that if they mostly ignore them, they'll go away, but they don't understand the nature of their problem now. The louder the protests get, and the longer they go on with no serious pushback, the weaker and more ineffectual the government looks.
They need to do something, and if they are unwilling or unable (I suspect the latter) they need to get on that plane to Moscow quick.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 07, 2026 11:47 AM (uWKK

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I wonder if the Iranian people know what happens when they stop protesting with the mullahs still in power...

Forgive and forget...or something else?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 11:47 AM (GBKbO)

293 I've heard that the Japanese Naval Self Defense Force (fuck it, call it the IJN) are scary good and their presence during hostilities over Taiwan would be quick and entertaining.

It's nice to have them on our side this time.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2026 11:47 AM (Riz8t)

294 265 256 Going to a soccer game in the US reveals very little actual Americans.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 11:32 AM
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I defended soccer for years. After sitting next to the MN United supporters group for 3 seasons in the MLS I did realize soccer is in fact a gay communist sport.

Posted by: jhawk90 at January 07, 2026 11:48 AM (ggOdn)

295 This Babylon Bee headline made me laugh:

https://tinyurl.com/bd5mdxwf
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 07, 2026 11:45 AM (L2PcB)

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"Trump To Choose Next Venezuelan President In Inaugural Season Of 'El Aprendiz'"

["El Gande Marco" FTW!]

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 07, 2026 11:48 AM (z6HQS)

296 Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions

Reddit is sounding unusually sane on this topic.

Looks like whatever the Woke software update was supposed to be hasn't propagated out yet.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 07, 2026 11:48 AM (a+4eV)

297 Dallas, hand over your man card, now"

Dallas has a man card?
Posted by: man


Should have asked for a green card.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 11:48 AM (WC9t6)

298 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 07, 2026 11:47 AM (L2PcB)

Sorry. Meant "panes" as in window panes.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 07, 2026 11:49 AM (L2PcB)

299 based more on tribal rivalry"

I see you've been around futball fans...

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 11:49 AM (cGjQu)

300
Detroit Lions, Detroit Tigers, Detroit Pistons, Detroit Red Wings.
Posted by: one hour sober at January 07, 2026 11:47 AM (Y1sOo)


Meanwhile, the Dallas Cowboys, New York Giants, New York Jets, Los Angeles Angels, FC Dallas do not.

I guess you missed the joke.

*I might use this excuse all day

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 11:49 AM (Zz0t1)

301 The Giants have some Super Bowl titles that didn't come from 1969. I consider Jets fans to be more likely to be homosexuals.
Posted by: Crusader at January 07, 2026 11:41 AM (TN0g+)

I remember that asshole Jet Fan with the fireman's helmet "Fireman Ed?" got banned for assault, sexual assault and some other shit while at a Jets game because he was an overgrown child watching a child's game.

Posted by: Old Fart Boomer at January 07, 2026 11:49 AM (GlDYx)

302 I defended soccer for years. After sitting next to the MN United supporters group for 3 seasons in the MLS I did realize soccer is in fact a gay communist sport.
Posted by: jhawk90

I'm sorry you didn't enjoy it. Chasten and I have season tickets and never miss a match!

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at January 07, 2026 11:49 AM (JCZqz)

303 Should have asked for a green card."

Si.

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 11:50 AM (cGjQu)

304 I think the popularity of soccer outside the USA is based more on tribal rivalry than any true love of watching the game.
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Its more simple than that. Its the abject poverty that the rest of the world lives in. Think about it, ONE SINGLE SOCCER BALL keeps 20 kids busy for a couple of hours. No helmets. No special cleats (at least until they get older). No elbow pads. No metal bats. Just one single soccer ball.

Posted by: Crusader at January 07, 2026 11:50 AM (TN0g+)

305 280
Why are we hosting the WC? So that this country will be crawling with Eurotrash coming here and sneering at us the whole time?
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Funniest sight I've ever seen was a sunburned Irish guy wearing Disney Mickey Mouse gear while hungover boarding a plane back to Ireland after the Irish got trashed in a Florida WC match. Man looked like death warmed over. I pitied him. I did.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 07, 2026 11:50 AM (pLaQB)

306 I defended soccer for years. After sitting next to the MN United supporters group for 3 seasons in the MLS I did realize soccer is in fact a gay communist sport.
Posted by: jhawk90 at January 07, 2026 11:48 AM (ggOdn)


Welcome to the party, pal.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 11:50 AM (Zz0t1)

307 I've heard that the Japanese Naval Self Defense Force (fuck it, call it the IJN) are scary good and their presence during hostilities over Taiwan would be quick and entertaining.

It's nice to have them on our side this time.
Posted by: Archimedes

So far, they are on our side every other world war. Maybe if we don't ignore them at the victory celebration this time they'll stay on our side for the next one too.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 07, 2026 11:50 AM (a+4eV)

308 AOP, you hear anything about Alberta's petition for independence?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 07, 2026 10:51 AM (X4XpB)

Willowed, I know.

It's now circulating, i believe, they need 177,000 signatures, which should be easy to manage. Note that it is a petition to put the question to the people as a referendum.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 07, 2026 11:50 AM (8zz6B)

309 Another Marco Rubio thing from the Babylon Bee:

https://tinyurl.com/4cp84fyz

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 07, 2026 11:51 AM (L2PcB)

310 You fucking Americans your huge grocery stores with more fresh produce than I've ever seen in one place at one time in my life..."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 11:47 AM (GBKbO)

"Every town has at least one dentist! It's embarrassing, really."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 07, 2026 11:51 AM (06Hmj)

311 The Giants have some Super Bowl titles that didn't come from 1969. I consider Jets fans to be more likely to be homosexuals.
Posted by: Crusader

I think they's both F*ggots!

Posted by: Severely Heterosexual at January 07, 2026 11:51 AM (oftw2)

312 Heh.

Donald Trump: we're going to run Venezuela so that there is order. Trump running his own country:

https://is.gd/50Xg9Q

Stephen Green: What a strange way to argue that Delta Force should extract Democrat mayors, but OK, I guess.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2026 11:51 AM (Riz8t)

313 Set your calendars fellow hordlings! Houston's bodacious and always holesomely respected gAy PrIdE celebration will be moved to the beginning of June instead of its usual end of June!
Apparently bringing in international kickball tournaments may cause friction in several ways or something.
Posted by: DanMan at January 07, 2026 11:42 AM

If that was intentional, *golf clap*.

If not, still, *golf clap*.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 07, 2026 11:51 AM (bFu5X)

314 Detroit Lions, Detroit Tigers, Detroit Pistons, Detroit Red Wings.
Posted by: one hour sober

I've heard the Bears aren't happy with their Chicago location and are looking for alternatives. Detroit might be perfect. Oh my!

Posted by: Dorothy Gale at January 07, 2026 11:52 AM (JCZqz)

315
Astros, Texans and Rockets have their stadiums in Houston, a few miles from each other. Eagles, 76ers, Flyers and Phillies all play in South Philadelphia.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 07, 2026 11:52 AM (tgvbd)

316 I don't get or understand soccer. A 0-0 game is considered to be entertainment???

Yeah, sure.

Posted by: dantesed at January 07, 2026 11:52 AM (Oy/m2)

317 ONE SINGLE SOCCER BALL keeps 20 kids busy for a couple of hours"

Hey, we used the head of an enemy. ..

/S American tribes

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 11:52 AM (cGjQu)

318 The joke. You missed it.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 11:20 AM (iFTx/)

I didn't. I choked from laughing so hard. Whoooo boy!

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 07, 2026 11:52 AM (g8Ew8)

319 Any kinetic action over there would be met with corrupted and compromised resistance.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Don't overexaggerate their strengths and I noticed you ignored the whole issue of drones. Simply put, that is a revolution in the field of arms that no one really knows exactly how it will change the battlefield. Likewise missile defense.

AH Lloyd is the resident expert here on Chinese military and like the vast Soviet Army poised to invade Europe, the leaders blinked even with the Soviet Union was about to collapse, because the risks could not be justified. The only question is whether Xi feels really lucky because he and his are likely to be dead if he is wrong--not necessarily by us, but by his own commanders.

The failure of the Venezuelan military is an example; Xi spends more time worrying about whether the military is loyal to him. Reliability politically by dividing power, shifting commanders, etc. inevitably compromises performance in combat.

Training beats hardware.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 11:52 AM (WDjG6)

320 "Every town has at least one dentist! It's embarrassing, really."
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 07, 2026 11:51 AM (06Hmj)


What's a 'dentist?'

Posted by: Your Average Brit at January 07, 2026 11:52 AM (Zz0t1)

321 Why are we hosting the WC? So that this country will be crawling with Eurotrash coming here and sneering at us the whole time?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 07, 2026 11:46 AM (tgvbd)


So the US National Team gets an automatic bid.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 11:47 AM (Zz0t1)
______

The Eurotrash will pretend to sneer and deride. But in truth those that haven't been in USA before will be amazed at how superior our society and culture are.

They will not believe we are so free and wealthy that yuge luxury cars and trucks are everywhere, and gas is 20% of what it costs in Europe.

They won't believe the sheer size and scope of our buildings, our houses, our supermarkets, our everything.

And at least for now, they are much less likely to get murdered or raped by a Muslim invader.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 11:53 AM (iFTx/)

322 225
‘ It was a joke.’

I’m an amateur comedian and I’ve always known that the funniest jokes are the ones no one else sees or understands.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 07, 2026 11:53 AM (jbnUc)

323 ; Xi spends more time worrying about whether the military is loyal to him"

This.

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 11:54 AM (cGjQu)

324 The joke. You missed it.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 11:20 AM (iFTx/)

I didn't. I choked from laughing so hard. Whoooo boy!
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 07, 2026 11:52 AM (g8Ew
______

[Fist bump, but not a gay homo bump]

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 11:54 AM (iFTx/)

325 And "environmental activists" don't give a shit about the fact that the Chinese government doesn't give a shit about the environment.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

The envionmental/climate warning doom people on other blogs have swallowed the Chinese renewable energy push propaganda hook, line, and sinker. They praise China for building scads of solar and windmill farms. They say China is showing the world the pathway to lowering CO2 emissions and energy independence thru renewables!

Yeah, sure. China will install their cheap renewable stuff but will they maintain and service all of it in the long term? I have doubts. Never mentioned is what the Chinese use for power when the sun and wind aren't cooperating. It's PekingPotemkin renewable energy farms, intended to keep the Western wackos pressuring their governments to do what the Chinese are doing! Go green! Hang the expense!

Posted by: Gref at January 07, 2026 11:54 AM (5rh/l)

326 Nip it. Nip it in the bud.

Posted by: Eromero at January 07, 2026 11:54 AM (Slgjz)

327
I've heard the Bears aren't happy with their Chicago location and are looking for alternatives. Detroit might be perfect. Oh my!
Posted by: Dorothy Gale at January 07, 2026 11:52 AM (JCZqz)


They're going to Gary, Indiana, which is still supposedly considered "The Chicagoland Area."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 11:54 AM (Zz0t1)

328 Do the Lions still play in Pontiac?

Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2026 11:54 AM (77rzZ)

329 Soccer started by using heads and skulls as the ball.

Coming to New York City in 2027.

Posted by: Soccer Is Commie Fag Ball at January 07, 2026 11:54 AM (GlDYx)

330 I don't get or understand soccer. A 0-0 game is considered to be entertainment???

Yeah, sure.

Posted by: dantesed at January 07, 2026 11:52 AM (Oy/m2)

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"It's the lame within the game, h8r!"

/You Americans, always with The #Winning ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 07, 2026 11:54 AM (z6HQS)

331 I used to tolerate soccer, but no one who flops on the ground and cries when brushed by an opponent is a man. Who wants to watch that?

It is the opposite of honor or masculinity. A perversion of sport as simulated warfare. Now I can't stand it.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 07, 2026 11:54 AM (bIWgk)

332 What's a 'dentist?'
Posted by: Your Average Brit"

Hey, we've got the NHS!

/also average brit

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 11:55 AM (cGjQu)

333 322 225
‘ It was a joke.’

I’m an amateur comedian and I’ve always known that the funniest jokes are the ones no one else sees or understands.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 07, 2026 11:53 AM (jbnUc)

=======

Dr. Claw confirmed to be Larry David.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 11:55 AM (GBKbO)

334 I've heard the Bears aren't happy with their Chicago location and are looking for alternatives. Detroit might be perfect. Oh my!
Posted by: Dorothy Gale at January 07, 2026 11:52 AM (JCZqz)


They're going to Gary, Indiana, which is still supposedly considered "The Chicagoland Area."

Was Mogadishu unavailable?

Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2026 11:55 AM (Riz8t)

335 Do the Lions still play in Pontiac?"

Ran out of Christians...

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 11:56 AM (cGjQu)

336 325 Yeah, sure. China will install their cheap renewable stuff but will they maintain and service all of it in the long term? I have doubts. Never mentioned is what the Chinese use for power when the sun and wind aren't cooperating. It's PekingPotemkin renewable energy farms, intended to keep the Western wackos pressuring their governments to do what the Chinese are doing! Go green! Hang the expense!

Posted by: Gref at January 07, 2026 11:54 AM (5rh/l)

========

Just another works project to keep GDP artificially up in line with things like their ghost cities.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 11:56 AM (GBKbO)

337 It was a joke.’

I’m an amateur comedian and I’ve always known that the funniest jokes are the ones no one else sees or understands.
-------

I admire watching those old videos of Norm MacDonald taking an entire audience through 5-7 minutes of story telling and him then leaving them with the single corniest punch line one could imagine. We throw around the term "3-D chess" in this forum, but for a comedian Norm was playing a different game than the rest of his peers.

Posted by: Crusader at January 07, 2026 11:56 AM (TN0g+)

338
I used to tolerate soccer, but no one who flops on the ground and cries when brushed by an opponent is a man. Who wants to watch that?

__________

*LeBron James has entered the chat*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 07, 2026 11:56 AM (tgvbd)

339 Soccer started by using heads and skulls as the ball.

Coming to New York City in 2027.

Posted by: Soccer Is Commie Fag Ball at January 07, 2026 11:54 AM (GlDYx)

--------------

Things I learned watching the Afghanistan polo scene in Rambo III.

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 07, 2026 11:56 AM (z6HQS)

340 They need to do something, and if they are unwilling or unable (I suspect the latter) they need to get on that plane to Moscow quick.

Posted by: Tom Servo

I think it is beyond the power of the repressive apparatus now, either they are chastened, divided, or defecting. That means mullahs has to call upon the army or foreign mercenaries like the remaining fighters of Hezbollah, etc. to repress the people.

I think the army, which has to be armed, is just as likely to defect to the protests which leaves mullahs with no choice but to flee. I am guess they are trying to ride it out, maybe with a sacrificial fleeing of Khameini and a new governing structure dangled as bait.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 11:56 AM (WDjG6)

341 You people had a soccer field? Luxury!

We played soccer on a landfill with rusted car bodies sticking up thru the soil and dumpsters turned on their sides for nets. We used a tether ball taken from the playground.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 07, 2026 11:56 AM (Ouxay)

342 My little city has an FC (football club 9. Plays on semipro league. It plays less thann a mile from me and I've never gone. Theyv drawn over 1k several times.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 07, 2026 11:56 AM (ScJGb)

343 The joke. You missed it.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 11:20 AM (iFTx/)

I didn't. I chocked from laughing so hard

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 07, 2026 11:56 AM (g8Ew8)

344 330 I don't get or understand soccer. A 0-0 game is considered to be entertainment???

Yeah, sure.

Posted by: dantesed at January 07, 2026 11:52 AM (Oy/m2)

Soccer is the perfect game for a bunch of poor kids who between them only have a dirt lot, the clothes on their backs, and an old volleyball. Keeps them out of trouble, keeps the grownups off their backs.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 07, 2026 11:56 AM (uWKK8)

345 They're going to Gary, Indiana, which is still supposedly considered "The Chicagoland Area."

Was Mogadishu unavailable?"

That's an insult.

To Mogadishu.

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 11:57 AM (cGjQu)

346 Its more simple than that. Its the abject poverty that the rest of the world lives in. Think about it, ONE SINGLE SOCCER BALL keeps 20 kids busy for a couple of hours. No helmets. No special cleats (at least until they get older). No elbow pads. No metal bats. Just one single soccer ball.
Posted by: Crusader at January 07, 2026 11:50 AM

Don't forget the 4 random dead animals/pieces of trash to mark the goal lines.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 07, 2026 11:57 AM (bFu5X)

347 RedMindBlueState

some pay more attention that others...

Posted by: DanMan at January 07, 2026 11:57 AM (8uzBS)

348 This thread is painful, but if the gay commentariat is restricted to this time and place, I am happy.

Posted by: Severely Straight at January 07, 2026 11:57 AM (oftw2)

349 Serious question... could they even reach Taiwan? I'm doubtful

They'd have to have already knocked out most of Taiwan's defenses, established air supremacy, and possibly conducted a coup. Otherwise, those cross-strait ships are just so many ducks in a barrel. Dieppe provides an object lesson in the perils of not achieving those preliminary objectives.
Posted by: Archimedes

Battle of Britain, Part Deux

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 07, 2026 11:57 AM (L/fGl)

350 I admire watching those old videos of Norm MacDonald taking an entire audience through 5-7 minutes of story telling and him then leaving them with the single corniest punch line one could imagine. We throw around the term "3-D chess" in this forum, but for a comedian Norm was playing a different game than the rest of his peers.

Posted by: Crusader at January 07, 2026 11:56 AM (TN0g+)

-------------

There's a fine line between comic genius and madness.

* And sadly, Robin Williams has entered the chat *

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 07, 2026 11:58 AM (z6HQS)

351 They're going to Gary, Indiana, which is still supposedly considered "The Chicagoland Area."

Was Mogadishu unavailable?
Posted by: Archimedes
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Have you seen downtown Gary?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 07, 2026 11:58 AM (XeU6L)

352 349 Battle of Britain, Part Deux

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 07, 2026 11:57 AM (L/fGl)

========

"I loved you in Wall Street!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 11:58 AM (GBKbO)

353
But in truth those that haven't been in USA before will be amazed at how superior our society and culture are.

_____________

I have traveled the length and breadth of this great nation and I can say Americans - especially in the South - are the friendliest, kindest people on earth.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 07, 2026 11:58 AM (tgvbd)

354 Things I learned watching the Afghanistan polo scene in Rambo III.

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 07, 2026 11:56 AM (z6HQS)

Man who would be King did it first.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 07, 2026 11:58 AM (uWKK8)

355 It is worse than that all, Dude. 24 hour rule and all, but:

Wall Street Apes
@WallStreetApes
4h
HOLY CR*P 🚨 Heritage Foundation exposes Hugo Chavez was working with Nicolas Maduro to fund political decent in America, and provided the money TO START BLACK LIVES MATTER

Hugo Chavez gave one of the founders of Black Lives Matter a million dollars FOR STREET PROTESTS IN AMERICA

After receiving the money, just months later BLM was founded and started creating unrest in America

BLM directly works with Democrats, even using their ActBlue

That means the regimes in Cuba and Venezuela worked with Democrat operatives and organizations to fund chaos and protests in America

INSANE. The Democrat Party is literally working to bring down America [. . . ]

Posted by: Kindltot at January 07, 2026 11:58 AM (rbvCR)

356 * And sadly, Robin Williams has entered the chat *

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Should have included his idol, Jonathan Winters, as well.

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 07, 2026 11:58 AM (z6HQS)

357 especially in the South - are the friendliest, kindest people on earth.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
=========
Until a Southron replies, "bless your little heart". Then all bets are off.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 11:59 AM (WDjG6)

358 Battle of Britain, Part Deux"

Susannah York. Yes please.

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 11:59 AM (cGjQu)

359 I've heard the Bears aren't happy with their Chicago location and are looking for alternatives. Detroit might be perfect. Oh my!
Posted by: Dorothy Gale at January 07, 2026 11:52 AM (JCZqz)


They're going to Gary, Indiana, which is still supposedly considered "The Chicagoland Area."

Was Mogadishu unavailable?
Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2026 11:55 AM (Riz8t)
______

The Bears are surely just posturing for public money to fund a new stadium for billionaires and multi-millionaires. Which they probably will get. Although, the current political climate is now much more skeptical of these kinds of corporate-welfare sweetheart funding deals.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 11:59 AM (iFTx/)

360 Fetterman has become a voice of reason and a rebuke to the left. That's why they want him dead. He's an apostate. Yes, he's still a lib, but one with a conscience.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YURo2-zN7Hc?feature=share

Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2026 12:00 PM (Riz8t)

361 I need to do more than just read the content, I guess

Posted by: Kindltot at January 07, 2026 12:00 PM (rbvCR)

362 INSANE. The Democrat Party is literally working to bring down America [. . . ]

Posted by: Kindltot at January 07, 2026 11:58 AM (rbvCR)


I thought this had been pretty obvious for a generation or two.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 12:00 PM (Zz0t1)

363 Man who would be King did it first.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Big damn head.

Posted by: Bulg at January 07, 2026 12:00 PM (77rzZ)

364 360 Fetterman has become a voice of reason and a rebuke to the left. That's why they want him dead. He's an apostate. Yes, he's still a lib, but one with a conscience.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YURo2-zN7Hc?feature=share

Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2026 12:00 PM (Riz8t)

=======

He's going to lose his primary so bad, it's going to be hilarious.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 12:00 PM (GBKbO)

365 350 I admire watching those old videos of Norm MacDonald taking an entire audience through 5-7 minutes of story telling and him then leaving them with the single corniest punch line one could imagine. We throw around the term "3-D chess" in this forum, but for a comedian Norm was playing a different game than the rest of his peers.

Posted by: Crusader at January 07, 2026 11:56 AM (TN0g+)

I think my all time favorite is "The Moth Joke". Conan O'Brien was the perfect strait man.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 07, 2026 12:00 PM (uWKK8)

366 It is worse than that all, Dude. 24 hour rule and all, but:

Wall Street Apes
@WallStreetApes
4h
HOLY CR*P 🚨 Heritage Foundation exposes Hugo Chavez was working with Nicolas Maduro to fund political decent in America, and provided the money TO START BLACK LIVES MATTER

Hugo Chavez gave one of the founders of Black Lives Matter a million dollars FOR STREET PROTESTS IN AMERICA

After receiving the money, just months later BLM was founded and started creating unrest in America

BLM directly works with Democrats, even using their ActBlue

That means the regimes in Cuba and Venezuela worked with Democrat operatives and organizations to fund chaos and protests in America

INSANE. The Democrat Party is literally working to bring down America [. . . ]

Posted by: Kindltot at January 07, 2026 11:58 AM (rbvCR)

---------------

Not dare call it TREASON with a capital T.

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 07, 2026 12:00 PM (z6HQS)

367 The idea that the UK "military" could protect Ukraine from Russia is laughable.
They can't protect their own shores from rubber rafts full of "migrants" that are coming to England to rape the local women.

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at January 07, 2026 12:00 PM (MNCvZ)

368 Fetterman has become a voice of reason and a rebuke to the left. That's why they want him dead. He's an apostate. Yes, he's still a lib, but one with a conscience.


Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2026 12:00 PM (Riz8t)


And a 100% voting with Dems record.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 12:00 PM (Zz0t1)

369 Bulg:

@289 can answer your question about the Lions

Posted by: one hour sober at January 07, 2026 12:01 PM (Y1sOo)

370 especially in the South - are the friendliest, kindest people on earth."

No, we're not. We have guns. And trucks. And buc-ee's...

Oh.

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 12:01 PM (cGjQu)

371 I thought this had been pretty obvious for a generation or two.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 12:00 PM (Zz0t1)

Well, I knew it, and I talked about it, but no one gives two f___ about what I think.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 07, 2026 12:01 PM (rbvCR)

372 331 I used to tolerate soccer, but no one who flops on the ground and cries when brushed by an opponent is a man. Who wants to watch that?

It is the opposite of honor or masculinity. A perversion of sport as simulated warfare. Now I can't stand it.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 07, 2026 11:54 AM (bIWgk)


Meanwhile, in baseball you lose your player man card forever if you rub or even touch where you were hit by a pitch, thrown ball, or batted ball.

Posted by: Gref at January 07, 2026 12:01 PM (5rh/l)

373 Big damn head."

Zardoz?

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 12:01 PM (cGjQu)

374 I think my all time favorite is "The Moth Joke". Conan O'Brien was the perfect strait man.
------

That's an amazing clip! And the joke works in real life too!

Posted by: Crusader at January 07, 2026 12:02 PM (TN0g+)

375 Susannah York. Yes please.
Posted by: man at January 07, 2026

I don't know her in that, but she was lovely and a fine actress in "A Man For All Seasons."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 07, 2026 12:02 PM (PFs9e)

376 368 And a 100% voting with Dems record.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 12:00 PM (Zz0t1)

======

We never wondered if he would vote against Kentaji for SCOTUS. We knew he'd vote for her.

But, like Sinema before him, voting record means shit when you occasionally make mouth noises against Leftist shibboleths. For Sinema, it was trans. For Fetterman, it's Israel and insisting that the left stop calling Republicans Nazis.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 12:02 PM (GBKbO)

377 Mannix!

*Jazzy music plays*

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 07, 2026 12:02 PM (xcxpd)

378 Man who would be King did it first.

Posted by: Tom Servo

-------------

Indeed, my memory failed me -- been a long time since I saw that (ex-girlfriend's favorite movie back in the late '80s).

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 07, 2026 12:02 PM (z6HQS)

379 During my visits to the Caribein, I was always interested in talking to the locals about the schism between the different islands.

I remember this one fellow shaking his head and lamenting, "Cuba has sooo much land...and it's going to waste."

I thought this was an interesting perspective.

Posted by: pawn at January 07, 2026 12:02 PM (Rmqfl)

380 Why are we hosting the WC? So that this country will be crawling with Eurotrash coming here and sneering at us the whole time?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Imagine the venues getting surrounded by ICE midway through the game...

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 07, 2026 12:02 PM (OUMaO)

381 Battle of Britain, Part Deux

Say what you will about Hitler, he had the sense not to try a cross channel invasion.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2026 12:03 PM (Riz8t)

382 but she was lovely "

*swoons*

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 12:03 PM (cGjQu)

383 some pay more attention that others...
Posted by: DanMan at January 07, 2026 11:57 AM

*fistbump*

Er...wait...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 07, 2026 12:03 PM (bFu5X)

384
Soccer: Get brushed, fall on the ground and cry like a baby.

Hockey: Heart stops on bench, die, get revived, ask if you can get back into the game.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 07, 2026 12:03 PM (tgvbd)

385 Posted by: Kindltot at January 07, 2026 12:01

Of course we do! I do anyway . I find your posts very informative .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 07, 2026 12:03 PM (PFs9e)

386 Soccer would be really good if they reduced the field size by a third.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 07, 2026 12:04 PM (KDPiq)

387 The Bears are surely just posturing for public money to fund a new stadium for billionaires and multi-millionaires. Which they probably will get. Although, the current political climate is now much more skeptical of these kinds of corporate-welfare sweetheart funding deals.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 07, 2026 11:59 AM (iFTx/)


I believe the taxpayers are already paying for the recent millions in renovations for Soldier Field. Pritzker rightfully told them no. Indiana piped up and said they'd be happy to bilk the taxpayers for a fully subsidized stadium.

The Bears will move.


What accent does Gary, Indiana residents have?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 12:04 PM (Zz0t1)

388 Mannix!

*Jazzy music plays*

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 07, 2026 12:02 PM (xcxpd)

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Tampon Tim!

*Jazzy hands uptwinkles*

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 07, 2026 12:04 PM (z6HQS)

389 I used to tolerate soccer, but no one who flops on the ground and cries when brushed by an opponent is a man. Who wants to watch that?

It is the opposite of honor or masculinity. A perversion of sport as simulated warfare. Now I can't stand it.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 07, 2026 11:54 AM (bIWgk)

Back in the 80's the goal was to get the ball in the net while not getting flagged for a foul. If you like that sort of play you need to watch Asian league -- They still play for blood and revenge for the last thousand years.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 07, 2026 12:04 PM (rbvCR)

390 What accent does Gary, Indiana residents have?"

Musical.

Posted by: man at January 07, 2026 12:04 PM (cGjQu)

391
Was Mogadishu unavailable?
Posted by: Archimedes
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Have you seen downtown Gary?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
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Take a look at what's left:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uQ6q43UhHM

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 07, 2026 12:05 PM (XeU6L)

392 But, like Sinema before him, voting record means shit when you occasionally make mouth noises against Leftist shibboleths. For Sinema, it was trans. For Fetterman, it's Israel and insisting that the left stop calling Republicans Nazis.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Eh, good enough while no election is going on to replace them. Enrages the left while giving a bipartisan veneer over Trump's reasonable actions.

I am guessing Fetterman wants something else than rotting in the Senate for the rest of his life because, like Sinema, I doubt he can get past his party's primary now. Sinema decided to pivot to running a university.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 12:05 PM (WDjG6)

393 He's going to lose his primary so bad, it's going to be hilarious.

Which presumably will make it easier for the Republicans to win, since he'll be replaced with a leftist loon.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2026 12:05 PM (Riz8t)

394 Soccer: Get brushed, fall on the ground and cry like a baby.

Hockey: Heart stops on bench, die, get revived, ask if you can get back into the game.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 07, 2026 12:03 PM (tgvbd)


Fact.

However, the guy that died on the bench didn't ask to come back. He went straight to the ER.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 12:05 PM (Zz0t1)

395 Tampon Tim!

*Jazzy hands uptwinkles*
Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 07, 2026 12:04 PM (z6HQS)

Would not watch

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 07, 2026 12:05 PM (xcxpd)

396 >>Heart stops on bench

Or on the ice. See Chris Pronger, Jiri Fischer

Posted by: one hour sober at January 07, 2026 12:05 PM (Y1sOo)

397 >>> I used to tolerate soccer, but no one who flops on the ground and cries when brushed by an opponent is a man. Who wants to watch that?

>LeBron James has entered the chat.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 07, 2026 12:06 PM (Ouxay)

398 In high school I was a huge huge Chicago Bears fan… mainly because of Walter Sweetness Payton…. I’ve lost interest over the years but now if they leave Soldier Field I’ll starting rooting against them…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 07, 2026 12:06 PM (+kWhq)

399 Eh, good enough while no election is going on to replace them. Enrages the left while giving a bipartisan veneer over Trump's reasonable actions.

I am guessing Fetterman wants something else than rotting in the Senate for the rest of his life because, like Sinema, I doubt he can get past his party's primary now. Sinema decided to pivot to running a university.
Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 12:05 PM (WDjG6)

More college trim that way.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 07, 2026 12:06 PM (xcxpd)

400 393 He's going to lose his primary so bad, it's going to be hilarious.

Which presumably will make it easier for the Republicans to win, since he'll be replaced with a leftist loon.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2026 12:05 PM (Riz8t)

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Fingers crossed!

I imagine Trump will take special interest in recruitment of the GOP candidate for the seat after the debacle of his first pick in 2022 dropping out and then the flusterfuck that followed.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 12:06 PM (GBKbO)

401 340 They need to do something, and if they are unwilling or unable (I suspect the latter) they need to get on that plane to Moscow quick.

Posted by: Tom Servo

I think it is beyond the power of the repressive apparatus now, either they are chastened, divided, or defecting. That means mullahs has to call upon the army or foreign mercenaries like the remaining fighters of Hezbollah, etc. to repress the people.

I think the army, which has to be armed, is just as likely to defect to the protests which leaves mullahs with no choice but to flee. I am guess they are trying to ride it out, maybe with a sacrificial fleeing of Khameini and a new governing structure dangled as bait.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 11:56 AM (WDjG6)


Army units giving the keys to weapons storage locations to organized anti-Mullah groups, is the back-breaker for the Mullahs.

Posted by: Gref at January 07, 2026 12:06 PM (5rh/l)

402 333
‘ Dr. Claw confirmed to be Larry David.’

You got me.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 07, 2026 12:07 PM (jbnUc)

403 The doghouse Norm MacDonald joke is also an all-timer.

Posted by: Crusader at January 07, 2026 12:07 PM (TN0g+)

404 Or on the ice. See Chris Pronger, Jiri Fischer
Posted by: one hour sober at January 07, 2026 12:05 PM (Y1sOo)


Rich Peverly, Dallas Star:

On March 10, 2014, Ruff was with Rich Peverley every second from the moment his lifeless body was carried off the bench to a nearby hallway, where he was revived by doctors and paramedics after his heart rate flatlined for approximately two minutes.

They Defibrillated him in the tunnel.

The game was postponed.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 12:08 PM (Zz0t1)

405 I'm with Bill in Arkansas, above. There's a Chinese target that would be a quick one-stroke victory the same way the capture of Maduro was: hit the Three Gorges Dam.

Posted by: Wenda at January 07, 2026 12:09 PM (q4/FL)

406 Army units giving the keys to weapons storage locations to organized anti-Mullah groups, is the back-breaker for the Mullahs.
Posted by: Gref
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Yep. Which is why I think that the mullahs, in order to maintain some power, are going to have to sacrifice Khameini and float some kind of power sharing new arrangement. Intending to renege of course, but events have a way of producing unseen circumstances once the wave of change starts going in a static society.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 12:09 PM (WDjG6)

407 Soccer would be really good if they reduced the field size by a third.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 07, 2026 12:04 PM (KDPiq)

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I played on an indoor soccer team one summer -- small gymnasium maybe 6 on 6 --- and it was a blast -- especially using caroms off the wall (there was no out of bounds).

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 07, 2026 12:09 PM (z6HQS)

408 >LeBron James has entered the chat.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 07, 2026 12:06 PM (Ouxay)


https://is.gd/IwklTL

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 12:10 PM (Zz0t1)

409 Heritage Foundation exposes Hugo Chavez was working with Nicolas Maduro to fund political decent in America, and provided the money TO START BLACK LIVES MATTER

Hugo Chavez gave one of the founders of Black Lives Matter a million dollars FOR STREET PROTESTS IN AMERICA


Textbook definition of Treason.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2026 12:10 PM (WC9t6)

410 The Democrats and their allies knew what their exposure was and evidence thereof before 2024. Why didn’t they steal the election again?
Did the Clinton’s not cooperate with the steal?
Do they just not care about being exposed?
The Democrats’ choice for President in 2024 makes no sense.

Posted by: Accomack at January 07, 2026 12:11 PM (sStKZ)

411 It's really not that hard to put the lie to the "diversity is our strength" horses***.

https://is.gd/PgjAWE

Posted by: Archimedes at January 07, 2026 12:11 PM (Riz8t)

412 Ace also rises.

Posted by: Hemmingway at January 07, 2026 12:11 PM (Gwl1K)

413 especially in the South - are the friendliest, kindest people on earth.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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Until a Southron replies, "bless your little heart". Then all bets are off.
Posted by: whig at
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Or
Squeel like a pig

Posted by: Operator Error at January 07, 2026 12:12 PM (dr97s)

414 410 The Democrats and their allies knew what their exposure was and evidence thereof before 2024. Why didn’t they steal the election again?
Did the Clinton’s not cooperate with the steal?
Do they just not care about being exposed?
The Democrats’ choice for President in 2024 makes no sense.

Posted by: Accomack at January 07, 2026 12:11 PM (sStKZ)

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Their ability to cheat isn't magic and automatic. It requires work, processes, and leniency from other power centers, including the RNC.

The RNC actually fought back for a couple of years leading up to 2024, enough to prevent enough fraud.

Plus, the fraud of 2020 was off the charts. The mass mail in voting craze accounted for a lot, and that got pulled back heavily by the time 2024 came around.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 07, 2026 12:12 PM (GBKbO)

415

Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, it's all free at last!

https://is.gd/SEdTYx
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 07, 2026 10:57 AM (L/fGl)

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The San Francisco Reparations Committee has comported itself very well for a gaggle of crackheads, welfare leeches, and entitled DEI layabouts. By the standards of normal people, not so much.

Keep demanding the money that doesn't exist using the power you don't have, dummies.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 07, 2026 12:13 PM (VWtfl)

416 410 The Democrats and their allies knew what their exposure was and evidence thereof before 2024. Why didn’t they steal the election again?
Did the Clinton’s not cooperate with the steal?
Do they just not care about being exposed?
The Democrats’ choice for President in 2024 makes no sense.
Posted by: Accomack
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The rest of the country went back to regular voting methods instead of masses of mail in ballots in 2020. Mail in ballots are the easiest form to cheat elections with and that is why no other sane democracy allows them to be a general voting method.

Kamala could pad her popular totals with West Coast mail in ballot chicanery but that would not get her the electoral college vote.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 12:13 PM (WDjG6)

417 Susannah York was too pretty to play "plain" Jane Eyre.

Posted by: No one at January 07, 2026 12:13 PM (qFwJc)

418 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 07, 2026 12:13 PM (Zz0t1)

419 Squeel like a pig
Posted by: Operator Error
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Etiquette in the South demands dueling banjos be played for foreplay before you proposition someone of the same sex for buggery.

Hear the banjos, best to bug out before you are buggered out.

Posted by: whig at January 07, 2026 12:15 PM (WDjG6)

420 Why didn’t they steal the election again?
Did the Clinton’s not cooperate with the steal?
Do they just not care about being exposed?
The Democrats’ choice for President in 2024 makes no sense.
Posted by: Accomack

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I think they went in thinking they could steal and candidate didn't matter

But that's the 64 thousand dollar question - what went wrong for them? I have heard that Trump's team took out their servers (Dominion) in Serbia, but that sounds made up to me. I have also heard hat Trump had a well organized team of lawyers preventing any shenanigans. I don't know. I want to believe it was prevented because Trump is on top of things and about to expose it all and pounce, but that sounds so much like a q-anon line that I think the answer has to be much simpler.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 07, 2026 12:15 PM (bIWgk)

421 n case you were wondering how long it took to go from ‘No Kings’ to ‘leave that dictator alone,’ 77 days

Posted by: Kindltot at January 07, 2026 12:16 PM (rbvCR)

422 Brazil (5 Fifa) v Morocco (11 Fifa)
6/13/2026 East Rutherford, NJ

Lowest price on Stub Hub is $872.
Posted by: mr tmz at January 07, 2026 11:37 AM (rJ48h)

That is about $1744 more than I would be willing to pay. Of course, they'd have to pick up my air fare and the hotel room, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 07, 2026 12:23 PM (8zz6B)

423 Thing about Venezuelan oil that hasn't gotten much mention is that their oil is predominantly "heavy crude" and there aren't that many refineries which are equipped to process the stuff. Their market was already somewhat restricted because of that.

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at January 07, 2026 01:55 PM (bufu1)

424 Hey Joe, great analysis

Posted by: Fen at January 07, 2026 02:22 PM (ciYHQ)

425 *its

Posted by: bradc at January 07, 2026 03:18 PM (BpRoJ)

426 Too cold for a proper riot. Ah well.

Posted by: ocean's brassiere at January 07, 2026 03:19 PM (n9T9W)

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